Guild Wars 2

Glad she is a boss that requires excellent teamwork and coordination. I’m glad her shadowstep can’t be dodged. It doesen’t actually do that much and it is completely avoidable if you keep with your group.

I’m also glad that her damage is enough to completely kitten with people in full berserker gear. Just like the Karka Queen who is damaged more by conditions this is a step in the right direction. Not every boss should have only moves you can dodge and just faceroll zerker destroy. Players should always be forced into adapting into new situations.

Finally a boss with cool mechanics that require teamwork that rewards other builds.

Khyber.2693:

Glad she is a boss that requires excellent teamwork and coordination. I’m glad her shadowstep can’t be dodged. It doesen’t actually do that much and it is completely avoidable if you keep with your group.

I’m also glad that her damage is enough to completely kitten with people in full berserker gear. Just like the Karka Queen who is damaged more by conditions this is a step in the right direction. Not every boss should have only moves you can dodge and just faceroll zerker destroy. Players should always be forced into adapting into new situations.

Finally a boss with cool mechanics that require teamwork that rewards other builds.

I killed her with a full zerker warrior no problem. Her shadowstep could not kill me due to high enough base HP and armor of warrior. However in another run we had a zerker (I assume) mesmer and he was 1-shotted from full HP few times. So no, it is not balanced very well. Overall I agree that fight is OK. Just a bit too long however.

NERF THIS BOSS, Atleast the kittening barrages…

this boss is an obvious time sink

Khyber.2693:

I’m glad her shadowstep can’t be dodged.

Isn’t her teleport based on a projectile? She stands still, fires a projectile and if the projectile connects it teleports Mai to the player. I’m fairly certain that you can block and dodge the projectile. Haven’t tried reflection, but I imagine it’d teleport the player to Mai instead, just like other reflected teleport projectiles.

It was fun for a while but those barrages especially the third one just goes on and on and on and on and on and on.. over 2 mins of running in circles. weeeee this is fun!

The only thing you have to concentrate is the long barrage phase. But if you zoom out the camera and concentrate a bit, you can just walk to the tiny places where there is space between all the red circles.