Relic Reborn: Hyrda - double tank or not?

[Judge_Xero]

and with his 3400 about HP he charged up. I let him, and let him stand in front alone. He was never one-shotted.

This is a little hard to believe unless Hydra has been completely nerfed. I think it was around 8k damage unmitigated for Triumverate.

Back when I first did it most tanks had around 4500k. You needed full i70 + food to solo tank it with 6k HP. (Usually Full Darklight + Relic)

8k - 20% (Shield Oath) = 6400 + SS/Aldo + CD = 4800 Damage usually. which left you 1-2k to not get AA'd etc.

[Duuude007]

There really is not a downside to splitting the damage...

Two tanks, two times the risk of a tank eating dodgeable conal attacks, healers have more to worry about.

There really is a downside to splitting the damage... the competency factor.

[Lavieh]

Two tanks, two times the risk of a tank eating dodgeable conal attacks, healers have more to worry about.

There really is a downside to splitting the damage... the competency factor.

The competency factor is a factor no matter how you do it.

[Velox]

It's nice having a second tank to pick up the Wyvern add, though.

The Wyvern is a joke though. Even at i60 my WHM could tank it. The auto-attack is pitiful and you just remove the poison DoT when it's applied. Really the ONLY skill it has that does any sort of damage is the fire breath, but there's a long enough gap between those attacks that you can heal yourself (or any DPS) up before the next one.

[Delorean]

Two tanks, two times the risk of a tank eating dodgeable conal attacks, healers have more to worry about.

well if you want to nitpick, sure. but i was kind of moving forward with the assumption that people weren't playing like they threw their keyboard in the fishtank and told their fish to do stuff for them while they are watching netflix

[Mykll]

This is a little hard to believe unless Hydra has been completely nerfed. I think it was around 8k damage unmitigated for Triumverate.

Back when I first did it most tanks had around 4500k. You needed full i70 + food to solo tank it with 6k HP. (Usually Full Darklight + Relic)

8k - 20% (Shield Oath) = 6400 + SS/Aldo + CD = 4800 Damage usually. which left you 1-2k to not get AA'd etc.

Maybe it has been nerfed or something. I would notice when his health took a big hit, nobody else at the same time took a similar big hit in health, meaning no melee DPS or anyone else was caught in front to share the Triumverate. He tanked it solo, I had to greatly hold back my DPS to not steal enmity, and I would go after the adds. Partly so I can bash something without worrying about enmity, and me being off Hydra gives that tank more time to get ahead of me on enmity.

If he wanted to charge forth and tank it, I was going to let him. I wasn't going to be "one of those tanks" that just because I had better gear, I HAD to tank. But I made sure to be in enmity position #2 so that IF something did happen, Hydra would come after me and not anyone else.

That tank finally died when the battle was almost over, about 5% left, and that was more due to the floor AOEs started to be placed in bad positions and such. I was frankly surprised he didn't die sooner.