Garuda Idea~ Make Rocks Curable

[Estellios]

If you have more than 1 White mage... you need to go in with just 1 and everyone just needs to avoid her moves or otherwise push their DPS better. Bard using Battle Voice and Sacred Prism + Stoneskin as well as a THM using Sacred Prism + Sanguine Rite can also allow you some more "Breathing room". But really your DD just have to get better at DPS.

[Starlord]

If you have more than 1 White mage... you need to go in with just 1 and everyone just needs to avoid her moves or otherwise push their DPS better. Bard using Battle Voice and Sacred Prism + Stoneskin can also allow you some more "Breathing room". But really your DD just have to get better at DPS.

That's just the problem I'm seeing with this, you have to have Awesome gear in order to DPS her down to where she doesn't have enough time to even kill many pillars.. not many people are Fortunate as people that spam CC all day to get Darklight gear or whatever :P.

To Meow: I Make sure everyone Saves TP for AOE moves and myself so that we can try to take out those plumes, but what gets us mainly is when she throws out 30 of them at once, from the video I saw them just take care of plumes on 1 side only ( the side you be hiding behind a rock), and we still wide up dying from AF.. I just don't know what to do. :/

[Otaku]

That's my whole point lol. I wasn't implying that it's easy, though it certainly isn't too difficult. I just feel Garuda never really got the respect she deserves. It's a really fun fight, the best in the game in my opinion. I'd love to see people challenge her again as she was meant to be defeated, not by cheap ass exploits lol.

To Starlord: All I can say is increase your dps on the plumes. Try your best kill every last one of them if you can, AoEs are your friend.

Agreed
Best fight music in the game imo
Best tactical primal fight imo (you need to be on point 100% of the time)
Also the hardest content we have at this point, until HD gets buffed up to lvl5 maybe

[Duelle]

That way, it adds more roles for the White Mages, and gives Our Chance of Survival more.. possible instead of having to DPS it death... and come short of surviving AF.

Just food for thought ^^.

Wouldn't it be better to have the pillars be there always as a way to LoS her attacks during that phase, and then have her insta-gib the pillars with Astral Flow?

[KiriA500]

Only if the WHM heals them with Stone/Stonega.

[Otaku]

Currently we are running 1x Tank 1x MNK 1x BLM 1x DRG 2x BRD 2x WHM
MNK and BRD's are in charge of plumes while DRG, BLM and 1x WHM dps her
If done right after the 2nd time she jumps she should spawn a set of plumes then another set of plumes, if she is jumping 3 times AF is gonna hurt but still manageable w/ BV and Beni
3rd phase is the pain as clones can be hard to position, they seam to spin like a top sometimes and face the mages/brds
BTW MNk is to off tank Chiruda while BLM and 1x WHM burn her down

[MeowyWowie]

If you're using the BRD/BLM setup, your offtank and both BRDs should have plumes as their top priority. It may be a bit difficult now with weaker Steel Cyclone (I don't know, haven't tried since class adjustments) but I'm sure it's definitely still doable.

BRDs should have a solid WS rotation to have AoEs go off a second or 2 after she summons the plumes, or right when a bunch gather on one pillar. (As a BRD I usually do all 3 WS directly on Garuda, with the AoE going off a second after she jumps into the air, followed by picking the rest of the plumes off 1 by 1 with single target WS combos or, if I have enough tp, Rain of Death on a group of them)

OT WAR should start their Steel Cyclone combo on Garuda herself right before she flies into the air but save Steel Cyclone itself for when the plumes gather on one pillar, then help with picking the rest off with the BRDs.

MT WAR should be timing Steel Cyclone to go off right when she jumps into the air (before the BRD).

[Starlord]

If you're using the BRD/BLM setup, your offtank and both BRDs should have plumes as their top priority. It may be a bit difficult now with weaker Steel Cyclone (I don't know, haven't tried since class adjustments) but I'm sure it's definitely still doable.

BRDs should have a solid WS rotation to have AoEs go off a second or 2 after she summons the plumes, or right when a bunch gather on one pillar. (As a BRD I usually do all 3 WS directly on Garuda, with the AoE going off a second after she jumps into the air, followed by picking the rest of the plumes off 1 by 1 with single target WS combos or, if I have enough tp, Rain of Death on a group of them)

OT WAR should start their Steel Cyclone combo on Garuda herself right before she flies into the air but save Steel Cyclone itself for when the plumes gather on one pillar, then help with picking the rest off with the BRDs.

MT WAR should be timing Steel Cyclone to go off right when she jumps into the air (before the BRD).

So what your saying is.. wait till Plumes stop completely before AOE them?

[MeowyWowie]

So what your saying is.. wait till Plumes stop completely before AOE them?

Doesn't matter if you get them when they first pop or when they're grouped together on a pillar (I'd recommend doing both), as long as AoEs are killing more than just 1 or 2 of them at once.

Edit: One last piece of advice before I head out. The pillar where your BRDs and Mages stand behind is the most important one to protect. You will take AoE damage if the plumes break it and everyone will lose SS, which can be difficult to recast before AF. (No SS on AF even after killing 90% of the plumes can easily wipe your party if you're not prepared.)

[Zyph]

New DoH: Stonemason

Now required for Garuda fight.