Hi there, seeing as you said you are new to MMO's and that you don't know what a Tank is I would like to link a great and easy to understand explanation of what the 'Trinity' system is for you. However, when I looked for one everything was so detailed it would probably overload you. Maybe someone else will be able to link one soon.
Basically the 'Tank' will lead the group, will typically be able to take a lot of damage, either through damage mitigation skills or high hp or both. The Tank will also have special skills to gain 'aggro' or enmity, hate, different games have different names for it, but it just means how much the enemy or enemies are focused on him/her rather than the other players in the group. So the Tank is the head of the 'Trinity' party and leads the group. This is a position that holds a lot of responsibility and can be quite difficult as the game gets harder.
Then there is the healer, who will normally focus most of his/her time on keeping the tank alive, and then the other party members as needed. In FFXIV the party for dungeons at low levels is made up of 1 tank, 1 healer and 2 dps (dps means damage per second and refers to damage dealers who are not primarily healers or tanks but who are capable of dealing large amounts of damage quickly)
When I was new to MMO games I did not know about the different the roles in the party, and I made lots of mistakes and it took a while for me to understand there was a structure that I could learn. If you read up on how the 'Trinity' party system works in MMO's that should help you a lot.
Good luck!
Basically the 'Tank' will lead the group, will typically be able to take a lot of damage, either through damage mitigation skills or high hp or both. The Tank will also have special skills to gain 'aggro' or enmity, hate, different games have different names for it, but it just means how much the enemy or enemies are focused on him/her rather than the other players in the group. So the Tank is the head of the 'Trinity' party and leads the group. This is a position that holds a lot of responsibility and can be quite difficult as the game gets harder.
Then there is the healer, who will normally focus most of his/her time on keeping the tank alive, and then the other party members as needed. In FFXIV the party for dungeons at low levels is made up of 1 tank, 1 healer and 2 dps (dps means damage per second and refers to damage dealers who are not primarily healers or tanks but who are capable of dealing large amounts of damage quickly)
When I was new to MMO games I did not know about the different the roles in the party, and I made lots of mistakes and it took a while for me to understand there was a structure that I could learn. If you read up on how the 'Trinity' party system works in MMO's that should help you a lot.
Good luck!
