pulling agro question in raids

Oh, ok. Just don't ruin Smugglin's entertainment.

LOL I'll do that

Thanks for advise above too. I thought it was me doing something wrong, but it seems targetting issue is general here.

I can tank GF in this fight all day long and have fun, but adds I hate. I can do it but I hate them.

It takes a lot longer than you'd think to be able to target these adds (it's not just you, they simply can't be targeted), and it's not much time at all between when they are able to be targeted and when they start attacking. I'm not entirely sure the best way to handle it, but I know I usually end up tanking the last half of the first droid we kill (on my gunslinger) with a defensive cooldown, so if it dies quickly enough maybe that's a viable way for your group to do it. It would be easier to do this with 2 dps, as the first droid will die faster. I lead with a flyby as often as possible, so healers typically aren't the ones to pull initial aggro, I am. Any sort of AOE from your dps would probably keep your healers from getting hit.

I'm a sucker for essay wars.

I usually do it like this - I keep spamming my Slow time button until they get auto-targeted, if i getthem then I go into my AOE rotationbut after first round and interrupt I use AOE taunt to boost aggro. When I concentrate on AOE rotation (plus a TkT to get some self-healing if healer is struggling) and maybe halfway through I switch target to second one I am not targetting and I single taunt. I then go back to normal rotation until one of them dies. I will still occasionally loose one of them if there is a gunslinger there. Also in the beginning healer or rDPS tends to eat one attack from thena s I cannot target them and then I have to waste my AOE taunt. In any case this fight does not let you feel like a good tank.
Also I struggle a bit with containers on this fight. The debuff seems to run out quicker then when I am tanking the boss and I sometimes end up not having it through 1/3 of second fight. I don't entirely understand why. Timers should be the same and I actually destroy the container just before first set of adds not when MT destroys his.
Anyway I have yet to clear this fight as I have tanked boss and adds to 50-40-30% on the boss but never to the final phase It seems it needs more 72 geared DD's or some insane tricks (a guild I know has sentinels use 'Guarded by the force' and stay in the laser beam through the lasr phase).

That's kind of funny, the boss is immune while he's shooting the laser (at least in 16m, I guess 8m could be different)

LOL. That would be funny. Dunno about 8-man/16-man difference.It was 8-man for sure with 2xsentinel 2x commando. But they would still get more DPS uptime. Just the margin is so incredibly tight.....

Thunderdome!

Two men enter(okay 1 man, everyone knows grim is a machine), one leaves.

Wait a minute. Vanguard tanks should be stacking defense? Huh. What number should we be shooting for before we start worrying about shield and absorb?

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=616779

oh boy...