Guild Wars 2

I am attempting to do this on my lvl 57 ranger and the something in this recently get buffed as the 4 locust swarms hit for over 600 per second. Group this with the constant condis from his other skills and the NPCs die as soon as you res them and forget kiting as he keeps you criped with his grasping dead spam

Please tone down the locusts

And one more thing why do enemies in PS reset having the guy thre hits from dead and watching his bar go back up all the way. Because his locust ate you is aggrovateing

i am having the same diffiulty with my lvl 80 thief as well. i have even tried both melee and range methods but that locust swarm eat thru me and the NPC too fast to do more then 3/4 of the boss’s HP.
i have done this with an ele b4 and i dont rmb it being this hard or with the locust swarm.

whats with the additional locust swarm anyway? did they forget this a lvl 57 story quest?
hopefully they will revert it to the same as b4, without the locust swarm…

Hah… I didn’t realize this was a bug and thought “Well, I’m much worse with this character than I thought, this was cake on previous professions.”

I just did this quest last night and I never gave the difficulty of this boss a thought, it went by just like the rest of the personal story. Try changing up your tactics or something. Also I’m using a level 80 thief with S/P, shortbow and Masterwork gear.

Done this three times now and never have gotten him below half health, there is no tactic that would overcome this. He nukes the NPC’s and then it’s dying time. But could you (XacTactX) perhaps elaborate on what tactic you were using?

I just tried a couple times with no luck, this is definitely too difficult. Please fix this or I will be stuck on my story forever.

I have a similar problem with my level 64 guardian in The Priory Assailed, Lord Zhim Alarjann. I think he uses the same skills as Feiste Bakk, and even though I’m using plenty of condition removal the poison/cripple/etc reapplies too fast.

Just killed him on my 62 necro w/ lvl 50 gear – he does nuke all of the npcs although i managed to force him into a corner and used death shroud to nuke him while kiting. Lich form helped a lot with dps and i brought him down with just over 1k health. Tip – use the environment to your advantage, jump over tables, run around and just try to keep ur health and slowly wilt him down.

This fight is ridiculous.

If we’re meant to DODGE ALL THE THINGS, how about not having dodge so super limited?

Gave up after my naked 80 lvl thief had tried seven times, lovely NPCs too who engage him ASAP after being revived when he’s not aggroed and when there are still NPCs to revive.

This is stupid. Hey devs is this guy the end boss? What it’s a lvl 57 quest? Wow could have fooled me. Hey I understand making something challenging but seriously? Even if he is bugged with the locus shields which is why I cant win by the way. Nuke him with everything I got (Elementalist lvl 62 with all current gear and weps) I get him a little past half then he wipes out the npcs and eats me for lunch. Why even offer a retry from checkpoint? The stupid NPCs will just agro him back in after res instantly and get you killed again.

Austin G.9826:

This is stupid. Hey devs is this guy the end boss? What it’s a lvl 57 quest? Wow could have fooled me. Hey I understand making something challenging but seriously? Even if he is bugged with the locus shields which is why I cant win by the way. Nuke him with everything I got (Elementalist lvl 62 with all current gear and weps) I get him a little past half then he wipes out the npcs and eats me for lunch. Why even offer a retry from checkpoint? The stupid NPCs will just agro him back in after res instantly and get you killed again.

The non-dungeon end boss is actually a hundred times easier than this guy as I’ve gotten to him on my Guardian and could easily beat him with any other class!

I’m an 80th level thief in 80th level gear with 80th level weapons and I’m still wiping because the skill level for this is just too high to solo. The NPCs are useless. The boss design is horrid.

I’m having an issue with this guy as well on my Lv. 71 Warrior. I can’t even revive everyone before one of the idiot NPCs attracts the boss’ attention and kills them and my warrior within two minutes. Haven’t even got rid of half of its health. I’m really disappointed- I really was looking forward to continuing the story.

The only way I could do it was with a help of a guild mate. Then it was kinda easy. I guess they only tested this boss with someone else and never as a solo. It definitely needs to be changed so that one can actually do the “personal” story while soloing without the help of others.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Having beaten Admiral Feiste Bakk with the help of a guild mate, 2 steps later in my personal history I am facing Champion Risen Plaguebearer and guess what? He is like a buffed up version of the Admiral.

I will be asking for help to get by this one as well.. just impossible to do without a friend or two.

I share your pain Paulo. I ran into it too. v-v

I can usually solo anything. As an ele my nuke potential is amazing, I have taken down skill challenges and event challenges solo that make other people my level weep. I know that I don’t have some god character, I have died before. Still from reading these other post it seems I am getting into his hp more then they are soloing. Still I can not beat him at all its simply impossible. I hope you guys get this fixed soon. Since this isn’t like GW1 in respect to having to form a party of 8 to take down foes in the main story, also the very limited (also most disappointing imo) skill sets. As someone said before the personal story should be just that “personal” meaning it can be soloed. Now I see two more post saying that not far down the road you run into the same thing? Wow. I wonder how incredibly hard the other story lines are then. Plz tell us that is a bug also if its true obviously I don’t know cause I cant get past this guy. With the moderators reply going on roughly 2 weeks ago now. Honestly didn’t have trouble till recently but still I feel the pain of the others who want to solo their personal storyline and cant.

