Brayflox's Longstop Short Rant and Aiatar guide

[juniglee]

I've been running Brayflox non-stop in an attempt to get me a new mail and shield. I'm still using a white geared shield, and the Lv20 green mail from Halatali, and this is just something I decided to do to gear up for the next dungeon (The Sunken Temple of Qarn), rather than attempt to wing a Lv35 dungeon with Lv20 gear.

Brayflox actually feels more like a tank check than anything. The tank has to be smart enough to position himself around Aiatar.
1. Don't stand directly in front of any party member, since Aiatar's line poison AoE Dragon Breath has a pretty huge reach. I always try to face a direction where the breath does not reach any of my teammates. As the tank, I always get my team to reposition themselves around Aiatar's sides, since for the most parts, I just end up making him to the opposite direction after each breath, so the sides are the safest.
2. Stand near his left front leg. When he readies his Dragon Breath, you can just move forward a bit to avoid it, and continue attacking him. This is how you turn him around exactly 180 degrees too, which makes his sides the safest blind spots.
3. When he shoots the poison pool at any melee character, the tank has to reposition himself to bring Aiatar out of the pool. One way to know if he is completely out of any pool is to look at his buffs/debuffs - he'll have a Regeneration buff if he's still on top of a pool. Or if you are fast enough, you can stun him before it comes out.

It's also a soft gear check in that, if you don't have the DPS to down him, your healer will eventually run out of mana healing the tank, and when that happens, not even the sturdiest of tanks will survive. At least, this is more noticeable in Brayflox compared to previous dungeons.

[Vanidin]

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[Grotesque]

Guide for Braxflox / Dragon (from a view as WHM who is farming the battlemage stuff):

- be excited about having 3 war classes as team
- all stay at the wall
- avoid the breath
- pull out of poison
- pull him along the wall
- dont do the dungeon with shitty l25 gear
- blame se for not dropping any battle mage stuff at all

[Hysterior]

Guide for Braxflox / Dragon (from a view as WHM who is farming the battlemage stuff):
blame se for not dropping any battle mage stuff at all

Yep, I really wanted to body and hat but after my 15h run I gave up
it popped up only 3 times and there was always another caster to get it
now too high for it but my try later just for the sake of completing the set

[Grotesque]

I got the Robe and the Hat at one run, but that was it since then

But I still farm because it is still better than L41 white gear and I am 37 at the moment. I want the complete set and then I'll go for Harlequin with 44. No haste to rush it anyway ^^

[ReaperDx]

The one thing that I didn't like about Aiatar when I tanked it was that he would spit a green pool on top of me, I would run out but he would go right into a breath and not move. So he would sit there, do his breath and get about ~3 seconds of healing. Still killed it, but I was surprised at the jump in difficulty, real fun dungeon.

[LionKing]

Wait until you find yourself in Stone Vigil :P and you will see Brayflox is a child's play..(Evil grind)...First attempt on the final boss, time run out when he has 1% health left....Epic fail,LoL :P

[illutian]

I wonder how they'll deal with late-comers not being able to get these dungeons done as part of the storyline.

Currently, 15min in queue for my second Brayflox attempt...just to progress in the story....as a healer in J,E,D,F, and 'Join in Progress'.
((And it's been much the same even during prime time on the weekend..only about 10min...but that was last week while doing Haukke Manor))

[Nialle]

Healers don't get insta-queue anymore once Scholar arrives at lv30, since population of healers increases at that point.

Tank insta-queue, however, is always the case.

[Schandlich]

You have no idea how much better this thread made me feel. I had a heck of a time here this weekend. The PUG I was with just could not bring Aiatar down. I was ready to give up my WHM, assuming that there was no hope for me as a healer. And then after the third wipe I saw the tank spinning Aiatar around a top...

Second pug. No one had been to the dungeon before. Killed Aiatar second try.

/sigh I guess it is time to join a FC.