A few things I forgot to mention in the video: - Group up mobs tightly in dungeons so everyone’s AOE attacks can hit all of them easily. Wiggle around a bit to pull the mobs closer together - PLD and GNB can use their invulns as another mitigation in dungeons. You can do this at the start so it’s back up again towards the end. WAR/DRK get tricky if the healer keeps healing you when you use it. Feel free to tell them you plan on using it before the pull. Feel free to save it for an emergency if you’re unsure - Tank stance turns off when you get level synced down, remember to turn it back on when you get in the instance - Ranged attack generates more agro than other normal attacks - You can and should be giving mit/shields/heals to squishy party members as needed if they're in trouble (TBN, oblation, corundum, aurora, intervention, nascent) - Make sure a tank is always first in agro (“A” next to their name in party list) if both tanks die you have to provoke when you get back up to get the boss back. It’s likely slapping a dps in the meantime, so be quick - It’s good practice to turn your stance on after your opener as the off tank, tanks should always be 1 & 2 in agro in case the main tank dies or if there are two busters on agro 1 & 2 (typically a Savage mechanic) - If you want to get into extreme, savage, or ultimate on tank just watch a guide on the fight beforehand and make sure you know your rotation and mitigation like the back of your hand. Jump in there and give it a shot! Let me know if there’s anything else I forgot!

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Great video again! Good advice and tips. Fairly new to tanking, but I have moved my Target % and Focus Target bars down from the top of my hud to just above my cross hotbars so I can be sure I am the target and can check % quickly. Moving the enemy list, target progress bar and my debuff (status info enfeeblements) closer to my hotbars also has been a huge help. Now to get through the anxiety and start taking on harder dungeons and pulls.

I hope there’s a chapter in here about tanxiety

I feel like I have a decent amount of this knowledge but, I honestly just decided to watch the whole thing because I've been really enjoying your videos! Keep it up dud

hello! Tank main here since 1.0. A note on 21:39 ; this is the correct way to pull with ranged or voke however you only need one per mob pack. Mob packs are tied together with lines you can see. when you voke or ranged attack one all the mobs in that chain will aggro to you. So, you can use ranged attack as you are going in then aoe. Or Voke then aoe. No need to use both. I find its better to save voke in case while you are pulling a mob falls behind and aggos a dps then you can quickly voke that mob and keep going. Those lines are also the reason some tanks get mad. If a dps pulls early all the mobs in that pack aggro them and the tank needs to aoe to pull them off the dps which can make it a bit annoying but overall thats your job! I usually just pop sprint so I'm always in front grabbing that initial aggro of the mob pack.

Extremely helpful video! Not so nervous about tanking anymore 🙏

I had no idea about the in-combat sprint being half as long! Thank you for all the advice!

you explain things very well! thanks for this video i feel much comfy about tanking now

great content, love the chill vibes, keep up the good work, I am sure you will get a lot more subs

Scholar main with lvl 56 warrior and I can’t seem to get comfortable with tanking. Looking forward watching this extended guide - thank you! ~ Maddie

I think something very valuable is setting up a hotbar next to the party list and adding macros for each and every party member for your sharable mitigations. It has improved my tank game by a ton by not only using my mitigations on myself and the cotank. You want to make it a macro so that you don't have to detarget the boss and click in the partylist to do your mitigations. Since I made my tank hotbars have these macros for sharable mitigations I cannot even count how many times I've saved scuffed PF runs of savage raids or just general gameplay. My biggest tip for anyone serious about tanking is to set up a hotbar like that and become more active about mitigating your healers or dps instead of yourself for aoe's and other mechanics. Your healers will love you and you will be surprised by how often you can spam these mitigations.

really good video. The for doing this. Subscribed!

Honestly the first thing you should be telling new players regardless of roles is to do the Hall of Novice duties. The game literally walks you through the basics of what to do in a dungeon with a party depending on the role you picked, and you can run all Novice duties on a single character provided you’ve level the right classes to 15. There is absolutely zero reason to skip hall of Novice even though it’s a side quest. It’s right outside of Aleport in the Limsa location. People should get comfortable with basics before tackling the more advanced stuff especially if you feel stressed or nervous. Once you get basics down and are comfortable 99.9% of people will leave you alone about your tanking in base game content. Outside a friendly reminder to turn on tank stance.

Cheers from Brazil! This guide is super amazing, should we call it the holy Bible of tanking? Is soo completed and easy to understand! I have 15 years experience of tanking in others games, but aways there's new things to learn! Thanks for the effort, amazing job.

