The Royal Menagerie (From a Healers standpoint)

[TitaniaZero]

I'm dreading this Trial. Every thread, ever post on this one continues my belief that Trials are a thing that should just not be a story block. And this belief happened back when they were 4 person deals. Titan... oh how it took my 4 person team forever... Oh Gaurda! Then to my horror 8 person parties... far easier to coordinate with 4 than 8 as 4 are not within grumble range! And such things continue... to now.

Yep. Not looking forward to this one. Somehow I suspect I'll level more of my classes to 70 well before I get 1 clear.

[Eldevern]

The Royal Menagerie is not that hard but for MSQ as it was for Nidhogg or Steps of Faith, the level is maybe a little high. Nothing that we can't handle (or shouldn't) but in DF... if we are unlucky, we are obliged to wait to find the right party (two runs, 7 wipes until now, not down) or to meet some overgeared people to run over it.

The real problem is dungons are really easy to compare with the trial.

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Garuda? In my experience, the 8 trial always have been easier than the 4 one. XD

EDIT-UPDATE :
3rd run, 11 wipe, not down -_-

[Avatre]

I'm dreading this Trial. Every thread, ever post on this one continues my belief that Trials are a thing that should just not be a story block. And this belief happened back when they were 4 person deals. Titan... oh how it took my 4 person team forever... Oh Gaurda! Then to my horror 8 person parties... far easier to coordinate with 4 than 8 as 4 are not within grumble range! And such things continue... to now.

Yep. Not looking forward to this one. Somehow I suspect I'll level more of my classes to 70 well before I get 1 clear.

It honestly is not as bad as most people would have you believe. As long as you, and the people you are running it with, can move OUT of AoE telegraphs, understand that standing in a puddle while a lightning attack marker is showing is a BAD idea, and that standing INSIDE the puddle when a FIRE attack is being cast is a good thing, you will NOT have a bad time. It is all things that you have seen if you've played any of the outside story content(from the Crystal Tower raids to the Void Ark/Weeping City/Dun Scaith, even all the 12 levels of Alexander show 90% of the mechanics in the trial).

How, as a tank, can I help my healers do better in this? I have had 7 groups and wiped around twenty times. I love the fight because it forces me to use everything in my kit, but I keep failing and am at a loss for how to improve. I dodge all the mechanics. I TBN every big hit. I have a bloody macro to explain the fight at the start and I mark safe spots and people to follow. It's like herding cats, and this fight actually seems to require more skill than I can coax out of my pugs. What more do I do? Is there a typical rotation of cooldowns that I should blow that my healers are expecting, so that they can optimize their heals?

Is it you that's causing the wipes or other people?

If it's you, I'm not going to touch on that as I haven't even tried tanking since SB released so I have no advice to that end.

If it's other people, the only things you can do are:
1. Keep trying to explain it to people, and hope they learn to move when and where they need to.
2. Pray that you get a DF group that can clear it with 1-3 wipes.
3. Make a PF group and hope that people will join it to help you clear it.
4. Find FC members that have cleared it, and lure them in with the enticement of the bonus Verity and Second Chance point.