Guild Wars 2

Can you win the battle with Melee only?

I think she hits a little too hard for melee, but that’s just me specced into zerker and having to change my build to compensate for the little toughness I had, and the endur I couldn’t catch up on.

I’m sure it’s possible, it’ll just probably be extra challenging.

Tank Guardian here.
No problems with the phase one, phase two however seems kinda tricky.

GS/Staff set up, saving money for alts, don’t want to buy scepter.

The issues with phase 2 are the cripples, the random orb pulls from phase 1, and her bigger AoE. At most it leaves you more room to dodge and walk to the safe-zones, but you’re also going to get hit by her whip often. Also, you have to watch out for those shades as well, and I think they’ll close in on you in melee faster than you can kill her anyhow, forcing you to range for a bit.

The Crown Pavilion farm is pretty good at netting gold, run it for an hour or two and you should be able to grab a fairly cheap scepter off the TP, or even if you have spare tokens for dungeons.

Anyhow, I wish you luck with trying to melee her, I gave up quite fast and resorted to using my SB on phase 2.

Edit: Zerker ranger perspective.

Challenge accepted: I’ll do it with my GS only.

Now, if only Arena Net could fix the skill delay I’ve been having.

I think it would be incredibly difficult, but I wouldn’t say impossible. I have only killed her with my berserker warrior, and spent my time swapping equally between greatsword and rifle. I’d use my greatsword to either:

- Kill orbs as they seemed immune to all rifle skills apart from number 5.

- Use whirlwind attack to zoom to the next safe zone if I was out of endurance or falling behind on my strafing thanks to her cripple.

- Use whirlwind attack to evade past packs of her minions.

During those times I had my greatsword out I’d either be using ability 4 to slow down the mobs, or wildly smacking ability 1 to catch her when she got within range whilst I was strafing. Got quite a lot of damage on her this way with Greatsword, but the lions share was dealt with rifle.

Sticking on endure pain and finishing her with Hundred Blades was more than satisfying though.

I killed her on berserker warrior on about 15 seconds on melee. I will try make a video after work.