Guild Wars 2

This afternoon’s failure on Jade Quarry was of course due to the priest being overtuned for joyous one-shot mass murder, but also because many people refuse to grasp the concept of running back when they die (And we all know half the people are dead within seconds of the fight anyway). We had some people focusing the abomination instead of the acolytes and priest as well. So it seems like the usual culprits. In what ways did you fail Balthazar today? Please share your wonderful adventures in rageworthy failure!

“due to the priest being overtuned for joyous one-shot mass murder, but also because many people refuse to grasp the concept of running back when they die”

So it was basically like every balth failure ever?

Sounds like it for sure.

I have to say that I feel very lucky. My guild, Absolute Legends [AL] (Tarnished Coast) runs Balthazar whenever a guildie is ready to complete their legendary. Having that many people come out to help me finish my Twilight just feels very good! One thing, what is up with these people who don’t want to run back? Last time we were there, I was explaining to all the randoms in map chat that they should take the WP back to Rally Point and run back. Several people got into this whole argument with me revolving around “we don’t leave people behind” etc etc. Sometimes being on the unofficial RP server has its downsides.

Well ive had a couple successes where nothing else spawned and it was just us and Balth. I think you needto hit the sweet spot in terms of player participation so as not to have adds spawn.

As for running back, being anything less than a warrior or guardian means youre gonna have an either tough or impossible time running through the mobs of undead in order to try and reach the temple. I can see the disdain.

Most of the time Gandara isn’t even trying to take Balthazar’s temple. It’s always contested. Everyone hates Straits of Devastation, so no one is doing the invasion events, which in turn never triggers the event to take Balthazar’s temple. I kind of gave up on the idea of ever doing the event by now.

To get people to do the invasion events requires a bit of coordination in the chat. You can’t just expect them to organically happen anymore, you have to recruit. :/

Rezzing people when they’re downed, having some vitality and toughness instead of going all the way with it, being a thief, taking out a vet acolyte but see cracks under me and suddenly die randomly to a fireball (20 in acrobatics and 10 in shadow arts with some knight gear… really? Hate to imagine what true glass cannons feel), trying to use blinding powder under the silly assumption that it will work, etc.

Not today, since it’s been a while I’ve seen people even bother with it, but usually it goes something like “dodge the fireball, avoid the teleport, block the attack…only to get feared across 3 poison fields”. As for general reasons of failure? Either people completely ignoring the spawns or missing the last ones letting him heal up when he’s at 10%… fun times.

Zen.2450:

To get people to do the invasion events requires a bit of coordination in the chat. You can’t just expect them to organically happen anymore, you have to recruit. :/

Oh, I tried. I didn’t even get a ‘no’. No response.

Yeah, it’s hard to find people to do these events, sometimes you just gotta hope they show up. But it helps if there are more than 1 person trying to pub the event. I was fortunate enough to be in a group that pulled it off. Half of the people who were with us lay there dead though, which was pretty annoying. Even the commander who gathered us stopped running back because it didn’t seem like we’d pull it off. But we did, with only 10 seconds left. It was the best feeling ever.

I don’t answer random calls to arms at balth because people are terrible and refuse to run back and the whole thing will probably just be a waste of money.

Ever since I started running Save Yourselves + Condition cleanse on Virtue of Purity, I feel like I’ve become incredibly more useful for Balthazar fights.

Not quite four hundred percent more awesome, but pretty close. Hire out your local guardian for condition purging!

Been there all day, nice map. Failed maybe 6 times. Each time the floor was littered with dead bodies. Just did it, at the end maybe 3 or 4 dead bodies out of about 25 players. DPS all on the big guy.