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44 Gedanken zu „FFXIV: ABC – A Beginner's Guide to Tanks“
  1. I just got back into ff14 after a several year break and decided to play a warrior this tiume around as I have never played a tank in MMO before and heard they were fun in this one. I am so happy I gave it a try and got over my "tankxiety". It is actually really fun and you feel way more involved than a DPS just following the group around a dungeon. Also, the singleplayer content is MUCH more fun as a tank than a DPS.

  2. As a wow refugee I was terrified of tanking or healing . I witnessed so much abuse dished out on these two roles was terrifying to me. However, with FF14 player base and job system I am playing a WM and have just started DK job! Yea me! TY u tube creators and guides!

  3. Remember, the anxiety you feel isn’t trying to save you, it wants you to stop.

    Recognize it for what it is, it is the Inner bitch inside of you. Tell it to shut up. Keep going. Train it to become what you know it can be:

    An Inner Beast.

    (Sorry I main warrior)

  4. To resume this video a lot less stressful, follow these 3 simple steps:
    A
    B
    C.
    Tank me later.

    Joke aside, great video. Really helpful for me since I just started playing FFXIV as a Gladiator lvl23 and I’m having a blast whit my first MMORPG ever.

  5. I'm new to FFXIV and I'm learning tank atm, and tbh the worst feeling is when after the first 2 or 3 pulls the dps or healers just run ahead and do the pulls themselves. It's like they are calling me bad and have no faith in me without saying any words 🙁

  6. I started playing FFxiv just 6 months ago. Im loving the game. I have been playing as a DPS the whole time. I just started tanking for the first time last week. Got kicked from the party a few times. Being a Destiny player I thought the FF community was gonna be alot friendlier. Its easy to get stressed out when you feel your going to let down your party.

  7. I THINK, and I have no conformation at this time. That the priority for gear auto recommendation in AAR is equability for level then Item level with no consideration for class. I suppose the reasoning is that even DSP gear of your level is better then tank gear that you've out leveled, but it's not… Tanks are DoW (disciples of war) like dragoon, nin, and archer. However they are also the "Hit me, come on, HIT ME" of DoW. So they need the highest Physical and magical defense stat they can get.

    Prior to level 15, ware what ever mostly.
    Here is a list of what I suggest when you start running dungeons:
    Go to the smith in one of the main cities, he has a green square with a sprout above his head, run his stuff as tank to get the brand new armor, and ring, you will still have a few slots open, but it's a start. to fill up the rest, rut around the armor vendors and see if you can't find a "Goatskin Pot Helm"
    That should keep you until level 20 ish??? but feel free to nab anything with better Physical and magic defense, I wouldn't worry about sub stats until level 50
    At level 20 I would sugget getting a set of Iron Cuirass,Iron Celata, Goatskin Brais, Iron Sabatons.
    From their upgrade your gear every 5-6 level ups (maybe sooner) with the highest defense stat gear you can get.
    You might of noticed a stunning lack of Accessories, that's intentional. Accessories are nice, but your main left of the menus side gear comes first. Acessoires are mainly about sub stats, I would say look of accessories that give Vitality and Strength, with determination as a bonus.
    Once you get to 50, talk to the slpendor vendor in your main city, can't miss them, they have an icon above their head, sparkly bag and look around for agumented Iron Works gear for your class, the drop down menus should help you find it, just slect your class from the list, and then go to the one beneath it and go to near the bottom. Their are splendor vendors in other places too for when your higher level, including ishguard(lvl 60), Kugane(lvl 70), and the crystrium(lvl 80) when you get to those places. General trend seems to be for the devs to put up a vendor in the first "new" city of each expansions pack.

  8. 16:40 I have been told ((perhaps in error) that the mitigation multiplication problem only matters on buffs that place a status effect on you, like rampart and say blood wall, and thus that mitigations like Arms length and reprisal can be stacked with your main mitigation, but not with each other for the same reason that we don't stack main line mitigation. So paring Rampart with Reprisal or arms length is fine with no loss, but paring it with sentinel is probably not the best choice.

