Hey future Tanks of Eorzea, this is my guide beginner’s guide to tanking in Final Fantasy 14 that also contains tips for more experienced players who want to step up their game a little bit. Got any more tips? Leave them in the comments!
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Hall of the Novice
00:25 Mindset
01:23 Come Prepared
02:09 Start off Slow
03:31 The Perfect Pull
06:32 Positioning the Enemies
10:21 Mitigating Damage
13:13 Being a Good Tank Partner
Shirk Macro: https://pastebin.com/NNAR3NmZ
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This channel is so underrated. You deserve way more. Keep grinding and you will get there. Learned a lot
Paladin was my first job in FF14 and I never tanked before so I was so scared of it but the community is so nice and welcoming I beat the anxiety while leveling
Any Metaria recommendations for Paladin?
Can someone tell me the name of the ost in the background? It sounds so cool. Also great video! It's a shame that most of my tank anxiety comes from the fact that people in dungeon pressure me to do big pulls when I'm still not confident enough
Summoner green circle!!! I have tanks pulling out of it all the time, I think because they think its a bad circle
Thanks for the video ! What is the music btw ?
Glad I'm not the only "anxious" tank. Some fights mechanics are quite hard (at least on first try/tries or after coming back after years away of the game) : getting them right + handling rotations + positionning + mitigations can feel a bit too much.
great guide! also what is this music? share please 😁
Confused about why you say “provoke is never used for pulling”? Its off the GCD so you dont have to wait for GCD to hit a followup ability, and it has a longer range
fighting over aggro indeed. I'll do an 8 player content, other tank pops tank stance so I think ok they wanna be MT….they dont start the fight at all so ever. so I go tank stance being MT and aggro boss, then barely 5 seconds in they provoke and wanna be MT. just why? this ends up often confusing the healers so they'll drop heals on me and not them so they die lol. idk why so many tanks do this honestly
I main DRK….I had a dps get upset because I pulled small on Smileton which was my first run….he went and pulled an extra mob without me and I got smacked. Also it was the first mob so I couldn't even asses the party's capabilities. He ended up leaving….some people are just so impatient with tanks. Lol
I would really like to know when is the best time to use CD for each tank 🙁 I'm always holding on to them and not sure when is the best time to use them because I wonder about the timer of CD
2:58 – 3:12 im gonna stop you right there lovely idea you got but thats horse shit
You just said earlier that is everyone is responsible equally and tanks are not the most important and now your saying tanks are to pace it out? Thats contradictive asf
And also idk what game you play but its not ff14 … if the tank tries to do what you suggested right there they are in for a rude awakening with dps and healler running ahead cause the tank is too slow … TANKS DO NOT GET TO CHOOSE THE PACE ..
Outdated (i.e. not current level-cap) tomestone gear are also sold at the "starting hubs" of each expansion by a vendor near the big aetherite (they show up ad a blue bag icon on mini map), for player convenience: starting cities/Ishgard/Kugane/Crystarium.
You can also put the Focus Assist marker on your healer to keep track of them. It puts a divot over their head.
You won't need that marker for anything else during a dungeon, and it's really handy to know how far ahead of your healer you are during a pull, without having to mouse or target characters. Also handy vice versa, marking the tank when you are healing or dpsing.
Funny how there are so many good guides for years…but I still queue up with tanks that don't even use cooldowns xD
"As a tank, you have the same amount as responsibility as everyone else, not more, not less. So anyways, you need to have good gear, the other roles don't really need it."
Talks about “learning other player’s abilities” right as he zooms out of the healer’s bubble and refuses to move back into it xD (to be fair he is playing WAR which can basically solo dungeons as far as I can tell, haha)
I'd disagree on dropping Tank Stance on a tankswap, bc it's 100% unnecessary and just asks for problems bc you might forget to put it back up, or the "new mt" dies while yours is still down.
If the OT provokes + MT shirks, that's top of enmity list + 25% of your aggro. If by some miracle the new MT manages to lose aggro with a 25% headstart, they need to fix their rotation and git gud. Yeah it sounds hard but if you lose the 25% aggro buffer without the other tank provoking again for his ego, then there's a major issue in your rotation/general tanking skills. Encouraging potential errors by "dropping tankstance" and excusing/hiding bad rotations isn't really a good way to improve. Especially bc those tankswaps generally only happen in Extremes/Savage.
10:30 Immediately after saying to stand in friendly AOEs you ignore the white mage AOE :')
This actually bring up an earnest question – would it be worth walking back to regroup under the bubble in that instance? Or would all the mobs moving be too disruptful? I ask this as a WHM player trying to get into tanking, and never knowing where to place the bubble lmao
I used to have healer anxiety but now I'm pretty cocky healer (still main DPS in serious contents though) … but I cant get rid of Tank anxiety .. ;c
I have WAR and PLD at lv.50 but that's it xD
good guide btw .. wont cure my anxiety but things to keep in mind as a healer!
So tired of sprinting across the dungeon becoming normal. I'm no speedrunner and there's hardly any benefit.
I never dare to be a tank 😭
This was great, you really covered things that beginners need to know.
The real question on a tank. If your healer or dps pulls the next group because they wanted you to pull more(without just asking you to), do you let them die?
ranged ability is fine for stragglers who peel off of you too because it has enhanced enmity generation compared to other skills.
lol your running past mobs that don't have aggro on you and your constantly moving around thus others are getting swiped and missing their positional attacks, this is a bad video
provoke pulling mobs in dungeons is optimal for a warrior because the range is longer and its an ogcd so the mobs will be perfect in your cone by the time you reach them. it's helpful especially with how spread out they are in later dungeons.
it allows for a hit called backwards overpower as well.
also, i see you standing outside the edge of those whitemage bubbles. stop that lol.
otherwise good video for new players for sure.
Much like a lot of the other comments up here, you’ve really helped with some of the Tank anxiety I’ve suffered in recent months of playing. You earned this subscription mate!