Guild Wars 2

Alright, so first off I’ll quickly give a little explanation of the two stages, followed by a walk through to give you an idea of what I did.
After reading it, if you’ve any questions feel free to post them here or PM me if you don’t think other people would have the same question.

The boss itself

• First Stage
  The first stage is pretty straight forward. Here are the numerous aspects:

- Liadri has basic projectile attacks. There’s a decent delay on her pathing, so if you keep switching where you go you can just force her to miss you.
- There’s the one hit kill darkness, that occurs in 4 different places. It spawns Bottem, Top, Left, Right. It will always maintain that order, so keep track of it so you dont have to waste your dodges.
- Visions of Morality will walk towards you, but are very slow. You need to direct them into the lightning vortexes. Always keep an eye on your back to see if one spawned on top of you, there’s one lightning swirl near the edge of the dome that tends to spawn one on top of it. Once a vision (or multiple) walk into it, a crystal will spawn that you can use to burst her invulnerability, you need to do this 3 times.
- An Orb will spawn which will pull you all the way over to it. Knocking you down. You can kill it with 1 hit (and you can also rally off it).
- Obnoxious Lightning flashes on your screen
Disable them by Options – Graphic – Post-Processing: None

• Second Stage
  The second stage is the tricky part of this duel.

- Liadri switches to Swirling attacks and Whipping attacks.
- Visions of Morality will not function differently.
- The darkness will change mechanics. It spawns as an hourglass, one horizontal and one vertical. It keeps flipping between those.
- Orb keeps spawning randomly.

Gear and Traits

• Gear
  So I’ll start off with my gear. It was pretty straight forward. I didn’t come close to dieing at all, and the damage needed isn’t too significant. (Although you want to be efficient at the first stage to make sure you have plenty of time)
  I just ran with full knights gear + trinkets.
  Pvt Greatsword & knights Scepter/Shield.
  I used 6x Superior Runes of the Soldier (condition removal + survivability).

• Traits
  Now I had to switch my traits for this. I couldn’t manage it with my original setup.
  I switched to 0/0/10/30/30.
  Now I’ll highlight why I picked it.
  10 in Valor for 5% toughness into precision.
  30 in Honor is mostly because it gives significant skill recharge. 20% shouts & 20% 2h weapons. I also used Pure of Voice.
  30 in Virtues, retaliation lasts 25% longer. Virtue of Resolve removes 3 conditions. Virtue of Courage crants you 3 seconds of stability, now this one I mostly used to kill the Orbs that spawn. I popped my virtue as soon as I saw it and hasted my way over there.

Strategy

• First Part

I firstly walk to the right side. The darkness won’t spawn here for a long time, giving me plenty of space to dodge auto attacks from the boss.
Make your way to the first vortex and keep track of the darkness. The first vision should be in it pretty fast. Throw it asap.
Same thing goes for the second one. You should have plenty of room to pick the crystal up to throw it at the boss.
Now the third one made me pick up my shield. There will most likely be 3 or 4 visions now. Just try to lure one of them into the vortex. Then use your shield to knock the other visions away giving you enough time to hit the third crystal.

• Second Part

The first darkness hourglass will spawn horizontally. So you should be safe at the top or bottem. Try and stay to the center of the dome as much as possible, so you don’t have to walk as much. If you ever run out of time, use your leap to make way. Try to reserve your dodges as much as possible. Try and lure the boss into the safezone. After the darkness collapses, run up to the middle edge of the next safe zone. Fight her there.

So, what I did to fight her was throw down wall of reflection and Symbol of Wrath. I kept going at her till the darkness collapsed. After that just run away. If you’re crippled use Stand your Ground and just walk away. Speedboost isn’t really needed if you’re standing near the middle of the dome! That’s what made it so much easier for me.
I kept ‘’Save Yourselves’’ as a back up. I didn’t actually use it, but I planned on using it incase I got dragged into an orb and had to stun break + dodge. The vigor would give you enough endurance to get back in track.
So, just keep running in circles and only fight when it’s save to fight. Make sure to have your retaliation up and only fight her when she’s using her whip. Only do that when you have condition removals available! Try and save your dodges for her leap so you don’t have to deal with that.

I guess that pretty much sums all of my tactics up. And after I twinkled around with this setup I actually managed to do it on the first try (After failing many times with different traits and utility skills). I guess 2 key aspects for me werestanding near the middle in the second phase, and having more condition removal + stability from the last trait line.

Mostly, just stay calm and try to do it as methodically as possible. The only thing that can cause you bad luck are the lightning flashes, but you can either save your dodges for it (and use ‘’Save Yourselves’’) or your Renewed Focus. Considering I was in the save zone at all times, I could just stand still and wait for it to pass by.

So, any questions?

Is there a way to avoid 8-5fps with culling on the aoes when graphics is turned down to lowest? /sarcasm.
I tried everything for this boss, took tips, Its just not possible to do this if I am stuck in these conditions. I just wish there was a different instance for this boss.

Sweaty, try finding an overflow that doesn’t have that many people in it is all I can give for advice when your hardware can’t handle it

What weapons were you using?
Never mind.

Ha, I’m just super happy right now. Just completed the 8 balls achievement on her with this exact same strategy It’s really doable as long as you don’t panic and keep cleansing those conditions off you when you have to.

woah grats! read your OP, and then was gonna ask and see if you did the Lightness in the Dark achievement.

so i guess the hardest thign for that achievement was not being able to get around fast enough to get 8 crystals (3 in P1, 5 in P2?) and THEN killing her. any other tips for the achievement?

seems like a trend here, not saying it’s the only way, but many Guards seem to be investing deep into Virtues line for this and being extremely successful. : ))

Akamon… I guess the hardest part here was to keep your cool.
I kept hovering around the vortexes in the second part as they spawned (from safe zone to safe zone). This way you’d be guaranteed a crystal or two

Then, if the area wasnt safe I used my shield knockback and my greatsword to pull the enemies away.
Hardest part is to keep track of everything. Where the darkness will land, when the pulling orbs will spawn. And the stacks on her disappear after a little, so you have to keep track of how many times you’ve hit her manually (considering you might miss in the speedy action as well).

Just keep cleansing your conditions off and save your dodges as much as possible.
And I can’t give it enough emphasis, stay near center of the circle!

You can disable the light flashes by setting post-processing to “none”
Thanks dulfy.net!

Quick Mouse.7635:

You can disable the light flashes by setting post-processing to “none”
Thanks dulfy.net!

Yeah I did that too (after having it completed the first time) to get the final achievement.
I’ll edit it in