Double wicked wheel can hit like a truck. One of the first times I was doing Garuda X I got hit for a combined 6.7k damage, which was more health than I had in total as a ilvl 84 PLD. From then on I learned to pop sentinel (or rampart+forsight) every time wicked wheel could come (which, if your dps doesn't suck, is right after they port and drop feathers).


Speaking of wicked wheels, how do groups manage melee dps players during tornado phase after chirada is dead? The way I do it is have the MT (me) pick up garuda, suparna and spiny at the start while OT tanks chirada. Chirada goes down and OT vokes spiny off of me when I have 2 stacks, and I keep tanking suparna and garuda till suparna dies and garuda ports. At first I would have melee dps cross over to help dps down suparna, but after realizing they will probably either (a) derp and get hit by tornado as they cross and die, or (b) get hit by 1 or 2 wicked wheels and die, I started telling them to stay with the offtank, and we would have only the ranged dps killing suparna. Then I wisened up and stopped bringing melee dps altogether, now it's all ranged dps loving. I realize I could do it differently by having OT pick up chirada and spiny at the start, and me have only suparna and garuda, and have us switch spiny and suparna with voke, but I found my first method inherently safer and giving better results as there's a chance I can get slipstreamed by either suparna or garuda while trying to voke spiny. Plus the tunnel vision I get while tanking both garuda+suparna doesn't help with timings.