Hi everyone,

I've begun tanking with a Paladin last month (first playtrough so i'm kinda green in this game).

I just recently finished the ARR main storyline with the 3 available 8 man contents (1 trial and the two main story dungeons).

I usually spend a lot of time in dungeons and duties and as long as the content is 4 man made I clearly have in mind what's expected from my job (keep aggro, pack enemies, face them wisely, play with OGC rotations to mitigate etc. while doing the most DPS the possible) and is really better than most other tank roles in general MMORPG.

The only thing i dont understand is this: how should i behave in a 8 man party? Who tanks? Who offtanks?

For those 3 activities i've checked on the other tank Stance, if they were in Tank Stance i swapped to DPS (an playing offtank) and the opposite but here what's happened while doing this:

First Time (Garuda): the WAR charged boss in tank stance, i swapped to sword oath, after a while garuda was hitting healer, I checked again and the WAR was in DPS stance with a poor enmity (his bar was yellow while I was targetting boss and almost depleted). So i swapped to tank stance-Provoked Boss-Started MT it 'till the fight ended.

What I dont get here is why this happened.

Second Time went cool in the first 8man dungeon, the DK I met there literaly did all the job while I was barely able to follow the group (probably most were farmers)

Third time (last ARR main scenario dungeon) another WAR MT all the place BUT Ultima Weapon, he didn't even tried that. As soon as i realized he was NOT going to i did that and tanked it (with no problems since they melt it down). As before i fail to see the reason.


While i'm not sure about the first WAR in garuda's fight (he looked greener than me) i'm pretty sure the other two were not noobs and it's rather me that didnt do what was expected of me.

Is there some general rule one follows in this kind of contents? If the same thing that happened with Garuda should happen on a hard trial it won't probably end THAT well

Thanks in advance for any advice