How do I snap taunt?

[Duuude007]

Such as in Garuda extreme when I need to pick up Chirada and the plume currently I flash/skorn chirada and provoke/lob the plume for threat and when I get them together flash to solidify my threat. However this doesn't always work and dps pull threat which makes a problem.

Many people do not realize that when a target appears on the screen, aoe abilities could have landed on them for a second or two beforehand, based on when their "enemy party list" HP is visible. If you know exactly where they will appear, you can do an early flash/circle, and even a (uncharged) Rage of Halone/Spirits within to boost initial hate on them the moment they appear.

Doing so should reliably allow them to chase you to the corner of the arena, whether you use lob or not, meaning faster positioning, no dps yoyoing, and faster kills on the adds.

Both MT and OT should know exactly where to stand and when to circle/flash to do this with 100% reliability each time the phase change occurs.

This also applies to other adds, such as knight/soldier in t4, and even the egis.

As for Titan Egi, I personally precharge my halone combo on titan, and land RoH on the west egi the moment it spawns. Next, Spirits Within/circle it, and run east, uncharged rage of halone on east, followed by flash spam on both. For this to reliably work, it is very helpful for a melee (mnk/drg) to intentionally tank the east egi for the first few seconds.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

As for Titan Egi, I personally precharge my halone combo on titan, and land RoH on the west egi the moment it spawns. Next, Spirits Within/circle it, and run east, uncharged rage of halone on east, followed by flash spam on both. For this to reliably work, it is very helpful for a melee (mnk/drg) to intentionally tank the east egi for the first few seconds.

I do it the same way. It works.

But as Kseven says, you gotta know the whole encounter first, so you can pretty much anticipate the splits/spawn/whatever. Having your RoH combo pre-loaded is very helpful in almost every encounter. Using the RoH skill alone (no-combo) is useful, it generates some aggro but with like 160 less potency. Rely on that strategy when you know that add won't be nuked asap, for example in Titan Ex, where you'll be using that on the second add. The usage of your off-GCD skills is very important as well, so you "fill" the DPS/aggro you generate in-between the skills.

Try using some macros too. For example:

/macroicon "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Circle of Scorn" <me>
/ac "Flash" <me>

This way you use a off-GCD skill along with an aggro generation skill with almost no-delay.

Edit: I forgot to mention this, but Fight or Flight is helpful as well. It increases your damage, hence your aggro generation. Pop it before the add spawns and it'll help you a lot.