Guild Wars 2

Just don’t… the mobs in there do a lot of damage and even if you’re scaled up to 80 you will find it incredibly difficult to handle them.

Why did Anet not just make it so the instance scales to the players level…?

Oh, and those saying/thinking “just level more then do it” or “learn2play noob” enjoy trying to defend a bad decision on Anet’s part.

Oooh…now I’m excited.

Yeah, I noticed that the mobs were particularly difficult. It wasn’t that they were individually challenging, but that the NPCs you are with die quickly and leave you to fend for yourself against 15+ lvl80 enemies that all mob you at once if you try to pick them off. I eventually got the thing done by using my Guardian Golem summon and carefully agroing them.

lol, that instance was easy as hell, I just burned through all the mobs.

Tigera.2916:

Oh, and those saying/thinking “just level more then do it” or “learn2play noob” enjoy trying to defend a bad decision on Anet’s part.

Joke’s on you lol, I did it with a lvl 30 staff berserker ele with ease.

OK THE EVENT IS EASY ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FOLO THE DOLYAK
if the NPC dies which they will cause ur not lv80 (did it with a lv45 thief) the npc will respawn on their on in a min or 2. Have patience if your complaining that it is to hard.

FYI 0 death while doing and for new people learn to dodge and stay back “its not retreating, its skillz”

I just finished it with my lv 5 warrior o_o

It actually wasn’t hard at all if u just followed the script (dolyak). If you went Leeroy Jenkins into the mob clusters at fort marriner you only have yourself to blame. Oh and windu- you can’t get berserker gear until lvl 60, kittenolol.

I ran in Rambo style and got killed. Went back in, the mobs I killed didn’t respawn, finished it up by taking my time to evaluate the situation before going nuts on the keys. I’m terrible at such things. I can’t even tell you how many times I have gotten killed at low level stages of personal stories. Honestly when the instance started I didn’t notice that I was scaled up up and saw those L80 mobs and thought I was toast. So to me it wasn’t that hard.

I’m having a lot of problem with this as well. I’m only level 23, but even with the level 80 scale I’m still dying easily. I stay back and do damage, trying to take out the Veteran first, but all the NPCs die and I’m left by myself and they end up killing me. I tried to return to the checkpoint and see if I could revive any of the NPCs from far away, but the enemies automatically spot you and start attacking, it’s such a hassle. I almost beat it one time and only had 3 enemies remaining, but all the NPCs died so I was left to do it all on my own. I really wish they had just scaled it to everyone’s level. :/

I really feel the people who feel the need to laugh at people finding the content difficult should just not comment … seriously, you’re amazing, bully for you. Why make the less experienced players feel bad about finding content designed to be challenging for lower levels challenging?

CrossedHorse.4261:

I really feel the people who feel the need to laugh at people finding the content difficult should just not comment … seriously, you’re amazing, bully for you. Why make the less experienced players feel bad about finding content designed to be challenging for lower levels challenging?

Because the NPCs did all the work. I had my game muted and missed some of the talking, so I stopped and scrolled up to see what i had missed. When I read everything, I realized the Dolyak mission had started (didn’t expect that), so I ran to catch up and they had killed all of the first group. I am pretty sure you can afk the instance and still succeed.

Jemmi.6058:

CrossedHorse.4261:

I really feel the people who feel the need to laugh at people finding the content difficult should just not comment … seriously, you’re amazing, bully for you. Why make the less experienced players feel bad about finding content designed to be challenging for lower levels challenging?

Because the NPCs did all the work. I had my game muted and missed some of the talking, so I stopped and scrolled up to see what i had missed. When I read everything, I realized the Dolyak mission had started (didn’t expect that), so I ran to catch up and they had killed all of the first group. I am pretty sure you can afk the instance and still succeed.

