First time maining a tank

[lol123]

Pretty much new to doing raids primals as a tank for end game. Any expert tanks out there want to give me any advice?

[Pence]

Probably wanna say which tank you are playing

[lol123]

Heh sorry currently playing as a pld

[Pence]

I'm not a tank - 70 WAR, but only play with my FC in faceroll content - but I'd suggest starting at Lakshmi. It's pretty easy for an extreme, not too many tank mechanics and will give you four +320 right side. I imagine it'd be a nice ease in for you.

[lol123]

Thank you for the help

[Pence]

If you're on later give me a holla, Bravo Whiskey, I'll join you and give pointers for general mechanics.

[lol123]

Ill definitely keep that in mind and thank you.

[Spartan926]

I'm not an expert tank by any means but there are a few things I've found to hold true no matter if it's a raid or a dungeon. This is what I would recommend for you.

1. Know the fights: If you have this down then everything else will be easy to deal with. More often than not if I fail in tanking something it's because I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do.

2. Watch the Aggro bar: This is the bar on the top right (on my screen at least) where parties health and such is listed. If you see someone starting to catch up you want to start using your enmity rotation to hold things in place. (In PLD's case I believe this ends with Rage of Halone). If you lose aggro just use provoke then follow with an enmity combo, should be able to get it back to you.

3. Communicate with the group: This doesn't sound like an issue for you if you're doing it with your FC, but as the tank you are kind of expected to set a pace for whatever you are doing. If certain mobs need to die people will be looking for you to tell them witch (or at least be targeting them). If something needs to be in a certain spot then you'll be expected to pull it there. If you don't know something then ask if anyone has done it before and let them set the marks.

4. Don't focus too much on one thing: If you're in the stage of enmity generation, unless the target needs to die before it can get something nasty off, don't spam your combo on one thing. If you're pulling more than three enemies at a time you're just gonna be spamming an AOE, but if you have two targets with high health make sure you're cycling between them so a DPS or the healer doesn't accidentally pull it off of you. Can't count how many times this happened to me even in lvling dungeons.

Those are the things coming to mind for me right now, I hope you find it useful and enjoy your tanking experience. Lord knows there aren't enough of us and we need all the good ones we can get.

[Araxes]

Dont do it, you will be dissapointed at end game.

[Poison_Rose]

Dont do it, you will be dissapointed at end game.

It's possible that the balance patch next week / the week after will fix things.