Newbie (sort of) paladin help...

[Zaddi]

Hello! New to the forums.

So…. I need paladin help. I have a lv 70 paladin. But I got it that far mostly by doing beast tribes (bad idea…). I feel as if I should be lv 50-ish still, because I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing… I know the basics (throw shield at things to pull them, flash, circle of something when it’s up, aggro combo, dps combo, cooldowns…). I’ve tried tanking expert with a full party of friends a few times, but I always panic and mess up ☹ I have no issues being healer or dps in lv 70 stuff, but I feel panicky when I’m tanking (even at lower lever things). I tried tanking with one random player and two friends once (got Skalla) and I just lost aggro on everything… To be fair, I was about i310 with no melds at that point, and the random DPS was a i340 BLM fully melded....

I usually just stay in shield oath because I’m scared of losing aggro. I do a 1-2 aggro combos on the boss, then maybe 3-4 dps-combos, then I panic and do the aggro combo again or press all CDs at once… I know it’s stupid to do like that, but I just don’t get tanking. I’ve looked at guides, and I get the theory of it, but I just panic when I’m actually in a dungeon (obviously I’ve not tried anything harder than lv 70 dungeons yet…)

I have a friend who mains WAR, and she just says I have to tank more things with random people, but I’m super scared of signing up for anything because I’m sure I will be horrible… I really do want to learn tanking, but I can’t always wait for my friends to be online when I want to try… So right now I just don’t sign up for any roulette as paladin because I might get something 50+ and then I will just wipe the party (at least in my mind). How do I get more confident with tanking…?