Guild Wars 2

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Hey. Trying to get a Charr warrior through the main (loyal sire) story line and I’m stuck on the “Mired Deep” quest.
I am lvl 14 as recommended with a Malign Steam Speargun (150-166 +12 conditional damage) but when I fight the boss battle (veteran bog skale) even with three accomplises to draw agro I still can’t even scratch the dang thing. Health regen for the beast is insane.
Also all the regular bog skales I had to take out to get to the boss fight respawn while I’m still fighting and turn it into a massacre.

Can I ask if others have done this quest and was it this hard for you too?
Can anyone suggest a strat to take this sea munkey down? or do I just ignore the main quests till I lvl up a few (dozen) more times/find hadoken speargun?

thx.

Hahaha oh /that/ one…
Gosh, that one was annoying (my fault though); I didn’t even have anything beyond the starter spear <.>
What I did in my solo run was I individually lured the skale close enough to the shore to shoot them to oblivion with my rifle which was of decent stats. No downs, but it took over half an hour. (Also, I was level 16/17 at the time, scaled down to 14 for the instance). BTW – afaik, they never respawned; its probably just other skale that you accidentally aggroed and hadn’t seen before.
Then I helped a level 12 player who had a party including players of level 11, 8 and 5 (resulting in all the mobs being overleveled, I think all 16, while I was downscaled to 14, and the others unaffected due to being below the cap). I was base level 21 at this point and I had gotten a non-sucky speargun from a friend. That was… a disaster for everyone but me (I didn’t even know what mission it was until after we arrived at the instance entry point). Basically they leeroyed right into the instance and got TPKed (minus me) in the forest, so I picked off the overleveled mobs one at a time (they were sitting right on top of the downed party) and then revived everyone. Then came the skale, which I had everyone stay behind for a bit while I picked off the easy ones who were already near the edge of the lake. Then they went in, and we faced the veteran. Fortunately my new speargun was more than sufficient to take out the veteran, but the rest of the party was completely incapable of doing any lasting damage to it due to the regen due to lackluster stats and equipment, not to mention the party-size scaling.

So I would suggest both leveling up and getting a better speargun. Or you can get a good rifle and shoot them from shore by luring them sufficiently close but this takes a long time.

Thx for the reply Avan.
Though I have nfi how you got other players into a single player story instance ????

I guess I’ll just have to wait till a better spear guns drops, though it just seems stupid to make the recommended lvl for that part of the story 14then make it unwinnable at that lvl.

To get other players into your story instance, invite them to join your party. But be warned, as Avan pointed out, inviting too high players may result in enemies being horribly over-leveled compared to you. (I believe they cap out at +2 levels for the recommended quest level.)

Otherwise, you can try overwhelming the skale’s regeneration with multiple conditions. The burst skill for a sword inflicts quite a lot of Bleeding, for instance, and if you can supplement this with Poison or Burning from a friend, it should be enough to keep the boss from regenerating.

Bleh, hated that one as well. Without some poison or way to get rid of regeneration, it is tough. And as a warrior, you got nothing like that, if I remember right. I only managed it because the kitten thing bugged out and got stuck. You got all my sympathy, as much as that is worth.