Need Hydra Tips - Warrior

[Sapphidia]

Yep, don't get disheartened if you're trying to solo tank it. The fight is NOT designed for a solo tank. You can sort of get by it by spinning around him constantly to avoid the cast but this isnt really intended mechanics I think (not to say it isnt viable of course). Fact is - if you eat the Triumvirate and you're a solo tank then you're most likely to die unless you have cooldowns up.

Triumvirate was designed to split damage evenly amongst all targets it hits. The intention is that you always have it hit more than one target. Any strategy that involves using only a single tank is either based on a hugely overgeared tank, an insanely competant/skilled healer team with good timing and shields, or the spin-around-him method which almost feels like an exploit.

Bring a second tank. Stand on top of each other (marking a mark on each tank helps). Make sure you arrange a direction to kite him in if you need to move him from fire patches. Above all, stay 100% of the time next to your tanking buddy. If a tank dies, a couple of melee dps should stand next to you to split the triunmvirate in 3 until the tank is ressed.

Eating a constant 4k hit is going to make any tank a nightmare to heal. But two tanks standing next to each other eating 2k hits each is very very doable. It's certainly nothing to do with warriors being ineffectual.