Guild Wars 2

The one on Laughing Gull Island. Has anyone managed to defeat this guy?

First of all,he’s Risen, so he runs around insanely fast; he has a pull with a low cooldown that interrupts and stuns you; and he regularly summons lots of mobs plus nearby ones respawn quickly anyway; and he’s in a small room so there’s hardly any space to manoeuvre.

I tried taking him on with a full party the other day. If you concentrate on him then all the nearby mobs will kill you in moments; if you kill the mobs then they respawn within seconds anyway. So I managed to pull him up on to the top deck a couple of times, but his pull devastated me, and I only survived so long because I’m levelling a toughness-oriented warrior. Frankly I’d much rather face the Priest of Balthazar or the Fire Elemental than take on this guy again.

Has anyone done it? If so, how?

I killed him three times yesterday to trigger the hydra queen event, just get a lot of heavy armor people and people that can aoe for mob control.

One little trick to knocking of the interfering mobs is to have serious AOE damage.
Barrage and bouncing axes (rangers), Trickshots (ricochet) by thieves .. .and concentrate fire on the champion. The bouncing/ricochets will often knock off the mobs while you’re still damaging the champion as long as you’re in a confined area.
But, keep in mind some champion attributes can reverse the damage you deal to them thusly sending it right back to you.

Get him on deck……use the area around the stairs to range him. He can’t pull or interrupt you is your standing diagonal to him. He is though and after defeating him once I won’t care to ever do it again. The time and effort required is not worth the reward.

On a positive note: I did manage to get the Hydra Queen achievement today after the event was stuck for many weeks.

The only thing I like about this guys is his hunger quote “Treasure…DEVOUR”

I have never tried to tackle him, mainly because no many players go to that area, and I’m not going to try solo him either lol.

You have to get him outside on ground level, it takes someone with skill in pulling (a rare skill in this game from what I’ve seen) but once he’s outside and you’re not on the ship with endless waves of risen and pirates spawning every 2.5 seconds he’s not so bad. The reason people try to say doing him in/on the boat is because they enjoy the wipe/rez/repeat method apparently.

I never managed to kill him with less than 3 players. But is kind of normal since is a group event. And yes, pulling him to the surface makes the fight a little bit easier since you have more space to kite.

I’ve been soloing him for the past week, just need decent aoe damage. Still haven’t gotten his respawn timer down yet since I keep forgetting to look at the clock when I open the chest. Pulling him to the deck is a must, after that just a battle attrition.