EM Garuda melee.... how?

[NeonC]

The sisters? I thought they were the same in the sense that you have to stay behind the 180 degree attack they do. Same with garuda herself.

[Rochetm]

The sisters? I thought they were the same in the sense that you have to stay behind the 180 degree attack they do. Same with garuda herself.

Not slipstream... its the spinkick thing that was killing me. Talked to other groups that wasn't happening to melee so I am guessing lag.

[omniwaink]

It's called Wicked Whirl, and yes it 1 shots melee.

So much for designing encounters to make melee viable, huh?

[VisRalis]

It's called Wicked Whirl, and yes it 1 shots melee.

So much for designing encounters to make melee viable, huh?

I'm trying to look at it like Dark Souls difficulty.
In a way the fights are really similar.

[Taleon]

It's called Wicked Whirl, and yes it 1 shots melee.

So much for designing encounters to make melee viable, huh?

Got tagged with this many of times last night, was never a one shot.
Hurts yeah, but not enough to one shot.

No, my little pug group did not end up beating her, but we made it to the rinse repeat cycle of the end. Probably ending somewhere near 30% life left on her. So third cycle of repeat, probably another two or three to go with our current dps
The melee really does not have a problem from what I saw of the fight. Much of it is positional, and much of it is knowing where the mobs are coming in from and what path the tank is taking with them.
Short of that, and the group wide AoE, most everything else is avoidable.

[Itseotle]

Our monk is i86, we never DPS them together, he was dying to a single spin kick thing on a single add, many times. Perhaps you can survive it with a bunch of vit accessories, but not with just myth/allagan.

i88 DRG, I had this issue once, we had the Red add stacked on Garuda and was DPSing it down and of course I died to Wicked Wheel. Next attempt though I was ready for it, and popped Feather Foot + Keen Flurry. Surprise, I did't die. I think its more about just putting up some defensive cooldowns.... or just sit in the back and wait and take the dps loss.

It's called Wicked Whirl, and yes it 1 shots melee.

So much for designing encounters to make melee viable, huh?

Ya know this is exactly what I thought when I was fighting the last boss of Crystal Tower. Was thinking "Wow this is easy for any melee... sucks to be a ranged player" =P