Tips for PS3 using newbies

[Avalon_Albrook]

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Brotha preach. We're one in the same, friend. On PS3, never once even touched an MMO, got hooked on this thanks to the last beta, and dove head-first into Gladiator not even realizing all the implications of it. To be fair, I can't imagine wanting to do any other role besides tanking, for some reason, so it's worked out in that sense. But still, tooooooootally unprepared for the nuances, expectations, etiquette, etc. that come with it.

It may sound lame, but as someone in your exact position, what's helped me enormously has been to go to an area with lv1-3 enemies so there's zero risk of you dying while experimenting with all of your stuff. Then, spend as much time as you need perfecting your hotbar configs and order and testing out the layouts for yourself by fighting those sissy enemies. When you have zero pressure on you and you can find a comfort zone for yourself at your own pace, it suddenly becomes so freaking easy to find your rhythm with everything -- marking, switching targets, getting aggro , etc. -- when you develop it without being under the gun in a dungeon. Hell, I still do this now, as goofy as it looks for me to be lv36 going to town on a bunch of lv1 ladybugs...