Guild Wars 2

I’m playing a human thief, decided to abandon Quinn (I know, I’m cruel!) and now I have to face Doc Howler. Alone. Quinn not there, Logan is hiding, waiting for Pete to appear (oh, Logan retreating, does it sound somehow familiar?)

Now, what are your suggestions to beat her? The raw damage is no problem at all; the real problem are the conditions. I can remove the poison with Hide in Shadows, sure, problem is, i will get it reapplied in the next 3 seconds, even dodging and using the rest of the evades of thief, and before the cooldown of my healing is out, i will be long dead.

This is by far the most difficult boss I’ve met until now, and I’ve already completed a whole storyline with a Ranger Sylvari and almost completed one with a Guardian Norn. The only time I had a similar difficulty (yet I succeeded in soloing it) was with “Striking Off the Chains”. Oh, they patched it, you say? Too bad -_-

So, either I’m missing some very simple way of avoiding the tons of condition damage, or there’s something wrong with this boss. Suggestions?

Sword mainhand. Save your initiative for infiltrator’s strike and shadow return, and you should be able to cleanse the poison before it drags you down. I can’t remember if Doc “I’m a dangerous woman” Howler buffs herself: if she does, take dagger offhand for flanking strike. Otherwise take pistol offhand and pistolwhip her if you have the initiative.

Good luck? Doc Howler is absurdly difficult, your best bet is coming back when you have better skills and equipment.

Otherwise, she’s not that good in Melee, so get in close and stick to her flank and back; use Caltrops to keep her bleeding, stun her with a sword bash, backstab the living hell out of her and use your own skills/poisons to lay as many conditions on her as possible.

I completely forgot about the “cure one condition” part of Shadow Return! I will try it this this evening.

Doc really needs a slight nerf…. She’s been hitting her steroid supply WAY to hard. ^.-

Doc howler is super easy, i took her in first try with NO problems

Get some friends?