I was suspicious as soon as GW2 updated. Entered with just one gambit instead of five, and sure enough deadeye now pull aggro from all around the arena. I think he also teleports more often.
Yaay! Now I can finally go back to doing more interesting stuff. At least I milked it for all it was worth. Got 80g in the past two days.
Still works fine for my guardian, just have to be quicker with the initial port and wall and he goes down just the same….even his first port is to the middle…
I can’t check the game yet, but I have heard the following:
quaggan aggros immediately
deadeye will shoot you immediately once you spawn in
reflected shots hit him back for 10-20 dmg
deadeye no longer teleports to spawn in 10 seconds
I believe 4 gambits is still doable if these are all the changes, when I first got with my guardian around it I would never use WoR to kill him, then I moved to thief due to the less downtime between fights.
kitten i was going to farm him some more tonight…. oh well back to orr rotations. And good job Anet with the stealth patch…. just keep building that trust. Also did they really think we wouldn’t notice?
Edit: People are saying guard can still do it, back to farming….
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I haven’t made anything really. That is ok though. But some more clarity on actual changes in patch notes would be nice. Not sure why it’s a secret and weren’t told. Again, it’s ok to change it. Some would even say good or great change but better patch notes are needed. This isn’t the first time either when these undocumented changes are made.
I had finally found a way to make money. QQ
Wasn’t even making money that fast either because I don’t have the magical right gear for it. Shame on me for not being a PvE zerker player huh.
Still beatable on engineer. Just have to sort of reset my rotations a bit and get used to the changes. Made enough to buy my precursor, so I am thankful this came after that
LOLZ anet tries to stealth nerf a farming spot and they didn’t even do it right……
Work for a cause, not for applause.
Live life to express, not to impress.
Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. ~ unknown
I seem to be having an issue then. WOR seems to do a lot less damage, he is charging the head shot in melee then teleports in instant kills me. Lack of ascended makes that big a difference in dps?
I was suspicious as soon as GW2 updated. Entered with just one gambit instead of five, and sure enough deadeye now pull aggro from all around the arena. I think he also teleports more often.
Yaay! Now I can finally go back to doing more interesting stuff. At least I milked it for all it was worth. Got 80g in the past two days.
I think its totally random. I tried farming this for a little and he always changed his pattern, at least for me…
I seem to be having an issue then. WOR seems to do a lot less damage, he is charging the head shot in melee then teleports in instant kills me. Lack of ascended makes that big a difference in dps?
You certainly need more DPS if had tight clear times before as you have less damage coming from reflects, you also need to use blinds when you know the killshot is coming and maybe use your shield of wrath/zealot defense when he is doing the other regular attacks.
Try to observe other guardians doing it, fill bloodlust stacks downstairs and use damage increasing food/oils if you really need and I’m pretty sure ascended isn’t needed at all.
“new build” my kitten . Was killing him with my guard within 6-7 seconds, now he uses insta-shot from melee at 50% hp and it’s way harder → not worth my time.
Good that I got my fair share of gold while I still could tho nerfing it is dumb ( not to mention dishonesty )
be careful when talking about patch notes they will delete your post and give you an infraction, ive had 2 infractions in 10mins for calling them dishonest
Don’t know the ranger class too well, but I’m bleeding him to death with me engi at range. I know ya’ll have high range too. This could be a possibility?
“new build” my kitten . Was killing him with my guard within 6-7 seconds, now he uses insta-shot from melee at 50% hp and it’s way harder -> not worth my time.
Good that I got my fair share of gold while I still could tho nerfing it is dumb ( not to mention dishonesty )
still able to kill him in 7-8 seconds now…just have to use 4 for the blind once your first one from 2 wears off. And when that one wears off 2 should be up again for when he ports.
Rangers can still Kill him with 4 gambits too. Just tested it. It takes alot longer though, you still have to know when to use that signet of stone and your heals, otherwise, you get fairly easily flattened, just like before it was changed.