My recommendation on dungeon mitigations is to start with your two 90 second ones for the first pack, on the second pack lead with your 2 minute and then arm's length after that ends, and have some proper cycling of your short mitigations and healing along the way, this applies to pulling wall to wall which for almost every dungeon past HW is literally two groups before you get gated before a boss. So for GNB for example... Rampart (90) -> Heart of Corundum/Aurora at any point -> Camouflage (90) + Reprisal(60) once Rampart ends. That's enough for one pack, move to the next. Nebula (120) - Heart of Corundum/Aurora at any point -> Arm's Length (120) + Reprisal (60) once Nebula ends, second packs tend to be a lot beefier and with this cycle your other 90 seconds are back up to use just in case you end up needing anymore. Works for PLD and WAR as well, though War rarely needs much. You need adjustment with DRK though as it lacks a 90 second cooldown, it's best to use your invuln as much as you can and communicate with your healer that you'll do it. Its short CD is very strong though and negates more damage than the others do so you may not need it. I do recommend using Invulns are your own discretion but this flat cycle applies to most situations. You'll eventually figure out what dungeons you need to plan things out more as 90% of dungeons in game are just hallways with two packs per pull, they almost don't need any proper planning or use of invulns, you can follow a designated order you wanna use and almost never have issues. With experience you'll know which dungeons have big boy pulls that you can try to optimize like in the 65 dungeon, first 70 one, 71's first pulls, 79's last pull, (literally all I can think of past ARR).

just a side-note: it is very difficult to be so undergeared as a tank to lose aggro if you are hitting the mobs - if you properly aoe the packs with tank stance on, your weapon would need to be around 20 levels (or somewhere around 150-300 ilvl) lower than the minimum ilvl of the dungeon to be running into aggro issues, meaning the armor game would need to be popping off in order for you to meet MIL requirements, but not keep aggro.

nice, as always

I love your voice, it’s really nice to listen to while doing other stuff lol

Really REALLY helpful video. I've been playing Tank for about a week now after switching from a DPS role since I started playing 3 months ago. I decided to run dailies with my brother, at the end of it he politely suggested "You should watch this guy bro, it'll help". Translation: You suck, you gotta learn. 😂 Thanks again

I just got back into the game and enjoy healing(no que time helps lol) but I want to tank the biggest thing holding me back is not knowing the dungeons. Being the "leader" and nor knowing just makes me feel bad Edit: enjoy the vids! Thank you

Homie I love the vids. Would gladly appreciate if you could lemme know in what order you have the paddles bound to (I'm trying to ease myself into playing with controller since it looked fun when you did it). And also if you could hook us up with a vid about your config/skill placements on the hotbar, like the reasoning behind it. Hope that makes sense.

Dungeon mit rotation. You only need 1 and very seldomly 2 mitigations up at a time. Short (bloodwhetting, heart of corrundum etc)-->long (rampart, vengeance, camoflauge, sentinel etc)---> short--->long. Usually the pull will be over during the second short. Good mits to combine when needed for pulls are arms length and reprisal. Good mits to combine for tank busters are a short and long. Think bloodwhetting+vengeance. Mits that rarely get combined. Any 2 long mits. Think rampart and vengeance. Savage hits hard sometimes and requires the kitchen sink though. Mits to never combine. Vengeance and arms length. The slow and reflect do not stack. Something weird with the fact they both proc off physical hits.

As a Bard main, I can say from experience that Bards make squishy tanks. Also, when I do play Tank, I'm generally okay with pulling more mobs than just one (although it does get a bit anxiety-inducing at times because I don't *main* tank, I just play it for some variety or for achievements), but there was one time I was tanking in The Aurum Vale, and I was trying to get to the boss room pulling as few mobs as possible, and a DPS kept running around and pulling more mobs to us to have us take more time, and later in the dungeon would run ahead, aggro mobs, and get himself killed. Now, I'm the same way as the vlogger here; if someone pulls a mob I wasn't intending to at the time, I'll still aggro them to get them away from the party, but in this case, the DPS was obviously griefing the party and the healer was actually encouraging me to just let him tank any extra mobs he pulled.

As a long time tank in different mmos, "You pulled it, you tank it" is only valid in two instances. A sprout is still watching the cutscene, or if you told them that you are taking it slow with pulls and they still pull more. You shouldn't have to pull extra weight cause someone else is being toxic.

I'd love to see you do a HUD/UI guide especially for controller players!

I think the biggest problem for a new tank is knowing where to go being the leader of the pack. the manor as a ow level dungeon is a good example of that.

27:30 it is worth noting that Vengance Arms Length combo doesnt work all the time, the reflect from Vengance can override the slow on Arms Length, old spaghetti code causes this issue, just something to note

I'm a healer main but I tank often not a huge fan of dps. My rule of thumb for tanks is. Attempt to wall to wall pull first. The game is balanced around it so I honestly think doing that is just bare minimum as a tank. If your healer is pulling more mobs for you it's because they're confident in their healing skills so just let them or do it for them. If you're scared or new, atleast attempt to do it once. Don't just say no without trying. If you live. Congrats keep doing that from now on. If u die. Find out why. Is it healer issue? Did u stand in aoes too much? Did u use any of your mitigation? But if u say no and don't try At that point as a healer you're just wasting my time so I'll leave and re queue

new player here, these are super helpful! need me a dragoon guide from Vit!

I love the aesthetic of PLD, but I only ever use WAR in dungeons. It makes me feel like Bloodwhetting keeps me in control of my destiny regardless of the healer's skill level.

