Yes, there are lots of approaches for this fight and in PuG it rises up a lot of confusion, unhappiness and sorrow.

I won't give you tank advices, instead I can give you healer's point of view and experience. It could help you with how to approach the fight or how to change it midfight.

For me the best approach is when the tank taunts the boss and keep it somewhere away from the fire. Don't taunt Deadroths. When the boss is about to die (20-30%) and you want to keep those three Deadroths alive, switch the tactics - take three Deadroths away and let the boss for DDs.
The DDs primarily kill Deadroths and orbs (and dps the boss when there is nothing to kill) until the boss is about to die (20-30%).

Why? Although the boss doesn't do a lot of damage, all the mechanics add up: boss damage + deadroth damage + fire damage + fall damage + blue/red Dots and snares. Moreover as you can't keep the boss stationary, it's really hard to heal effectively, because people are all over the place. And here comes the trick - when you have average party and you feel like the fight is going south, you can take the boss away and let the party recover.

Of course, if you have a lot of DPS, you can let DDs go strait to the boss, it's easier and faster. But for average PuG I have more success with the appoach I described above.

Funny note: Today, as always in PuG, I had to run this dungeon three times, because two times I got ported to the final boss. The first party had DDs around CP160, pretty low dps. We did it the way I described above, it was slow, but doable. We didn't manage HM though. Then I got second party last boss. They went full dps to the boss, even ignoring the color mechanics (so they were getting a lot of damage), and of course it was a disaster. I left the party, they didn't want to change tactics (after two wipes). Then I got a new party, yay, high dps, full force to boss, nobody died. 15-minute run.

It mainly just comes down to the dps. Yes, you as a tank should ideally taunt boss and all the daedroth - iirc boss shoots pretty painful fireballs or whatever at whoever he has agro on so it helps, although his other attacks are untauntable. Daedroths' most annoying attack is also untauntable but at least you can turn their fire away from the group.

The main question is whether your group should kill all daedroth up until certain treshold(say boss at 20% or so) or just burn down the boss. The latter approach can result with 10+ daedroth if the group's dps is low so the common pug strat is kill daedroth as they spawn up until whatever % you agree on. Either way tanking strat stays the same though.

My only tip would be ranged taunt but I'm sure you have that part down by now. The boss ports too much and daedroth spawn far away so I usually end up range taunting most of the time instead of Puncture(although I do try to keep Puncture debuff on boss). Bright side is besides porting, boss will never move on his own so you can perfectly keep agro on him from afar.

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Hi everyone. Quick background. One of today's Undaunted Pledges was Banished Cells 2. I ran them this morning in normal mode (no issues at all) but wanted to get some advice on Veteran Hard Mode. My tank is CP420 and because of that, I think people assume I've run this many times. My tank is actually my newish alt who just got to level 50 two weeks ago and inherited the high CP of my main. So this dungeon was new to me. During three different runs on the last boss (where you have to keep at least 3 daedroth alive to earn hard mode), I was told three different approaches to doing this. In one group, I was told to just aggro the boss only, in another group aggro just the daedroth, and in the last group, aggro all of them. I tried each of these approaches, and it seemed if the group had high enough DPS, it really didn't matter what I did. But I was hoping to hear from experienced tanks who can share their opinions on this. And one other quick question, when the last boss raises you up in the air and you have to run to the nearest red or blue rune to remove the DOT, do you have to stand in the rune for a few seconds or just run into the circle and out? Many thanks!

(1) If the group has good dps you can taunt the adds and take them away from boss. In this case don't range taunt the boss (he doesn't do that much more dmg to others untaunted) though or he will run towards u after every teleport he makes which pretty much drops the group dps to half.

(2) If the group dps is not the best taunt all the adds and boss and stay next to boss while dds take out the adds and do dmg to boss untill boss has about 20% health left. At that point just taunt only the adds and take them away from boss while others wait untill there are 3 adds before executing the boss.

Everyone pays so much attention to the skill level of the tank during this fight, but it has more to do with the healer in my experience. If the DPS know the mechanics (especially the bubble phase and cleansing on the proper pad), one DPS kills those orbs that heal Rilis, everyone stays out of fire, and stay stacked it’s a breeze. I’ve tanked 10 daedroth at once just to test sustain and it’s fine. If the DPS is low then definitely kill all daedroth until your percentage threshold, if the DPS is good, then the tank should be fine taunting all the daedroth and surviving until Rilis is dead.

I've always approached this one tanking both until 20% then taunting just the guards and dragging them away from him when he's under 20% to allow DPS to use their full arsenal without worry (AOEs)

I think it’s easiest to have tank hold the Daedra at the top of the little steps right where they spawn. Hold them there and stay alive and healer heals you and dps from middle. From there dps can just burn boss the whole time as the boss will run randomly around the room away from the Daedra and tank.