Had an odd trip to Hullbreaker Isle just now.
I did a duty roulette to get started on spiritbonding some i90 gear. Got an 0/3 in-progress, which was sightly suspicious for DPS, and joined during the Sasquatch fight. After the fight, and a few pulls later, it was clear that the tank couldn't tank to save his life (or our lives), and the healer couldn't keep up. After a few wipes to treasure chests, snakes and a Nanka and its family, the tank then said he had to go to work and quit. The timer was around 60 minutes at that point, so I guess it had taken about 20 minutes for them to get through the first stage of the dungeon.
Without a tank and not much hope of getting one fast at the time we were playing, I (BLM) decided to do it. It went a lot better than with the tank who pulled everything, ignored Nanka hatches and kept losing aggro to the healer. A few careful pulls later, and we made our way up to Sjoorm. The healer stood at the gates saying "Are you guys sure about this?", I started casting Thunder 3 and he ran in. Things didn't quite work out to plan, as he then died to Sjoorm's underground charges before the first whirlpool, leaving me and my monk co-pilot, with me tanking. I cycled through burning down the boss and healtanking, and it got pretty close at times - there were a few bits before one dive when I was below 400 HP, his attacks were doing ~450 damage, and my Physicks were doing just a bit over 400, so he would have killed me eventually if he hadn't dived.
Eventually, the monk died to Watery Grave (there might have been a bit of Judas tanking here, as I made sure to go into bubbles after him), and I solo'd the last 10-15% of the boss. I got pretty nervous towards the end, but the timing of the dives and whirlpools were just right to ensure I could keep myself alive long enough and get breaks to heal, plus I managed to Virus him a few times. The healer and monk came back to life and jubilated "omg". This sounds like a fairly self-aggrandising anecdote, but honestly, it wasn't particularly difficult, just risky -- but it was fun, which is why I'm writing about it.
We carried on through the dungeon and got up to the Kraken boss gates when a tank finally joined, and then we blitzed through Kraken without too much trouble. More jubilation ensued, I said my thank yous, gave the monk a commendation for living the longest and left.
No commendations.
Also, we got Animal Fat and Hardened Sap.
