Guild Wars 2

6 pieces if ruined armor later, and my friend is losing armor as well. This event is total crap. All for a freakin waypoint? How many people are you supposed to need for this??? This is not a dungeon. Yet another ridiculous event in Orr.

You can actually swim outside the lab and get the wp by scraping the glass near it. Hope this helps.

I think I did that with my first character through the area. Didn’t realize at the time how much pain I had avoided. To many of the events in this area require more than one or two people, AND block your progress. I don’t mind a lot of enemies to fight through, but the re-spawn rate is always ridiculous. They appear not to think this needs fixed.

Is that the underwater lab? I did get the WP, but never figured out how to get into it. How do you?

There is an event to escort some engineers into the lab, they where all dead outside when I came by so I rezzed them and the pain began. DON’T ATTEMPT ALONE. I would suggest a minimum of three people.

I did this event alone all the way up to the waypoint chamber. It’s not too difficult. Just swim near the top of the main chamber and pick off any lone spawns for the data core collection. The monstrosity thingy is the easiest mini-boss ever and I barely even had to dodge.

Collecting the data cores wasn’t the problem, I had like 70 by the time I was done. The problem was keeping the NPC’s alive with the crazy multiple re-spawns.

I was able to more or less solo this yesterday as a guardian.

I needed help escorting the group through the turret cannon corridor as I was unable to keep things rolling by myself, but after the two of us wiped inside fighting 50 or so mobs (the other player was an engineer and we lasted a solid 10 minutes despite everything) I rallied to the nearby waypoint and took a break.

After that I was able to casually swim through the now-friendly cannons keeping the baddies out, turn in my 20 encryption crystals easily (the golems inside, though hostile, don’t seem to attack you), defeat the monstrosity with the help of the NPCs, and move into the Bauxite waypoint room.

In there all I had to do was keep the NPC in the center alive while swimming laps and hitting power nodes, after which the final golem boss was a piece of cake. It only seemed to use ranged attacks against me and three of the NPCs tanked it/held it in place. With Trident #4 blocking projectiles every 7 seconds on a 16 second cooldown I hardly had to heal. This was the easiest champion creature I’ve ever fought because of that.

The real disappointment was being unable to actually do anything with the lab when it was cleared, because the NPCs promptly blew it up. I didn’t have an opportunity to look around or savor my victory. It was much too linear and sudden of an ending, which ruined the feeling of victory for me.

I enjoy being able to look around at things and to explore, and this event prevented me from doing that. I would not have invested an hour of my time into this had I known that I’d be unable to do anything that I find meaningful with my victory. Jumping through a portal and getting pooped out into the ocean so that I can buy things from a golem isn’t exactly my definition of fun; it’s another item to add to my list of reasons why I don’t find Malchor’s Leap fun.

Jeremy Winston.2165:

Is that the underwater lab? I did get the WP, but never figured out how to get into it. How do you?

There is a cave opening on the east side of the ocean floor more or less facing the quaggan camp.

Thanks.

Also, you can get to the Golem merchant simply by swimming and touching the outside window near the waypoint. Happened to me when I was searching… surprised the heck out of me as well.

That place is so buggy, you can send pets through the windows where the power nodes are and even fire projectiles through it. If one person stays on the outside and one inside to turn on the power nodes it takes about 2 mins max to do. But there’s some rare bugs i occasionally run into where you’ll hit some spots in the lab that makes something in the game really mad and it kicks you out and won’t let you back in, regardless if the event is still going on or not.

You can get in without being at the start of the event too, there’s a gate on the south side of the island that you can jump over the top of just enough to slip in.

When the event is finished you get kicked out, the place blown up….so why is there a waypoint here again? It’s contested when the event is going on, and right after it’s blown up it gets contested again, so you get a total of 1 minute of uncontested time while they destroy the lab. I hate this place despite how easy it is to do.