Garuda Strat from a Jp Lodestone Blog


Original Blog Post here:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/rc/diary/entry?e=356333

setup: 2war 2blm 2brd 2whm

[here are the corresponding patterns]

* phase 1. before the aerial blast

<behavior patterns>

1. when garuda does a ws she has a message that explains her move.
(it says more but thats the rough idea..)
2. plumage:
every 45-60 seconds she summons multiple plumes.
they have a move that causes 1k damage, the plumes must die quickly or they will damage the rocks.
the damage they inflict to the rocks determines the strength of the aerial blast
3.aerial blast:
after a certain ammount of plume round have been activated she will jump into the middle.
the damage from the aerial blast is affected by the damage the 4 rocks have recieved.
there is no need to hide it wont help.

[the following image is the initial placement]


<key points>
1.hide immediately after he teleports for ws
2.to prevent damage to the rock the tank stand between garuda and the rock
3.plumes: (most important)
must eliminate plumes quickly, steel cyclone in the middle of the 4 rocks
*make sure you have rampage and minuet*
bard assists with rain of death
pull garuda to center so both tanks can do steel cyclone and damage garuda also.
4.blm nuke garuda and cut down his hp with nukes
need high INT and both songs(ballad/minuet)
assist with plumes to save the rocks.

* phase 2. after the aerial blast




<behavior patterns>

1. [garuda will invoke the west wind]
a ring of wind will appear on the outer perimiter
if you are in contact with the wind when she uses "eye of the storm"
1700 damage and knock back
2. after eye of the storm there will be 2 messages (basically she jumps up and down)
then she does ws's
A. mistral shriek - she appears at either north south east or west end
you will need to dash immediately to the opposite side
B. mistral song - she jump in the air and land at the tank.
possible to avoid if you crowd behind her.
3. plumage
following the ws
plumes pop around the outer edge and move toward the middle
wipe them out at once useing steel cyclone and rain of death






* phase 3.

from here on there is more than 1 pattern randomly repeated
they will be name as followed for convenience:
pattern A : west wind
pattern B : south wind
pattern C : tornado's

you can judge from garuda which the pattern will be from the messages

*pattern A west wind*

<behavior patterns>
1.garuda will call the west wind
after the message the eye of the storm sequence will play out
contact outer perimeter when she does the move will give 1700 damage and knock back.
then 2 alter ego's will pop at the same time, chiralda suparna.

<key points>
1.get in the middle
2.once you get the west wind message immediately move to the middle
attract all 3 to the middle
collusion the blm's
both war and brd's attack/combo suparna
blm nuke/combo chiralda
chiralda has 6k hp, and suparna has 9k roughly
3.they both must die within 1 minute or they will shriek for 3800
would be easy in a wide area, but that isnt the case just by luck.





*pattern B south wind*

<behavior patterns>
1.garuda will call the south wind
4 tornado spots will pop around the center
contact with them is 1700 damage and knock back
plumes will pop while the tornado's move in a clockwise direction


<key points>
1.after the message everyone get ready to start moving
in the direction of the rotation together.
2.kill the plume near you immediately to avoid them attack you.
3.use combo's to take them out immediately.





*pattern C Tornado's*

<behavior patterns>
1.garuda will move east or west and hate will be ignored during when he moves.
a message will appear saying, garuda is embracing the mirage(english version wording someone tell me)
then the tornado storm will be in a fixed possition,
if garuda moves west, north west - south west - middle - east the tornado's will appear
if garuda moves east, west - middle - north east - south east the tornado's will appear
and chiralda and suprana will pop
its get difficult here because of stun.