A few points though…
Like someone above said, deadeye shoots you pretty much once the match starts,….with his killshot too.
Deadeye seems to teleport now way more often, seems like every 5 seconds.
Teleports are also random.
His Killshot seems to activate twice as often as well.
…I feel bad for Warriors. I don’t think they can do this anymore…..
(I’m going to add them as I go…) Edit – Ouch….Its hard, But its still doable with Rangers on 5 gambits, barely. Edit 2 – Even more ouch. With Frailty on, I down instantly because Deadeye instantly uses his killshot first. Edit 3 – Sometimes, even without Frailty, his Killshot insta downs me from the middle of the ring. Edit 4 – Also, Even while I am pulling him with Path of Scars, His killshot goes off anyways instead of interrupting, which is when it inta downs me. I think that has something to do with connection speed though, not the fight itself. Still annoying though… Edit 5 – His Killshot continues to activate even in the middle of teleporting, as well as any other skill he is using. giving you very little time to react if he does teleport and the attack goes off. Edit 6 – …..Don’t Forget the mines that explode and respawn every coupld of seconds. Also don’t forget the one that is immediately to your left when the match starts… Edit 7 – My Synopsis. Anet is still worse at “fixing” things than they are at “breaking” them! Edit 8 – Put quotation marks around fixing and breaking. Edit 9 – Since there is no discernable pattern anymore, does Deadeye even belong in the Queen’s Gauntlet anymore? Considering that all the other bosses have specific patterns of attack and movement?
Can do it with 5 gambits on necro still, I cant kill him every time but its easily 90% which is still profitable. It also takes slightly longer but there is still money to be made before they nerf the reward.
Now how are the people who DIDNT abuse it meant to get the 5 gambit win?
I only just found out about this & thanks for the nerf.. NOT
Just nerf his loot not the fight
…You can still do it with 5 gambits very easily…
Edit : As a Better Idea, instead of nerfing the loot, how about in the future, Instead of ZOMG! Stealth Nerf!!!!
Instead, Anet makes it to where we can only get rewards from a certain number of matches per day? Like 25 matches top? That makes the maximum amount of gold you can get about 12.
After that, we just get the same number of tickets as we gambled, plus one extra?
Because, people can still farm this into the ground and walk away with quite a bit of gold. Limiting the amount of gold they can get per day would be a much better way to deal with this. Yes, over 30 days its still 360 gold, but its not several thousand like some people were trying to do.
Gear is a mix of carrion and rabid with 6 Runes of Perplexity, Scepter and Dagger
30 (I,IV,XI) Death’s embrace actually made a huge difference as a few times I would get down when he was at about 10% and it helps stay alive and finish him off
30 (II,IX,XI)
10 (IV) the protection from using Well of Blood combined with weakness is enough to survive a Kill Shot if you are lucky and miss a blind or fear
Well of Blood, Blood Is Power, Spectral Grasp, Signet of Spite, Flesh Golem
The beginning strategy is the same everytime Signet of Spite followed by Blood is Power. If he uses kill shot as his first attack it will miss so use scepter 1 and 2 to start laying down the bleeds, sometimes he will barrage first so you will need to wait till the last shot of the barrage to use Deathly Swarm. If Kill shot was the first attack he may use a second one before porting I usually use Deathly Swarm here because I didn’t need it for the first kill shot, every second run I have the golem up so I sometimes use Charge as well to make sure. When he ports pull him with Spectral grasp and you can finish him off with scepter 1 and 2 using DS fear if necessary. It is certainly a lot harder than before and you have to pay attention but as I said I can beat him about 90% of the time. Take all gambits but Crowd Favourite.
EDIT: Food is 70 cond, 40% duration along with Master Tuning Crystal and these are often the difference between success and failure
, just have to be quicker with the initial port and wall and he goes down just the same….even his first port is to the middle…