Guild Wars 2

Okay, ideally you want 25 people per lane (125 players total for event), so each lane can field 5 players per platform vs the wardens, if they all teleport up.

However often you have less then that, so before the fight begins stack 25 in lane 1 and when its completed the warden I, 15 head to lane 3 straight away, then 5 etc…

So 65 players would look like this:-

Lane 1 25
Lane 2 10 (15 run from 5)
Lane 3 10 (15 run from 1)
Lane 4 10 (15 run from 2)
Lane 5 10 (15 run from 3)

Would that give you best chance of success with less numbers in the time limit? It has to be every other lane to give you time to get there and you sacrifice 2 and 4 1st time around unless you have some real heros…

Uhh, if you fail that many chains though the bar will have filled up and you will have failed?

Ideally you have a full map (which is not hard if you’re on at the right time of day) and you have an even split in every lane and everyone knows how to beat the bosses.

After a portal phase, you get portal sickness which prevents you from entering another portal soon. With the current duration of portal sickness, you don’t skip 1 lane but 2 before you enter another portal. So, if you start in lane 1, you can enter a portal again when the event in lane 4 starts. There’s no use getting to lane 3.

Paradox.5498:

After a portal phase, you get portal sickness which prevents you from entering another portal soon. With the current duration of portal sickness, you don’t skip 1 lane but 2 before you enter another portal. So, if you start in lane 1, you can enter a portal again when the event in lane 4 starts. There’s no use getting to lane 3.

Yes, I just found that out…

You can run a maxium of 3 wardens, I just ran 2—>5—>2, killed 2 out of 3 of those, just failed 1st was only 1 left standing and just ran out of time.

It does help a lot if you have runners who are willing to do upto 3 wardens if your short on numbers.

You only need about 10 defenders per lane to defend portal, so excess can run and help other lanes with wardens.

Meglobob.8620:

Paradox.5498:

After a portal phase, you get portal sickness which prevents you from entering another portal soon. With the current duration of portal sickness, you don’t skip 1 lane but 2 before you enter another portal. So, if you start in lane 1, you can enter a portal again when the event in lane 4 starts. There’s no use getting to lane 3.

Yes, I just found that out…

You can run a maxium of 3 wardens, I just ran 2—>5—>2, killed 2 out of 3 of those, just failed 1st was only 1 left standing and just ran out of time.

It does help a lot if you have runners who are willing to do upto 3 wardens if your short on numbers.

You only need about 10 defenders per lane to defend portal, so excess can run and help other lanes with wardens.

Again, you can’t do 2 – 5 – 2, because there’s only 1 lane between 5 and 2 (being lane 1). 2 – 5 – 3 would be a viable option.

Personally, I never understood why you would start lanes 1 and 2 with 25 people. The bosses during the first 2 chains are easy enough to be done with 4 people on each platform max (i.e. 20 people per lane). I wish there was a way to condition people to stack to lane 5 as crayz as they stack to lane 1 and 2 at the moment.

Failing lane 1 is depressing…You have to be really bad to fail it. Thus people who aren’t too good, but at least know how to read should be there.

Lane 2 is a bit harder, but it’s all about reading comprehension. Once again, people who aren’t too great should be in this lane.

Lane 3 should be ready to do their warden, or Warden II in case lane 2 messes up.

Ideally, not too good players from lane 1 should move to lane 3 once it’s done, and good players from lane 3 should move to lane 1, once lane 3 is done. That way champions won’t pass through, and not too good players won’t be a burden during the harder fights.
(It’s not to sound elitist, because those fights are easy. But if you are having a hard time during the first or second fight, you might end up being a burden during the last fights).

CorneliusCoffin.3169:

Again, you can’t do 2 – 5 – 2, because there’s only 1 lane between 5 and 2 (being lane 1). 2 – 5 – 3 would be a viable option.

You can do 2-5-2, I did it today in the 10am run…

At first it would not let me teleport in but sickness timer runs out and then you can. Still had plenty of time to dps Warden V (the split one) and watch other platforms fail…

Will try 1-4-1 tonight see if that’s possible too…

RedStar.4218:

Failing lane 1 is depressing…You have to be really bad to fail it. Thus people who aren’t too good, but at least know how to read should be there.

Lane 2 is a bit harder, but it’s all about reading comprehension. Once again, people who aren’t too great should be in this lane.

Lane 3 should be ready to do their warden, or Warden II in case lane 2 messes up.

Ideally, not too good players from lane 1 should move to lane 3 once it’s done, and good players from lane 3 should move to lane 1, once lane 3 is done. That way champions won’t pass through, and not too good players won’t be a burden during the harder fights.
(It’s not to sound elitist, because those fights are easy. But if you are having a hard time during the first or second fight, you might end up being a burden during the last fights).

Yesterday I noticed people failing lane 1. They did not listen at all not to attack it from the front but they did not listen, did not understand. Not even the ground indication was enough information for them to stop attacking there. Sometimes there is just nothing you can do. It would be a good idea if you could jump over to another platform, even if it’s just the one closest to you. In overflows and only 10 people on lane 5 without help it is spreading thin on all 5 platforms. I think Anet thought everyone would go into the portal but on none of the fights I was in all people went there. I’d say around 75% is going through portals.

the easier way to do this event if you miss 20 players is NOT running, it’s to let chain 4 and 5 fail.

In my server we power up lanes 1-2-3 with 20-25 players and lanes 4-5 with 15 players. That way, we can defend all lines from phase 1, but lanes 1-2-3 have it easier to do the champions. When it comes to champ phase, lanes 4 and 5 try to beat them, it’s funny how they sometimes suceed with 15 players when lane 3 fails with 25 players. Nevertheless, either we suceed or we fail, we NEVER move people across lines. We just wait patiently for the 2nd rotation. As soon as the 2nd rotation starts, the chances that lane 1 and 2 defeat their champions is really high, so… it’s done.

Really easy, not messing with players running around, nobody ever moves to another lines and event succeeds 100% of the times with the “fail bar” at 50%. I will never get why people mess up the fight running around, we had 6 consecutive wins with this strategy instead of running to other lines.

Tried 1-4-1 was not possible, did 1-4 but then sickness of 2mins kept me out of doing 1 again…

A big problem with this event is above average players can’t do enough to make up for the below average players, so if we want success, after do it like Teq and Wurm and just do it in a specific guild/overflow and exclude casuals.

Problem with this event is that everybody yells lane X needs more people to defend. While that is the last thing you need. Let those mobs pass…i would be actually interested how many mobs it to get through the portal to fail. So far the leakage was minimal but then we failed every single boss attack.

What you need is enough players in lane 3 so that they surely can do the event and then you need people in lanes 1 and 2 to actually understand that they really need to move to lines 4 and 5 respectively.

Why would you waste 2 phases and wait all that time until you can go another round? But I understand it is easier to explain to players. I’m so frustrated that I might actually suggest it from now on. People really don’t want to move….they just want to kill pointless waves of mobs because it is there in front of their eyes.