Quote Originally Posted by bokchoykn View Post
That can just as easily work in reverse. Players who have multiple options and actually want to clear the content will play the class that has the most influence on the team's success.

If bad players truly shy away from difficult roles and would rather wait an hour for two tanks to show up, they got what they deserve. Anyway, I don't think switching to Triangle method Garuda is going to change this. JP servers do it this way, and guess what? Nobody wants to tank there either!
Ha Bokchoy, I'm going to play devil's advocate here again. I'm on Tonberry, and I used to main PLD. When I do this fight I prefer to MT Garuda simply because I'm very comfortable with avoiding double slipstreams if I'm doing 2 way, which is usual for English speaking PF groups. However, I strongly prefer the JP 3 way pull. The simple reason is that it removes most of the RNG in the fight.

Bear in mind that most groups clearing Garuda EX actually significantly outgear the content. That's the only reason why the 2 way actually works. If you DF it and end up with half a party of people who are around the ilvl requirement on DF, you'd be much better off doing a 3 way pull.