Time to share strategies: Garuda

[Kagato]

So, have you beaten Garuda yet? What was your strategy when you defeated her?

For the sake of helping others, if you won via the BLM burn, best not to bring it up since it's impossible now.


I see so many different strategies: WAR/BRD AoE spam, DRG-Burn, even BRD-Burns. I see those going single-BLM and a MNK just for the Magic-Only clone and the rest are Melee jobs and a single WHM.

What was your winning strategy? The more people who learn, the more people that can help.

[Xianghua]

We use blmx3 brd whm warx2 drg. Wars/drg/brd focus on plumes while blms burn it down to 70% let her do third teleport. then burn her down much as possible. If you have decent blms you should be able to skip phase 2. Then just gotta know her moves and what to do. When it comes to clones have one war tank Sup. The main tank needs to collusion your best blm/mnk to get hate on Chid. Very important to keep all 3 from facing rest of party.

[Kagato]

Makes sense, but how geared were the Melee? I've run a similar setup and it seems like there were still issues killing off the plumes quickly and even taking Garuda down quickly.

And did your WAR tank move around with garuda or did he/she just tank in one single spot the whole time?

[Xianghua]

He moved to where she teleported. and for most part our group is well geared. If you are having trouble killing plumes. It's either because DDs are undergeared/not spread out enough/ or not getting full use out of their AOE's.

[Zdenka]

WAR 3x BLM 3x BRD WHM


Left Rock, BRD Acc Song, all 3 BLM's nuke down to nearly 0 MP as fast as possible, this should get her to ~63% right about during the 2nd normal plumes. BRD then MP song's them and they rest back up to full.

MT Tanks midwall, and never moves her allowing her to run back there. The 2 DPS WAR should need assistance from the BRD for plumes only during AF plumes by readying thier AoE's.

As soon as the 3rd plumes pop all BRD swaps to Acc song, BLM nuke as hard as they can, if done right (with Fire's and Blizzards) BLM should go OOM for Convert -> Necro -> Burst about 10s before Astral Flow. BRD does SVMP Song before/during Astral Flow.

Depending how good your BLM's are Garuda should be between 20-40%, which skips P2.

As soon as AF is done each WAR Collusions each BLM in preparation for clones, if Garuda stays in center clones everyone runs to her butt and uses Flare, with MT WAR building threat on Magic clone, and a DPS WAR building on Meele clone. After flare is done all 3 BLM do Thunder-Thundara and this kills Magic Clone and then continue to either push DPS or rest some MP. If your WAR DPS has solid threat on 2nd clone your BRD "should" be able to go all out (don't Wide Volley incase its Razor phase, but you can RoD since it will be up again) and burst it down fairly quickly.

If you are BRD you want to stay near 3000 TP incase its Razors', and WAR's want to save Steel Cyclones.

If its other clones after that, run to the side, tanks pick up, and BLM's just kill Garuda (she should be 15% or less). (Above strategy works if its side clones, so either way its really the same).

If its Razors everyone gather up on her fast in the save zone while the 3 WAR's and BRD rotate AoE's. BLM job is to just keep up behind Garuda until plumes are dead, then you can nuke so you don't get left behind to get imploded.

Same Razor strat works if they are first. Regardless you should be able to burn her on the 2nd P3 swap if your DPS is high enough. This strategy is designed with Speed/NoDeaths in mind for Relic's so it really assumes your 3x BLM know how to do high DPS. If your BLM's are low DPS you have a larger chance of someone getting killed or even wiping.

[Orophin]

Haven't done this since early 1.22, but we used a setup of 2x WAR, 2x BRD, 3x BLM, 1x WHM. One WAR with BRDs handle plumes during Phase 1. Our group was geared well enough to typically skip Phase 2, but sometimes we would be in it for a short period of time.

Phase 3 is all about positioning and knowing where to move and when things spawn. If the Satin Plume spawns, you kill it ASAP so it doesn't sleep people, then the WARs/BRDs focus on killing the little plumes. Main tank has to know the kiting pattern with the tornadoes moving along the outside and everyone has to keep moving.

If Garuda runs off to the other side of the screen, her two clones will pop. 2nd Warrior grabs the clone weak to melee and stands as close to the bordering tornado to the right of the main tank with back to the wall so the knockback attack doesn't knock you into the tornado. BRDs are focusing on this clone. BLMs focus on the clone weak to magic using thunder chains. They will share hate so WHM has to watch their health.

If Garuda does her animation to spawn clones but doesn't run away, they'll spawn next to her. You have to be in the middle of the area as the wind is all around the outside in this phase. 2nd warrior faces the melee clone away from the party but close enough to 2nd warrior so that they can hit it with AOE. Same killing strategy as above applies for the clones.

And that's pretty much it. Once we got this strat down we usually cleared this with no deaths. The one thing I felt that changed the fight for the better was finding that positioning for the melee clone near the tornado against the wall so she wasn't positioned all awkwardly and would either nail your DD/WHM or main tank with her knockback/stun ability.

[Ambuter]

Setup I use most is: Pld, Whm, Blm x2, Drg x2, Brd x2

First part before AF is pretty simple. Brds and Drgs(keen flurry Ring of Talons) kill the plumes. Dps to around ~65% hp and she'll jump for the AF plumes. Take care of plumes and Dps garuda down to around ~40% hp so after the AF she'll skip her second phase and go straight into spawning Chirada and Suprana.

Pld flashes group and vokes Suprana. Pld tanks Suprana and Garuda at the same time while a blm is most likely to be tanking Chirada. Pld covers Blms as needed. Rest of the group stand behind them so they don't get hit/stunned.
Kill clones and Dps garuda.

A) If Clones spawn again. Determine if you can kill garuda within the minute or again kill the clones before they blast you.

B) 3 tornadoes cover the arena(2 on the outside and 1 in the middle). Run to the outer rim of the arena and start moving in a clock-wise direction with the tornadoes. Kill the plumes that spawn during this phase.

The main thing you need to do for easier wins is skip the second phase after AF and have Suprana/Chirada spawn right away.

Kinda tired writing this. Let me know if anyone has questions. May post a video later of our garuda fights as well from a Pld point of view.

[Rau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H1uExJUUXM&feature=plcp

[Chardrizard]

1PLD 1WHM 2BRD 2BLM 1MNK 1DRG
http://youtu.be/4PPUsXfjWRM

Everything is the same before astral flow, 2 BRD and a DRG is enough to clear them.

Only difference is during the clone phase, the MNK will taunt Chirada and maintains hate on her while keeping Chirada in a position where her skills will only hit minimum amount of party members, if possible only the MNK himself.

MNK have the ability to help with Suprana if Chirada dies early by turning off fist, and have the ability to help with plume as well if you turned off fist. However, MNK usually are assigned to keep damaging Garuda unless he was really needed to help with above issues.

[Leo_Hart]

If you want to understand fully , here is strategy :

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Lodestone-Blog

Thanks for Aikawa from Masamune translated it.