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[Ghishlain]

Had what felt like a 15+ minute Garuda HM run last night.

Did my Trial DR for the night and ended up with Garuda HM. Alright, no problem. A cursory glance at the HP values indicated to me that people were relatively new but both PLDs were at least 6K HP+ and the other healer was sitting at around 3.8K HP, so the core of the team had a good amount of HP and indicated to me we were over geared.

Got to the fight, MT has no idea where to actually pull Garuda after Aerial Blast. People were eating constant tornadoes and slipstreams due to positioning and the OT wasn't picking up the sisters very well at all. On the 4th Mistral Shriek, we all wipe.

MNK in party asks if we can swap tanks. Promptly gets kicked for harassment. I mimic the sentiment and told the MT plainly that they didn't know how to position Garuda and then was going to start to explain the positioning when the MT left. Then the other healer left. Well poop.

I poke my FC and get a SCH and PLD to que in progress to join up. At this time, a new BRD also joins and we're back up to a full party AND 10% Echo. This should go well.

We do the pulls again, get post Aerial Blast and then the crap starts to hit the fan. DPS is having issues downing sisters and when the tornados bisect the arena and start to rotate, neither BLM, BRD, or SMN move from the rotation (most likely unable to understand the mechanics) and are promptly splattered on the ground. The OT has issues positioning the sisters properly and getting people Wicked Wheeled and Slipstreamed constantly. This goes on for several rotations as myself and the SCH do our best to maintain party health and raise people while going through the ordeal. Garuda's life is barely moving as the green beam sister manages to regenerate all life we did from the previous phase. You know it's bad when my SCH friend is constantly riding close to 500MP due to massive amounts of healing to be done. I was popping Shroud on cool down and X-Ethers like they're candy.

Thankfully, the DRG with an Ifrit weapon is in full myth and can survive several single sister Mistral Shrieks and the BLM begins to understand the fight more often and is able to dodge mechanics more frequently as the fight progresses. When prompted to AoE Limit Break 3, we started to finally make some headway, but it was still hardly making a dent in Garuda's HP pool. Eventually, trusting in my healing partner, I started to DPS, with my Stone II's taking chunks of life off the sisters and Garuda thanks to being i94 and 10% Echo (I'm pretty certain I was out DPSing the BRD + SMN + BLM combined). Things go on like this for a while more and we were able to get a second Limit Break 3.

Yes, I repeat myself. A SECOND LIMIT BREAK THREE.

Eventually, we down the feathery fiend thanks to a LB1 from our DRG once he realized Garuda was weak enough to finish on before the next sister spawn.

As my SCH friend put it: "The Garuda HM of the century"