(06-25-2014, 12:53 PM)Knahli Wrote: I haven't done any extreme primals nor Coil as a tank yet but every time I see talk about cooldown/buff management I get a little nervous. Can anyone give me some examples of when and where you use these aside from when you're blatantly suffering extra, continuous damage or lose a healer? Maybe I am imagining it as more complicated than it actually is meant.
It's not overly complicated and a lot of it is actually Tank preference or comfort with his/her healer. There's only a few cases where you'll want to use a certain buff at a certain time. Basically don't stack certain buffs and allow yourself to get the full effects of each buff.
So for example, in T4 the fight is only a max of 6 minutes long. So depending on when you use certain buffs, you may never get them off cooldown again that run. So timing your buffs is important. When I MT'd T4 as PLD, I staggered one strong buff and one weak buff per Dreadnaught so that I always had buffs available the whole fight. Or when OTing as WAR I blew most of my cooldowns on kiting 2x soldiers 2x knights while healers focused MT tanking Dreads.
T5 is a great example of a fight requiring careful CD timing. If you're MTing Twintania as WAR you'll want to save your wrath stacks for Inner Beast every time Death Sentence is about to happen. For OTing as PLD or MTing as PLD solo-tank method, you'll want to use Tempered Will after her 4th or 5th Divebomb when you're running across the field for snakes. If you're the PLD standing in the neural link during the last phase of the fight you'll want to have Hallowed Ground ready if you get targeted for Liquid Hell spam.
Just little things like that. And you'll pick these things up when you are tanking the fights. For instance whenever you tank swap it's great if you pop a buff like Inner Beast or Rampart just so Healers have a smooth transition. Or when you're doing Garuda X, you'll quickly learn that taking a double Wicked Wheel unbuffed isn't fun. Hallowed Ground and Sentinel are your best friends in T6 during super slug. Etc Etc
