Quote Originally Posted by Goji1639 View Post
I get this weird feeling a lot of you don't know what the word encircle means.
Clearly, it's you.

Hell's Lid Solo

This is a solo vid of mine from last year. For the purposes of monster behavior it works. Not that monsters remain stationary in every single pull unless I move. Note that they do not circle around to my back side, ever, at all, unless I stand in the middle of them myself. The best example is around the 6:48~ though I do die there due to not using Bloodbath sooner.

Gunbreaker Ghimlyt Dark Solo

This is another one, on Gunbreaker this time. Note how in the first pull, which is as big as it can be, all of the Garleans stay rooted still until I close between them with Rough Divide? Then I step back out, and turn back towards them, not a single one moves to get behind me. Enemies only fan out if the size difference between their hit boxes is so large that it pushes one of the larger ones out of melee range unless they fan out. They fan out. That is not encirclement.

Look at the second pull. Note that as I move around them, the soldiers actually clump up tighter, against the hit box of the dropship. Note how they never try to circle around me, pivoting in place most of the time.

You're wrong, and you must tank poorly if you're serious.

Overpower is great to pull with. You're just stinky cheese. Git Gud, Gascoigne. Also in some dungeons they are positioned right in front of you. Pagl'than for instance. The first tempered Garleans run at you in a loose line, Overpower will hit all but the BLM, but then you Mythril Tempest at him, combo'd, and all 4 are hit. The next pull with some garleans and puks before the breakable wall are also all usually hit by Overpower. It's on a dungeon by dungeon basis, but Overpower works quite well most of the time. The only thing clunk is no oGCD on WAR, but GNB pretty much has this problem but worse, because circular AOEs have a lower radial and range than Overpower. To me GNB is the clunkiest dungeon tank, for pulls. But none of them are really clunky compared to the old days when we had to account for TP, MP, and didn't have fully fledged AOE combos on tanks at all.