Easy tank to learn?

[Sqwall]

I'll keep trying. I said that in WoW too but got to max level with that war though I came back to FF14 before I did any other content. I'll see where it leads.
What deter me a little was looking at my upcoming abilities and figuring wher to comfy put them on my controller.

With the ARR and I would even add in Heavensward dungeons, use those as practice to learn your job/role as a tank, and don't worry so much about the other players waiting on you...you're the tank...they HAVE to wait on you.
And you mentioned you play on controller, I do as well.

Here are some tips for controller:

#1 Set attack combos on your hotbar so you can move with the left stick. Put your "main" combo on the 4 buttons so your left hand is free to move the left stick while attacking. Next place your high cooldown buttons on the D-pad buttons which you won't be hitting a lot over the course of an encounter or dungeon.

Pro Tip: Set attack abilities to the D pad isn't bad, but you may have to immediately switch to "claw" playstyle (which I have done at times during HEAVY movement raids). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82PykfLwtbE
This is by no means to scare you, but this has helped me in the past with keeping my GCD rolling while moving

In the end it ALL comes down to feel. For me I like to play the game as if i'm playing tekken or street fighter. Muscle memory takes over and you're literally a wizard at the controller over time.

#2 Expanded Cross hot bar is slick way to trigger your brain in thinking...my "Oh Shit stuff is right trigger + left trigger".
Put your pinch abilities there as you will literally ONLY use them...in a pinch. Holmgang, Most long cooldown mitigations, role actions (arm's length, interrupt, reprisal).
Again for me this just let's me know where I need to go to get that clutch mitigation without having to take my hand off the left stick. I can pull both triggers, hit the 4 face buttons, and move at the same time. Staying out of AOE and using my abilities.

#3 Have a Boss hotbar, and a trash hotbar.
I know this sounds weird, but I have 2 set's of hotbars. One for single target tanking. And one for AOE tanking.
Doing this allows me to remove ALL the AOE skills from my hot bar, and I can place provoke, shirk, potion, etc on my main bar. Believe it or not this seriously declutters your hotbar with things you will NEVER hit in a boss encounter.
Takes a while to setup but it can be worth it.

#4 The most important tip. Practice! Practice! Practice!
No body was ever born GOOD at something. It takes practice and learning your limits. And how you find ways around those limits.
Use those target dummies. Read your tooltips. Watch Videos. Talk to your FC. Find a mentor.
The more comfortable you are with executing your skills/abilities the better tank you will become. Then you will find out tanking is a breeze.

Good luck my friend.

[Renathras]

Update I guess.
After my journey in that other game and tied tanking there, I got War to lvl 50 here (dungeon spam). While I felt better about playing a tank, I still had tankxiety. Getting to 50, I brought some tomb gear and went did some trials and ally raid.
Tanking not for me. To much going on and to stressful for my liking. While everyone I met were awesome and nice, I freak out at my own self. Among other stuff that not to my liking like to many buttons. I decide not to continue.
Back to rdps I go. I tried.

I won't push tanking on anyone, but one thing that REALLY helped me: Palace of the Dead.

PotD is designed to not require tanks. Like...at all. Any four Jobs (including 4 DPS with no healing abilities) are supposed to be able to clear it. That means even if you go in as a tank, it's pretty chill and not a lot is designed in there to kill a DPS, so a tank can easily survive it all. You can play around with abilities in there (things often die so fast it's irrelevant if you're using a "proper" rotation, even), and there's really no stress since, if someone else pulls agro...so what? It's designed to not kill them.

I dunno, just a suggestion I make to all new tanks since it REALLY helped me learn to just chill and roll with it. Guildhests are a similar thing, even if almost no one runs them.

The real trick to me as a tank was just being able to throw caution to the wind and pull stuff. As a healer, I've worried about health bars so long, it was weird not to. But tanks can practically heal themselves (and a party member in some cases along with them), and if you typically play a DPS anyway, that's generally not your concern to begin with.

Either path you choose, I wish you luck and fun times, friend. o/

[SilverSkyway]

I totally forgot PotD.
I'll level my war to 60 (almost there) to get pvp Garo title but I'm not touching much of my duty roulettes. I alt-f4 when feeling overwhelm as a tank. *looks at dungeons*. While everyone here and in game are nice. I just get tankxiety. To much going on and to much to keep track of. I have a hard enough time as dps, adding Tank mechanics to the mix *head explodes*. lol.
I tried tanking and as much as I hope, it not clicking for me.
That's find. Was something different to try.

[Rayne6665]

Warrior. Cus it goes brrrrr (my favorite tank after bringing it back to life at 90)

[NightHour]

From easiest to most difficult I'd say


Warrior > Dark Knight > Paladin > Gunbreaker

Defo absurd to say GNB is hard to learn ^

Would vote for GNB as easiest tank, easy rotation, early free healing with aurora, early gap closer so downsyncs well

Camouflage gives you extra CD whenever you need / want

Not the most indestructible but no.paper tiger either so a nice middle ground

Camouflage isn't a super good ability tbh, it's a slightly better dark mind.

It has it's uses sure but it's barely noticeable mitigation.

[Caster-LB]

Camouflage isn't a super good ability tbh, it's a slightly better dark mind.

It has it's uses sure but it's barely noticeable mitigation.

But why compare to darkmind ? Would say it's closer to oblation , when that was introduced in EW they all laughed at DRK but when they saw DRK stack oblation, TBN and arm's length none of them were laughing after

Camo is much the same, unlikely to not be paired with something else, fair it hard to calculate parry mit into it not the best on its own but it's no slouch

Camo + reprisal /camo + aurora ect.

And from learning PoV

What if a learner tank fell over and nebula dropped out of their Pocket? Rampart and camo

Rampart and nebula down and facing magical mobs ? Camo and heart of light

Miscalculated holy stun time and put CD up early? Camo

Don't know boss casts or untelegraphed ? Camo