MT Garuda ex

[kukurumei]

That (jump) only seems to happen when Chirada's hp hits 50%, which shouldn't normally happen if you tank Garuda + Chirada and focus down Suparna (I've only seen it happen when a mage prematurely LBs Garuda + Chirada with Suparna still up). Neither method is inherently better, as you should use the one that best suits your group composition and skill/awareness level.

Not really, suprana would wicked wheel your melees, making that one fine mess. If you do all range, you might as go suprana anyway, because it makes no difference to wicked and then you get garuda regens with the strong lines.

And then you get feather all over the place and anyone hit by feathers will get a wind debuff, and will most likely die even inside the bubble.

MTing garuda and suprana is not easy, but tanks have to suck it up, because really, you're expected to tank even harder stuff after garuda ex.

It all comes down to the MT and healers...Mostly MT, 30 second of rotating CDs, or...you keep pumping out heals for 1minute. So in the end, while you can't blame a MT for not being able to tank that phase, the same applies, why can't you? It's 30 seconds of making sure you have CDs?

Basically it's the MT going "I don't want to deal with this shit, you all just have to do what I can't".

And it's not the healers. Most any healer/blm/smn can preshield/stoneskin/and virus a MT on surpana for 30 seconds. If they're not, then chirada isn't going to make a difference because you'll most likely burn through your mp and die anyway.