Stuck at Lady of the Vortex for two plus weeks

Have attempted this quest 50+ times now with as many teams have not been successful after 45-60+ minutes the team just gives up. Can't continue story till completed there is a general consensus that the AI for this quest is set too high.
Any others agree?

Garuda is a bitch, but certainly not this impossible. I wish you were on Famfrit, I'd help you out.

Nope. It's an easy fight. Just learn to dodge things...

Wait, the 1st Garuda battle?!! uh oh.

Have you tried making a group with Party Finder?
You've read a fight guide right?

Bummer, what server? I'd help if on mateus

Wow, 50 tries on Garuda Story Mode?

The fight is pretty easy and as BLM the Plumes will be very easy to take out. Keep at it.

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Originally Posted by Grandpa1676

Have attempted this quest 50+ times now with as many teams have not been successful after 45-60+ minutes the team just gives up. Can't continue story till completed there is a general consensus that the AI for this quest is set too high.
Any others agree?

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what part do u fail at? the first phase is easy.. tank at north, kill feathers, dodge screams etc
2nd phase in the eye is a lil tricky, if she jumps middle run behind to avoid scream, if she jumps outside arena run opposite to be out of range of scream

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Originally Posted by zemogFC

Wait, the 1st Garuda battle?!! uh oh.

Have you tried making a group with Party Finder?
You've read a fight guide right?

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I'd think you'd have better luck in DF. You'd think there's a pretty good chance to get a group with a bunch of level 50+ people who are getting their daily roulette bonuses.

OP, have you beaten it since the date of your post? I wish you were on my server -- I'd totally volunteer to help!

Despite the few people above saying it's an easy fight, I found Garuda story mode to be really challenging my first run through (was playing as a WHM that time)...even with a party of strong FC members helping me out. It's most definitely a check on your whole party's situational awareness, the healer's mana, the tank's positioning skills, and the speed of the DPS.

Are you attempting as a BLM? If so, your gear looks more than adequate for the trial. I'm usually anti-gear-checks, but for this one...it will be rough if people's gear isn't up to snuff. Make sure your gear is repaired, as well.

Here are some tips of things that helped me through it:

In general:
- I found it helpful to read articles (I thought this one was pretty good: http://www.gameskinny.com/jv6wh/ffxi...da-fight-guide ; this one is also excellent: http://www.ign.com/wikis/ff14/Garuda), but for this fight in particular, videos were extremely helpful. Just search YouTube for "Garuda Story Mode." YouTube user "Mr. Happy" has some good videos on all the FFXIV content.
- Set sprint to your hotbar if you don't already have it -- good for running behind pillars and towards razor plumes.
- During Phase 1, stay close to the edge on the opposite side of the tank, but make sure you are away from your other team members, and in particular, the healer. Friction (Garuda's range attack) is a targeted AOE that will randomly hit you -- and anyone else who is standing near you. This is also why it's incredibly important to stay as far from the pillars as possible, because Friction will damage them as well. No pillars still standing tall at mid-fight = no chance.
- During Phase 2, stay out of the way of the swirling edge of the circle around Garuda. If you step in it, you'll get hit with massive damage...and since BLM usually has lower HP, this could be trouble.
- Don't underestimate food bonuses -- it's a tiny boost, but it's a boost!

As a BLM in particular:
- Using the cross-class skill Raging Strikes when the razor plumes appear can help you take them down, because it boosts your damage by 20%. Try to make sure you have a full pool of MP to draw from when you're going to use it so that you get the full benefit of the boost.
- Swiftcast is your friend -- use it to toss out one or two faster AOEs when the plumes hit. I actually haven't tried this myself yet (have just stuck to regular AOE rotations to get them down), but I'd imagine using a Freeze -> Transpose -> Fires might work well, since it would prevent the plumes from damaging the pillars for an extra second.
- Popping Manaward & Manawall can help you maintain HP -- use them whenever you're able to.

As a healer main, I can tell you that the following things will help your healer keep up:
- Sorry for being repetitive, but...focus down the plumes as quickly as possible. Basically, as a DPS in this fight, you're in a race to reduce potential damage before it hits later on. If the pillars are down, the healer won't be able to do anything during Garuda's big attack except watch everyone die (very, very sad for us). Similarly, towards the end of the fight, White Mages may be running low on mana (ideally not, but if everyone has been taking damage the whole fight, it gets rough there at the end). The faster everything dies, the more chance everyone will come out alive.
- This is going to make it sound like you're between a rock and a hard place (which...is actually kind of true in this fight - haha), but while you're standing away from the pillars, away from your other teammates, and away from Garuda, try not to get out of the healer's line of sight. The pillars will block their ability to target you, and if you're taking damage fast, then you may be dead before they can reposition themselves & fire off a heal.

Anyway, I hope that helps a little!! I thought this fight was the worst of all the story mode Primals, and honestly, was much harder for me than the end game dungeons have been so far. You'll make it! Good luck :D

I couldn't help..but laugh.

If this is your first time with her, unless you have a team of folks who have "been there before", I can see having problems. The tank really needs to keep her to one edge. When the plumes come, EVERYONE ELSE needs to take them out immediately. You'll see in the text are that she's releasing them, so kill them fast. If you don't have enough stone to hide behind, you won't make it through the 3rd round. They attack the stones. When Garuda goes up, get to the opposite side of a stone pillar from where she lands or you're toast. It's really not that hard once you beat it, but if the tank is not doing the right job and DPS do not destroy the plumes IMMEDIATELY, no amount of talent will get you through the final blast of wind. Hope you made it. As a DPS, I went after those plumes with full abandon and as a healer, I went to Cleric to help. I can't stress how important those are.

This is first of the trials heavilly relying on mechanics and team cooperation - see usefull tips above from TheFluffyCat. You're not alone - I was stuck on this Bia... Erm ... Lady for many weeks as well purelly because after while I've been tired of trying and failing constantly so I did something else (crafting) in the meantime ;)

Ouch. I managed it after a few tries, but it was never this bad for me. Too bad you're not on my server, or else I could grab some of my friends to carry.

Hated this boss. That said we killed her third try (same party, 2 previous wipes) with only the healer and tank standing lol. I lasted until very near the end when my health just wasn't high enough to withstand one of her little attacks. I think the white mage was healing the tank pretty much exclusively at that point and my potion was on cooldown. But it was first time in for three of us, so I think third try wasn't bad. We made it to very near the end with a full party, it was just the last sliver of health that the tank had to dps.
I live in Australia and even though I'm on a Japanese server,my latency isn't great which always makes these harder fights a pain in the rear. I ran out of titan's landslides the instant they appeared and was on the other side of the map and they still hit me in the titan fight... sigh. Endgame won't be for me unfortunately I'll just die repeatedly o_O with death by lag.

Thanks persistence and perseverance it was finally accomplished the tank and hlr did a superb job kept us all alive very, very challenging.