Tank-specific tips for Extreme Primals

[bokchoykn]

The Spiny Plumes always aggros to the player with the 2nd most hate in my experience, which is usually the OT. What is random is the location the Spiny Plume appears and what can end up happening sometimes is, if the OT is slow to grab the Plume, the healer (for example) can end up grabbing hate. This can make it appear as though the Plume spawned with hate on somebody else, but it didn't.

Not always the 2nd most hate. It actually randomly chooses someone between the 1st or 2nd on Garuda's hate list.

I usually OT this fight, and I'm rarely #2 on enmity. As a Warrior, I don't even use Defiance at all in this fight, and I generally use the Storm's Eye and Storm's Path combos more than the Butcher's Block combo when hitting Garuda. My enmity is actually pretty low. In any case, I always Provoke the Spiny Plume to start every phase. A DPS or Healer getting Spiny off the bat isn't the worst thing either. In many ways, it actually works out better.

[Alkimi]

Not always the 2nd most hate. It actually randomly chooses someone between the 1st or 2nd on Garuda's hate list.

I usually OT this fight, and I'm rarely #2 on enmity. As a Warrior, I don't even use Defiance at all in this fight, and I generally use the Storm's Eye and Storm's Path combos more than the Butcher's Block combo when hitting Garuda. My enmity is actually pretty low. In any case, I always Provoke the Spiny Plume to start every phase. A DPS or Healer getting Spiny off the bat isn't the worst thing either. In many ways, it actually works out better.

A healer getting the spiny plume can be problematic but it rarely happens if the WHM uses Shroud whenever it's up (SCH will most probably never get it). As OT you should still make a conscious effort to be at least ahead of the healers on Garuda's hate list to make the fight smoother.