PSA: Garuda EX Tanking

[Khronikos]

What the hell is with people unwilling to try the ranged method? Gezuz god man. I have had literally two high level tanks pretty much refuse to try it.

[PetiteMalFleur]

I've done this a few ways with melee.
1. OT pulls chirada, everyone kills her and melee just sit while ranged kill suprana. Really inefficient and there is barely time to kill suprana before aoe, assuming they have the dps.

2. OT pulls chirada and ranged kill suprana first while melee stay on chirada. Works pretty well. Benefit is that the MT can dps Garuda once suprana dies. Both OT and melee are maximizing their dps.

3. OT pulls suprana and she is killed first. Requires use of the single bar limit break on suprana. Everyone then hops across tornadoes to dps chirada. We had the OT voke the spiny right away so he also helped dps. Downside is melee still got wrecked by suprana's WW. I know it can be dodged but our single melee was new to this method. I kept him up with Stoneskin and asked the scholar to adlo him as well. Healing needs to be more focused on the both tanks with less damage too mitigate. Was very fast and we only saw one sister phase our second clear doing this.

4. Triangle method. Already explained in this thread. I'd add it also requires the use of the single bar lb. Slower than killing suprana first.

Killing suprana first also means the aoe can be survived if chirada is left alive if she is ignored or dps is low. Everyone takes 3.8k damage so healers need to Stoneskin members with low HP, and make use of a good scholar. Everyone also needs to avoid the dots.

[Faeye]

As MT, I would pull Suparna and Garuda to North tip of NW section at the beginning of that phase. Once, they re-appeared from doing feather rain. I eat double WW then do spiny swap. Once swap is done, pull Garuda and Suparna to South tip of NW corner of the map. Meelee can come in and LB/DPS Suparna then step away to North tip to avoid WW. As long as tank stand at the edge of a safe zone with Garuda and Suparna, meelee can stand at the opposite edge to avoid WW. Of course, Meelee has to know when to move away to avoid WW and Focus Target Garuda.

[Lemon8or]

A few mechanics I've found helpful for this fight:
_ Garuda and Suparna switch place or as you call it jump when Chirada's HP reaches 50%. This is why on fast DPS group, WW happens after jump and on slow DPS group, WW happens before jump.
_ Once Chirada is dead, Suparna can't do WW anymore, just Downburst and Slipstream. This is the mechanic the OP's strategy is based on so melees are always safe from WW.
_ Once Suparna is dead, Garuda loses the stoneskin and also does not do WW anymore. This is the mechanic suparna-only strategy is based on.
_ First time the sister spawns, WW follows Suparna's Slipstream while in the tornado phase, it follows Garuda's second Slipstream. You have about 5 seconds for the tornado phase, first phase is almost instant.