No More Tanks for Garuda EX?

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I don't think this would solve the problem at all.

DF or even PF are not the best way for a difficult place. You need patience and wipe many times until you have practice, and it's difficult for a team of people who don't know each other. Ultima is not so difficult and there are also problems for PUG parties.

There is also new content and many other things to do. Probably with time and when they have done other things, people who have not yet done the primals will go and do them. Many good reasons have already been said too for the lack of tanks.

With i90 gear and 25% echo DF works fine (i don't have a static anyway and PF is the same now). But usually it's 1-2 wipes and someone quits because they are not used to work for gear at all. The same is happening everywhere now - other EX, coil, Ultima, even HM primals. For garuda tank learning exp starts in rotating p4-p5, but many teams will not reach this and remain stuck. And without exped tanks team cannot pass, so it's a closed cycle until people get more patience.
This has worked in other games. One month old player is usually considered a total newbie, imo EX and coil should not be available this early.

Some tips (for DF people) that i learned during the week (still haven't got my ring lol).
1. Mark safe spots for MT, OT + melee and HL + ranged, and explain where to stand.
2. Mark the Satin plume so it wont cast sleep.
3. Explain to tanks they can dodge Slipstream, feather rain and Wicked Wheel. Also they should use cooldowns when garuda blinks.
4. Explain everyone to attack chirada, then suparna, then garuda.
5. Mark "target to ignore" the Spiny plume, otherwise there will be a player who does not speak english and will keep killing it. Tank LB works only on the first plume fail.
6. Make a macro with sound for Spiny plume switch. Healer can tank it for the first 2 stacks, then swap. Many tanks forget to swap and wipe the team.
7. Assign the better healer to MT and the weaker to OT + Revive + team heal. Otherwise without a direct responsibility both healers will fail.
8. Healers must dps. Only when sisters blink MH cannot dps, all the other time they can and should.
9. Do not agree to vote disband or vote dismiss - it accomplishes nothing: people are very overgeared for garuda now, only thing that fails is coordination.