Tips for a new tank?

[Starkbeaumont]

- keep grit and darkside up (if you feel comfortable drop grit during boss fights)
- spam unleash when you have 5 or more mobs on you, use dark passanger
- if you pull less than 5 mobs use you souleater combo once hate on you is solid
- make sure to position the mobs well (as tight as possible and facing away from the group)
- if you evade a move try to move back to your previous position; don't make the mobs spin around
- once you hit 56 spam abyssal drain. never use dark passanger again unless your group does really good aoe damage
- use salted earth on cd (except the pack is about to die)
- use def. cooldowns to ease the life of your healer
- at 62 and 64 you get even more mp regen tools, so make sure to dump that mp when ever you can
- at 70 abuse the blackest night during big pulls

- dye your gear black

[Freyyy]

- dye your gear black

I think we can all agree that this is the most important part

[ArianeEwah]

- dye your gear black

Increases your DRK DPS by 5%! Jet black even more!

[Cemil]

Increases your DRK DPS by 5%! Jet black even more!

Now with extra 5% DRK FFXI Bonus for wearing Scythe.^^

[ArianeEwah]

Unfortunately, there is no indicator in the monster list itself that you might lose hate. Only solution is to tab through all monsters.

You can observe which monsters HP get depleted faster and focus on this one. If you happen to pull two big monsters and both are going down rather quickly, your DPS mates aren't focusing on one alone and make it harder for you to hold hate... (I hate this and those are mostly DPS who even ignore priority numbers, i.e. 1, 2 etc.)

[Galgarion]

Lie often. If you don't feel like making huge pulls, you'll occasionally be challenged over it by someone. Rather than get into a pissing contest over pulling what you feel like, just say your computer sucks and if you pull too much the game turns into a slide-show. People will be annoyed, but they'll back off.

On the opposite side, if you want to get through something quickly, but the party is reluctant, tell them you have to leave for work in 20 minutes. Lies are like cooldowns, a good tank always has them ready for when he needs them.

[aqskerorokero]

do some arr dungeon pre lv 30 and see how much you struggle. If you can keep aggro with less tools, then you can also hold it at high level.

[SCcharacter]

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Well, that is somewhat reassuring as that is what I've been doing with a Gladiator. I was going to make my own post here if this wasn't here already. I started FF14 as a DPS and have done some time as a healer. I can do some very good heal runs, but tanking is a different beast for me.

I've only done a handful of runs, but I find tanking to be the hardest role of the three. DPS: do what you do already. Healer: concentrate on keeping HP up, and do damage on the down time. I tend to burn through MP, but it's been fine so far. Tanking gives me added pressure. One is that I am considered the leader and have some anxiety doing it in general, whatever. Keeping hate isn't too hard, but I want to work on getting hate from the start. My last dungeon's party realized why they were doing a low level run pretty quick, but I managed to improve. I was told I did better than 6/10 tankers.

[SuperionG1]

12 years of playing World of Warcraft taught me it is "Always" the tank and healers fault when something bad happens. :-) Tanking is a thankless/ stressful job on the player. You need to know how to lead other players, you need to know the dungeons/raids like the back of your hand. The number of hours I would put in studying videos or reading up on boss mechanics was like having a second job.