Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Vodomir]

Strongly disagree here, beat it with both PLD and DRG multiple times but this fight clearly favors ranged by a far amount.

No, it all boils down to the strat you party relies on. There are multiple ways to ensure that melees don't have to deal with WW at all.

In the tornado phase when you have to run across the tornados during the brown portion, you are telling me you can just stand there dpsing Suprana with both garuda/suprana in the small vicinity. Then when garuda jumps and you immediately have to get out of the way of that arrow dot move while also avoiding the spinys explosion in that tight of a space.

This also is a result of playing a "ranged" strat with a melee DD. There are melee-friendly strats where the melees never have to run across the tornados and never to stand in the same pocket with more than 1 add (especially not next to Garuda). You also don't get to stand anywhere near where the Spiny explodes.

Downburst and Slipstream are very easy to avoid I agree, Wicked Wheel is impossible in that phase while doing any meaningful dps on Suprana/Garuda during tornados.

As said you can DPS just fine without the need to watch for any WW at all.

I've mentioned this strat numerous times in several threads (incl. this thread if I'm not mistaken), but this is how my FC approaches Garuda EX in the sister/tornado phase:

- MT grabs Garuda and Suparna and pulls them North-West
- OT grabs Chirada AND the Spiny Plume and pulls both of them South-East to the "melee pocket" (no need to pick up the Spiny if it's aggroed on a melee though; just leave it on the melee in this case)
- Ranged don't DPS Chirada immediately, as the OT may need a few seconds to pull the Plume; there's no need to risk to jeopardize the OT's aggro on Chirada
- As soon as the OT has positioned Chirada and the plume, all DPS focus on Chirada
- Once she is dead, OT should provoke Suparna, so she comes to the melee corner (ranged can instantly DPS Suparna, as the OT will already have a threat lead on them, thanks to copying MT's emnity)
- If the OT or the melee (whomever the Spiny is aggroed on) is at 2 stacks, the TM just provokes the Spiny Plume and then prepares it to be somehwere around 10-20% HP, so it dies fast once Garuda jumps up (as no one except of the MT stand in his corner, no one has to deal with the Spiny's explosion)
- Kill Suparna in the melee corner, she'll be dead before a WW goes off in that corner
- When Suparna is dead, range can deal DPS to Garuda until she jumps, then immediately kill the Spiny

The only things your tanks have to watch for is:

- don't put up any DoTs on either Suparna or the Spiny Plume, as you'll want to make sure that 1 provoke on each target is enough to actually pull them over
- Don't use any AoE threat when Suparna or the Spiny are about to be provoked by the other tank
- MT will have to watch for (double) WW, but that's nothing an experienced tank can't handle