Guild Wars 2

I’m on desolation which is pretty well populated and I have been waiting for about 5 days to get a chance to buy an armor piece from this karma vendor, since this is the only one with the stats I need, and the other temple that offers the same armor is broken. In those 5 days we haven’t taken the temple over even once unless it was at nighttime which is even more unlikely. I constantly check it out by logging in and out of the game and it’s never available.

When I try to fight the boss I find myself being 1 or 2 shot to death and while downed get an aoe that deals 5k damage per second. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to stay alive while figting this crap even with ranged weapons. Not to mention he keeps healing himself and can’t be dealt with even if we had 20 minutes on our hands.

The event is VERY badly designed and needs a fix.

Ahaha,welcome to the pain.
I need 2 armor piece from teh same vendor from 2 weeks.

I gone on differents servers: blacktide;vizunah;gunnar;aurora;Far Shiverpeaks;Elona Reach;Seafarer’s Rest;

During the 2 weeks i done all this transfers,i never got this temple aviable…and where it was not bugged,was almost impossible make a team in the semi-desert map to conquer the temple.

Imo most DE’s are too easy right now. Balthazar granted is tough. I mean you’re fighting the undead avatar of a god, there should be some failure involved.

If you do manage do get a good sized group going, be sure to kill adds/ the champion abomination when they appear. The abom alone will wipe your attempt even with a massive amount of people. If he’s left up too long his attack speed will just shred through piles of players with little hope of reviving them.

As for the AoE attacks, all I can say is to keep your eyes on your feet and dodge asap. Good luck!

AlienMagi what server are you from?

I’ve attempted the Balthazar event five times in the past ten days (thereabouts). Two of those were successful kills, the three most recent were not. There was a difference in tactics – when we succeeded, the Champion Abomination was killed first and the Priest went down quickly afterwards with a couple of minutes on the timer to spare.
Drawing a conclusion after only five attempts is shaky at best, but when we’ve ignored the Abom and gone full DPS on the Priest, I’ve seen things that are unusual – in one failure its health only dropped by around 50% in the ten minutes, in another we got the health down to around 25% only to see it jump back up to 40% in a few seconds.

I think there’s a hidden mechanic at play in this event where the Abom is providing some sort of protection and perhaps even healing to the Priest. I’ll happily say I was wrong if that’s not the case, but I will leave the following thought: Have you ever succeeded in the event by just concentrating DPS on the Priest and ignoring the Abomination?

Riaky.8965:

AlienMagi what server are you from?

That is the first thing I let everyone know in my opening post…