Guild Wars 2

During this event:
The sun’s great beasts have been defeated. The champion Xolotl now awaits any challengers.
Defeat Xolotl (12)
I attacked Xolotl from the water with my guardians trident and was able to pull it into the water and completely outside the red ring the event takes place in. While Xolotl was in the water, it didn’t attack me at all and every so often it said the “Face me as another creature” line but I was never transformed. All in all it took like 20 minutes but I was able to kill it solo without being harmed. Was this a bug or by design?

Doesn’t take a genius to see that it is obviously a bug…

On the contrary, it may have been that the AI was not programmed for underwater combat. While Xolotl was on the same level, as my character in the water, it attacked me but once I sank it with Weight of Justice, the number 5 trident skill, it quit attacking.
In which case, that would be by design since underwater combat may not have been added into Xolotl’s AI.

I could be wrong and the AI does know how to fight underwater but it did not seem like it to me.

In which case, I think it is fair to ask if it was a bug or a by design issue in which a developer did not add the ability to fight underwater into Xolotl’s AI.

Yes it does not have any underwater abilities.

Ergo, being able to get it into the water is a bug.

I fought it solo on land for nearly 10 minutes. You can dodge the transform attack.

Bring a long battle on solo, it’s probably best to have other players fight the champion together, so you can have the remaining minutes to do other events.

Tnx to that obnoxious transform attack it uses (it lasts half a minute or longer), i have absolutely no issue with this “bug” that u can lure him underwater.

A few days ago i and a few other players were fighting him and getting nowhere tnx to that transform attack.
Until i fled into the water (as a small bird), it followed me and it stayed in the water.
Perhaps becos other players followed and started attacking Xolotl underwater.
Result, we finally managed to kill Xolotl.

So, if its a bug, i say dont fix it. Unless something is done about that transform attack.

There are many champs throughout the game that can be beaten by these kind of bugs/ exploits. Many large underwater veterans for example can be killed without taking any damage whatsoever if you position yourself beyond their mouth parts. They won’t reposition themselves and just stay in place missing every bite.
Often you can seek refuge in a little nook or structure where you can range a champ to death without loosing agro. It takes forever to finish them off however. Shark champs can be dragged to shore where they get stuck/ bugged and can be easily killed.

Xolotl is easy to solo without cheese, you just dodge the poly. There are some champs that are cheap and you should fight cheese with cheese but Xolotl isn’t one of them.

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Doesn’t take a genius to see that it is obviously a bug…

There are no bugs, only features now.