[Guide]Personal tanking tips

[Walle]

A few tricks to add:

• Use your defensive CD(like Rampart or Sentinel), just before pulling. Taking less damage in the initial pull = less healing needed = less aggro for the healer.
• Don't use Convalecence unless you are certain the healer is low on the aggro list. The extre healing recieved = more aggro building for the healer.
• (this one I'm not 100% sure about) On boss, where adds are no problem, use your provoke inbetween. Using it should increase aggro building for the abilities used right after.

[Lucavern]

A few tricks to add:

• (this one I'm not 100% sure about) On boss, where adds are no problem, use your provoke inbetween. Using it should increase aggro building for the abilities used right after.

Provoke doesn't work like that. Provoke will put you equal to the enmity level of the highest person + 1. So using provoke while you have hate will do nothing at all. It's used to re-grab anything that you may lose aggro on, or for adds that come in and aggro someone other than you. As a PLD, if I lose aggro on something (rarely happens, but it does) I've had great luck targetting it and hitting provoke, and following it with a flash. If a healer took aggro on a slept add, this will usually get it back under your control (a second flash if it is reslept might be needed). If DPS was focusing wrong mob, pop a cover on em (if you are 35+) and follow with rotation.

[I_Sour_I]

Very much appreciate you writing this guide. I've been wanting to play Paladin, so I started lvling Gladiator an became very discouraged with my lack of tanking ability/knowledge. After I finish getting Bard im going to give tanking a 2nd go after reading this. Thanks for the info ^^

[della]

nicely done
personally i like to have gld class accompany me