Question: How do you tank?

[Foxkid]

So a big hit is coming and somehow you've used up all your cooldowns. A DRK and a PLD could swap into Grit/ShOath and take less damage. A WAR cannot. If you're quick about it you can swap into defiance and hit Inner Beast, probably one of the best tank defensive cooldowns in the game. WAR has many options and it's one of the more versatile tanks.

Well...I can see why he wants me to be warrior while he nestles up with his drk and paladin..

]I have completely abandoned any and all macros. Even macros for oGCDs may fail simply due to the way macros work in this game. I can get into more depth but my word of advice is to not rely on it, and work on just clicking your target (the party list works great for that) then hitting shirk. It sounds like it could take some time but once you have the swing of it, it's less than your GCD time.

I haven't really had a ton of trouble with macros..though they're kinda simple and more used for scripted humor (support skills), but if it seems to be easier to do it manually whenever I get there.

]Provoke doesn't add any bulk of enmity. Do not rely on it to keep up on aggro. At your level, you're limited to a lot of Overpower spam and ....well that's it. WAR is very braindead at low levels, but gets pretty intense at higher levels.
As for dropping dead from those skeletons. Well... don't jump off without your healer lol. But that's just good experience you get from tanking. Learning those places inside and out, where's safe, where's hazardous. It's the best part about being a tank.

So how does provoke work exactly if it barely matters to draw aggro back in then?
As for overpower spam, expect to be out of tp pretty frequently is the idea for now?

And the dropping off the stairs was a horrible horrible misstep while trying to pull the flies down the way, then drawing the remaining skeletons on the stairs...and the skeletons on the bottom floor..then dying... it was humiliating q-q;;

What's inner beast though? I recently got back from school.

[TouchandFeel]

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Provoke basically just puts you at the top of agro for the target, equaling whatever the agro amount of who is in the lead +1. If you are already in the lead for agro on the target, you are literally just adding 1 to your total agro which is basically nothing. Provoke is not to be used in agro rotations but is to be used to get back on top if someone takes agro from you, when you suddenly need to take over tanking the boss from another tank such as in tank swaps or if the main tank dies, mostly stuff like that. There is an agro building trick utilizing provoke and shirk that you can use as the off-tank to build the main tank's agro lead but that is more advanced and not something you should worry about while learning.

As for Overpower spam, well yeah that's pretty much what you will be doing at low lvl with WAR, spam it when fighting 3 or more enemies until low on TP and then switch to single target abilities. When fighting 2 or less just use your combos.

If you want to know what Inner Beast or any other ability does, just look at the description and tooltip for it in-game or you can check out the official job guide site.
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Warrior