Bad idea having first character as a tank?

[Liam_Harper]

YOUR JOB IS TO TANK NOT TO DPS!!!

Like it or not, your job is to do both. Both Savage and EX are designed around tanks being in dps stance the majority of the fight. You literally can never hit the required tank dps in tank stance.

That said, Savage and EX are the only places tank dps is required. Normal content has no enrage timers, or extremely lenient ones. So I agree a tank has no business being out of tank stance if it causes any negative benefit to the party (such as dying, requiring excessive healing or emnity loss). This is a common mistake made by new tanks who crack open a tanking guide aimed towards high-end optimization, see "tank stance is for nubs" and assume they have to tank without it. It is perfectly acceptable to tank stance everything up to EX (except off-tanking) until you are 100% confident in your class.

[PogueX]

I agree it can be confusing at times. There are dungeons where I don't know to pull big or pull small. I have always played a healer and DPS, now I am playing as tank. It's been years since tanked in an MMO....never had a good experience tanking playing WOW in the early 2000's , that player base is more toxic and I was fearful to go back to tanking for a long time

The way I approach tanking though is I spend most of the first few seconds of a fight just trying to get aggro up....flash plus agro combo. I never worry about switching to DPS stance unless it's a DPS check

[Septonyte]

1) Play what you want. It's your journey.
2) They start throwing harder mechanics in the mid 30's, qarn is co sidered the first "hard dungeon"
3) You can usually ask you party members for any tips. We were all new once.

[kidalutz]

So I am playing a tank and currently loving it, but sadly my team mates doesnt always like it.

Why? Because I am a beginner. Of course, theres nothing wrong with that since I know my role (having enmity at all times and know my rotation), but after reaching higher level the enemies has more difficult tactics and arent just tank and spank.

I was in The Sunken Temple of Qarn today, and I know its a low level dungeon, but there it really started to get difficult for me. Each boss has complex tactics (when you havent been there before and dont know anything about it).

Should I go there as a DPS first, or read up and down about every boss fight before entering a new dungeon? Will it only get more complexed from now on?

Nah just stick with tanking everything's hard when you're new to something the first time but stick with it and you'll start to enjoy the challenge. I promise you that.