Reliable Guide To Fights?
I’ll take a stab at it.
Knights.
RBG is the order we used, but I see there’s a guide to the Six Minutes achievement here. (Kudos to GLaDOS) Update: ArenaNet wants us to split up into three groups.
More details! (via Elrey)
Each Knight is essentially the same. As far as I’m aware, the blue knight is special because menders spawn that heal it. Details here. (via Warlord)
When you see the massive ground covering AoE, wait until it disappears and dodge to evade the subsequent pull. Also remember to buff your allies (the usual: Might, Fury, banners, shouts, spirits on the edge of the field, etc.), rez them, and get the color buff corresponding to the knight you’re fighting so you do damage.
When done, get color buffs and you’ll see it turn into a white buff. Run into portal.
Scarlet: Phase One: Prime Hologram.
Laser Attacks – Large Area of Effect
Run around, get color buffs to do damage to Prime Hologram. Scarlet appears at 75%HP and is only there to harass you and throw up reflective bubbles.
The more color buffs you have, the more damage you do, but the buffs wear off fast. If you have the full white buff, attack and let others rez. You’ll be doing HUGE amounts of damage compared to when you only have one or two buffs.
When Prime Hologram starts splitting up the color buffs, you can dodge/shadowstep/evade through her to get them. Stay in the back half of her model area as you do this; her laser seems to start midway inside her hitbox. Melee if you can, dodging her PbAoE (Prime Blast) and Prime Light Beams.
If you are targeted by a bomb, dodge out of it. You may have to count to two and then dodge. Buff & rez allies where possible. Dodge ground lasers.
Scarlet: Phase Two: Red, Green & Blue Holograms.
There are two strategies.
1) Kill all three holograms at the same time, like the way similar guild challenges are structured. If you succeed, it’s much faster since you won’t have to kill the subsequent mini holograms. Video by Kyban. If you fail killing the holograms at the same time, however, you can end up awash in mini holograms scattering all over the field.
2) Kill them one at a time. This feels easier to coordinate, but you lose time. If you do one at a time:
Focus one hologram at a time. The order doesn’t matter, but for simplicity’s sake, we used RGB. The hologram will eventually split into six miniature ones. It’s best to get the appropriate color buff and kill the minis before defeating the next hologram or your zerg can be confused and overwhelmed.
Red, a.k.a. Static Hologram
Fiery Area of Effect – Stomps
Get red buff. Refresh buff when it wears off. Dodge fire blasts, use condition removal. Kill minis before moving to the next.
Green, a.k.a. Synergetic Hologram
Reflective Shield – Summons – Player-Based Area of Effect
Get green buff. Refresh buff when it wears off. Watch out for exploding toxic plants and your projectiles being reflected back at you. Kill minis before moving to the next.
Blue, a.k.a. Dynamic Hologram
Condition-Weakened Shield – Large Cone Attack
Get blue buff. Refresh buff when it wears off. Use conditions(!), DPS, dodge AoE. Kill minis.
If killing holograms one at a time, then the key to progressing is killing the six minis from each hologram before defeating the next hologram.
If your zerg attempt to kill all the color holograms simultaneously but doesn’t manage, keep track of which hologram was killed first and focus the zerg on the micro-holograms of that color that spawn. Then move to the next color hologram that was killed and do the same, and then the last.
Scarlet: Phase Three: Ultraviolet Hologram.
Simply kill the adds as quickly as you can.
(edited by Tierce.5370)
Thanks for this. I’m especially hoping for more tips on the holo fight before the split, as I’ve only once seen the split, despite a good number (never max) of people.
I was kind of hoping some other people would chime in to add their observations, actually. I added some other details to the part before the holo split.
I’d say if you aren’t getting max number of people on the platform, try to get into the portal as soon as you can. Sometimes though, you get a group of people who just can’t do it. :/
(edited by Tierce.5370)
Updated to note changes to Knights.
Also added note that getting all three color buffs (= white) in Scarlet’s Phase One fight with Prime Hologram helps you do insane amounts of damage compared to only having one or two buffs.