Guild Wars 2

This quest was incredibly hard for me; it had me stumped for days. I leveled up to 80 while alternating between giving it a go and then taking a break with various dynamic missions.

All in all, it seemed like 3 or more days of beating my head against a wall, but the wall finally collapsed.

If you are interested, what worked for my charr Warrior was:

YMMV. Good hunting!

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According to the wiki article on Estate of Decay, killing (all?) the spectral guards revives your team.

attack the swirling orrian things. Once they die the mouth becomes melee’able. You can get him to 50% in about 40 seconds. Then he re-summons the orrians. You kill them again then finish him off. (use a ranged weapon to attack them)

And yes, that pillar is a godsend for dodging his shots.

EASIEST way to do it (on Asuran Thief):

Run in and instantly drop Radiation Field on the mouth and floating weps. Stand close and hit Dagger Storm. Kill remaining floating weps. Leisurely kill Mouth

Why is everyone having problems? This is something that completely baffles me.

Use stones to pull the surrounding foes, then kill them one by one. Resurrect allies, and zerg the Mouth.

Either he was bugged the 2 times I fought him, or I’m just somehow good at it. I am confused how people fail it?

You aren’t a Ranger, I take it…

And I just spent over 45 minutes or more doing exactly what you stated… and they the swords re-spawned after I had them all gone – did yours?

It’s per race that I believe there are problems that aren’t being seen by “everyone”. My screenshots are proof that there are issues with the system.

Yup! I failed it the first time, tried a bit more and restarted due to the npcs being dead and it being almost impossible to get them back up.
In the second time, all went well, I managed to stun and interrupt the Mouth at the most crucial times, none of my npcs died, they all actually worked really well, also stunned the Mouth, they did and amazing job after the first 20% hp, we really worked as a team lol.
It was really fun and rewarding though, best quest for me in terms of battle.

I also died many times doing this story chapter with a level 77 necro… finally succeeded by hiding behind one of the stone pillars, resurrecting one NPC, and attacking the mouth in Death Shroud and then using the Lich Form elite skill. Even then it was still close and took a bit of normal attacks. Every time the Mouth started focusing on me instead of the NPC, I would run behind the pillar and regroup.

Seemed to me that the Personally story really got a lot more difficult around level 70, after I was able to handle it fairly easily solo up to that point. Plus, just getting to the map points was quite a challenge after level 70 – some of them many trips and resurrections.

Getting seriously fed up with this as well… tried and re-tried like 5 times from scratch after npc-s dying all the time. Will run out of repair money if this goes on for long. Funniest thing is that my best try was probably the very first one when I didnt even look at tricks on web on how to do it, since then it’s just getting worse and worse… If I wanted a struggle I would have stayed with wow raiding every day hitting my head against the wall 50 times till a boss goes down, but that’s not why I switched to this game …. Still stuck there, will probably give it a few more tries, and than I’ll throw the whole **** out of the window

My advice for this mission would be: don’t revive the NPCs. You’ll just rack up more deaths for yourself, and they’ll die again almost instantly because they don’t try to take cover. It’s not worth the risk. Just assume you’re going to have to solo it.

Focus on pulling one guard behind the pillars at a time and dispatching them. When they’re gone, the NPCs should pop back up automatically, and you can throw everything you have at the Mouth.

It’s not an easy mission in any case and you’ll likely die a few times, but that was what worked best for me.

Anakita Snakecharm.4360:

My advice for this mission would be: don’t revive the NPCs. You’ll just rack up more deaths for yourself, and they’ll die again almost instantly because they don’t try to take cover. It’s not worth the risk. Just assume you’re going to have to solo it.

Focus on pulling one guard behind the pillars at a time and dispatching them. When they’re gone, the NPCs should pop back up automatically, and you can throw everything you have at the Mouth.

It’s not an easy mission in any case and you’ll likely die a few times, but that was what worked best for me.

I’m certainly no authority, but I think you have nailed it: Don’t risk yourself to save your NPC buddies. Instead, stay alive, and try to lure the Spectral enemies off into a secluded spot where you can kill them.

I died many times during that fight as well, had to use the pillar and throw stuff, then hide again. It surprised me when I was doing the story line with an alt, and since I was almost always choosing things differently (on purpose) how easy it was when you took the other option, to shut down the food supply. You wouldn’t think there would be such a vast disparity in difficulty, but it really was VERY easy with that option instead of the locate and kill him one.