I think most new tanks struggle on is just the mitigation juggling. which one to use first, which one should stack and able to know when one is about to end and cast the next mitigation being they are mix of short durations. everything else is pretty simple.

Hi Vit, what's the chest glam you're wearing with your Warrior?

What's the difference between trusts and duty support

I would love to see a guide like this for healing. I'm a tank/dps goober that was never really curious about healing until SGE dropped, but I know jack squat about it and healing. As a fellow controller player I'd also love to see your SGE xhb, and why you placed what you did where you did.

Heya! Thanks for the vid. I'm a long time MMO player on, but on kb&m, and I've been wanting to switch to controller for wrist comfort for a little while now, so your guides have been handy in getting setup. I had a specific question, I recently cleared uwu and tea, working on dsr and ucob right now, and... as I get used to controller, I feel like I can do ok in a dungeon pull, but the idea of an ult on controller right now seems... scary 😅, do you have any Ult specific controller tips? (or, is there a video of yours I haven't watched yet that you think could help?). P.S. I main tank and heals, so I guess I'm mainly thinking of all the different party member and/or boss target swapping I'd be doing while also double weaving compared to a dps perhaps. I'm so used to using the F1-F8 keys for party and Tab for boss(s). Cheers

19:20 honestly, if your healer is eager to keep the pull going, just do it. I'm a tank main, but I've been dabbling in sage the past week and for real... it's BORING when people don't wall-to-wall. Yeah when it's a giga pull like the one in gulg things get a bit spicy, but when I'm playing healer I'm gonna be annoyed at myself over a wipe from a pull I said "go all the way" on, not the tank.

Is there anyone that can answer a noob question for me, but I was in my 3rd raid ever and had a good responses for tanking but I was holding Agro for the first boss and then bunch toxic stuff in chat because I was tanking but then someone started taking agro but idk I just wanna help the team but no one told me what I was doing wrong just toxic sh&t talk and saying I was throwing but they just said turn off stance, so I did that but idk is this on me or how should I tell if I should pull agro or not

could listen to you all day

This is random, but I'd love a video on your UI/HUD. I've been experimenting non stop with mine trying to find a balance between effective but not overly cluttered / ugly lol.

how do you pull a big packs of mobs so efficiently? i always lose someone or dps steal aggro and getting them again is impossible because of the arrow on my dpad, so if there's too many i have to spam the button and it takes to much time

Are the any cons for making character for different roles/jobs?

The most main thing that they fail at is.....they would buy the package for the class to make them level 80 and dont know how to use the class. If they go through the proper leveling while playing the game, it would literally tell you how to tank or dps...They should of never added that in the Mog station. So you have a lot of new ones that's coming in and dont know how to properly play the class. They lucky its not how 1.0 was when you had to worry about having the accuracy for it, lol.

An interesting element of tanking to me is how many players want really huge pulls, but I think that's a misconception. Because most non-tank AOEs max out at X targets, I feel like it's rarely efficient to pull more than two packs at a time. (corrected below)

Its crazy how nobody teaches people how to tank properly and how the game tells you nothing

Haven't even finished the video yet. I'm a tank main. Ultimate cleared. As soon as I got to the tank etiquette section you earned a like. Some correction if the aggro list shows anything but red it means you do not have 1st hate. Green means you have no hate. Yellow means you have some hate but are not the top of the list therefore not tanking. Notes on cd usage for dungeons: You want to stack cds as much as you possibly can. Anything under 1 min should be used for every pull. (Repraisal, and your short cd) and you should never save cds for bosses or tank busters as you can always use your short cd for those and even then you won't need it vs tanking a wall to wall pull. Its also about dungeon knowledge... if you can pull to the boss wall then you don't need to save any cds and should use them all... And then its job specific stuff as well. Playing a pld always Hallowed ground the first 10 seconds of the first large pull that way you can maybe get it back for a large pull before the last boss. Don't stack vengeance and arms length because you want them hitting you faster for the damage back. Etc If you are running with a whitemage that is holy spamming you can wait a few seconds to layer your cds for when the stuns wear off. But generally speaking you want to think about how you can use as many cds as you can. This will allow the support to do much more dps and the packs will die way quicker which is more overall mitigation and less damage taken. Another note. I know you mention LOSing but your reasoning was a bit off. The example you give in Aurum Vale isn't used to avoid ranged damage... Its used to stack enemies. When you LOS a ranged mob it is forced to move to a position that can hit you. Death balling or stacking all mobs together is extremely important and LOS is a good way to force ranged to catch up. You can also run back and stack the pack on top of ranged mobs as well. This isn't a good idea in Aurum vale as you want to avoid the patrols but a good example is the room in Dzemael Darkhold after the 2nd boss. You pick up all the hate but its all ranged and on opposite sides of the room.. if you run far up the ramp in the back it forces them to the middle and then you run back and stack on them.

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You pull it, you tank it.

an hour for a tanking guide, ooof

There are many useful beginners guide on tanking, But my beloved WoL fellows it is much easier on life to stay away from tank classes. DPS is much more fun attractive and challenging to play. Tank is boring, tedious, and put a lot of stress. Just pick any DPS classes