Tanks Not Using Emnity Skill.In Dungeons

[Sophie_Lo]

I have a tank enmity-related question that I suppose here is as good as anywhere, and may sound horribly noobish, as I'm not a tank player, usually. Say I am the off tank in a trial, and the main tank obviously has their enmity on. Do I bother turning mine on at all during the fight, save for any adds that appear? I only ask because I've been told in trial to do so by some, and not to do so by others, leaving me somewhat confused and second guessing myself. >.<

[Mesarthim]

I have a tank enmity-related question that I suppose here is as good as anywhere, and may sound horribly noobish, as I'm not a tank player, usually. Say I am the off tank in a trial, and the main tank obviously has their enmity on. Do I bother turning mine on at all during the fight, save for any adds that appear? I only ask because I've been told in trial to do so by some, and not to do so by others, leaving me somewhat confused and second guessing myself. >.<

You can easily just turn it on when needed and provoke if the other tank dies. Very few bosses in this game have a mechanic that targets the top two enmity, rather than purely tank roles.

Otherwise you can leave it off if you're not actively tanking.

[Sophie_Lo]

That's what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. Thank you! :3

[Schan]

I have a tank enmity-related question that I suppose here is as good as anywhere, and may sound horribly noobish, as I'm not a tank player, usually. Say I am the off tank in a trial, and the main tank obviously has their enmity on. Do I bother turning mine on at all during the fight, save for any adds that appear? I only ask because I've been told in trial to do so by some, and not to do so by others, leaving me somewhat confused and second guessing myself. >.<

Depends on the fight. Some mechanics have a tank buster that will target the person with the second highest emnity (aggro) in the list. If it's the off tank you pop a cooldown, if you let a DPS take it they'll probably get badly hurt. I like to start the fight without tank stance and turn it on after a few attacks have been used.

When i'm with randoms i sometimes try to build as much aggro as possible so i can shirk to the MT since you never know with random tanks and I figured any help giving them an emnity lead would be nice. However this is still very much debatable since me and my friends are constantly debating this. A lot of people consider it a ahole move to rip aggro off the MT straight off the bat despite the intention being to help them generate a bigger emnity lead in the long run. Probably an old fashioned mindset from when shirk was first introduced and keeping tanks off the tank stance was the main goal if you wanted to push dps in end game content /shrug

[RitsukoSonoda]

I have a tank enmity-related question that I suppose here is as good as anywhere, and may sound horribly noobish, as I'm not a tank player, usually. Say I am the off tank in a trial, and the main tank obviously has their enmity on. Do I bother turning mine on at all during the fight, save for any adds that appear? I only ask because I've been told in trial to do so by some, and not to do so by others, leaving me somewhat confused and second guessing myself. >.<

Generally what I do if someone else wants to main on these is turn mine on after they do 2-3 enmity rotations. Aside from that there really isn't any reason for either tank to turn it off due to provoke and shirk since it no longer penalizes damage output.