Brayflox’s Longstop Boss Strategy

[Duelle]

Yes it does.

You can try to use the "skill" argument, but having melee DPS makes the encounter harder to complete, especially if your DPS don't notice that he gives you about 1.5 seconds to move away before he actually spits the poison at them.

I finally killed the damn dragon this morning. Took a MNK, WHM and BRD but we managed to do it. No, I don't feel "accomplished" or any of that nonsense, and am simply glad to be able to see the story post-Longstop.

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As a whole Longstop is definitely overtuned and in need of adjustments. I ran a higher risk of dying there than I did fighting the primal that comes after that dungeon (said primal was a fun fight and well-tuned, by the way). The fact the dragon has a stacking poison yet one of the two healers in the game cannot remove it (SCH doesn't get their status removal spell until lv40) is a very bad sign. The run where we won was mostly lucky, as the dragon decided to spit mostly on the healer and the BRD, who kept far away enough that I actually did not run out of room during the fight. God knows what would have happened it if have been PLD (me), DRG, MNK, SCH...

[Stalkster]

Out of 14runs as War today i died once on main boss, health was low and I caught a breath. All where pugs.
16runs total but im not gonna count the 2, 1 had a really bad healer(almost naked) I left(see my post above). The other no one listened rushing boss's/wrong targets/not killing adds during boss's etc, imo they didn't deserve to be carried. /leave. I took about 4breaths total(all runs).

[Cadwgan]

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Longstop was "overtuned" according to the devs in phase 3 and was piss easy once you knew what to do, it's a wake up call to all the people moaning "the game is too easy" after they nerfed the sub lv20 solo story content, having a melee just means you might have to move more often, nothing else. This dungeon is not hard, this boss is not hard, incompetent people on the other hand...

Also I've never seen the second boss have blaze spikes up, ever. Guess you're just unlucky with this dungeon or the groups you get.