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

[technole]

To be honest; I kind of like having to actively battle to hold aggro. Not many MMOs these days actually push me to stay on my toes like that.

You'll get to put that in-practice plenty at end-game level too, because you'll run into good players that know their rotations well, even will potion up buffs in their openers and what not. It will make you, the tank, play on-par otherwise they will rip aggro off.

My favorites are the slack tanks out there that think they can pull whatever they want in DPS stance, without a shade walker buff, then wet their pants realizing they don't have slack dps present.

Being able tank/dps stance dance against it, while keeping threat can be quite a thrill.

[Neophyte]

I'd suggest_

• If you don't have your job yet, get Raging Strikes (BRD. LVL 4) and maybe Internal Release (PLG, LVL. 12), as a WAR you can get Invigorate (LNC, LVL. 22) or Flash (GLD, LVL.8) to help managing your TP if you over-do it with the Overpowers.
• Meld your gear! The stats on low level gear are extremly low and strength materia I or II are very, very cheap. If you have a ring with +1 VIT you might meld a VIT I (or vice versa, since there are only STR acc <lvl. 25 I think?). It doubles your AP from those accesoires.
  Melding ACC also helps beating up higher hunting log mobs, that's what I do on the left side usually to be able to do leves/fates/mobs more than 5 level above my leveling class.
• Keep at least your weapon up to date. Since Off-Stats and mainstats only rise by 1-2 per gear upgrade anyway and Weapon Damage usually scales with 8-9 mainstat, always make sure to have the best weapon possible. An weapon upgrade sometimes gets you +1-3 weapon damage, which equals a full upgrade of all your other gear.
• If you really have to fight with a DPS to get hate back, just don't do it. Don't waste 2-3 hate combos on a mob you won't get anyway. He will finish the mob off, while you can secure the other ones.