I have literally refused to do Brayflox HM after reading this and after experiencing it myself today.

Me and my friend queue up, him as WHM, me as my DRG like always. Run starts, everyone says hi (except the tank of course), we start going, then the tank just runs around flashing EVERYTHING in the first area all the way up until the first coeurl, and me, the bard, and my friend all are spamming our biggest AoEs trying to kill them all, while my friend is frantically trying to heal the tank. We get through that thankfully, and while me and my friend were grumbling about it in FC chat, we still continued on, since we had managed to do that well enough. We continue on, tank AGAIN pulls all the mobs from the Coeurl patrol to the first boss, THEN pulls the boss as well, which started the countdown.


I didn't even realize he'd pulled the boss until I was suddenly locked out and getting beat on by the mobs that got locked out as well. I ended up dying and just went back to the start and waited, while asking the tank if next time he could just announce he was going to do a full pull to the boss area, since NONE of us knew what he was doing until just then. The guy had not spoken a word at all, no "hey guys I wanna speedrun this", no "hey guys I'm gonna pull all the mobs so get ready", just silently goes in and pulls every single mob and then gets one of the dps locked out of the first boss while they struggle to stay alive because my friend's mp is going down fast due to the constant spam heal.

When both me and my friend start pointing out to him WHY it's always a good idea to announce your intentions for the run before it starts, after the tank questions why he'd even need to, he starts going nuts on us like "but why wouldn't you speedrun, that gets you the most myth and soldier fast" and no matter what we told him about WHY you need to at least ANNOUNCE when you're speedrunning, he just kept being a bullheaded idiot about it. I finally kicked him after my friend begged me to in FC chat, and we got a new tank who I thought would be good at first, since he at least said hi when he got in.

Wrong. He also pulled the entire area after the first boss, and tried to tank all of it in a small alcove. Needless to say, the gliders kept hitting my friend, and so he died, which meant no heals, so we all died. He asked the tank to not do that, and the tank began to comply at first, but after two sets of mobs, he just ran around and aggro'd everything again. Had the bard not been popping MP song and TP song when needed, we would have died again from that pull. When we brought this up, the tank was just like "but we didn't". As if that's any excuse?

Seriously, I already dislike tanks on principle since 90% of the ones I've run into in every game before, including this one, have been prima dona drama queens who think they rule the world just because they're a tank. This Brayflox idiocy is making me hate tanks even more, as well as hate even trying to do the run without 3 friends alongside me.