Solo tank Garuda X

[Cortana-]

Have done it, not much gain since there is so much time in the fight that garuda is un-attackable. We already clear her in 4'15"-4'40" with 2 tanks. As far as the spiny question, no dps can't pull it off the MT w/o killing her, you just have to live through the super tornado, have everyone topped off prior to it going off.

[EvanderStoneguard]

I was forced to do this yesterday in DF. The OT tank left right before I pulled Garuda and the group went on with the fight. When phase 2 started I started pulling hate from red sister and when garuda moved in moved away from slipstream. At this point i took both to my corner and started to hit CD while dps took care of green. It was sort of painless I just had to move away from slipstream and spam heal on myself to help healers.

Needless to say we didnt wipe on there but later when it was just Garuda, so I think its doable with a good geared tank. I'm ilvl 65 atm with a ilvl55 weapons and shield.

[ZodiacSoldier]

I was forced to do this yesterday in DF. The OT tank left right before I pulled Garuda and the group went on with the fight. When phase 2 started I started pulling hate from red sister and when garuda moved in moved away from slipstream. At this point i took both to my corner and started to hit CD while dps took care of green. It was sort of painless I just had to move away from slipstream and spam heal on myself to help healers.

Needless to say we didnt wipe on there but later when it was just Garuda, so I think its doable with a good geared tank. I'm ilvl 65 atm with a ilvl55 weapons and shield.

EvanderStoneguard, are you talking about Garuda Hard Mode? They are talking about Garuda Extreme Mode. Most people don't do EX Garuda without their relic. And I dont think an ilevel 65 Tank can survive tanking both Garuda and Suprana due to Wicked Wheel, I saw it kill full ilevel 90 tanks before. You also didn't mention anything about how you handled the Spiny Plume, if the Spiny Plume started on you it's gonna be hard for a DPS to take it off you before 3 stacks without killing it.

[Soulburn32]

Take off soul stone
cross class provoke
.....
profit?

[Zoomie]

Take off soul stone
cross class provoke
.....
profit?

next level... I like it.

[Soulburn32]

There is no "hard to" it is impossible to pull the spiny without provoke.

[Hanabira]

I havent seen anyone mention that after the 3rd or so tornado phase, the plumes blow up faster and you have less time to kill both sisters. Soft enrage i guess. I had a pt bad enough to experience this.

[kukurumei]

pre aerial blast phases are hp based, eye and tornado phases are timed. This is how we can down garuda in 2 tornado phases. On the 3rd tornado phase, it might be shorter (for whatever reason lots of groups dies here, with just a bit slow in killing sisters), but 3rd phases her blast is 1/3rd more powerful.

I don't think spiny is random, but I maybe wrong, it may actually come from who has hate on when she first jumps down from eye, it seems to consistently go for our tanks when we all "ready" the tornado phase and of course tanks touch it first.

But realistically one tank is going to wipe you, unless you have a tank LB ready. Honestly having 2 tanks 1 healer is better then 1 tank-2 healer. The OT tank is practically another dps if you learn how to move between tornados and aoe down plumes ( holy is gody in the eye phase)

[Giantbane]

seen videos, and from what i can see, a bard or a strong melee takes chirada. From tanking chirada, only thing that really hurts is the downswipe thing but that gives warning with target, and if you move behind, it does way less damage.

any comments?

my understanding is that chirada's move can be split between all who are hit by it like they hydra's triumvirate. If you get 4-5 people to stack on the "tank" when the target shows up, it will do less damage to all of them

[Roffel]

Yes down burst is divided up between all like orbs in ultima hm. The bard would have all team on him during downburst. From what I hear on spiney is the 2nd highest enmity is who it goes to but everytime I'm MT the plume is always on me. So that leaves me with Garuda suprana and the plume bc the other tank never gets him. I also like the idea of someone going class so they can have voke but u might lose a little dps that way.