Hey guys.

I've been having some... "times" trying to take down Garuda as a SMN with the duty finder without getting lucky and having a bunch of geared people all magically congregate together (I've got my Ifrit book and either AK or DL gear in every other slot). I know I could join a crew farming her after the various resets and have no issue, but I know I'll only get better when I'm having to carry my weight, and then some in a given situation.

My questions are basically timing related. When the feathers spawn, at what point of them spawning do you bane? Do you tri-disaster first? I'm baning when I first actually see the names of the feathers pop up, but I'm only hitting maybe 3 of them. For the longest time I just figured that was as good as it got until yesterday I hit a bane and got 6 feathers with it, but didn't really do anything any differently.

I have my DoT timing down as to when to refresh early/use contagion so that DoT's will have enough time left to kill a feather outright, just can't quite master when to Bane to hit a bunch of them.

When the two harpies pop, is there a reason the two birds aren't stacked up to spread DOT's around between them? I am not sure if both harpies use the melee based AoE is basically the extent of my question.

I pretty well have shadowflare placement and timing down, but the rest is still... iffy.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you.