Vael

[Kevin]

Actually, our secondary tanks stand on the opposite side of Vael from the rest of the raid so the risk is getting the front row people tail swiped rather than breathed on. It's not a *huge* deal to get tail swiped, though the breath would be.

I would also like to clarify that we notionally set an order of tanks according to how they have done in the past. I usually tend to get aggro first or second so I usually end up tanking Vael first while our Thunderfury tanks take #'s 2 and 3. After that it gets tough to predict so we go more along the lines of how Mav suggested - everyone watches the MTT window and if they think they're going to have aggro, they start moving before they even show in the window. Then whoever has aggro makes sure he stays in the MT spot while everyone else backs off.

It's not quite as responsive as Mav has indicated. :)

Of course lately we've only been using 2 or 3 tanks for the whole fight. It's been awhile since we've gotten to #4 unless something goes wrong.

But when we were learning the fight for the first time, when we had no one in the raid who had killed Vael, we were pretty concerned about tank order and we practiced to make sure we did have the order so that the healers and tanks could be more responsive. It helped. After pretty much everyone was used to the fight and had more experience with other fights that required flexibility like that we didn't care about it nearly as much.