How to get people to tank!

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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.

Well, Hall of the Novice is optional and not everyone starts with GLD, though I'm sure the early MRD quests touch on the subject in some way. I've run into a few MRDs who didn't even know they were a tank when they queued up for Sastasha, and I can honestly say I didn't really know either when I randomly started leveling it three years ago. Thing is though, even if you know what you're supposed to do it very often ends with Overpowering/Flashing yourself dry of resources just to keep up with the aggro output of the DPS players. It shouldn't have to be that way in the very first dungeon that people tank.

At this point I'm a WAR main who's been tanking for years, but even I struggle to keep up with my BLM girlfriend when we end up in Halatali for our leveling roulette. Imagine someone in much worse gear, no experience and with zero crossclass skills in the same situation.