Tank Swaps how to do it right?

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I've never noticed the "splash" effect on Cadusceus. Interesting. At any rate, he normally splits about 66% or so health, so you can anticipate the split pretty easily. What helped me the most in grabbing split, is make sure your camera angle is set so you mainly just see Cads (normally looking towards the arena background), this helps eliminate selecting a target other than Cads. You want to select Cads asap, not a random party member. If you are doing that right, then as soon as you see the health bar drop and the new Cads enemy on the enemy list, simply hit left/right (controller) or tab target (KB+M) and immediately whack it with something. If you do an AoE move such as flash or overpower (not the best option) it will be easy to determine which Cad is yours because one will have the green dot and yours will have a red dot on the enemy list. You shouldn't use provoke at all on T1, unless you lose hate and need to get it back from a healer or dps. The split that spawns does not have pre-existing threat to copy, so you don't want to use Provoke (which is a threat copy) - you want to hit that snake hard.

As for Garuda Ex, if there aren't any melee you don't really need to provoke suprana off the MT, the main reason for doing that is so they don't get hit by a single wicked wheel (not even the infamous double wicked wheel). If there are melee, then feel free to provoke after you've built the BB combo and have it ready. Provoke>Butcher's Block>Brutal Swing, then tomahawk into position. For sister phase Berserk should always be avail, I use Berserk, grab chirada with uncombo'd butcher's block (highest enmity single attack, combo'd or not) then provoke the spiney, flash/overpower spam into position, then get back to combo'ing Chirada before dps rips it off. It is possible for tanks to swap spiney plume and suprana during twisters (again, helps melee avoid the single wicked wheel), this gets a little tricky though, just make sure you have the right targets selected or else you will voke the wrong thing and then be without provoke to correct it - which usually results in a wipe.