Tanking Turn 4

[kayuwoody]

I mean I feel like I know where to be and when to be there for adds, it was just total chaos that I couldn't recover from. I wanted to make sure that having the healers gather around the middle for 2 seconds wasn't some sort of blasphemy lol

You're spot on, that's definitely the right thing to do. People don't have to be dead centre, but they shouldn't be so far away the OT is running laps around the arena to gather mobs.

[AlrikRouge]

You're spot on, that's definitely the right thing to do. People don't have to be dead centre, but they shouldn't be so far away the OT is running laps around the arena to gather mobs.

^^ This.

The main troubles I've had in T4 in PF have been under the non-spoken view that the OT should just "be able to grab hate and hold them".

After a few wipes, there is usually a disband, or they're willing to give it a go. Then if nobody derps, it ends in a win.

A few times, I've even just said point blank: "if possible, please all go center for P6 adds so I can grab them. Then you can head back to where you were, so I don't end up getting you guys killed."

[SpookyGhost]

Yeah, having the healers gather up in the middle helps if you're grabbing the bugs. If you aren't doing the 2x Dread strat then you can afford to let the new Dread immediately eat the bugs (MT will have access to the cooldowns he'd be using to tank 2x Dread, so it's not really an issue). Before my original Static realized that getting the healers to gather up was optimal, we had one DPS grab a bug while I grabbed the K/S, then Provoke'd + Tomahawk'd the bug while the other one got fed to the new Dread. While it's not optimal, it worked for us at the time and if your healers are braindead you can always convince a DPS to do that for you. :P