Just wondering if discord is usual or it's mostly text chat.

I'm a warrior (only 50 so far) and not really looking forward to tank swaps, mostly because I think it will be difficult to monitor debuffs on other tank as well as focus on mechanics and rotation. I haven't experienced it yet, maybe I imagine it harder than it is...

I just think it would be easier/safer/more effective if a leader can call out when to swap, and/or being able to directly communicate with other tank involved. But maybe I'm overthinking it as I have no experience yet.

I only pug so far, maybe joining a company will help with this.

Side-question related to tanking...
Also, will dungeons become more linear as I level? I'm terrible at navigating, feeling like I waste other peoples time, and dungeons so far have had dead ends and seemingly irrelevant rooms on the way. This is the only thing that scares me a little bit away from the role, as in WoW people were quick to even kick you if you didn't take the perfect FOTM path before you could even get experience with it, and from pug to pug, they could rarely agree on paths either. I've been lucky so far in this game, as when I say I'm new, another player just takes point and shows the way and does the key things.

Doesn't make it harder for me at all to tank and I enjoy this, but I feel like I'm being carried a little by it, not stepping up enough. I don't know the dungeons in this game at all though yet and have repeated almost none of them, focusing mostly on MSQ and unlock quests for progression. So I appreciate others helping me navigate and learn to keep things in a pace that everyone is OK with. Gotten a lot of rep from the few I've done, so I think I've done OK. At least as a sprout.

In WoW there was this general expectation of having to know everything, always, even before having experienced it. I don't want to study youtube content for days just to dare entering a game. Another frustrating thing, probably the biggest, is that players could not even agree what the meta was for anything. And after building actual experience, I would not take bad advice blindly. I'm really done arguing such things... Pretty much why I'm trying this game now. I'm also attracted to not needing 3rd party addons for mechanics and effective ability usage.