Tank-specific tips for Extreme Primals

[Gamemako]

I've only beaten it once at this point (though I've watched and read a ton of guides and practiced quite a bit before my win), but the best method seems to be having the MT pulls Garuda and Suparna, OT pulls Chirada. All DPS focus Suparna and then switch to Chirada.

If you're all ranged, I honestly don't see a good reason not to ignore Chirada altogether and tank LB to survive link. You'll kill Garuda much faster this way.

Currently, with the more popular method of killing Chirada first, if spiney lands on the MT, the OT will have to provoke the spiney once Chirada is dead and the MT will have to eat a second DWW.

This is just incorrect. First, with Chirada dead, Suparna can't use Wicked Wheel. The MT will never have to eat two double WW unless the DPS is split between the sisters or your DPS is so bad that you're 2/3 of the way through the fight and still haven't downed either sister. Once Chirada is down, you eat one WW from Garuda, which hits you for 2500-3000 damage on WAR after IB and Foresight -- nothing to write home about. The threat with that particular screwup is that your melee DPS are in range of Garuda's WW, which can one-shot them. Additionally, it's the OT's job to take the spiny at the start of sister phase. There are no tornadoes for a while, so you just RoH/BB on Chirada, then provoke and Lobahawk the spiny. Most of the OT's job can be written as "don't panic!"

The method I used in my first kill

Gods, what a mess. As MT, you barely get any relief from dropping Suparna's WW because you get 2/3 of it in the form of Chirada's Downburst immediately before Garuda's WW. That MT is carrying the hell out of your group if he's taking Chirada, spiny, and Garuda all at once. The reason you don't do that is that unless your tank has memorized the exact timing of everything and can do it with no HUD at all, you can't see three targets at once. MT has Garuda on focus and a sister targeted, and that's all you can see at once -- while grabbing the spiny, your tank is literally blindfolded. More power to him if he can do it, but it's just plain inadvisable.