<key points>
1.stay south of garuda
2.you have 1 minute to defeat chiralda and suprana just like pattern A
3.if garuda moves, move with her, but stay away from tornado
4.the 2 alter ego's will gather at garuda
5.defeat just like pattern A





as for 15min ability useage
benediction = when alter ego gives problems
battle voice 1 = before aerial blast
battle voice 2 = first time the alter ego's pop
mighty strikes = when first alter ego's pop
burst = when ever you feel like it

My strat:

Garuda
This is the strategy/setup I used when killing Garuda
Setup: 3X BLM 2X BRD 1X WHM 1X DRG 1X PLD
Basically the goal is to skip phase 2 & kill plumes ASAP.
BRD perspective: In my opinion Bard is the toughest job on this fight. Brd 1 uses Ballad ( with af body gear) and Brd 2 uses Minuet (with af gloves). Every single enhancement matters in this fight. You have to keep the songs up at all times, try to cast the songs when garuda teleports. BARD USES FIREPOT OR EXORCISM BEAN AT ALL TIMES!
At the beginning of the fight bards just gain TP on garuda and pop a bloodletter combo on garuda and keep doing light shot untill she spawns plumes. When they go to your designated pillar, you pop Rain of Death. All should be dead now. (KEEP RAGING STRIKE UP AT ALL TIMES!!). After the plumes of your pillar die, go help other pillars with barrage untill all plumes are down. After this, continue lightshotting garuda until the second set of plumes spawn. Kill plumes with Rain of Death & help other pillars untill they die again. Go back to lightshotting garuda until she teleports. Just repeat the process of killing plumes and return to garuda. This is where it gets tricky, the plumes will spawn short after this and there will be spawning ALOT of them and you will not have much tp. For the first set of waves use wide volley combo, barrage and even bloodletter combos, this shouldn’t be too hard. Go back to garuda and start gaining tp really fast with firepots and lightshot (even go stand behind garuda to let your char punch for tp if you’re experienced) this time you do rain of death combo and all other ws to finish them off. Before ab 1 brd does Battle voice and AOE sanguine. The other one does AOE stoneskin. This way the WHM has en AOE regen up for after AB. If you skip phase 2, BRDs dps the HELL out of surpana. For the rest of the fight just stay close to the tank and stay behind Garuda.

Thanks for the guide Obsidian &Rikku. I am not the best black Mage but I will attempt the guide for them none the less.

First off, need a minimum of 330 intelligence and 440 magic accuracy. Furthermore, it is ideal that you have bard leveled two 42 for it,s enmity mitigating abilities.

For the fiight itself, there are two phase we are concerned with. Phase 1, where we do the bulk of our damage without running around too much and phase two where do just enough damage while putting a premium on surviving.

In phase 1, when the tank runs in, give him like 10 seconds to position and use some hate buliding techniques. Garuda will jump once his HP drops below a certai n threshold so no need to rush it. Throw a thunder and thundara combo or two and let him jump. Once Garuda resets and is back with the tank, go crazy. Goal is to get its HP to about 65-70%. Once he jumps, we will rest our MP and cease all casting on Garuda till he jumps for the third time. Once he resets back to the tank, go all out again. This time,our goal s to bring its HP down to 35-40%. Use your enimity mitigating abilities as often as possible. This is also the ideal time to use convert bad burst combos. When Garuda is ready to Areial Blast, get rites up for extra MP and damage mitigation.

If we did our job, we should be in phase 3. Please refer to Rikku,s guide on where to run during the phase. First off, the sister will spawn. We will focus on Chi. It has about 6000 HP. Thunder combos from us should do the trick. We will also be tanking it. So do your best to survive. If there were plenty of pillars up right in phase 1 and you didn't need your rites to survive! Now is the time to use it. Please note that you have a little less then a minute to I'll sisters or we die lol. Once they are dead, we have a minute alone with Garuda. We might have to rn or stay stationary behind it but that is with the situation and Rikku has it above tis post. It about 35% HP that we need to deal with. Go crazy as your MP permits. If the sisters spawn again we need to do one ofteo things. Keep attacking Garuda if it's HP is Already below 20% otherwise we have to kill the sisters again.

Hopefully tis will be of some help.

Sorry for the spelling mistakes… Typed it on my IPad… You can make out most of it I hope.