Guild Wars 2

Stunbreaks are useless because it keeps pulling you back in, stability is useless because it gets ripped off. I’d dodge it if A) there was any distinctive thing to dodge – it’s hard enough keeping the thing in view and still avoid the explosive trash effectively, nevermind see what pitiful little motion it might be making with its hands – and B) it didn’t appear right beneath me and take immediate effect. So far I’ve only been able to escape if I was lucky enough to get KD’d near the edge, burn a stunbreak and dodge out before the next pulse. If I’m in the centre, which is usual, I may as well save the effort of pressing keys.

I suppose I could try warrior with endure pain, but then there’s a 60s cooldown.

Is there some obvious thing I’m missing here, or is this ability pretty much someone’s way to say ‘zerg it or screw off’?

After further testing, I’ve concluded that:

-the skill itself does not have a counter, but
-it has a certain minimum range that the AI will use it.

So basically kite around very close to it and hope you don’t get exploded by the acolyte’s plague carrier summons before they load in.

If you have a teleport you can use while stunned, you can get out. Mesmer’s Blink comes to mind.

Also WTF is ‘vapor blades’?

I was fighting this thing as a necro in full rabid gear, in DS at max life (leeching off all the stuff around) and was instantly downed, then killed, in two attacks (multiple hits each, but instant). I’ve mentioned that before but nothing ever came of it – is it broken, or what?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vapor_Blade is the closest i can come up with.

If it’s only supposed to go out and back like that one, there’s something very very wrong with it. I think last time I saw 8 hits in the combat log, over 3k each, which happened simultaneously.

I wonder if it’s trying to fire one at everyone nearby or something…