Guild Wars 2

We tried to kill her two times with Pugs coming from another world boss events.

First try, we arrived with timer at 6 minutes left. We barely got her to around 90% in 3-4 minutes before deciding to move to next event. We had few people on this attempt (5-8 people) so we thought its just matter of bringing few more people and having full 15 minutes to fight her.

Second try we arrived with preevents still in progress with group of 10-15 people. The first surprise was that boss timer is only 10 minutes, the second was her health – in those 10 minutes we managed to get her to somewhere between 50% and 60% health.

Did anyone manage to complete this event after buff to her health and introduction of timer? Any tips how to do it or is it just matter of number of people participating?

(Just in case any Dev wants to check the numbers – our second attempt happened between 10:00 and 10:10 CET, Monday, October 7th at Gunnar’s Hold server, first attempt was approximately 1 hour earlier.)

After few months I finally managed to kill her after many attempts. After other world boss i linked Laughing gull waypoint when pre was still up, and we killed her with 5mins left with group of 20-30 people i think. The key is to gather people before she spawns, because time is really too short now. I’m still wondering what was the point of buffing her up – people didn’t bother to come there even before this patch…

Taidha Covington recently got buffed since the Tequatl update, but she got buffed the wrong way.

I participated in an attempt on FC a couple of weeks ago. We had between 20-25 and got her somewhere under 50%, to the point where she teleports inside. We couldn’t get to her before the timer ran out. It seems to me this boss’ health is not scaling properly — either that or she is not intended to be done without a very large group. If the latter, FC is unlikely to complete her, as getting more than we had is unlikely except for maybe Frozen Maw or the SB.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I participated in an attempt on FC a couple of weeks ago. We had between 20-25 and got her somewhere under 50%, to the point where she teleports inside. We couldn’t get to her before the timer ran out. It seems to me this boss’ health is not scaling properly — either that or she is not intended to be done without a very large group. If the latter, FC is unlikely to complete her, as getting more than we had is unlikely except for maybe Frozen Maw or the SB.

Incorrect scaling is possible but hard to tell. There is also precedent for that, the Lyssa event was getting scaled twice when they added the newer scaling system. Scaled once with the old system and once with the new.

Golem shouldn’t be an issue either. I was doing that one the other day with my Engineer and someone else was there with a necro, apparently using minions. We were doing fine before other people showed. Fine as in the % of time and the % of health was decreasing at a rate where the golem would have died before we ran out of time. On the other hand 2 people wouldn’t have been enough to trigger any sort of scaling.

Same problem this morning. We had a small group and actually managed to get her to 5% when the timer ran out. I agree that is not fun to have a boss die in 2.5 seconds when there are 40 people killing it, but if that means is impossible to kill it with 5-8 players because it scales way too high, I don’t like it.

Did this event just before the halloween patch. We had bout 20 guildmembers and 4 others who happened to be there. 3 minute into the event the message for 5 minutes till update popped up and we killed her actually easily. It was hard in the way that its harder then the average world boss like e.g. behemoth or jungle wurm, but the only in guild coordination we had was to rez downed people and wp when dead.

Problem is Covington doesn’t particularly scale well with less players, so she can down players in a couple of seconds or less, and has boatloads of HP. While you can use explosive barrels after she teleports to reduce her HP a lot, there’s none near the start… or is there any outside the area where you can use them to blow up the gate if you failed to do it manually?

IceBlink.4317:

Problem is Covington doesn’t particularly scale well with less players, so she can down players in a couple of seconds or less, and has boatloads of HP. While you can use explosive barrels after she teleports to reduce her HP a lot, there’s none near the start… or is there any outside the area where you can use them to blow up the gate if you failed to do it manually?

There are barrels outside the gate. I have never to try using them on her but I have tried using it on the door. Not sure if they despawn after the gate goes down.

If you are in a small group it would be a good idea to make sure you are packing as many reflects(or projectile destruction/absorption) as possible and try to organize so you are using them in order. Since the gate takes a while to go down that is probably a good time to do it.