As a tank, you'll want to have a macro set up to mark targets with numbers. Macros are snippets of code of up to fifteen lines long that you can place on your hotbar (aka that thing that holds all of your skill buttons on the screen) to automate things that you do frequently. Generally, you'll want your party members to attack the most dangerous enemies first, so as to reduce the damage you (the tank) take (which reduces healer stress) and also to reduce the chances of being wiped. However, not every enemy within a group is equally threatening. So, what's all that about primary targets? Unlike the greater part of the world of Eorzea, enemies in dungeons are laid out into groups of 2–4 (sometimes more). Considering some of those AoEs are one-hit kills (or nearly so) on healers, it behooves you to make sure your allies are not caught in the crossfire. This isn't a huge deal in the tutorial dungeons, but enemies start adding strong area of effect (AoEs, for short) attacks to their repertoire as early as Halatali (Level 20 side-dungeon). You'll want to point enemies away from the rest of your party members, especially the healer.Just make sure not to spam it as it costs a lot of TP.
While you don't have Flash innately as an MRD (a good reason to cross-class GLD to 8 at least), your MP pool isn't the biggest anyway. My favored rotation for low-level tanking as a GLD is Shield Lob on the primary target, Flash the group of enemies, Fast Blade/Savage Blade, Flash again, and then keep using your enmity combo.That would be Fast Blade/Savage Blade for GLDs and Heavy Swing/Skull Sunder for MRDs. After your Flash, you'll want to use your enmity-generating combo on the primary target in the enemy group.Once the enemies have locked on to your position and approach melee range, use Flash (GLD) or Overpower (MRD) to keep them attacking you and stop them from attacking your allies.Use your ranged ability (Shield Lob for Gladiators Tomahawk for Marauders) to pull groups of enemies to your position.Here is the basic process of tanking a group of enemies.
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