Tank-specific tips for Extreme Primals

[bokchoykn]

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You're making some pretty bold assumptions on the three of us. I've been doing Garuda since day one of 2.1. Countless successful and unsuccessful groups: Premade groups, learning groups, PF and DF, you name it. You know nothing about my previous experience with this fight. Don't make assumptions. You don't know what you're talking about.



If you're "trying to figure out a strat were any group could go in and have a great chance", you shouldn't be so closed-minded about other strategies. You're doing exactly what you're accusing us of doing.

So, let's simply discuss each strategy objectively.

The triangle tanking method is a compromise to DPS any way you spin it. You say that it's not because you can melee LB1 Chirada. Do you think that actually changes the fact that it's a DPS compromise? You're doing less damage no matter what. Every strategy has access to Limit Breaks. In fact, it's better to use caster LB on all three sisters because it does more overall damage.

If you've done Garuda with inexperienced groups, you'd realize how often the group fails to meet the DPS requirements and the Sisters phase ends with Suparna alive. You should also realize that maximizing DPS becomes exponentially more important any time there are adds and secondary targets involved.

What I don't get is that you don't trust 2 people (MT and melee) to properly anticipate Wicked Wheel but you trust 4 people to dodge Slipstream and put out good enough DPS to make up for the DPS loss from using a naturally low-DPS strategy?

There are pros and cons to each strategy. And if you're trying to find an idiot-proof strategy where none of the players are required to know when certain moves happen and don't have to learn the actual encounter, there is none. It takes skill to clear content. This is the nature of video games.