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.

[Ricky]

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.

awesome, been wanting this for awhile now

[Illya]

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.

I hope it's a patch that comes soon, as this is a pretty aggravating QoL issue on Garuda EX especially. The tanks in my FC who MT that fight have made macros just to target and set focus on Garuda because of how hectic it is trying to do it while she and a sister are literally breathing down their necks.

[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.

[Size]

[*]Turn Titan 90 degrees to the right just before Upheaval to make it look like he's peeing on your party. This provides no tactical advantage. It's just funny.

This is the best tip in the whole post! xD

[kayuwoody]

I'll add my tanking tip for Garuda. I've not seen anyone else do this in my runs.
Basically when grabbing Garuda+add, I "circle tank" to bait skills. I mean I basically just run through the birds so they have to turn around to face me. This way I don't really even need to look at the cast bars, and don't need to have one targetted and the other focused. When one of the birds stops moving, she's casting slipstream, and I'm at her back. I keep circling now but avoiding the aoe cone for the first bird, until the 2nd bird also stops. Usually at that point the first slipstream has gone off. Then you know there's no more slipstreams for a bit so you can just stand there.

[Keneblerz]

You know Bokchoy, because of you, I cannot call Ifrit's dash attack anything but racecars now.

But I am okay with this.

HOTWHEELS!

/10char

[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!

[GoMagikarp]

@Bokchoykn:

due to my poor memorization skills and a lag that spans tens of thousands of miles from japan, i found that landslides are 100000% easier to dodge when you see Titan start to turn, by the time i see the landslides itself, im usually gonna die. moving when he starts the turn buys you almost half a second more time to get out of there, which compensates for the .5 second delay i have when playing.

do you think you can include that on your tips so that it could help other people in my shoes?

[Dano]

The titan six way landslide with row bombs during final phase can be baited to ensure that the main tank has room to stand. This is done by standing in the middle, wait for landslide, move immediately to the last set of bombs that spawned, wait for middle bombs to explode, then move back. There's a delay of about 2-3 seconds before the middle bomb explodes so don't worry about standing in the middle to bait the landslide.