Is it true that holding aggro 100% of the time isn't possible at low levels?

[Rongway]

marking targets

Don't mark targets. Marking targets will make it easier to get into a situation where DDs and healers out-hate you, whether they follow the marks or not.

These:

your threat combo currently generates less threat every 2 GCDs than your AoE (overpower) does every 2 GCDs

Flash/Overpower are 600 potency, way more than any dps can do even in single target at low levels. Keep your gear up to date and use those two skills a lot and you shouldn't have aggro problems.

are how it is. Even syncked, they can't out-hate you if you use Flash/Overpower enough.

Besides that, on the part of the DDs to make your job as tank easier, they should be DoTing secondary targets, casters should be AoEing, and anyone who doesn't have infinite resource for AoE should be switching to the highest health targets as the bars go down. With their hate spread around like this, there's nothing mathematically that they can do to pull things off you.

[Fluffernuff]

Don't mark targets. Marking targets will make it easier to get into a situation where DDs and healers out-hate you, whether they follow the marks or not.

Marking certainly helps establish control when a newbie wouldn't otherwise have it. Mechanically, it doesnt help much, but its a nice placebo. Think of it like.... that unhealthy comfort food we all have.
It also helps to have 1 almost dead things get ripped away on 1 target than having 3 barely damaged things running around on 3 targets.

.....Marking would also be better if people followed them pre-30. I have yet to have a group of level synced players follow a mark order in anything below Haukke. That gets really fun when people decide to burn down cap'n before his goons and then suddenly: dogs. newbie healers have fun with that one

[Rongway]

Marking certainly helps establish control when a newbie wouldn't otherwise have it. Mechanically, it doesnt help much, but its a nice placebo. Think of it like.... that unhealthy comfort food we all have.
It also helps to have 1 almost dead things get ripped away on 1 target than having 3 barely damaged things running around on 3 targets.

.....Marking would also be better if people followed them pre-30. I have yet to have a group of level synced players follow a mark order in anything below Haukke. That gets really fun when people decide to burn down cap'n before his goons and then suddenly: dogs. newbie healers have fun with that one

Worse is the problem of Lv50 and 60 players not understanding the importance of a big (1) over a mob's head.

Using marks when they are mechanically unnecessary promotes bad play and decreases the impact of mechanically important marks.

Pre-30, the mobs that should be marked are

• Tam-Tara: During final fight, Imps if DDs don't understand that they're shielding Galvanth
• Copperbell Mines: During the slime fight, Ignore on the slime or bombs if necessary, (1) on the spriggan.
• Copperbell Mines: The last boss so DDs don't waste time on the mobs chipping away at the wall
• Toto-Rak: Graffias's Tail to stop it from turning the entire floor into a poison puddle