TIL Ifrit's Infernal Howl is Line of Sight

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Originally Posted by Doo

Give it a try, it's easy. I made like 3 other healers give it go and they ended up doing it in 1-3 tries.

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No it's not. It's easy to get swiped by ifrit in the process as well, and if you screw up it's wipe. And you can't do it 100% as certain times you can't do it, such as plume stage, which you have to get seared anyway. So it becomes as scripted as regular ifrit ex.

Basically it's even harder then sear normal on the healer with no really change in output.

It all comes down to phase 3 in the end. Reaching phase 1 and 2 with or without sear is easy. If you can't do with 100% effectiveness in phase 3, screw it. You're just going to wipe and waste 10minutes of everyone's time. No different from regular searing winds.

It's something to attempt in a last ditch move, but the risk is pretty high as of current set up.

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I was talking about Garuda EX.

1) Stand away from party to avoid friction hitting everyone.
2) Watch for WW.

That's about the only 2 things that you need to worry about.

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Originally Posted by Doo

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I was talking about Garuda EX.

1) Stand away from party to avoid friction hitting everyone.
2) Watch for WW.

That's about the only 2 things that you need to worry about.

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Oh single heal for garuda ex is quite easy. It's actually better, assuming your ilvl is high, because you can have one derping dps and still not wipe in tornado phase.

Though the tanks have to be experienced even if dps isn't. They need to be able to avoid feather rain.

I don't see it as an exploit seeing how we get interrupted on our casting if something leaves our line of sight.

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Originally Posted by PArcher

Except Slipstream is an AoE, Searing Wind is a targeted spell...

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What does the Pox say? *Pun intended*

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Originally Posted by Gwaeron

Billzey guessed you had never healed Ifrit, it's right there in the quote you posted. I have all primal weapons too but I sure never healed there.

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You're just arguing semantics. Regardless, since it apparently isn't clear to you or Billzey; I earned every one of those EX weapons on my WHM class specifically.

Thanks for posting this information! I love when people find new strategies. Can't wait to try this out tonight.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

To be honest I really hope this doesn't catch on as the prefered way of doing the fight (just as solo heal Garuda already kinda became the norm for farms). It's already a pain to get into Garuda EX farm groups because I never tried solo heal (and no one wants to be the first group where I try it, hah), and this solo heal strat sounds like a recipe for disaster (failing to do it properly = almost sure wipe). And it's not like there's a distinct advantage to adding another DPS due to the enrage, and most groups already just go full ranged to null howl anyways. >:

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Eh, give it a try, Garuda Exe is a joke, especially on SCH. A manually controlled Eos can easily heal alone any phase without the sisters. Just be sure to save Eye/Virus for sisters phase and to stay away from DPS (Garuda ranged attack only targets the healer, therefor if they stay away from you they'll never get hit) You can stay alone and away from DPS during tornado phase too, they'll never get hit.