Bray HM Speed run question

[Psyken]

When farming for myth, do you absolutely NEED 2 BLMs or BLM/BRD? I'm having trouble finding parties because 90% of the time I get locked out for not being BRD or BLM. I've noticed yesterday after making my own party that we can pull 2 big groups, do the bosses and quit the dungeon as SMN/DRG SMN/BRD SMN/SMN etc.

What is so special about BLM and BRD for this dungeon?

[Hocchi]

It's perfectly doable with other classes, people are just lazy and looking for what's easiest.
Just keep making your own groups.

[lyndwyrm]

It's pretty well agreed that BLM and BRD have the best aoe skills in the game, so people often only look for them for speed running groups. It's the same deal with speed running WP, though I doubt anyone will be doing that much anymore.

But really, the first two bosses can still be done in under 10min. with SMN/DRG, or pretty much whatever else so long as everyone knows what to do.

[Akirakogami]

Actually gotta side with the elitists on this one.

One way of doing the dungeon very fast is to only have 2 pulls for the entire thing. Pull at the start to the ramp (including roaming coerl), and nuke it down, grab key and lock out the adds at in front of the gate. Then pull all the goblins together and nuke them down. These adds do alot of damage. You will probably wipe if you don't load up on tank CDs. Need the blm nuke or you have a good chance of dying as their damage adds up.

Not saving a huge amount of time with such dangerous pulls, but the hardcore people think it makes a difference.

[SirTaint]

When you need 13500 myth every minute counts. BLMs make it faster and faster is safer with 9 mobs on the tank.

BLM also has unlimited MP where as other DPS jobs can run out of TP spamming AOE.

The myth grind was terribly done by SE and bottlenecks everyone into a single zone and only doing 2/3 of the run.

[Psyken]

Judging by all of the information I've received:

I know how speed running this works. SMN/Whatever gets it done about 7-9min. (personal records) If every minute counts, why waste that time by looking for specific jobs? Especially during the low times for server activity? You can take me as SMN or you can spend another 10min looking for a BLM.

The answer to my question, BLM has unlimited MP and higher AOE damage. It makes sense but the reasoning for lock outs just don't really jump out at me. Thanks for the feedback. ^^

[Donjo]

The myth grind was terribly done by SE and bottlenecks everyone into a single zone and only doing 2/3 of the run.

The grind bottlenecks people into doing 2/3 of Brayflox over and over? We're literally forced to do this in order to get our Myth?

I think not.

Nobody is being forced to run 2/3 of Brayflox over and over. Sure, it's the "quickest" way, but it certainly isn't the easiest and it's definitely the most mind numbingly repetitive way to get Myth. It's far less soul crushing to just do all of the roulettes every day, earning about 1500 Myth every three days. Oh, there's a book.

Really, every minute doesn't really count. Not when we have a month or more to get the Myth for the books, and that's assuming that 2.25 brings more upgrades to the Animus. At most, we have until 2.3 to get it all. So, there really is no need to rush. Get Myth in the ways that are still fun

[Skyl1n3]

I'm a DRG and most of the time I get into a Party with a BLM and on a very good run we can clear both bosses in 8-9 minutes, with me and a BRD it's mostly 9-10 minutes, hell I was even in a DRG/DRG Party and we still cleared it within 10 minutes! People in PF who just choose to segregate other classes over a BRD or BLM piss me off.

[Psyken]

It's far less soul crushing to just do all of the roulettes every day, earning about 1500 Myth every three days. Oh, there's a book.

I quit in 2.0 and came back now... Teach me about this stuff please? D: Daily dungeons right? I normally only see a total of about 90 myth to be earned from that a day.. I think I'm missing something though. o:

[NorthernLadMSP]

I've done these speed runs with all classes of DPS, but I'm guessing people want them to be extra speedy so they ask for bards/black mages because of the fact they can both do great AOE such as Flare, Fire II, Blizzard II, Cross Hatch, Rain of Death, etc combined with skills like Raging Strikes which increases damage by 20%.

Plus, the bard can sing Foe's that makes the enemies more susceptible to the black mage's elemental attacks.