Quote Originally Posted by seekified View Post
tl;dr - Tanking at a low level in FFXIV isn't explained as a concept or taught well enough by the game itself, and is too hard in early dungeons where there's no tanking stances. Of course, aggro management in early dungeons doesn't matter because nothing hurts, but it's still a fact that a tank that isn't holding aggro will get negative attention anyway.
I'd say both the Hall of the Novice, and the lvl 10 GLD quest both give a decent introduction to tanking. Even in the early dungeons I don't think I have seen any tank who does not have at least some clue on how to play it.