I'm replaying FF3 DS. I have the goal of beating bosses in unintended ways. I knew Garuda was going to be a challenge. He has a strong party-wide thunder attack that is designed to persuade the player to make a party of dragoons.
Nuts to that boring nonsense! I used Scholar, White Mage, Thief, and Geomancer! Thanks to the thief, I had quite a few bomb arms and heavenly wraths. Scholar has a little known feature where attack items do more damage too. Geomancer used terrain and the rest used attack items. Garuda was dead before its second turn.