monk vs garuda

[vageta666]

used monk in a garuda pt last night instead of blm. dd was great and nonstop. only thing is is that debuffs dont land. if they did it would make this fight more controlled. anyways, just been figuring out new ways to defeat garuda. any ideas, suggestion, and info is greatly welcomed and appreciated.

[Zyph]

/wave Vegeta

Yeah the DD was pretty great last night, but I mean it's a Final Fantasy game, it's almost expected that all bosses are highly resistant/immune to status effects. Either that or they have one key weakness, but of course if that were the case in an MMO then people would build parties around that and only use that strategy. Oh wait.

[syntaxlies]

/wave Vegeta

Yeah the DD was pretty great last night, but I mean it's a Final Fantasy game, it's almost expected that all bosses are highly resistant/immune to status effects. Either that or they have one key weakness, but of course if that were the case in an MMO then people would build parties around that and only use that strategy. Oh wait.

since mobs gain resist to debuffs now i think they should allow debuffs to land on primals now.

[Soukyuu]

The debuffs probably do land, just run out too fast. From what I've saw on mini-Garuda (have yet to go into hard mode), Garuda doesn't move as chaotically as Moogles, so our range isn't a problem. And we take less damage if we happen to land on the wrong side of Garuda's attacks. BLMs don't really have an advantage there since the attack hits no matter how far away you are and it's faster to change sides if you're close to her. IDK if the BLMs I was were not giving their best, but I had to slow down a few times because I just kept stealing hate from the WAR.

I do think there will be other setups after her Aerial Blast exploit is patched. (Which should be... today?)

[syntaxlies]

The debuffs probably do land, just run out too fast. From what I've saw on mini-Garuda (have yet to go into hard mode), Garuda doesn't move as chaotically as Moogles, so our range isn't a problem. And we take less damage if we happen to land on the wrong side of Garuda's attacks. BLMs don't really have an advantage there since the attack hits no matter how far away you are and it's faster to change sides if you're close to her. IDK if the BLMs I was were not giving their best, but I had to slow down a few times because I just kept stealing hate from the WAR.

I do think there will be other setups after her Aerial Blast exploit is patched. (Which should be... today?)

if you wanna test landing debuffs, use a bard. Geared right they will have the highest piety which will be the best for landing a debuff. If theirs dont land then dont count on anyone else's landing either.

(unless of course the mob being tested has high resist to a particular debuff being used in testing)

[Dhalmel]

hopefully people will be willing to try other things after the adjustments made for her today.

[LlenCoram]

Thank you OP. As a dedicated Monk who kept getting told that "You're not BLM, you can't fight Garuda" I was getting pretty bummed. I'm glad people are willing to try new things.

[Zyph]

Thank you OP. As a dedicated Monk who kept getting told that "You're not BLM, you can't fight Garuda" I was getting pretty bummed. I'm glad people are willing to try new things.

I'm sure that will change after today!

[charlemagne]

I've changed my mind on the garuda exploit. With most primals/boss battles we've done it first for the challenge trying different setups and strategies, then later on we've just moved to the easiest one to farm it. With the exploit we've just done things the other way round, now we have the fun of working out how to do the fight with the various jobs we want to play. Personally my favourite job is monk and I'm really looking forward to putting my garudas van away and trying it as a mnk.

[Tonkra]

what about DRG vs Garuda? should work also.