Tank-specific tips for Extreme Primals

[Tiggy]

Greetings!

In a future patch, we will be making changes to the focus target feature so that when enemies, such as primals, temporarily leave the battlefield the focus target will not disappear.

Oh thank god. I can't wait for this feature.

[Silverharp]

Greetings!

In a future patch, we will be making changes to the focus target feature so that when enemies, such as primals, temporarily leave the battlefield the focus target will not disappear.

Thank the Twelve!

[dimsumdarren]

As warrior MTing garuda/suparna combo, MOST often, they will teleport, throw daggers (which you should avoid), then come back down and double wheel. Occasionally, they will do it about 10 seconds in before teleporting, but thats usually when theres some sort of dps issue with chirada. If everything going right, they will follow the usual pattern. So as a warrior, put a storm's path on both before they teleport. Then dodge daggers, go back in, hit vengeance, and thrill of battle. If WHM stoneskins you after thrill of battle, thats awesome mitigation. THen hit your inner beast on any target and I can survive a double wheel with 6-7k health left. Takes a bit of timing and practice, but its very manageable.

[SirTaint]

When MT Garuda on PLD, I just pop Rampart right after Friction. Whether they jump then WW or just WW after friction the 20 second window will have you covered. Focus target Garuda is an important tip and should be added to the OP. Garuda and Chirada love to stagger their Slipstreams.

[bokchoykn]

When MT Garuda on PLD, I just pop Rampart right after Friction. Whether they jump then WW or just WW after friction the 20 second window will have you covered. Focus target Garuda is an important tip and should be added to the OP. Garuda and Chirada love to stagger their Slipstreams.

This is exactly what I do when MTing Garuda as WAR, except with Thrill of Battle and/or Vengeance. I also try to apply Storm's Path on both targets and Inner Beast right after Friction is done casting.

Updated with the Focus Target tip and thanks!

[Jabbahutt]

Tip for Ifrit Extreme:
it is better to time your swaps on Ifrit during his animation when he puts debuff on healer ( searing wind ).
Ifrits rotation of abilities is programmed the way that tanks do not get more than 3 stacks of debuff between searing winds.
So when tank see ifrit turns away to spit on whm - pop voke + combo.

[ispano]

Something someone in a DF run of Ifrit Extreme showed me today. Have the tanks and DPS make a sort of triangle. With both tanks at around 90 or so degrees along whatever edge you're on, so if he attacks one with Incinerate, it doesn't hit the other. and the DPS would make the point of the triangle. This way, except for nails/etc, the tanks can mostly stay in the same spots and just bounce him back and forth.

Like a slice of pie, the tanks are on the outer ring where the cuts are and dps is the point.

[bokchoykn]

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This would certainly work well as a countermeasure for tanks who aren't familiar with when the Incinerates occur. One issue I see with this method is during Nails when the tank needs to face Ifrit in a specific direction so that it doesn't hit the melee DPS as they're killing the nails that are really close to Ifrit.

Generally, the way we've been doing it was to tank swap during periods where there won't be an Incinerate for several seconds, so that there is no risk of both tanks taking the same Incinerate.

[ispano]

This would certainly work well as a countermeasure for tanks who aren't familiar with when the Incinerates occur. One issue I see with this method is during Nails when the tank needs to face Ifrit in a specific direction so that it doesn't hit the melee DPS as they're killing the nails that are really close to Ifrit.

Generally, the way we've been doing it was to tank swap during periods where there won't be an Incinerate for several seconds, so that there is no risk of both tanks taking the same Incinerate.

The general idea is to have the tanks themselves and ranged kill those nails. In the unlikely event you have NO ranged though...

[Ragma]

Been trying my hand at making some tank perspective videos. Made a Garuda extreme guide. Maybe some of you can find it helpful or and provide any other tips, and worse case you can make fun of my bad tanking. If it helps at all let me know and ill gladly work on other primals and fight videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1RxqZHM1Sc