Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) SR

[Thum]

Yeah ... gotta love SR Brayflox. I always skip the SC as quick as I can and get a SS on the tank if possible before the screen drops. They usually wait for the protect ... unless they do it themselves or have it left from a previous run ...

If you get a good tank they'll manage their CD's and as long as you manage your's it'll be fine as a WHM i92 I also SwiftHoly, followed by E4E and heals. Depending on party ... I usually end up blowing Bene here near the end.

As for locking out the 2 remaining mobs before 1st boss ... I sure wish they'd stop doing that. In my runs it has worked exactly once. Normally I end up with a healthy Rafflesia and the boss due to positioning. What's another 30 seconds on the front end ... I can make that up DPSing the boss.

I have another lvl and a half before trying out Brayflox on SCH then I'll give the Sacred Soil Swift Shadowflare a go.

[Fran636]

let's see this is what I do before big pulls and hopefully it helps you:
-Cast a adlo./stone-skin/protect on your tank
-E4E and Rouse your fairy and haste the dps (selene)
-Swift-cast Shadow Flare, and quickly Bio II,Miasma,Bio+Bane the mobs
-Save the rest of your stacks for lustrate and continue on healing

With the amount of mobs on the tank the damage can quickly add up to the point where your fairy alone cannot keep up with the healing so just remember to help her out once Rouse wears off (which should be right around the same time that you've finished bane-ing the mobs)

The second big pull can be the most dangerous due to the fact that the mobs will randomly attack someone other than the tank, the above start ^^^ works just fine but if you're still having trouble it's ok to pull out eos during that pull and toss out a sacred soil, rouse+healing buff (20%...fey illumination?)+whispering dawn. <<<this is only if you want to be extra cautious though

[AldoVonAlexandros]

this is what i do, i spam adlo to the tank, i bring eos with me, when pld has hp toped then i use rouse+fey illumination+whispering dawn, lustrate if need, more adlo and some times a physick, but adlo is better for this, also eye for an eye, i had this tank that pulled everything and i was like, noo, wait protect and spamming adlo was the only way to keep him alive, dont use sacred soil, save it for lustrates

Edit: if tank rush, Swift-cast protect when running

[Zoeila]

this what i do in situations like this:
alternate physic and adlo
use eos
clip rouse into phys/adlo
while you are casting a heal manually cast fey illumination with eos
while you are casting a heal manually cast embrace with eos
when the top is about to stop pop SS and EfaE

[DantedmcVII]

I use eos over selene in case of emergency. To make sure there are no dps issues and I run out of CDs, I start off with roused wd and have eos heal while i throw out shadow flare miasma II and blizzard II spam ( i feel this is more useful than getting 4 targets with dots.), using lustrates when eos can't keep up. After rouse is off i switch to healing using E4E, Lustrates (I use soil if I have a stack left over from dpsing), and saving fey incase the fight starts to drag on.

[FufuCocolata]

I have 300+ runs now and am nearing animus, and have just fully geared my bard. Also have done some as bard and observed other healers. Most as Scholar.

In that time this is what I have found.

1. If you use Eos you're either undergeared, inexperienced, or insecure about your ability and don't belong there. Haste the BLM.
2. Haste the BLM. Offence is your defence here. They can't whack anyone when they're dead. Sustain as necessary while every other effort goes into making the enemy die quickly.
3. If your run is over 7 minutes you're doing it wrong.
4. If your run is under 5:30 - 6:00 you're doing it right.
5. Tell your BLM to stop being a tard and triple flare as necessary to get your times down.
6. Animus is 13500 myth / 270 runs / 36,27 hours at 8,6 minutes. You save 9 hours of your life by not sucking and not tolerating those who suck. Be ruthless if you need to, and also be constructive/polite where possible.

[Assirra]

I have 300+ runs now and am nearing animus, and have just fully geared my bard. Also have done some as bard and observed other healers. Most as Scholar.

In that time this is what I have found.

1. If you use Eos you're either undergeared, inexperienced, or insecure about your ability and don't belong there. Haste the BLM.
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Sorry but what? If you do it a bit slower you don't belong there?
How about pulling your head out of your own ass.

[Sessurea]

Sorry but what? If you do it a bit slower you don't belong there?
How about pulling your head out of your own ass.

I'm surprised he isn't saying OP is doing it wrong for not being a whm....oh wait, hes a sch! =D

[Rosy]

I've done this several times as an ilevel 93 Scholar, I have Eos out...(I'm not undergeared, I'm certainly not inexperienced, and not insecure, and yeah I belong there as much as head up arse does) ....back to the point in hand, I spam Adlo and stick down soil. As its a roulette, you don't have the time to assess the tank by the time you get this enormous pull, so safety is better than arrogance, hence Eos.

[Aria_Stars]

I've successfully healed <6min runs on both WHM and SCH, though I find SCH/WAR combo better.

My advice for SCH healing:

1. aldo+swiftcast stoneskin before pull, autofollow tank/afk a min until pull is done.
2. soil, pop SS buff+rouse, leech the paralyzes while lustrating, then spam physick/adlo+embrace. miasma2/energy drain remaining mobs at end.
3. boss: selene on stay, SS buff, rouse when dmg gets too high. dps entire time. save 1 lustrate in case selene gets behind. stoneskin and adlo before tank runs off, put pet on follow.
4. next big pull go cleric stance, drop soil then swiftcast shadowflare, ss buff+rouse, miasma2 while lustrating, drop cleric stance then spam succor.
5. downtime in front of rock - get stoneskin/adlo up and refresh protect if necessary.
6. last boss place selene in center and let her solo heal while rotating her buffs. dps entire time. rouse after first charge. if your dps is good enough your party will barely be alive without any direct heals, otherwise save some lustrates.

WHM/PLD can get trash down faster with holy if you carefully time it right with tank CD's but bosses take longer. evens out in the end but overall more stressful so I recommend SCH because selene is OP and lustrate can handle spike damage better. SCH/PLD works too and is probably safer but slower. A good WAR with berserk+bloodbath makes up for lack of CD's plus they do more dps.