Tanking Bone Dragon at the Edge

[Aegis]

Never been in a group that tanked him in the middle. A tank tried to once and the /a chat started raging at him to move north.

More or less the same reaction in the run last night to the tank that tried tank him in the North. His healers refused to heal him after he refused to take it back to the middle.

We are all set in our nice, comfortable patterns now, I guess. Change is bad.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

This is like, the very last thing I imagined would happen when they put us in data centers.
We have our own organized DF strategies. That's bizarre.

[Eruantien]

Ya, I've never been in a ct where the dragon is tanked in he centre, I always thought it was odd that it wasn't, but all tanks on my data centre tank to the north

[Zfz]

This is like, the very last thing I imagined would happen when they put us in data centers.
We have our own organized DF strategies. That's bizarre.

It's actually quite understandable. Each data center is now developing it's own sub-culture much like how each server used to have its own culture. And even before that, Garuda HM had different starting points, I think EN people generally started at 8 o'clock while JP people often started at 11 o'clock?

[necrosis]

In all of my CT runs, I have never seen anyone tank it at the edge in the center always in the center at the edge...I've also only had 2 wipes on that boss and it was the first week the instance was released.
I've actually never even heard of this till reading this thread

10charderp

[Aegis]

All right then. Scenario 2: Tanking Vassagos; do you move them clockwise or anticlockwise when first fire pool spawns?

Any data centre variations? Balmung (which I believe is Aether) tanks them clockwise.

[Shaone]

This strangely reminds me of the different Jeuno bazaar location per server thing (Rolanberry vs Sauromugue vs Battalia) in XI when bazaar tax was still a thing.

Differences should be celebrated, no need to think those weirdos tanking at the centre are in any way inferior.

[Raminax]

My experience has been that people are quite random about in which direction the Vassagos are shifted as the fire pools spawn. Is there actually any averse effect to Vassagos standing close to each other, though? Because I haven't noticed any.

[Yahavage]

All my runs he's been tanked in the centre, the only thing that causes a problem are when the off tanks are having a pissing competition and depleting the HP of the skeles trying to drag them along to THEIR PLATFORM!

I'm not sure I would like it tanked up against a side, seems like you're just giving the dps more leg-work (running the entire length of the room between dpsing the skeles amd dragon, instead of just half the room?). Also the eye attacks not hard to avoid (again we are relying on the tanks not having an e-peen competition)

[Lafiele]

Lol, tanking in center is far more clean as some have mentioned above, if you get it right, even 2 dps is enough to down a skeleton before it reaches center. Also, putting it at the edge makes it run in the poison where melees can't reach without being subjected to poison. Also the biggest disadvantage is that it becomes super hard for healers to reach certain players in their party due to the wide scatter. The center is the much more ideal way in my opinion.