Guild Wars 2

So I handpicked a pug around this following strategy just to complete Unfriendly Skies perfectly or so I thought.

Group Makeup:
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Thief: 3
Mesmer: 1
Guardian: 1

Thieves were:
Pistol/Pistol + Shortbow
0 / 15 VI / 20 I V / 20 VI IX / 15 I
Scorpion Wire + Shadowstep + Shadow Refuge + Basilisk Venom

Mai Trin tactics:
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Before 75% 50% 25% HP:
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Pistol #4 to take off all Defiant stacks. (or Mesmer F3 daze). Once all
defiants were gone => Scorp Wire pull her into Electric Field and Basilisk Venom to lock her into it longer. Shadowstep’s used to get in that perfect spot to pull her faster if needed.

This went super smooth and we got to dps burst phases super quickly.

75% 50% 25% Barrage phases:
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When hearing Mai Trin yelling, our Mesmer used Mass Invisibility to give us 5sec of Stealth to allow scattered team to regroup safely, then we used our Shadow Refuges to give us breathing room to start the permanent stealth combos (1 Thief just spamming Pistol #5 Blackpowder while other 2 Thieves were spamming Shortbow #2 Cluster Bombs into smoke field to Aoe Stealth blast finish indefinately thanks to your traits).

Problem was when barrage ended, Horrik came back and 2seconds after Mai Trin appeared but she was at full 100%…

Q1: Did we go off Horrik/Mai’s radar too longer under our team stealth so they went out of combat full regen?

Q2: Did we have to Shortbow #4 Horrik or Mai before barrage so they would have 1m Poison condition on them to keep em in combat?

Q3: Did we have to go back into combat by attacking Horrik instantly as he came back onto groundfloor so that when Mai Trin reappears she doesn’t get healed back to 100% ?

Q4: Did the perma stealth team get fixed and we have to like have 4 players go stealth into a corner while our Guardian kites around the whole room with only him targeted (safer to kite)?

Greatly appreciate any advice

^ What he said. You can’t have the entire team perma-stealthing, or Mai/Horrik will reset and start regenerating health. At least one team member needs to be visible and targeted by the cannoneers (probably the Guardian, in your setup).

If you are going to permastealth, make sure someone hits Horrik as soon as he appears. If Mai does not target anyone for a while after she appears, the fight will reset.

If you are permastealthing, you can have 4 people inside and one running around not stealthed.

Thanks a lot for the answers fellas, will ajust for this Hopefully tomorrow

Zaxares.5419:

^ What he said. You can’t have the entire team perma-stealthing, or Mai/Horrik will reset and start regenerating health. At least one team member needs to be visible and targeted by the cannoneers (probably the Guardian, in your setup).

That’s not true. Mai will not reset during the barrage, in my personal experience. You just need to make sure you get her aggro before she resets after the barrage is completed.

She will become vulnerable a moment after Horrik appears, so as soon as you see Horrik, hit him to ensure you’re in combat and have her [Mai’s] attention.

I had to change the answer sadly Esplen because if you were right they ninja fixed this.
Just did it with same setup, and this time our regroup spot was where Horrik comes back so that naturally we’d hit him instantly since our 2 aoe blaster thieves constantly spammed cluster bomb on that spot, yet Mai Trin was still reset to 100%.

This leaves out the 4 ppl stealth combo in corner while 5th runs around.

Yesterday we did this achievement with 2 minutes and 10 seconds left for doing it after we killed Horrik We had to ress 3 times during the fight and still this much time left-
Completed with random PUG + guild member.
It’s just about people. A guy with 1000 achievement points who didn’t play since halloween played through it almost flawlessly, while a guy with 5K achievement points was ruining the stacking on Mai tactics all the time.

So I got it yesterday. Bummer how we did it but kinda expected it.
Hopped on my guardian, filled team with guardians. Had 25 perma might so that went rather quickly. We all stacked up on Mai start to finish. Outheal/cleansed it all.
Feels like playing chess where instead of finding a nice strategy, you just bring an M1A1 Abrahams onto the board.

Hey, just wanted to clarify—so Mai Trin still resets even with four stealthed and one decoy, which is why you used a five-guardian team?