(07-20-2013, 04:11 PM)Xeon Wrote: To conclude, from my experience if you lose agro you probably either have a bad rotation or bad tactics whilst doing so (No offense intended). On a side note, Several of the fate's i did was obviously some with annother tank whether it be a warrior or a glad, I never really did lose agro.
The problem I've run into while tanking at lower levels is a lack of tools for threat unless you cross-class, and bad tactics by DPS.
While the former gets fixed while you level up, the latter is always going to be a problem, especially if you fill slots with the duty finder, and evidently especially if you get an Archer.* 
More threat generation helps in those instances, but that said, as a wise man once put it, "You can't fix stupid."* I'm not saying all Archers are like this, but in the (substantial number) of dungeons and Guildhests I ran in P2 and P3 while playing all three roles, Archers and Bards were consistently the absolute worst DPS players, and most of them were "LOL"-style unrepentant about it. I don't know if I just had bad luck or what, but if you play an Archer, watch your threat meter and don't be that guy (who pulls aggro, who attacks different mobs, who breaks Sleep, who breaks Sleep "to make the fight tougher lol", who refuses to change targets to kill boss fight adds, who refuses to stop attacking and move to the tank after pulling aggro, who decides to kite bosses because "I'm a tank lol", who insists the healer handle all the clickies so as not to lose the #2 place in threat list, etc.).
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