Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
My point being that a very poor geared tank (quest greens/blues) has probably more avoidance and an equal amount of health than a very well geared plate dps class. So in the end that doesn't seem to matter a lot as long as your MT has decent gear.
You are absolutely right, Zenga. The first two fights really don't require two well geared tanks (though it sure is helpful).

My MT in that team has a GS of 5121, so she's decently, though not greatly geared.

The breakdown of a crapgear tank's impact imho:

With Marrowgar you can completely solo tank him with no other toons even near the tank - the tank just takes all the cleave damage himself and it can be a challenge to heal through.

With Lady I always solo tank phase 1 (tank two adds while the DPS blows through the third so fast it doesn't need to be tanked) and if you have a paladin tank you can basically solo tank phase 2. After getting 5 stacks of insignificance I was happy to note that Righteous Defense still keeps her on the tank for 6 seconds or so and if you tank her away from the rest of your team, she will have disengaged, moved over to them, and raised her hand to one-shot someone just as your Righteous Defense cooldown wears off and you can taunt her back to you again. I actually found this out solo-tanking her in a PuG months ago before I started solo 10-boxing and the other tank got killed in phase 1 (lol). Solo tanking her in phase 2 makes it much more exciting for the DPS who think they are about to die every 8 seconds.

With Gunship you really need two decently geared tanks - High Overlord Saurfang or Muradin start knocking the snot out of whatever tank heads over to the other ship unless you get the Mage down very quickly, so optimizing that took me a few tries.

With Saurfang you can play a bit with the Rune of Blood by taunting him a second or two with the crapgear tank then taunting back with the decentgear tank so that the crapgear tank isn't tanking the boss except for a few seconds each rotation.

The crapgear tank didn't end up with any drops from that run, but my 2500 GS mage on that team now has a bunch of greens along with a shiny new Frost Needle and Muradin's Spyglass. Funny, but that mage doesn't even have an offhand equipped (I messed up and deleted the quest ones I got while leveling) and that sword is still a huge upgrade over the heirloom staff he was using.