Guild Wars 2

The current fix for the Giant Jungle Wurm encounter in caledon forest is a step in the right direction but needs some serious tweaking because it fails to actually fix all the issues with this fight.

Problems

• Event doesn’t scale correctly for only a few people to tons of people.
• Wurm is almost impossible to target
• Knockdown is now far too frequent along with fear, which low level characters have no defense against.
• Impossible currently to keep wurm from eating all of the husks with a properly leveled group, thus preventing the achievement from being obtained.

Suggested Solutions

• Make sure the event scales from a few players of low level to a large group of players low level
• Add a targeting reticle like the Fire Elemental has. Why this foe doesn’t have one of these on it’s main body is beyond me.
• Keep the wurm invulnerable as it spawns.
• Add an invulnerable phaze at 50% health where it spins around and knocks everyone down but does no damage (remember lowbie zone)
• Reduce the Fear roars
• Instead of massive hit point additions perhaps add a damage done per person cap to keep leveled down exotic wielding players from doing far too much damage to the wurm, thus killing it too fast.

Thank you for listening and I hope these suggestions help to turn this encounter into one that is as enjoyable as Shadow Behemoth and the other lowbie Zone Bosses.

Very nice solution dude. I tried 3 times to do Jungle Worm and then i gave up. The thing died in less than 3 sec and i cant even target it.

I’d like to add that the wurm does indeed have a targeting reticle but its way up on top of its head and the camera doesn’t zoom out like in the Shadow Behemoth event. The wurm needs a reticle like the fire elemental that is on it’s lower body just above head hight on the tallest norn so people can target it easily.