Question: How do you tank?

[Foxkid]

Sorry for the double post, is tank stance gained in warrior/lv 30 only or..?

And tried myself in palace a moment ago, couldn't have gone worse in terms of losing all the aggro and forgetting which attacks generate aggro and which don't :') or the dragoon was just doing that much more damage that tomahawk didn't mean jack to anything q-q

[shao32]

Sorry for the double post, is tank stance gained in warrior/lv 30 only or..?

And tried myself in palace a moment ago, couldn't have gone worse in terms of losing all the aggro and forgetting which attacks generate aggro and which don't :') or the dragoon was just doing that much more damage that tomahawk didn't mean jack to anything q-q

Tomahawk can't do much alone to secure agro at all, as soon as you use it to pull the target and have it in range pass to overpower spam or butcher's block combo if is a single target, steel cyclone is nice for 2 targets or more too.

remember use berserk that makes every skill being a crit-direct hit and apply storm's buff/debuff if you can, more damage more agro, but you should be fine with tomahawk - overpower spam on palace and try to check you skill set before get in just to at least have a general idea of what are you doing ^^.

[kashi11]

Sorry for the double post, is tank stance gained in warrior/lv 30 only or..?

And tried myself in palace a moment ago, couldn't have gone worse in terms of losing all the aggro and forgetting which attacks generate aggro and which don't :') or the dragoon was just doing that much more damage that tomahawk didn't mean jack to anything q-q

I would HIGHLY advise against using Deep Dungeons to level your first tank. Mobs in PotD and HoH don't really even need to be tanked, just burned down. Everything dies too fast to even learn anything anyway, as almost any job.

I would exclusively level by running your highest level dungeons, and roulettes. Your queue times as a tank are going to be pretty fast anyway, and you might be able to get an FC member in board to level a class up alongside you. This will give you experience in things that matter most, like positioning and threat generation, as well as slowly giving you access to your kit instead of starting at 60.

[Foxkid]

I would HIGHLY advise against using Deep Dungeons to level your first tank. Mobs in PotD and HoH don't really even need to be tanked, just burned down. Everything dies too fast to even learn anything anyway, as almost any job.

I would exclusively level by running your highest level dungeons, and roulettes. Your queue times as a tank are going to be pretty fast anyway, and you might be able to get an FC member in board to level a class up alongside you. This will give you experience in things that matter most, like positioning and threat generation, as well as slowly giving you access to your kit instead of starting at 60.

I think I can get comfortable with positioning (allies > enemies > me), but I'm highly nervous on my own survivability cause since my only "damage reduction" right now is Rampart and Thrill of Battle, and still working on getting tank gear up (all the dungeons I've passed on tank gear are starting to bite me).

Just running Tam-Tara Deepcroft later last night had me taking stupid amounts of damage like I was basically wearing standard dps armor despite having the best gear I could use at the time (the novice gear), and the conjurer in it seeming a little timid himself had me feeling even more nervous and out of place during any pulls dealing with more than 3 or 4 enemies at a time (and yes, I was making a lot of use of overpower and skull sunder, though I still lost aggro every once in a while when I started ignoring a target a little too long to help focus down whoever the DPs were smacking).

The boss fight in it went fine enough though, but I had to fight my instinct to run off and attack the imps when they spawned in just to break their tethers, so I had that internal battle of other mechanics that I now need to ignore or else everyone suffers from it. (is that a normal thing or just something that passes by over time?)