Why Shirk?

[Zumi]

Or with Shirk, neither tank needs to lose DPS with their enmity combos OR being in tank stance. It's free enmity for days.

Your healers would not appreciate you taking the boss in sword oath though.

[Harz]

Your healers would not appreciate you taking the boss in sword oath though.

I've not tackled Lakshmi yet, but with Susano I've had no troubles tanking him in Sword Oath, and my healers haven't complained. It's a difference between 10k autos in sword and 8k autos in shield. With 46k hp that's only 1 auto difference before he kills me assuming I don't get healed at all for some reason. Rampart and Shelltron or Sentinel and Shelltron or even Hallowed Ground will get you through every Stormsplitter easily. The only time tanking in that fight can get sketchy is during the lightning stun segments where the whole party has to keep moving, and I usually try to save Rampart and Convalescence for that phase. Tanking phase three Susano in sword oath is easy.

He's actually far more dangerous in the first phase with untelegraphed Assails hitting you for 30k+, but I'm in shield for a large portion of that phase so it doesn't matter.

[Felorr]

He's actually far more dangerous in the first phase with untelegraphed Assails hitting you for 30k+, but I'm in shield for a large portion of that phase so it doesn't matter.

Not telegraphed but 100% predictable. He always uses one right before/during his second melee (so just CD on the pull), and all the other times he does it a few globals after the knockback/line mechanic in P1.