Having tried tanking on the first half levels (meaning, before the job and below lvl30), it's actually a nightmare to correctly hold aggro at such low levels. Either you get overgeared DPS that no matter what you do, will deal more enmity than you. Or just DPS that don't focus fire.
At such low level, there is not much rooms for mistakes when dealing with enmity sadly. I think that the game is a bit unforgiving and weirdly designed around that by the way. It should be easier to tank in low level dungeons, not the opposite. Not that your life is threatened or anything, but doing your job can be a nightmare. And it's not going to get any better the more end game gear will get powerful.
And I'm not even speaking of the enmity UI that is a joke, pure and simple. It starts showing you that you lost aggro when you already lost it. It's stupid as hell, unless you start rotating continuously between all the mobs to check their individual enmity gauges under every player name. Super user friendly that is, especially when you are doing your rotations.
In any case, I am a main WhM/heal and trying my hand at tanking made me see a lot of things under another light.
It should get better now that you are lvl41, and get better and better. Most of the retarded/horrors tend to happen at low level, either from inexperienced people that discover their jobs, or high end players that don't want to bother to pay attention to actual roles.
At such low level, there is not much rooms for mistakes when dealing with enmity sadly. I think that the game is a bit unforgiving and weirdly designed around that by the way. It should be easier to tank in low level dungeons, not the opposite. Not that your life is threatened or anything, but doing your job can be a nightmare. And it's not going to get any better the more end game gear will get powerful.
And I'm not even speaking of the enmity UI that is a joke, pure and simple. It starts showing you that you lost aggro when you already lost it. It's stupid as hell, unless you start rotating continuously between all the mobs to check their individual enmity gauges under every player name. Super user friendly that is, especially when you are doing your rotations.
In any case, I am a main WhM/heal and trying my hand at tanking made me see a lot of things under another light.
It should get better now that you are lvl41, and get better and better. Most of the retarded/horrors tend to happen at low level, either from inexperienced people that discover their jobs, or high end players that don't want to bother to pay attention to actual roles.
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