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    Fynlar Eira
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    Hyperion
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    Red Mage Lv 100
    Which works great if you're going Garuda EX where at i130 half the mechanics can be ignored and the others explained with a simple, "don't kill the spiny."
    Incidentally, I have never, EVER seen a DF group not prematurely kill the spiny, even after repeatedly being told not to. It simply doesn't happen, and it's this sort of thing that mentors quickly grow tired of. "Mentoring" only works when people are willing to listen. Premature spiny death is understandable the first couple of times when it can be reasonably expected that people don't know any better, but it stops being that way real quick.

    As a result, Garuda EX in DF has pretty much always been a race to kill her before she can do her 2nd Aerial Blast (which is nevertheless doable, due to the fight being tuned for much lower ilvl than 130, and if you live until that 2nd Aerial Blast you might get some echo to boot).

    If you end up with this sort of mentality in an actually-difficult EX fight though? You simply aren't going to win, and nobody wants to waste a whole hour of their time chasing a lost cause, mentor or not.

    If what I see in the DF for Garuda EX is any indication (where most people heavily outgear the fight and are apparently relying on that to allow them to ignore mechanics), Garuda Unreal is going to be an experience.
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    Last edited by Fynlar; 09-10-2020 at 09:26 AM.