Guild Wars 2

Anyone got one for Pyroxis that doesn’t involve cheesing from the cliff and risking reset? (Assuming pug group.)

Cheesing him behind corner and FGSing him in between retaliations.

Pyro: In one word “Reflects”
Utilise guardians with Wall of Reflection / Shields (Skill 5)
Mesmer’s: Feedback

Lure him from his initial spot to nearer the wooden ramp.
Throwing stuff from a hill down tends to have a habit of bugging the boss out- not good.
A reflect strategy allows you to minimise most of the incoming damage and burn him quickly.

Since the title seems fitting I’m going to place one tip for shurakk.
If you’re dying too much,use single target,non projectile,ranged skills/weapons or aoe no power damage skills. I know it is not optimal damage but is better then a loss of damage due to you downing and allies ressing you.

For shurakk, you just need a couple people throwing seeds to pull the birds away from him. Either to one side, or behind him. Hitting the birds is typically what kills most people (from my observations). Aoe tends to not be your friend against this boss, since you end up hitting the birds. As long as the birds get pulled out of the way so people can hit him, he melts pretty darn quick.

Professions with single target melee weapons like Thieves and Necros also excel against Shurakk, since they can effectively ignore his Hawks and just go to town on him anyway.

For Boom Boom, send your Zerkers to her. The faster they can burn down her turret, the easier she’ll be.

Likewise, condition/ranged builds work better against Kuraii since he’s constantly running away, and ranged attackers can hug the walls to avoid most of the trampling centaurs.

A big thing to me is kill order. Ideally, Boom will be the first to go, likely followed by Shurak. Boom should die first for 2 reasons: 1.) She’s the only boss with a heal mechanic. if you call for a burn and a turret pops on Boom, you’re pretty boned once she gets the 25% armor bonus and all the mechanics from other bosses. 2.) Boom and Shurak’s shared mechanics are the least threatening of any of them.

A burn in which pyro/kuraii/wiggin/sparc all die first is going to be incredibly difficult on the last two bosses because of their shared mechanics. They will wipe groups, and if a group wipes, the boss resets. Take Shrek for example. He’s in a confined space. If you have all those aoe mechanics in that tiny area, GG to that team. Keep this in mind when you’re pushing for golds.

As a zerk warrior (which is what I play as), your ideal position is Boom. I’ve seen people suggest condis on boom, which makes no sense as it has a burst mechanic. Condis are the opposite of burst. You are wasting space by being a condi on boom (with the one exception being a thief who can keep poison on her during turrets…that’s the only condi you need). If you can’t get boom, Shrek should be your next choice. If not that, Kuraii, but bring Balanced Stance and Dolyak Sig. Melee on the other bosses is asking for death.

I did a boss blitz run the other day and what we did is divide the players into 6 teams of approx 10-12 (most of the players are good at dividing up without much prompting).

Everyone goes in and aims for max dps and once all bosses reach approx 5% I have everyone pull off. We then usually kill mobs until everyone is ready to burn. The team at Boom Boom will dictate the flow of the fight. Ince everyone is ready Boom team waits for a turret. Whe nthe turret is up everyone focuses the turret and the calls out in map/TS when the turret goes down. That is the signal for everyone to max burn their boss. All bosses should fall within seconds of each other.

Did this 7 or 8 times for successful gold iwth 2-3 min left on the timer.

Key Notes:
1. Pyro use reflects if you have them
2. Have 1 person throw seeds at bird guy
3. Do not be afraid to tell people to waypoint if dead. It’s much quicker for them to take the 10sec to wpt and run back than the 20-30 to rez a fully downed person
4. Lots of map/TS chatter