Guild Wars 2

So ignoring the fact that the Mad King’s Outfit is blatantly overpowered in costume brawl, it can actually prevent people from reaching the rim of the mystic forge cauldron and prevent them from getting costumes from it again.

If you are out of costume, whether it wears off or you manually remove it without leaving brawl, you will stay in brawl. So say I had a nice streak going but my costume wore off. I would just jump back up the puzzle and into the cauldron and resume my brawling. So here’s the problem: someone in the Mad King’s costume standing and waiting at the last platform. The moment you set foot on it he fears you off and it’s back to start. By the time you get back to his platform, his fear is off of cooldown. Even trying a mesmer portal didn’t work. So what can you do? You can try to knock him off with something else, but there’s a catch. He isn’t in combat unless he’s busy fearing people off the platforms. The second you try to attack him after his fear ends, he hops out of brawl and waits for his fear to cooldown (which doesn’t take very long). This can also be done with the skeleton kick and mummy stomp, but with a limited range and to a much lesser extent and are pretty easily countered. Mad Kings are by far the worst offenders when it comes to cauldron denial. The only solution I have found is to give up. Sacrifice your streak or go do something else.

That’s why you find a friendly witch to spawn a cauldron for you!

samrogan

That’s why you find a friendly witch to spawn a cauldron for you!

It doesn’t contain the same costumes.

I turned into a giant candy corn for the costume brawl … got crazy amount hits with the ground stomp… I pretty much instantly won since everyone was so clustered together.

I think we are talking about the same thing.

Donato

I turned into a giant candy corn for the costume brawl … got crazy amount hits with the ground stomp… I pretty much instantly won since everyone was so clustered together.
I think we are talking about the same thing.

Not quite, but the right idea. The Candy Corn Elemental ground stomp is a large AoE knockback. While it is nasty, it has a long cooldown and a long channel time so its easy to counter and prevent. The Mad King’s Outfit has a large AoE fear that has a short cooldown and an instantly affects everyone around the user. People are using this to troll people trying to get back up to the mouth of the cauldron by fearing them off of the platforms of the mini jumping-puzzle you have to go through to get in the cauldron. They don’t care for their brawl score or achievement, they just want to ruin you fun by preventing you from getting back into the cauldron once your costume has worn off or if you want a different costume.

I better wait to buy one to see if they will nerf it.

By the way, you don’t need to go all the way to the end to jump in, you can jump in the cauldron from the first set of stairs after the jump circles.

Can’t you call time out? The fear shouldn’t affect you if you’re not in costume brawl mode.

You could always go to the tavern waaaaaay above the cauldron and long-fall into it. It’s less jumping and a longer run, but might be worth it in this case. Also, it’s kinda fun!

OMG Mad King costume is overpowered nerf! NERF!

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This is rather hilarious.

LiuliRenai.3928:

OMG Mad King costume is overpowered nerf! NERF!

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This is rather hilarious.

What’s hilarious is you missing the point. People are griefing with the costume. Just like people are spawning non stop food tables on the stairs and spamming the food fight, making it impossible for people to actually jump up in the first place.