PLD a tank?

[Sephirah]

For me I guess I feel like I failed as a tank when a few mobs become loose and are hitting other players. I get them back quickly but I hear so many people down tanks for not being able to hold hate that ONE moment in time.... I am trying my hardest to keep them there. I know it is a group effort on the party but most don't listen and just go nuts then point fingers. I was hoping to find something to solve an over dpsing person.

Unfortunately there is no cure for stupid. Granted I've never seen you tank so I can't say who I think is right, you or them. But for arguments sake, if you're a tank doing everything you should be doing and the party is not listening to you, not following marks, not watching their enmity, and then call YOU a fail tank, remind them how long you waited in queue compared to them, and if they don't working with you rather than against you, leave. Even with the 15 minute debuff you'll be in a new dungeon before any of them, lol.

[Ruminate]

You're weilding a weapon with 30 damage at level 50.
Anyone weilding an Ifrit's weapon or above will do more than +30% of that.

[Sentinel]

Most Tanks do not realize but your weapon is the main aggro generator in this game. Don't worry about putting points in str or anything else, just get yourself the strongest weapon you can find. There are vendors that will sell you lvl 50 weapons, your GC will sell you weapons also, get the strongest weapon you can get your hand on.

[Jayrune]

Most Tanks do not realize but your weapon is the main aggro generator in this game. Don't worry about putting points in str or anything else, just get yourself the strongest weapon you can find. There are vendors that will sell you lvl 50 weapons, your GC will sell you weapons also, get the strongest weapon you can get your hand on.

This is true. For better or for worse the weapon is the single most important piece of gear for any tank as far as holding hate is concerned because even flash is based off of that number. As was pointed out, OP you are currently making use of a normal quality cobalt shamshir, which is an ilvl 46 weapon with 30 damage. Consider for a moment that the GC weapon for glads sports 38 damage, more than a 25% increase in base damage, and in the duty finder you have a high chance of running onto people with that level of weapon or better. I believe this is the core of your enmity issues.

You need a better weapon as soon as possible. If you have access to it, the Company weapon is you best immediate option. If that is not available and you have sufficient gil, and someone on the market selling them, I recommend an HQ Goblin longsword or an HQ colbalt winglet which will sport 35 damage (if none are available, the NQ versions of both are 32 base damage and still an upgrade). The HQ goblin sword is what i'm currently using, and it has sufficed for the 8 man story dungeons with reasonable breathing room and i anticipate it will do for wanders palace and AK as well. After AK is done ill have access to the GC weapon.