Guild Wars 2

The following guide will help any warrior assuming they at least have Rare lvl 80 gear or higher. I will assume you know the basics of this fight, else I encourage you to read this article: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-queens-gauntlet-guide/#12

Weapons:
Only 1 set really needed, Sword and Shield. Here is the skill breakdown:

Sever Artery > Best friend for tagging mobs (will explain further) as well as killing Liadri as bleeding bypasses weakness. Now the easiest set of armor would clearly be carrion, but I managed in berserker’s.

Savage Leap > Assuming you have Auto-targeting removed, using this will help you reach safe zones in Phase 2

Final Thrust > For damage, not really used.

Shield Bash > same as Savage Leap

Shield Stance > Your bread and butter. Use this if your stuck in Shadowfall Circles or to absorb Visions of Mortality you wanna get rid of, your choice!

Utility:

Healing Signet > Rely on the passive healing to keep you afloat. Personaly, I never activate it.

Endure Pain > Use this to take on ShadowFall Circles or to let Liadri beat retaliation into herself! (assuming retaliation proced) WARNING will NOT work on Vision of Mortality! They WILL down you!

Shake it Off > Your best friend in phase 2, either allow you to roll or walk normally. In the case you have full Soldiers Runes, you can clear both conditions off! (I didnt need soldiers)

Signet of Stamina > Allows you to roll much more without the need for Vigor. Use it in situations where you are desperate to remove conditions (especially if she has stacked bleeds on you!)

Signet of Rage > Run of the mill speed boost in most cases, use when possible.

Traits:

Strength > 0

Arms > 30
II > Speed on Crit
III > Increased bleed duration
XI > Incase you need a boost near the end

Defense > 30
IV > Now this rally business may seem silly, but this is a key factor. If you strike Visions of Mortality before they explode on you, you will be downed and rallied instantly. With this trait active, you will be placed at 50% HP with full endurance by doing just that! This can be used as a quick heal, and you are also immune the first second of rally, use ALL of this to your advantage. Just make sure to watch your death penalty as abusing this too often will eventually lead to your demise.
VIII > Block out some of those pesky orb pulls automatically, make sure you destroy them when you get the chance!
XII > Great help to damage her without fighting her directly. Take advantage of the fact that while blocking and under the effects of Endure Pain, she will still be hurt by retaliation, so feel free to pop either to allow her to beat herself up. Also note that if an orb pulls you while retaliation is active, the orb will be destroyed.

Tactics > 0

Discipline > 10
III > Your going to need the extra speed!

Strategy
At this point, you just need to use the above tactics to your advantage, there’s not much else besides knowing the mechanics to help yourself out. I do believe this build allows for the easiest way of pulling it off. Some last minute tips would be to not get crystal greedy (as in popping out crystals even tho death is coming), clear mobs of Visions when you need to make a grab, and don’t be too crazy when your aiming (usualy she will be in melee range anyway).

This being said, I wish you all good luck, and welcome questions/comments. You can either post here for more info or reach me ingame (Char name> Gorva)

Nice guide, especially the rallying trait. Pitty my warrior is only 43

I’ve beaten her with mainly rifle while kiting her in circle.

Fear me + endure pain, and shield block was main thing to get the safe crystal throw.

Most important thing by far is that you get as many crystals as you can when you are about to throw 3. one. I manage to throw 2 additional ones which made the whole 5 extra orbs down to 3 extra orbs from the start of phase 2.

Also if you get double crystal after that it is pure joy as you are pretty much 90% done.

Sadly its all rng, and you can’t always make them more than one step into the rift, so repeating it a lot is the key.

Cheers!

How do you kill her on time after you’ve thrown the 8 crystals?

Murth.5637:

How do you kill her on time after you’ve thrown the 8 crystals?

you must be really fast i did 16 tries on my guardian today, i managed to get to 8 orbs but the time run out everytime you have to use some burst damage skills… range dmg is commonly not enough

The reason you can take more defense and still kill her on time with 8 is because the orbs basically give her stacks of a special vulnerability. In other words, you hit her harder after each orb toss.

On guardian, you mentioned rangin her didn’t work. I’d wager your range attack is too slow. I don’t play guardian though so I don’t know the best way for them to do it. All I know is I shredded Liadri with my shortbow on ranger (I haven’t done Light up the darkness yet so I might have to amend that statement!).

I hope that helps

8 orb Liadri is different than fighting her normally. Your strats while fighting her the normal way do not apply on 8 orb.

Mortifer.2946:

Murth.5637:

How do you kill her on time after you’ve thrown the 8 crystals?

you must be really fast i did 16 tries on my guardian today, i managed to get to 8 orbs but the time run out everytime you have to use some burst damage skills… range dmg is commonly not enough

Hey! Look at it this way. When I tried to kill her with my guardian with 3 orbs, I couldn’t do it. That was a pretty dps guardian as it is. 83% crit dmg and 51% crit chance.

When I did the 8 orbs on my guardian, I spec’d to be tanky 60% crit dmg and 39% crit chance at 3,016 armor. I was able to down her no problem because the extra orbs give her vulnerability stacks. And they’re not ordinary vulnerability stacks. They seem to do way more damage.

Trick is to multi task. You need to keep attacking her while kiting the spawns to the spots. You can’t stop attacking her on phase 2. You’ll notice the vulnerability help immencely

Calmwinds.4753:

Mortifer.2946:

Murth.5637:

How do you kill her on time after you’ve thrown the 8 crystals?

you must be really fast i did 16 tries on my guardian today, i managed to get to 8 orbs but the time run out everytime you have to use some burst damage skills… range dmg is commonly not enough

Hey! Look at it this way. When I tried to kill her with my guardian with 3 orbs, I couldn’t do it. That was a pretty dps guardian as it is. 83% crit dmg and 51% crit chance.

When I did the 8 orbs on my guardian, I spec’d to be tanky 60% crit dmg and 39% crit chance at 3,016 armor. I was able to down her no problem because the extra orbs give her vulnerability stacks. And they’re not ordinary vulnerability stacks. They seem to do way more damage.

Trick is to multi task. You need to keep attacking her while kiting the spawns to the spots. You can’t stop attacking her on phase 2. You’ll notice the vulnerability help immencely

Thank you for tip. I know… it is just hard to perform

My biggest problem as a guardian doing 8 orb is in the 2nd phase – even if you lure the adds into the portal, only one of them gets transformed, and I have no time or safety to pick it up.

I’ve tried using virtue of justice with blinding trait but it doesn’t always work ;/

Vol.5241:

My biggest problem as a guardian doing 8 orb is in the 2nd phase – even if you lure the adds into the portal, only one of them gets transformed, and I have no time or safety to pick it up.

I’ve tried using virtue of justice with blinding trait but it doesn’t always work ;/

You have to be a lil less scared of the clones haha ^^ Roll through them and pick up fast, even when I want them to kill me, the Visions of Mortality don’t proc that well if they have to turn, oddly enough o.O