Thread: Garuda Ultimate battle summed up in one image.

Two healers and a character that can reduce burst damage taken (Roland, Joan of Arc, Gaia, etc) is all you need to win this fight at lower power. As long as you have some way to nullify the damage from the Garuda ultimate, winning isn't too bad even at 20k or less stats.

I was able to do it with 1 healer and Mordred and no damage reduction at 23k stats, though it cut pretty close.

Apocalypse is invaluable for her blind effect, which greatly mitigates Garuda's normal attack damage. If you don't have a source of Blind, you're going to have a tough time. I have 3 Apocalypses, nearly guaranteeing that one Blind will land.

Mordred can easily carry you through the boss assuming she gets to the boss without getting focused by the adds.

I thought blind not that useful in this fight? since Garuda rage/gauge is aoe like guarantee hit?

Originally Posted by Gisborn

I thought blind not that useful in this fight? since Garuda rage/gauge is aoe like guarantee hit?

You shouldn't be spending much time in the rage phase. Also, her normal attack does more damage per hit, and seems to triple-hit more often than all 3 of those rage skill hits land on a single target.

Seeing a lot of love for healing. Going to throw out some love for the all out attack!


EDIT: Woah, what did I do?

Depends on your setup how useful blind is. Even though I almost always have full burst at the start, I hold off on burst until she gets into rage mode, because if I burst at the start she stays in rage mode forever and rage mode has much scarier hits than normal mode. I have multiple sources of blind and dizzy from Mordred and the rest (if I don't get it, not a big deal) and then fight until its fully built rage. Once it gets into rage mode I usually break it in a single turn with 5burst + a few skills so it goes straight to stun, and then stays in normal mode while I build more burst charge again.

So effectively I spend the entire fight in normal/stun mode.

Normal mode is much easier with Mordred because not only can you blind, but you can also put down "Desertion" which is Asmund's skill that does damage AND reduces the rate of double and triple strikes (incredibly good skill and one of the best available at the moment). So normal mode has a lot less threat than rage mode, almost always only hits once, and is usually blinded or dizzied or both.

Originally Posted by CBW

Seeing a lot of love for healing. Going to throw out some love for the all out attack!


EDIT: Woah, what did I do?

I prefer this



It's kinda sad that under hp bar you can see only 8 debuffs.