Guild Wars 2

I’m having a weird issue with the Strugar/Chomper fight. My ranger (not a zerk build) is focusing exclusively on Chomper, primarily using GS, with a couple of CCs to try to stop the meat parade. Even though I manage to keep Chomper from a couple of meats and am continuously wailing on him with the GS, his health bar never budges from 100%.

When Strugar is nearby, he actually takes some incidental damage. But Chomper — the actual target of my attacks — doesn’t take one whit over the course of the entire 2 minutes. What is going on here? This has happened 3 times in a row now, so it wasn’t a fluke occurrence.

You’re supposed to eat the meat he throws on the ground. It makes you do a a lot of damage. 3-4 of them will allow you to kill Strugar/Chomper really quickly.

Eating meat heals Chomper, so if you’re doing low damage as it is (non-offensive Ranger spec and using Greatsword which doesn’t do amazing damage as it is) he might just be healing off everything you’re doing.

I had a similar problem with my Ranger at first, since I also run a more defensive build (Beastmaster / Healing Power build). If you’re not running a damage spec you really need to focus on keeping Chomper from eating meat by getting to it and eating it yourself first.

you can kill strugar first, then when chomper is alone, kill him.

you can kill strugar first, then when chomper is alone, kill him.

That’s generally just making things much harder on yourself though, seeing as how Chomper turns into a one-shotting demon-beast once Strugar is down. =O

Bovinity.8610:

you can kill strugar first, then when chomper is alone, kill him.

That’s generally just making things much harder on yourself though, seeing as how Chomper turns into a one-shotting demon-beast once Strugar is down. =O

is it? i know you’re a thief so you should have no problem killing him with black powder spam once strugar is down at your leisure.

Sounds like I need to find a different alt to do this fight. The ranger has good CC (although Chomper keeps telling me “immune” when I throw a vine at him), but none of that helps if I don’t manage a 100% success rate at keeping him from the meat, and I’m not good enough to be perfect. My DPS builds have little or no CC, though, so I’m not sure those will work, either, especially since I have a REALLY hard time seeing the meat against that stupid floor. I only know where it is by the direction Chomper is running to.

Might be a fight I can’t win.

is it? i know you’re a thief so you should have no problem killing him with black powder spam once strugar is down at your leisure.

I have 6 80’s actually. (Gogo crafting)

Not sure I ever did Chomper on my Thief.

Sounds like I need to find a different alt to do this fight. The ranger has good CC (although Chomper keeps telling me “immune” when I throw a vine at him), but none of that helps if I don’t manage a 100% success rate at keeping him from the meat, and I’m not good enough to be perfect. My DPS builds have little or no CC, though

I actually found Shortbow to be pretty good at this. You have the ranged Cripple on a low cooldown (get some Koi Cakes if you need to for more uptime!) and the retreat ability that can be used to bounce around toward meat in some situations.

Well, I have now tried this fight on 4 different classes/builds (all with full exotic and/or ascended gear), and not once have I even scratched Chomper’s health. Not once. Even my 3500 attack almost-full-zerk guardian went in and started wailing on him and his health didn’t budge.

I don’t know if this is an account bug but it’s absolutely inexplicable to me that I just can’t damage him AT ALL. It’s like he sports 100% invulnerability the entire fight.

I am also finding that he’s immune not just to immobilize but sometimes even to stun, cripple, daze, etc. I ran a mesmer at him and throw a berzerker (didn’t cripple him), Diversion shatter (didn’t slow him down a bit), Signet of Domination (didn’t stun him), even turned him into a moa, which had no effect other than appearance. Pistol #5 didn’t have any noticeable effect, either.