War tanking tips on Cad

[Caar]

Hi everyone, just got my war coil ready and freaking love it.
I would like some advice from fellow war tanks in tanking caduceus, I've beaten it as dps and I know how hard it its, and I don't want to go blind to it.
My gear is: full Dl, myth body, hoplite head, 1 hoplite ring and relic.
Got like 7.5k hp with food. All my points to VIT

Thanks

[Paikis]

Hold agro and don't die. There are no special tricks. If you've killed it as a DPS, then you know everything you need to know.

[Xenobius]

Not much you can do aside from what Paikis said.
Since you lack any defensive cooldowns that can make a real difference in this fight, you can only spam your abilities and pray that your half of Caduceus drops before or a split-second after you do.
Well, and pop everything you have (Featherfoot, Thrill, Convalescence...) after it reaches 4 stacks. Sometimes a hood swipe you dodge saves the day. Too bad it's unreliable as hell.

[ZeroRains]

Pretty much flash the add, have your pld take the original across the map. You rotate cooldowns around 3 stacks, and hope your dps can make it over by 4, no later. The highest amount you can really hold is 5 stacks, if your decently geared.

[Mishini_Dracoto]

I haven't actually run BCT1 yet. I tanked BCT2, we didn't win . . . and that's it :'( I'm hoping to start running with my new BC group tonightish.

[Ryutamashiisan]

My advice is this
A) get a static healer if your in a static, it helps ALOT to be in-sync with your healer.
B))Also have a melee trigger tail swipe, it seems in significant but while its casting tail swipe it cant knock you over the head with hood swing, which is always a good thing.
c) Keep at it, while WAR does have its disadvantages in coil having WAR in turn 4 is a HUGE advantage, when my static off-tanks war turn 4 goes down SO much quicker. When we beat it on Tuesday we killed the last dreadnought with one AoE going off and without lb, it was glorious

[Tiggy]

Sadly this was the fight that really illustrated the differences between myself and a paladin. Paladins can simply cooldown their way through this fight and Wars require massive healing attention from the whm. Also, I recommend in the split phase that your team ensures you NEVER exceed 3 stacks on your mob. Pull 1 or 2 adds to it in order to keep the stack count low. We also feed at least 1 to the split the paladin is tanking, but ideally it still helps if we get 2 on the paladin's as well. In order to make up for the extra healing my add receives we tend to use a level 2 limit break on my split. On the plus side I find turn 2 to be far easier for war than turn 1, and I keep hearing promising things about turn 4. We just got to turn 4 last week for the first time and we are partially limited by our dps so I still haven't been completely through the battle yet.

[NovaLevossida]

Get your combo prepped and ready for the boss split. Have already hit the main target with step 1 of your combo before the split, and immediately as it splits switch targets and hammer step 2 of the combo and then step 3 as you drag it away. In a perfect world, you could get by with tomahawk(s) or flash(es), but as crazy as fights get at times with whatever your healers are having to do, it's better to adamantly plant enmity as soon as possible.

[Kaonis]

I've tanked it as both PLD and WAR now, and PLD is WAAAAY easier with the cool downs. It almost feels like cheating.

But as a WAR all you can really do it just use what cool downs you have to try and keep yourself alive and hope the healers have a lot of MP to dump into you. We also run with a SCH and WHM heal team, and we found having the SCH dedicated to healing me a bit more as WAR worked out better due to their little shields and % based heal.

If you're getting hit too bad you can also see about having a DPS spawn an add to remove some stacks off your boss to lessen the blows. We found that even just 2 stacks was pretty scary for a WAR.

[Paikis]

We found that even just 2 stacks was pretty scary for a WAR.

I have zero gear from coil and tanked it up to 7 stacks... 2 stacks? I don't even feel it!