If any of you are on TC, we should join up to deal with this BS.

And I agree, the PS should be solo-able. This is Nintendo Hard punishing content, not a challenging battle.

Im on HD sadly but was hoping that with the patches yesterday they would have removed this locus of death, NOT YET, I can understand if this was like a dungeon boss but yeah its not. Anyway I have been playing with it and this is for anyone reading if you are an elementalist I found:
using a staff and spamming earth skills is very effective against him. The auto attack weakness locks him and the final skill can chain him to the floor as you throw unstable ground and eruption on him.

For skills I am using glyph of storms for sandstorm to blind him and LOCUS OF DEATH, but it only works for a second since the conditions apply so rapidly.

Glyph of Renewal (while attuned to earth resurrect 3 allies).

Glyph of lesser elemntals and glyph of elementals (Elite) Summon 2 earth golems they can tank him semi ok and they stack off each others toughness buffs.

As a heal skill I am using Ether Feast anything else wont work the locus condition stack (the whole problem with this boss) can still eat through even that so make sure to run and heal then roll away.

After all this I have been able to get him into the last quarter of his hp. Sadly no I have not beaten him yet. Even with the quick glyphs trait on the drawback of this build is the CD especially on glyph of renewal. Since the conditions stack from his locus are the whole problem I was also taking away lesser elementals glyph for cleansing flame (removes 3 conditions and inflict burning) this would take off more of the damage pressure and burn the locus storms. However you lose your fastest recharging tank and a tank all together of course. So doing this makes your survivability go down in the long run but hey you can try it might have more luck then me. On a side note with that last part the burn from that skill is fairly weak compared to others like signet of fire. You can try to position yourself so he flies himself into a corner this also works well as he takes away his own mobility.

Going to keep playing with it hopefully it will be fixed soon I been poking around and other people who did this quest say they don’t remember locus swarms on him so I am assuming it is from something more recent like previous posters and moderator has said, I just like to get a confirmation on a confirmation sometimes.

“This is Nintendo Hard punishing content, not a challenging battle.” I know exactly what you mean!! lmao.

If you’re having trouble retrying because of NPCs, try reviving them all to 90-99% before you actually “finish” any of them. At least then they aggro in a loose clump rather than a dribble.

You can kill the Locust Swarms, but I don’t think you can do it quickly enough to save the NPCs, and if you’re doing that once they’re all down, you’ll struggle to do enough damage to get him before he gets you.

EDIT: Ok using the build I posted before with all glyphs and the staff on earth magic I upgraded my accessories to as current as I could (lvl 65). The ones I chose where platinum sapphire jewelry set. With this set giving me more healing power and toughness I was able to knock out that last quarter of his hp. I made sure to use the renewal signet as soon as 2/3 of my allies were down and cast the elemental glyphs asap. This kept the “mob” on him. For taits I went 0/10/20/0/25. This gives faster glyphs and more survivability. Major Traits were (Faster Glyphs – Air) (Earth Embrace – Earth) (Stone Shards – Earth) (Final Shielding – Arcane) (Elemental Attunement – Arcane) Hope this helps all you Ele out there. I didn’t even get past half my hp this time.

i have been at this guy for days now and there is no way in all of Thiefdom this is possible. im about to quit GW2 all together if this is what level 80 is going to be like

Brotein.8572:

i have been at this guy for days now and there is no way in all of Thiefdom this is possible. im about to quit GW2 all together if this is what level 80 is going to be like

It’s just THIS fight. I’ve fought in Orr and had an easier time.

I am really disappointed, I play for the personal stories. My elementalist is 58 and I cannot progress. Will this ever be fixed? It is impossible to kill the last boss.

Guys please fix this, not being able to choose another storyline path this stops story progress altogether, we really want to enjoy this part of the game :-(

still no reply? what a shocker. this has been a major disappointment for gw2

This quest should be called No-Fee Games Drawback ! been a month since the report and still in the queue! and it’s a major fix for players who want to finish their story !

I managed to slay this bugger by asking for help in Lion’s Arch, a kind soul came and help me, we ranged him to death.

Now I’m about to finish the story, going very smooth even the Dragon Champion managed him with ease, I still think this guy need fixing.

So if you’re stuck with this guy, just ask for a hand in LA or ask a guild mate if you’re in a guild.

Good luck.

Edit : Please don’t force players in grouping for many reasons :
1- player don’t like grouping
2- can’t get party together
3- a year after launch it’s not easy to get players together
4- specially story line quests should be solo friendly

I’m doing great now and about finish but when I logged-out I saw lots of complains about Victory or Death I hope it’s not another stuck.