Guild Wars 2

I spent a very, very large portion of today (a good six hours) running the last zone of World 1 today on Tribulation Mode. Yes, it could’ve been done much faster, BUT I’m kind of a scrub when it comes to jumping around and I’m trying to figure my path out — and I haven’t enough baubles to get myself a torch so everything’s about two times slower.

THAT isn’t the problem though. Mind-melting, suicide-inducing hours and half a billion continue coins later, I manage to defeat the King Toad. AND I DIE. For reasons yet unknown, I’m suddenly dead. And given a bunch of seconds to get back to the Chest for my coin. And of course, I can’t because those darn lilypads with the split second of lag makes it nearly impossible to do.

All those hours. All that pain. For naught.

I would throw myself off a cliff at this point, but I’ve already spent all day doing that in the SAB. If there was perma-death in-game I’d opt for it right now. My soul is absolutely crushed. WHAT KIND OF HORRIFIC MECHANIC IS THAT?!

:(

Yeah, I don’t understand why killing the Toad kills you either. It has happened to me twice now, so I’m pretty sure it’s just a thing. Maybe you’re supposed to dodge back just as he dies? I don’t know.

As for a torch, you don’t need the torch if you have the candle. If you don’t have the candle you can get it in the last shop in Zone 2 for free. The shopkeeper get himself killed by drinking poison water and has the candle just sitting there on his counter unattended.

Happened to me last night too. Died with the toad, and by the time I got through the continue menus and across the lag lily pond of doom, I missed the chest by a hair before getting forcibly warped to the next zone. That has to be, by far, the most disappointed I’ve ever been with this game.

A tip for the toad king: You can stand there on the center lily pad and let him hit you. The waves won’t insta-kill you, unlike that nasty pool. I go in with a full stack of health potions to use while I block his attacks with my face. Make sure you have the nunchucks though so you can kill him in two stun cycles otherwise the potion trick won’t work since you’d run out.

don’t stand under him. he falls on you and you die. stand as far away from him as you can still hit him when he’s low on health. first time, I died and it was funny (I’m a good lily pad hopper). all subsequent times, I haven’t died.