  9. Best tanking video I’ve seen. New sub. I like being a gladiator/paladin but hated tanking in this game. Other players always blames the tanks. Before I couldn’t even tell if I had agro. Definitely learned a lot in the video. Thank you very much for this guide.

  10. Thank you so much for mentioning healers on this. I've seen so many tanks panicking if idont keep them above 50% all the time. also, explaining why they should run close to the tank on pulls is important. oh yeah and the LoS to group ranged enemies. my point is: great video

    also "nobody can aoe mid run" laughs in SCH

  11. I really wish there was a video like this but for people new to MMOs in general. I get some of the terms here but I also got lost at times. Hopefully I'll understand on a rewatch later.

  12. 5:00 i subscribed cuz ur spitting truth. Tanks can easily get an inflated ego…and become an egotistical elitist which is why I am going to mainly tank so I can turn that around and become a beneficial elitist who will build ppl up instead of tear them down.

  13. The dog not god section was exactly what I was looking for here. I've never been entirely clear about when aoe damage procs so seeing that I can run back in after the indicator disappears is extremely helpful.

    Thanks for the video!

  14. I’ve never understood tankxiety, mainly because I’ve always felt tanking requires less thinking than other classes, usually play it when I wanna turn my brain off lol

  15. Ahhh so I guess I figured out why my Holmgang doesn’t proc a few times now 😂 didn’t know there’s a little bit of casting time on it. I’m also wondering if I should do that macro thing with Holmgang so that I chain myself or something like that

  16. Great video — just seeing this and as someone who's been playing for years but just getting into tanking this is great info. The bit about the tank's AOEs registering on the mobs before the animation helped me understand why I'm so often ending up leaving stragglers behind on my big pulls.

    One thing to note for new folks is that since this video was created, regens no longer create heal enmity on heal tics, only on the first application, so that makes healers' and tanks' lives much better.

  17. I strongly disagree about the Ego. People need to be called out on their bullcrap if they're causing issues (pulling when not tank). Sometimes people need to learn the hard way. By death, will truth set you free.

  18. As a healer Main, I do my best to support the tank. This is my priority.
    Regardless of pull size. I have never complained or seen complaints of smaller pull sizes.
    I HAVE however seen full party wipes from pulling TOO MUCH for Me or the TANK themselves to keep up with.
    As a tank, you CAN Take it slow. Nobody will complain.
    PS, Thanks for this vid, I need to at least learn more about the tanking role as a healer and am looking at expanding my game into tanking soon.

  19. As a healer main, I actually encourage my paladins to use their clemencies. Same with red mages using their vercures. If I don't have to use as many resources, that's even better, we can get more dps in

  20. Definitely playing other games and intuition helped me learn Tank quickly. But I think the best way to learn is by not being a Tank. A Tank has the responsibility of protecting the team, but if you don't know how others are meant to play, how will you know when to actually use your mitigations, how do you know how to position yourself for the ease of the team? Things like that can be easy to realize if you yourself have experienced many-a dungeon as a non-tank, and have seen the experience of your tanks.

    Unfortunately for me, I have the ego of a werewolf, and so I started off as a Marauder. The only way I learned (before finding this video) was by having a friend tell me about pulls and positioning. The rest was by my own.

  21. Thank you for this. I am just coming back to the game after 6 years away, and this guide has already helped me a LOT at getting back into the groove of tanking. And there's tons of advice in here that I probably never knew in the first place, though I remember precious-little about actually playing from so long ago, heh.

  22. The “now let me show you a big pull” at the beginning REALLY put me off. I stopped watching this video like 5 times over the last week a couple minutes in because it seemed so…idk…something cringe-humble-brag-weird-flex about it.
    But this time I figured I’d stick around. And the rest of it is a good video. I’m sorry I doubted you man.

  23. Tell people that you a new when you join the dungeon. I started playing this week and people have been very help and kind. You owe to your team to be honest so that there won't be any suprised because you didn't know how act. They often give you advice and explain things to you

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