Question: How do you tank?

[Foxkid]

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Man life sucks.....

But, my FC lead already has paladin and drk but he really doesn't like the "feeling" of warrior despite how often he talks about how op/broken/good they are in contrast (you really can't tear him away from his MT DRK no matter how hard you try, minus learning a raid for the first time). I have my warrior at a very low level from the days you needed to be a marauder before you could even begin to be a rogue (lv 12 cause I took up mch, letting uncertain anxiety get to me about playing the exact opposite despite all the tips and advice given v.v;; )

I was thinking if it would be a good idea to practice in palace since the penalty isn't as harsh as a dungeon (and you can't be held as responsible....to an extent...)

But as for doing those giant pulls, I'm good on passing those up cause I can judge how a tank is handling smaller pulls as a healer vs judging my healer to literally hold my life in their hands, and I don't have a ton of co-healer I'd normally trust with that as is....
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To other statements:

Onionslicer: When I heal my tanks, I usually don't pay a ton of attention to much outside of incoming damage frequency, aoes, and who's being targeted for what..a very middling version of tunnel vision so I haven't compiled the list of tank busters and scripted attacks for myself..

Sakurakoji: Will the gear defense be enough to really keep up threat and keeping damage down if I'm not in tank stance though?

Tempo: Same question I asked koji, but as well, I have noticed warriors eating a ton of tp as I looked more often when playing as monk and mch, but for learning from the tanks' mistakes, I can't do it easily cause I mostly understand the basic skills of tanks (an area threat generator, single target, and cooldowns/death denial), but not a ton more than that.

Shikasu: I should consider attempting alliance raids as a tank, but boy am I scared of doing that plus mechanics....

[TaiyoShikasu]

Shikasu: I should consider attempting alliance raids as a tank, but boy am I scared of doing that plus mechanics....

Tanking alliance raids isn't hard. Most difficulty comes from the other twenty-three people doing things they shouldn't.

Using a recent Dun Scaith run as an example which I only ended up MTing because the person who tried to MT couldn't hold hate against me despite my being in Darkside, outside of rotating cooldowns, you do what you would do as a DPS. Don't get blown off, don't be in the middle for the insta-kill tornado thing and so on for the first boss.

Second boss depends on where people drop things on whether or not that will make your life difficult or not.

Literally who cares about Proto-Ultima.

Third boss, be in the center for meteors, off tank should grab the add and both it and the boss should be kept apart.

Diabolos is basically nothing with most of that fights difficulty coming in his second form which follows every second or so auto attack with a tankbuster and DRK at sixty has a horribly lacking defensive kit. Also one healer in my alliance was DCing a lot and the other was half out to lunch. Like the previous boss, be in the center for meteors.

And I tanked that whole run exclusively in DPS stance which does come with being over a hundred item levels above the content (my alliance also had a NIN which helped), but I've done the same in Rabanastre where you won't even see a number of mechanics at this point. DRK also has stupid high aggro generation.

Not that I'd reccomend going into any content as a tank and go exclusively in DPS stance without sufficient gear and confidence in your abilities. Or if you're a PLD because PLD's aggro generation is weak in comparison.