For the 2nd boss, tanks that I run speed run with don't bother doing anything to the adds. So since healer aggro will draw the mob towards me, I'll just bane them and let them die slowly from the DOTs. No big deal for a healer, the damage is minor.
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When I tank Brayflox (PLD), I just go for the full pull every time. If we wipe, oops. Shorter pulls next time and I guess we wasted like 2 minutes of our life in a video game. Unless someone says something beforehand, of course. I'm not one of those tanks that thinks they run the show unilaterally. Really I act more like a tour guide than a leader. I've got my own plan but if you want to do something else, whatever, they don't pay me to think.
As a healer, I bring WHM every time for that AOE shield bash they pack. And benediction. And presence of mind, holy crap that is a good ability. Like ridiculously freaking good. Cure III also helps a lot with the gliders and bosses, assuming everybody knows to stay in range of each other.
While bray longstop is one of my fav dungeons... I hate bray hm so much... mostly due to speedruns. But other than with friends or on drexpert I don't see it that much so that's good.
I just outright refuse to do Brayflox now. If it's my roulette (which is ALL THE TIME) I quit... yeah, I probably should stop touching Expert Roulette if it's just another word for Brayflox Longstop. If I want soldiery, I'll just manually choose Halatali (haven't done that dungeon in three weeks now) and Amdapor Township (two weeks).
nope, i finished my animus and i haven't done lot of brayflox.
for 2boss runs:I've never PFed it done max5 LS chainedrun(less than 10 run each time) and did it .
done a few full run for soldiery but i didnt stick to it, tagged more often in roulette than in Brayflox.
Haven't finished my Staff yet but only need 2 more books. And i haven't joined any Party Finder Myth farming runs. All i do is every duty roulette for 2-3 days and you have nearly enough for a new book. While doing the book do roulette each day and the 3 Dungeons and it's really not that bad.
This is why I don't do Bray anymore and if I get it on Roulette, I leave. It's mostly the DPS I have a problem with. Whenever I asked not to speed run, the tanks never complained (and if they did, not to my face anyway). One went as far as tanking every mob separately until I told him that I could handle more than that, just not the entire room. But then the DPS either pull more than the tank did, or don't kill the adds targeting me as sort of "revenge".
I saw something like this not 15 minutes ago- had 1 dps (the least geared of course) spamming "speedrun?"; I saw we had 1 aoe dps (him) and a decently-geared healer, so I felt more comfortable doing 2 pulls per area instead of the whole shebang. He ends up pulling the extra groups, we die, and the healer leaves. Then I get this:
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and he ragequits. Don't get me wrong, I've been fortunate to see a lot of friendly folks- it's just those occasional douche goblins that make you want to smash your face into something unyielding.