My first attempt with using the "JP" triangle strategy for Garuda Ex!

[jars]

no, I was doing garuda for the ring. the primal weapons are frequently crap(inferior to zenith for scholar and summoner for me) and the caster ring is the best there is. By the time I got the ring I was ilevel 86 I believe. at 86 garuda still dropped an upgrade. 65 is the bare minimum at which most people cannot hope to complete the encounter.

again I have never, not once had a tank die to double WW while healing garuda ex. the damage is predictable, there is no party wide damage going out, and the tank should know what to do. it doesn't happen.

[Kitfox]

again I have never, not once had a tank die to double WW while healing garuda ex. the damage is predictable, there is no party wide damage going out, and the tank should know what to do. it doesn't happen.

I've seen tanks die plenty. Do I live in an alternate universe? To base your estimations only on the things that happen around you is to greatly underestimate the total number of things that happen. Of course it happens less with a good healer and a good tank. Congrats, you're evidently a good healer!

If the minimum ilvl requirement is 65, that means that the fight is doable at that level if everyone plays their class optimally. The problem is, the average player only plays at 50-70% efficiency, thus ilvl80 becomes the "average ilvl that people clear the fight with". I consider overgearing the point at where you can bypass mechanics. Such things would be not doing a triangle pull because the tanks can survive anyway or not feeding any slimes at T1 Caduceus because you can burn it down regardless. I will continue to consider any tank that can take double wheel to the face overgeared until I see an i65 tank take it and survive reliably.