Hall of Novice - Final Challenge - Gladiator??

[Teiren]

I love the hall of novice, however I can't blame you of not understanding the last part of it. Glad you got it done so. Let's face it, when you enter as a drk it tells you to use unleash, followed by the weapon combo. As warrior it tells you to use overpower, followed by the combo. But as PLD as funny as it is, the system is more like, well you're on your own buddy, good luck. Thought that was real funny since it seems that even SE has no idea how to tank on a gladiator/pld.

I haven't done Hall of the Novice, but that's really weird because Gladiator is by far the simplest tank. Maybe because it's simple they expect people to not have to be told what to do? But that's not fair for brand new players who haven't played MMORPGs before, which is literally exactly what Hall of the Novice is for.


Anyway, to the OP:
When you're in dungeons, don't worry about holding aggro on every single thing 100% of the time. Almost nothing is very threatening until the Level 30s, and even then things aren't that bad so don't feel like a failure if you lose aggro sometimes. Just trying is enough. However, by Level 41 you really do have to hold aggro on everything. Ironically, at the same time it becomes dramatically easier to hold aggro because of a certain ability learned at Level 40, so it works out.

You can also monitor the enmity you're generating. The bars under people's class icons in the Party List display their current enmity on your target as a %, so naturally your bar should be full, and you can see when other people are about to get aggro. Speaking of which, that's what those colored icons are in the Enemy List on the left of the screen. Flashing red square means you have top enmity on that enemy, which means aggro. Red-Orange triangle means you're at about 75-90% of enmity needed to take aggro, yellow triangle means you're at about 50-75%, and anything below that is a small green dot. Just think of it like a stoplight, though as a tank you want to be at full red.

Oh, and maybe you noticed this during Hall of the Novice, but those flying arrows show what someone has initially targeted with an action, so sometimes you can follow those arrows to the target and know that's going to be their target.