Posted this in response to an Engi thread. Thought people might like it here.

This is from an Engineer Tank perspective. I tanked ST 3 times and ran it a total of 5 I think.

Anyways, yeah, I'll answer whatever questions yall have, just not very good at elaborating on my experience.

Tanking as an Engineer went well. It was fun and I didn't really have any issues, unless I was dumb and stood in something that I shouldn't repeatedly... like the stuns on the first boss. In ST, for most of the fights almost all the damage is avoidable.

Threat wasn't an issue as long as there weren't more than 3 mobs, then it became a challenge. Except this one Engi DPS, Tyrant. He was pulling crazy agro. but it still wasn't too big an issue.

I hate that our taunt requires Volatility and has such a small radius of effect.

Bruiser bots are amazing. They can be a pain if there are DPS Engis in the group that use them, cause you'll lose agro and freak out, and they can mess up positioning sometimes. Turn on see target of target. Makes life easier. If you and another Engi coordinate, back to back bruiser bot taunts is grea tway to regen your shield.

Save Bruiser bot taunts for after a telegraph, when you'd be taking white damage.

As for positioning, you will be in melee range. You are a tank with ranged abilities, but not a ranged tank. Your Give 'Em the Gas debuff is super strong, but has a small radius, so you need to group the mobs up so they all get debuffed, which means pulling the mellee mobs on top of the ranged and standing in their face. This also allows melee DPS to get the most out of their AoE abilities.

Don't pull more than 1 pack of trash at a time in ST. You will get rocked unless your group is on point.

DO NOT move around too much. You can't avoid white damage. If you are moving for any reason other than positioning mobs, or to avoid a telegraph, you are doing it wrong. Stand there, eat the damage, and let the healer heal you.

I pop Recursive Matrix right after a boss uses a telegraph, because that is when they will be white hitting you. If you pop it when they telegraph and dodge the telegraph, you've wasted your CD.

I almost never popped my R on bosses. Only when I messed up big on Aethros one time.

I also tanked in my DPS gear on accident at least once.

Boss Mechanics:

First boss:

1st phase is a joke

During the 2nd phase,Engineers and other ranged DPS can hit 2 Channelers at once if they stand on top of one of the adds. I find it best if half stand on one of the two adds, and half on the other, so the lightning strikes aren't coming in the same spot every time. Also, lightning strikes hurt the adds A LOT. Use that.

Phase 3: The room wide telegraph he does is cake to avoid. You are NEVER more than 2 dodge roles away from a safe zone and can just walk into one at your leisure 90% of the time. The only thing you have to look out for is the stun clouds. Just pay attention to where they are and you are fine. DPS can easily go the entire fight taking no damage

Other notes: We never really bothered interupting anything on this guy, although yuou could interupt a few things to make it go faster with the increased damage from MoOs, but it's not needed

2nd Boss:

Phase 1: Hit him in the face, dodge out of red, super easy.

Phase 2: He dissappears and spawns 3 adds. Group the adds up, taunt with bruiser Bot, easy peezy.]

Phase 3: Haul ass to the boss. Run straight up the middle. Lightning strikes never go there. Dodge tornadoes. Save all interupts for this phase. If you mess up this interupt, you wipe. Period. Don't interupt till your whole team is in position. Bruiser Bots do not break interrupt armor on bosses

Repeat

Other notes: this is hardest boss

Extra boss: Don't know what to say about this guy. Sometimes he spawns a million mobs and wipes the floor with us, other times he falls over dead.

Stormtalon: This boss is cake.

Phase 1: Tank and spank. Avoid the lightning strike telegraphs. Just eat his bite. It's hard to dodge and doesn't really hurt.

Save all interupts till after the knockback. Break out of stun. Dodge forward twice. Stun. Win. Super easy.

Phase 2: Even easier. He picks somebody in the group, you run over to that person, you all run in one direction. ST will target bots with this. At that point, you just get to sit there and shoot him in the face while laughing at his folly

Chaka, the guy posting about Medic heals being weak was my healer, so you can pop into that thread and ask some questions too.

It takes a bit to figure out the rhythm and when to pop things, but really, once you figure out that you are really a melee tank and to stand there and take it to the face unless you are dodging telegraphs, it's gravy.