I went the stop food supply route and he was very easy. Didn’t know he was this hard if you went the other route. Clear game unbalance there.

Ditto on food supply: no issues whatsoever. In fact, he seemed quite tame, especially compared to normal champions in other story missions. For what it’s worth I was also 80 and had exotic armor/weapon, but I’ve been that through most of the 3rd Act and the “starving” mouth was still easy in comparison.

Yeah, I had no trouble solo-ing most of my personal story – Estate of Decay was by far the hardest mission I ran into. Everything between that and Zhaitan was easy by comparison.

If the other option is easy (I haven’t tried it yet,) it’s definitely a balance issue. I don’t think it’s a player issue when so many people who don’t normally struggle have struggled with this particular one.

I can’t figure out the issue people are having with this mission.
I soloed it on my human warrior without a single death on my first try.
Here are some tips:
Only go ranged. Preferably a weapon with no AOE. I took a riffle.
Stay out of melee range.
Ignore the NPCs they are useless.
Ignore the Orian mobs. They won’t bother you as long as you stay out of agro range and don’t hit them with AOE.
Dodge often and take cover behind the pillar adjacent to the hill whenever required.
Take alot of condition removal skills and don’t stand in the mouths ranged AOE condition attack.
And most importantly: kill the rissen servants that carry food down the hill to feed the mouth; because that heals him in case no one noticed. Expedite them as soon as they start making their way down the hill.
The rest is history.

The trick here is to stay behind the pillar (adjust slightly to kill the floating weapons). It is VITAL that you kill the couriers as they come down the hill to resupply him. If you do that, it’s not that hard.

this was actually kidda fun. I did this on a level 71 engineer and I had to make up stragies against this boss

Reflect his strong attack. Aoe res npc. Use nades often. Condition removal. Use my best heal

Looking back at my post, almost 4 months ago, dang, that was a fun mission, I wish I could replay it now, but since I only had greens and blues at that time and wasn’t as experienced as I am today, it probably would’ve been a lot easier, but I still remember the feeling I got completing it on second try, was really, really great and unusual because the npcs actually seemed like a great party with their AI.

Lets see why do people have trouble with it um well let me guess because of the BS moves that he performs like the lol screw you puke and then insult to injury the couriers keep giving him magic boxes that restore his health to full

So in summary you guys are just lucky and the fight is there just to plain Troll the kitten out of you.

I am doing this for the first time on a 71 mesmer. From behind the pillar (the one just at bottom of hill,) one of my spells ported me through/under the floor— into water— where I get a message that I’ve left the instance. No matter how centered I made myself I was still under floor so it ported me out and I had to start over from beginning. /sigh If you are a mesmer try to use the far pillars just in case this is known bug.

The try before that I let my clones do their thing and they either killed all the little weapons or aggro’d them in such a way that all of them started attacking me all at once. DO NOT DO THAT! If you aggro them all at once they will keep you stunned and knocked down and it’s likely death and retry from checkpoint.

Let the weapons come to you, or try to aggro one at a time. I’m not sure if they come automatically or not.

I got it by trying to keep clones to a minimum— except if a weapon was attacking me— and trying to single target him while dodging goo and those fireball looking casts of his.

If you are a memser this approach is SLOW, because most our good stuff aggros many things.

After a certain amount of weapons come to you, you will get a chance to freely damage him. Your companions will even respawn at that point to help you. I was slow and had to go through two rounds of this.

NOTE: If you get hit with the fireball looking thing it will leave you with confusion. Destroy your clones/recall pets and stop hitting him. It falls off pretty quickly.

Zoria.1392:

Let the weapons come to you, or try to aggro one at a time. I’m not sure if they come automatically or not..

I had to aggro them one at a time. They would just keep circling until I did.

RIP Hekja.

QQ THAT’S ALL I HAVE TO SAY HERE.

I did this a few days ago with my guardian. Couldn’t be bothered with the weapons and couriers — I just equipped a scepter and focus so I could hit him from range, ran in circles to avoid the weapons, and smirked at him from behind my Wall of Reflection when he belched out the triple fireballs, or whatever they are. Once I decided to see if reflect works and saw that it does, it was a cakewalk. Making enemies eat their own projectiles is always so very satisfying. :p

And yeah, poor Hekja.