Why Garuda is applied to melee accuracy?

[Ejell]

Garuda's damage are physical, so her attacks are ruled by physical (not melee) accuracy cap, for example if you try to auto-attack with your smn/blm, you'll have some misses until you're capped !
Btw the Bard is ruled by front/flank/back accuracy rules, and it's probably the same with garuda, so try to keep her at the back of the boss and you'll probably miss less.

Oh, and do you know if she only misses her "basic attacks" or her Contagion can miss too?

[Kaze3434]

Garuda's damage are physical, so her attacks are ruled by physical (not melee) accuracy cap, for example if you try to auto-attack with your smn/blm, you'll have some misses until you're capped !
Btw the Bard is ruled by front/flank/back accuracy rules, and it's probably the same with garuda, so try to keep her at the back of the boss and you'll probably miss less.

Oh, and do you know if she only misses her "basic attacks" or her Contagion can miss too?

garudas attack is not physical. it gets boosted by foes.

[MrCookTM]

garudas attack is not physical. it gets boosted by foes.

This is correct, doesn't matter for the accuracy cap though. As an example, nin's raiton is considered magical damage and boosted by foes, but it can still miss from the flank/front if you only reach the rear acc cap.

The 'damage type' has nothing to do with acc cap needed, but as long as something is a 'cast' or 'spell', only rear cap matters. For everything else, you'll need the proper acc cap for whichever direction you're hitting from.

[Kaze3434]

This is correct, doesn't matter for the accuracy cap though. As an example, nin's raiton is considered magical damage and boosted by foes, but it can still miss from the flank/front if you only reach the rear acc cap.

The 'damage type' has nothing to do with acc cap needed, but as long as something is a 'cast' or 'spell', only rear cap matters. For everything else, you'll need the proper acc cap for whichever direction you're hitting from.

the accuracy cap for casters is lower than flank/rear. smn itself falls under the caster cap, but because pets are set at flank cap, they require more accuracy simply because they have a pet.

[MrCookTM]

the accuracy cap for casters is lower than flank/rear. smn itself falls under the caster cap, but because pets are set at flank cap, they require more accuracy simply because they have a pet.

Uhm, yes, basically picks up exactly what I said?

But still, this is only partially correct. The caster cap is not lower than rear, because it is exactly this: the rear cap. This is because 'casts/spells' are considered hitting from the back, no matter which side their hitting from. This doesn't affeckt garuda's auto attack though, because even though it's magical damage, it's an auto attack, not a 'magic spell'. This may be dumb and put smn's at a disadvantage in terms of gear choices (not that they aren't bad enough already in this patch lol), but it is the reason why they need flank cap for garuda.