More bosses like Titan HM?

[Brannigan]

You don't have a single problem mitigating cleaves if you are tanking in tank stance in A3S.

Pfft, yeah, like anyone did that.

[Sarcatica]

Pfft, yeah, like anyone did that.

That I sure did not. Just saying that it is easier to turtle up if you want to clear first.

[MahoSenshi]

Well I don't think I'd ever do Savage mode stuff any time soon, but I will practice timing my cooldowns all the same since I'm sure it'll be a benefit in all content regardless.

It's the same at Nidhogg EX, for example. After the Claw&Fang phase two tankbusters follow in a 20-seconds window, so if you delay Rampart/Shadowskin and cast them at the last second of tankbuster casting, you can cover both with a single CD.

[Lyth]

That I sure did not. Just saying that it is easier to turtle up if you want to clear first.

IIRC, turtling up was the best way to prevent yourself from clearing that fight.

[Sarcatica]

IIRC, turtling up was the best way to prevent yourself from clearing that fight.

True to a certain extent, only "hard" DPS check in A3S was the double hand with that 4% HP difference in the early stage. The rest were quite forgiving. I checked some of my earlier parses and I was doing sub 600. Total DPS needed was around 6050~6100, ~4.5k on 4 DPS, 1.25k on both tanks (no slashing debuff), 200 on both healers and 200 on LB (2 LB3 on boss instead of caster LBs). 550~600 for MT was totally fine with a huge uptime on tank stance. Admittedly though it also depends heavily if your team doesn't have good personal DPS that you need healers/tanks to compensate.