Taming the Tempest (Hard)

[carraway]

Just copied the video + the info you gave Miko. Works great. Awaiting nerf

We actually tried this first night but failed like the others. The reason Legacy got it to work is because they time their attack phase instead of going all out. You slow nuke to keep full MP, then go straight into full out nuke phase after the 2nd jump + TP move. This is why the AF occurs around 26:15 instead of 27:00. If you all out nuke from the start you won't beat it. Please correct me if anything is wrong.

Also we're using double/single socket BLMs and it works. Don't need triple sockets, though it couldn't hurt.

From what we've seen, if you bring Garuda down below 60% before Plume 2, she will skip Plume 2 and go straight to Plume 3. While still using 3 BLMs we started running into this, which actually hurts your ability to bring her as low as possible before Aerial Blast. I also agree that running MNKs could accomplish the same thing as far as damage potential goes, but Wicked Wheel sucks.

[Kumaeru]

Yeah.. we actually somehow got Garuda to 25% before the first emergency maintenence, was sad because we were the only LS there when people were stuck on entering the easy mode garuda due to server congestion. In any case we were trying to recreate how we got to that % without getting into Astral Flow. The key is to just hold off early and regain MP, then just burn during the 2nd plumes all the way through astral flow plumes stage and death.