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Agreed. It's a run where you have to tank the mobs instead of grabbing everything and spamming a button. It involves thoughtful pulls, thoughtful positioning so you and the DPS don't have to stand in poison and aren't pulling more mobs accidentally, and situational awareness. But I do understand why people feel that it's drawn-out, it does become tedious when I've farmed it too many times consecutively and I find myself begging for the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bashum
Based on your first post, I can tell you learned a lot from doing AV :PQuote:
Originally Posted by GeekMatt
When I first did it as a WAR tank, it was pretty annoying because I had a SCH who complained that he couldn't clear it as a SCH since Eos can't eat the fruit in the first boss room. It was the first dungeon where I think healers couldn't just spam their main healing skill on a single target over and over again. As Mr. Happy mentioned, this dungeon really is a healer check especially since I can solo the 2nd boss as a WHM kiting with regen and dots.
I don't think anyone has ever gone through AV without any problems before unless they're a very skilled healer.
AV is very hard on healers. WHM have to worry about conserving mp for it and scholars have to keep their pets alive. If you run AV with a scholar, the trick to keeping the fairy alive is to use adloquium to set up a hp barrier. The first boss may cause trouble with enough poison stacks that the sch has to swiftcast+summon. The rest is managing mp and aetherflow stacks.
As for positioning as a tank, that is simply a matter of experience but it sounds like you've got the basics down already.