Scholars in Brayflox Longstop

[Salem_Rain]

My wife is about to try Brayflox Longstop for the first time with her Scholar. While I have a lot of experience in Brayflox myself as a healer, I was a White Mage and I had Esuna.

In helping her prepare for a successful run (which I will be tanking with my newly minted Warrior), I was curious as to the Scholar approach/strategy for this one, given the fact that Scholars do not have Esuna and that poison stacks are the bane of the Aiatar encounter, even if you're avoiding the pools. The other bosses have their share of negative status effects as well that Esuna comes in handy for.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all.

[Sichi]

Poison and paralysis does get pretty annoying, but the parties I'm in understand that as a SCH, I can't do anything about it at that lvl. Just had to deal with it and heal to the best of my ability. I didn't find it too difficult, so as long as your wife is properly geared, you guys should be fine. Wish there was something else I could tell you =/

[nocks]

You raise a good point - but I remember healing through these fights as a Scholar without Leeches. It will definitely be more difficult than as a Whm, but it has been done many times.

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

done this fight so many times and I Main SCH its really easy as long as other players understand they can't just get hit by AOE and other mechanics, if the party stays safe they will be fine even with the poison stacking. She shouldn't have a hard time healing thru the fight while the rest of the party burns down the boss.

there is really no way around the debuff as a SCH which is one reason I think esuna should be cross class as leeches comes way to late! I know this dungeon can be a pain for some but after a few runs as a SCH she will see she doesn't even need esuna or leeches!

wish you both luck!

[Deroth]

I healed that this weekend on Scholar, the only issue I had was the Warrior tank didn't understand how Defiance and Wrath works so Eos tanked most of the instance.

From what I saw our heal that also absorbs health completely negates the poison on the DDs and placing Eos near the tank took care of most other issues so I could move out of stuff, stack dots, and top off the DDs that had bad luck or placement before needing to heal the tank back up. ... at least until the tank got bored of moving out of AoEs, but we were still able to defeat the final boss.

[pandabearcat]

I had no problems even with multiple stacks of poison and such.

As long as the fight doesn't last too long (aka the tank knows where to go) the poison isn't an issue.

Square made sure the debuffs aren't crippling before SCH gets leeches.

[Trent_Thurkear]

I have healed Brayflox as both a WHM and a SCH and I can say I had an easier time doing it on the SCH. The poison stacks can be easily managed by just your pet's heal and a small tip- if you have a good BLM/SMN selena (can't remember how it is spelled) goes a long way in helping drop the bosses fast.

[LahaGheist]

Healed it about 35 times as SCH successfully. It's actually VERY doable as SCH, your mitigation makes the poison pretty laughable. Micromanage your embraces during cures and it's really just all on your DPS/Tank to get out of the way of AoE. If they don't you'll notice it being considerably harder, this isn't your (or her) fault.

You'll be fine in short, it's pretty faceroll easy.

[Noriega]

To be frank, those saying its "easy" is BSing.
Its not easy or hard, as the outcome does not depend on you, but the group, since you have no real way of dealing with players standing in aoes and the poisons.
If you have a good group, it will be easy as the only real thing you have to worry about is the tank and spot healing the group, which the fairy can do, and you being well equip to do just that (heal).
If your group is new or sporadic or even has 1 bad player, you will have a hard time due to the lack of real strong aoe healing and no real way to cleanse at that level.


Yes, you can trudge through it (i have) but you will have as much nightmares as good runs because its idiot dependent, and its tank check dungeon (many appropriate leveled tanks find this dungeon fairly hard or they feel squishy because its a fairly significant jump in mob strength and they may not have to skills to deal with it at that time, although this is just from what i hear tanks say during dungeon runs, i do not have a tank myself).


If YOU as a tank know the run well enough, and your dps arent brain dead, then yes, your wife shall breeze through it.

[Ebon_Drake]

I'v tanked flafflebroox several times with both whm and sch and honestly I've been fine both ways. As a bard running blifflefraps I really like sch better as I don't have to deal with mage ballad.