Well, after playing Dark Souls.. I mean guild wars 2 aether dungeon, I decided to jump off a bridge due to the amount of fails on this particular part in this dungeon.. I’ll bet everyone of you that reads this will know that spot too, and probably won’t agree with me.. but fact of the matter is, I have full exotic and played in a group with full exotic, and got no where due to a laser beam that just obliterates everything except the robots, it buffs them.. Not fair. This thread has no importance.
Ranged weapons work well with this. Also, don’t be afraid to change skills and traits in your unlocked bars if they’ll make things easier for that one fight. Pick stunbreak and stability granting utility if possible. Anything (weapons/skills) that will keep you mobile. After doing this, attempt to CC or have the golems follow you away from lazers. You can’t do this forever, but it should save you a few more seconds of unbuffed golem. Pay attention to the little things, like a golem about to initiat a pull or the small lazer about to make its way to you, to react and dodge in time. If you are forced into a situation in which you must be hit by a lazer, dodge directly into it. If done right, the lazer won’t hit you on the way out.
Good luck, and may Wolf guide you.
I haven’t been able to get passed this. :P
My group keeps dying, and leaves me to solo everything. Not good enough to solo dungeons yet…
GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.
As far as I hate the “L2P” thing… I would say that it is the better suggestion that you can get… I mean, it is like when people started playing dungeons… they were kittenly because people didn’t know how to play them.
Give this a few days and you will see groups speed clearing this dungeon.
It sucked! I tried Frizz again, pug group couldn’t do it but this time I paid full attention to everything that occurred during the fight.
What did what, what attacks they used, where to move, etc….
And after close observation I had finally figured out how to complete phase 3 once I relized “The low beams make them gain the shields while the wall beams make them gain might!” And it dawned on me how to beat stage 3 easy peasy!
But then I relized… it’s not doable with pugs. I tried my best explaining to them what we’d have to do, and for the most part it worked! Got both golems down to 20% on phase 3 but they still died, and they kept dying, and finally I got killed trying some “hands on” experimentation with one of the wall beams to test a theory…
It’s like the NYC Raid from The Secret World all over again…
Need to find that specific group just to be able to beat it with Pugs having a 2% chance of success….
Even now it’s almost 7AM and I’ve written up a map of the room and am trying to get this speed thing locked down so I can understand the motions the players will need to make to succeed…
I’m in full exotics (berserker MESMER) and the lasers are laughable even with the golems pulling me.
I’m playing with pugs, on a dd ele.
I finished the dungeon last night with pugs on a dd ele. It really wasn’t that bad. We had a couple of people die on the part where you breached the door. Wiped once on the golems because nobody knew how to do it, then had a couple of deaths on the final boss.
You just need to get good. Bring a staff for the golems. Stay as far away as possible and use frozen ground to keep your distance so they can’t pull you. Rock steady 2 secs of stability is super helpful if you see them winding up for the pull.
Not specifically at the OP, but more of a general note to everyone:
Stop wearing berserker gear. It’s obvious that they’re going to continue to throw these one-shot if you fail mechanics at us. A huge chunk of your damage comes from your boons, your consumables and your spec – possibly moreso than your gear.
If you can dodge everything the game has to throw at you, grats. You have elite skill. Wear your berserkers gear with pride. Otherwise tank the kitten up cause it takes less time to whittle down a boss with 1/5th the dps than it does to wipe 10 times cause you get one/two shot by EVERYTHING.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the
peasants had no bread and who responded: “Let them eat brioche.”
Even now it’s almost 7AM and I’ve written up a map of the room and am trying to get this speed thing locked down so I can understand the motions the players will need to make to succeed…
Don’t forget a tinfoil hat and tissuebox slippers for to complete that “slightly-out-there” chic. I hope you’ve got a whiteboard and a venn diagram cranking, because that sounds like a good time to me.
P.S. It is REALLY not that hard, assuming you’re prepared to endure 5 wipes until the slowest learners in your PUG work out how to stay alive (and assuming at least 2 of them do, 3/5 should be enough to beat the encounter).
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