Originally Posted by Khorchi Originally Posted by

Just got out of a Castrum run where both tanks had tank stance on during the ENTIRE dungeon.

Aggro was bouncing between both tanks who weren't standing with each other when holding one mob, and when one tank would come through for a mass pull and use their AoE attack, the other would wait until the other tank had run off and use their AoE attack so the mobs would immediately stop in their tracks.

As a healer going through the dungeon having two tanks on opposite sides of the map taking a considerable amount of damage, it was doing my head in.



When I decide to pipe up and say, "Can I just ask, which one of you is the off tank?"

I get a response from one of the tanks "You can ask that."

Followed by another response from the same tank who says (spelling errors and all),

"Jokes aside, this isn't Bahamut Extreme. It's Castrum. You cast a Medica or Aquildelum (sic) or... Card Toss... and you go back to your Sedoku (sic) puzzle. Doesn't hurt to have us both in Tank Stance; makes it easier to snag something that got missed"

Oh and the kicker? This tank was a mentor who already had every tank to 70 and Paladin to 80. Such a nice thing to hear from a mentor in one of the final dungeons of 2.0. Casting the healers aside because we don't have to do anything.

So I took his advice. I gave him one Adlo after that. Luckily I was in discord with the other healer, who was an Astro, who gave him, you guessed it... one card. We then focused healing on the tank who didn't make the comment listed above.



Just need to ask though... Is this the new meta now for 8 mans? Both tanks with tank stance on getting huge pulls on opposite sides of the map and expecting both healers to be in 2 places at once?

I understand what he means. 100% I get it... but as a tank, with the enmity changes for 5.0, it would be virtually impossible to not gain aggro and hold it above the DPS. You could tickle the mob with a feather and you'd hold its aggro for 20 years. If both tanks are in tank stance and not on the same page, you just have an aggro war.