Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) SR

[SeleneVenizelos]

First pull - Swiftcast Protect, Adloquium on tank, tank uses Sprint and runs straight towards the boss room (not wasting time on Flash/Lob/Toma/Overpower)

99% of the time a speed run wipes it's because tanks who don't know the difference between aggroing and getting hate are pulling this way.

It's very easy to Shield Lob every monster in the pull. This Shield Lob / Tomahawk is enough hate that your healer can throw several Stoneskins, Adloquiums or Cures on you during or near the end of the pull without pulling hate. This lowers the chances of dying on pull to virtually zero.

I'm not saying you are bad or your advice is bad. The problem is the majority of people who try this are either under geared or just don't know what they're doing. I've had numerous tanks as a healer who didn't tag every monster and as soon as I throw out my first Cure I have multiple monsters battering me. I can't not heal, because with an under geared tank if you let their HP go too low it's probably too late to keep up. On Scholar I have no panic button when my Aetherflow is spent and this Aetherflow is essential to keeping a tank alive anyway.

In theory it works and I have enjoyed many efficient speed runs where the tank just sprints through. The reason is the tank was decent and knew what he was doing. Most tanks will read this, sprint through and then ask the healer why they died. It happens too many times. And sometimes Eos Cures (and we can't stop her) and pulls hate on the whole pull, gets murdered, then the pull goes and hammers anyone nearby.

One tank even advised me to dismiss Eos because 'You don't need her to keep me alive'. That about sums up the collective IQ we're dealing with.