Neverreap vs. Fractal Continuum

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Sure you *can*, but as a healer, unless you're either really good or in 180 bis, I'd prefer if you don't.

Nothing more annoying than having to healbomb a squishy ass tank and then the blm gets hit and I literally can *not* spare the gcd to heal him because Captain Speedrun is dropping like pants on wedding night.

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That's because you are AST and don't have the tools to cope with anything.

I prefer fractal as healer. Love a good challenge. Also, is it me or did they make The Vault easier? I first noticed it when the warrior boss fight only did the massive damage hit once instead of twice in a row

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

That's because you are AST and don't have the tools to cope with anything.

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Calling shenanigans there. Maybe you're not good with AST or feel like they aren't good, but I seen some decent AST myself from people who knew what they were doing. During EA and my first time running the EX dungeons as a WHM, I was barely geared to run them and I kept getting tanks (both the squishy kind and the overgeared kind) that kept doing massive pulls, despite the fact that I wasn't well equipped at the time. People still try to speed run everything, despite the fact that everything in 3.0 hits harder than what 2.0 pushed out.

So no, it's not an AST problem.

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Originally Posted by repoe

It was changed to two during the 3.0 launch

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That's a stupid and nonsensical design. They really should have stuck with the "Rule of Three" because now it takes me upwards of 30 minutes to cue EX roulette and I have a 50/50 shot of getting a dungeon that I hate like the plague. (And Since RNGsus Hates me I ALWAYS ge NR instead of Fractal) So since for the moment it cues one right after the other, after I have my EX Bonus I just farm Facility for the near constant bonus 40 that the story rookies are bringing. That 120 is way more lucrative and the dungeon is the fastest of the lvl 60 dungeons anyway. The Facility is even faster than Fractal.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Sure you *can*, but as a healer, unless you're either really good or in 180 bis, I'd prefer if you don't.

Nothing more annoying than having to healbomb a squishy ass tank and then the blm gets hit and I literally can *not* spare the gcd to heal him because Captain Speedrun is dropping like pants on wedding night.

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I was doing it below Ilvl 170... They don't hit THAT hard! Ilvl 180 just makes it easier.

I prefer fractal. Mobs in neverreap feels like they have a bazillion HP.

Neverreap must be designed with the sole purpose to annoy my BLM.

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Originally Posted by OmegaStrongtan

Neverreap must be designed with the sole purpose to annoy my BLM.

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it annoys me as a tank. everything takes two summers to die.

maybe once people start getting gear from alexander/after esoterics are released...

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Originally Posted by OmegaStrongtan

Neverreap must be designed with the sole purpose to annoy my BLM.

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Lol I know the feeling as a MNK, due to all the GL drops I've seen in there. Though I'd still rather do that place with pugs than Fractal...somehow the pugs always seem to make Fractal harder than it is.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Sure you *can*, but as a healer, unless you're either really good or in 180 bis, I'd prefer if you don't.

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i usually run in and pull everything in the first room of fractal. just about every healer lets me dip low because plunge is op, but i have yet to meet a healer who could not handle it and they usually want me to pull everything in the next room as well.

if you have blm it is always worth it to speed run unless they can't blm which kind of makes me want to leave

did a dungeon the other day and at the end of the run the healer complained i was squishy. but u kind of tend to be when you take grit off so you can kill things faster.

however they weren't really a great healer themselves... either they were having really bad lag or they were waiting for chunks of my health to be missing until they would heal. I mean there were literally periods of time where I was missing half of my health and was not getting healed at all in a 6 second window.