Guild Wars 2

sure this may be a “minor” issue, but it’s frustrated me to the point i thought it warrants a thread.

let’s see: they deal about 3k damage per hit on a large AoE that goes through walls, they have ridiculous health that is made even more ridiculous because, being an object, it can’t take critical hits or conditions, and they respawn.

keeping in mind that i’m doing this lv50 content on a lv63 warrior equipped with level 60 rares. for a level-appropriate person with just looted gear, it’s probably much worse. for reference, a full hundred blades on it on my damage spec deals less than 5% damage to it.

the main event that spawns them (in groups of four) is “Drive the Dredge out of Fridgardr Lodge”, just south of the Grey Road waypoint. it’s not even a group event, just your standard, run of the mill dynamic event, except with ridiculously tough and hard hitting cannons. i have less trouble soloing champions than i do with these cannons. you die if you ignore them, because you can’t dodge them and the dredge that swarm you at the same time and you can’t tank the hits, but you also die if you try to kill them because they take forever to die and make you an easy target, and by the time you’re done recovering from it, they respawn.

Like i needed another reason to avoid Dredgehaunt…

I never did understand why that one particular batch of cannons hits so hard. It only seems to be the ones in that one camp you need to liberate to get the commissar to spawn, too, none of the other ones in Dredgehaunt (or anywhere else) are like that.

The cannon shots only go through the door, not the wall as far as I know. I just ignore it, lure the Vet outside and kill the mobs behind obstructions to the cannon shots. The OP cannons are an oversight but can be avoided.