All my NPCs were dead the whole time and I had to edge up to them, half revive them, back away, kill some mobs, try again … I found it extremely difficult but not impossible. But even if you found it really easy, there’s no need to laugh at people who did not. It’s rude and it’s discouraging for those players.

Jemmi.6058:

CrossedHorse.4261:

I really feel the people who feel the need to laugh at people finding the content difficult should just not comment … seriously, you’re amazing, bully for you. Why make the less experienced players feel bad about finding content designed to be challenging for lower levels challenging?

Because the NPCs did all the work. I had my game muted and missed some of the talking, so I stopped and scrolled up to see what i had missed. When I read everything, I realized the Dolyak mission had started (didn’t expect that), so I ran to catch up and they had killed all of the first group. I am pretty sure you can afk the instance and still succeed.

My NPCs were helpful up until we entered the gate. After that they all died and that was even with me trying to help heal them. They were pretty much useless after the first big wave of enemies.

I did it on my level 27 necro and only the last vet took me a little bit of time to get him down about 2 mins . so no traits as such or a elite just don’t rush it my 2 cents worth

My apologies, none of my NPCs died and they killed the first 1 or 2 groups, so I figured they were super useful. I 100% agree that laughing at others is rude and discouraging. Sorry I meant to add that in my reply post to you, but I am tired lol 8:30am here :P

Jemmi.6058:

My apologies, none of my NPCs died and they killed the first 1 or 2 groups, so I figured they were super useful. I 100% agree that laughing at others is rude and discouraging. Sorry I meant to add that in my reply post to you, but I am tired lol 8:30am here :P

No worries – and the NPCs were really helpful in the final stage for me, so obviously when they’re feeling like fighting they’re up to the challenge, lol.

And 8:30am is a good reason to forget to mention stuff – far too early for thinking! Not sure my boss would agree, but hey, if you can’t disagree with your boss, you can you disagree with?!

up/down scaling has never worked properly :/ your always too powerful or too weak

Make sure your gear is appropriate to your actual level – if you are level 30 and your gear is still level 19 you’re going to scale badly from what I can tell and that could be a big part of the problems (especially since at low levels you’re usually just taking whatever drops – not constantly keeping up with your level). I’d also suggest thinking about what stats you have on your armour – at this point you might want to have more Vitality and such than raw Power.

I did this on my level 42 Engineer and be it luck or whatever, I never had too many of the NPCs die – at least, the fire was off me 90% of the time. I mostly used the Grenade Kit + Turrets so that I could do AOE damage to the clusters while the NPCs provided a buffer.

did it on my level 10 warrior wasnt that bad only problem was had to switch to higher level to get to that quaggon though, i think he was level 45 and i didnt get leveled up there

Ceallach.8740:

Make sure your gear is appropriate to your actual level – if you are level 30 and your gear is still level 19 you’re going to scale badly from what I can tell and that could be a big part of the problems (especially since at low levels you’re usually just taking whatever drops – not constantly keeping up with your level).

This. The penalty for having out-of-date equipment when upscaled can be a kitten, and you don’t always notice it unless your paying close attention to your gear. (My low level alts are always lagging on some of their gear because I just use drops.) Remember that a level 30 character with level 20 gear who is upscaled to 80 will have worse effective stats than a level 20 character with level 20 gear who is upscaled to 80. So if you’re having trouble with a story instance that has you upscaled (especially if it’s by a lot) make sure your gear is up to date.

Bugde please, i made it on lvl 50.

Are you using gear you’re level? If you’re level 35, you should use level 35 gear. Otherwise you get upscaled very poorly.

For me, once in the fort, the NPCs died kinda quick.

And Kiel liked to run off, it seemed.

But I stayed back and was about to pick off one/two at a time.

I’m fairly sure the Mobs spawn in two groups so if you are having issues you should be able to run off then come back and take them on in smaller lumps.

To be fair I ran in berserker style on my lvl 80 War and it was a pretty close call at time. Which to be honest makes it more fun : ).