How to play gladiator efficiently?

[Super_Bee_Brian]

Hi, everyone...

I've received a few complaints from other players after dungeons saying I'm a terrible tank. It hurts my feelings, to be honest. I mean, what the heck am I doing wrong?? I'm using flash and shield lob. At least 80% of the time, the monsters are aggroing ME and NOT THEM. Yet despite my efforts, other players get mad.

What am I missing here? Like I said, I'm already using flash. Exactly how many times do I need to spam FLASH in order to COMPLETELY SECURE aggro?

Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

[Dhaid]

Itd be easier to know what they complain about and when than give random tips

[REPROBEAN_CHILD]

Unless you've become a paladin refused to use shield oath, I don't know why they would complain. You said you were keeping aggro. I assume there's more to the story? Otherwise, they're just being jerks

[Super_Bee_Brian]

Unless you've become a paladin refused to use shield oath, I don't know why they would complain. You said you were keeping aggro. I assume there's more to the story? Otherwise, they're just being jerks

I'm honestly confused. For one, what the heck is shield oath? I swear to you I already checked my actions tab and didn't find anything that's labeled as "shield oath". It's just not there.

I will mention this... There was a player who did tell me to use shield oath. But you said that's only for paladins? I'm a mere gladiator! lol. Why the heck would he/she mention that if we were on a low-level dungeon?

[silverlunarfox]

I'm honestly confused. For one, what the heck is shield oath? I swear to you I already checked my actions tab and didn't find anything that's labeled as "shield oath". It's just not there.

You need to be a Paladin for this ability. If you have been continuing your Job Quests you would get the quest for Paladin at lvl 30. You will not have Oath as a gladiator. If you're doing content over 30 as a gladiator you need to stop and do your Job Quests.

Work Flash into your rotation lower than 30. Some classes just will generate more aggro than others. And always, always tank bosses facing away from the party. Other than that, you'll get there. In the end, just take a deep breath and focus on what you are doing. It's hard to start up a tank at low level.

[AshlikeSnow]

Just spam flash

[Super_Bee_Brian]

Just spam flash

That's exactly what I've been doing!

[Luin]

That's exactly what I've been doing!

pull literally everything, use rampart, *THEN* spam flash

if they complain then, then you need to pull *more*

mark enemies

A complete waste of time.

[Cirgellon]

I can't really give specifics without knowing what happened/seeing you play. Outside of keeping aggro, you should also make sure all mobs are grouped - so take them to the ranged mobs that lag behind, amd that you face mobs away from your allies. Outside of that, its just basic avoidance of aoe's and using skills to mitigate big attacks. The big attacks arent really a worry early though. I know that some will complain about tanks if you don't pull all of the mobs at once to speed things up, but you can just ignore those people.

[Super_Bee_Brian]

I can't really give specifics without knowing what happened/seeing you play. Outside of keeping aggro, you should also make sure all mobs are grouped - so take them to the ranged mobs that lag behind, amd that you face mobs away from your allies. Outside of that, its just basic avoidance of aoe's and using skills to mitigate big attacks. The big attacks arent really a worry early though. I know that some will complain about tanks if you don't pull all of the mobs at once to speed things up, but you can just ignore those people.

You mentioned facing monsters away from allies... I did get a comment about this with the Ifrit trial... So there we go. Maybe that's what I've been missing, because prior to that, I never did it.

Thanks.