Tanking question

[Vahlnir]

It doesn't teach you to not spin bosses, nor does it mention anything about dps positionals being a thing. I remember when I first started playing I use to spin bosses a lot up to the mid-level ARR dungeons, mainly because it was fun and I thought it might make me harder to hit if I was a moving target.

It's an MMO thing for the most part, mostly because of tank busters and cleaves. An easy mistake to make for new player tanks (or players of any role), sure, but if it's not their first MMO it should be common sense. FF XI was my first true MMO experience, and I would spin my enemies a lot. It wasn't until some random Bard sat me down to teach me some combat basics and basically said "Stop that. Stand still and take it" that my methods changed. I stopped spinning everything after that. Was definitely a good thing too since I ended up becoming a tank much later on.