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Anyway. I think I stated this before, but even though I like solo content because I'm a foreveralone who does this as past time, bams were not meant to be solo content. See, their whole meaning was designed to be done by parties. That they are soloable? yes, they are. It's the same as using a fire engine to go house to house filling people's cisterns. The fire engine can do it, but it's not meant for that.
IoD bams are particularly resistant from the front. Maybe this could teach dps classes that they should all be attacking from behind. But, don't we all know that already? Maybe the whole concept is to tell a player, in a solo way, what class he should be maining? As in, whatever you can do IoD faster with, should be your main dps class. But what about healers and tanks? So I don't think that's the purpose either. Thing is, I have no idea why IoD was made the way it is right now, other than just slapping something together to give solo players something to do.
TL:DR: Burnzzz
AT least it wasn't the "you have 15 days" uber long rant like that meme'ed post from another game.
I don't know, how lancer can clear IOD bam as fast as brawler. I think, there is some glitch with lancer blocking againt Hydras attack. Sometimes, it knocks my lancer down while lancer was already blocking.
Still. Brawler and Ninja are easiest and fastest class for IOD.
Lancer is easy and fun. But, not as strong as brawler and ninja dps.
I'm only "ok" level at lancer, so I know there are ways for lancer to do these faster. The class has a few good stuns(leashes and shield bash) and one attack that sometimes stun(second hit of shield barrage), and a good deal of defensive stuff and even an attack block in Wallop so those are helpful as well. Guardian shout and adrenaline rush are also great for these fights. The Essential mana guide has good setups that can help newbie lancer players to deal with these fights too.
http://www.essentialmana.com/fucbois-lancer-pve-guide/
I think lancer is very close to brawler but somewhat requires a good knowledge on lancer class. Usually I farm my on my lancer IOD and takes me around ~25-30 minutes to finish 6 dailies depending how busy the channels are and if I have full buffs.
I actually recorded myself one time seeing how fast I can farm the top 3 bams (hydra, giant and naga). I'd say somewhere around 15-17 minutes to finish them. And I don't think I was at my best.
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One thing I noticed is if I want to do is fast, I have to keep up my HTL as high as possible and rotations on point. I just hate when they trample walk at the wrong time lol.
For lancer, I think they are close with brawler in terms of clearing time with IOD bams. With full HTL, good rotations and not as busy channel, most times I can finish all 6 bam dailies (fimberlisk, fangspawn, teralith, hydra, giant and naga) in about ~25-30 minutes.
I don't think I was at my best but I recorded a trial of myself to see how fast I can do the hydra, naga and giant on my lancer:
I can clear 3x high tier bam quests in about 15~18min with +12 slaughter brawler. But, with +12 lancer, it takes about 25~28min. Lancer is surely easy as brawler and more fun. But, idk, at +12 lancer isn't fast as +12 brawler.
But, again, thank you for making it.
But IoD is not something that MUST be done in order to play the game. You get 8 vanguards to spend wherever you like, and healers are very sought after on dungeons and pvp. So as healer, you don't need to be stuck doing only IoD if you don't want. I feel IoD is more for DPS classes who cannot queue into anything fast enough. But that's just my opinion.
Warning: Music
No Keen Mote drugs were snorted in this video.
I started out getting smashed pretty hard by these things because of not having almost indefinite back-time. IoD more or less forced me to learn how to deal with all of these different attack patterns. Feels good not being terrible anymore.