So, I made my first attempts at completing Garuda hard mode last night. In one of the groups, I was the offtank. The strategy I read said that I am supposed to tank the add with the red line while everyone burns the add with the green line because the green one heals Garuda and therefore must be killed as quickly as possible.

However, when the adds came, the green one appeared closer to us and the red appeared across the map. I ran over to try to grab the red one, throwing shield lobs at it while it was coming across. Unfortunately, I had a hard time getting her under control because by the time she got across the healers had spammed a bunch of big heals and had aggro on her. I concede here that I should have timed my provoke better (I used it a little before she got to us, but I should have used it right before a Rage of Halone or something to make sure provoke put me on top and then gained ahead with Rage).

Anyway, we wiped and everyone started telling me that I should tank the add that appears closest and the one coming across gets nuked. Before I had a chance to counter that, everyone called me a bad tank or a noob and left. In the next group I was in, I was MT and we killed her.

So which is the proper strategy? Tanking the one that appears closest, even if it is the green one, or tanking the red one while everyone destroys the green one?