Final Fantasy XIV – Hard Mode Garuda + Ifrit Fun!

We finally had the opportunity to do some Hard Mode trials in Final Fantasy XIV – and my god they were fun! We synced down our item level to the minimum requirement for the trial and ran it with a bunch of level 60 people (that got synced down to level 50.) We manage to take down Ifrit after only 2 tries, but Garuda.. Garuda took more. Quite a few more, honestly. It was.. definitely a very difficult hard mode trial to run, especially with item level sync enabled.