Guild Wars 2

I’m really angry at the moment. I got hit twice with a bug during the story already (when you destroy the eggs, sometimes the next round failed to break). This warrior managed to get killed so often by the crabs that spawn after the crablings that all of her armor broke off. Seeing as I thought that was strange, I decided to check what kind of damage she was getting. The screenshot speaks for itself. She was giving out around 100 dmg (haven’t upgraded her weapons yet) but the crab…

Hey devs? How is this fair?

Yup. That who quest arc is pretty much a death machine.

1) For the stage about the destroyer crab eggs, you really have to find a long range attack to kill them before you enter their spawn radius. I know that it’s annoying, but you really don’t want to try and melee them unless you want to constantly die. This was something that I learned the hard way.

2) The general difficulty of this arc seems to assume that you’re probably in Rare (aka Yellow) gear that’s around your current level. If you’re not in something that hard core, then you’d going to have issues.

3) Then the quest stage after the destroyer eggs gets even more painful. Expect to be zerged with destroyer mobs and their AoE effects. Your NPC helpers will be quickly slaughtered off in areas that you can’t easily reach to revive them. Then you’ll be expected to solo your way through the trash mob hordes and the eventually Champion destroyer crab at the end. There was a LOT of swearing, deaths, and gear bills by the time that I was done.

4) The general difficulty has always seemed really off for this quest arc when compared to the content before and after this point. While some character builds don’t have any issues, other builds just get slaughtered in there.

5) As a general word of advice, take someone with you. Ask your guild for help or go into Lion’s Arch and beg for assistance. You’ll likely find someone who remembers just how painful this quest arc was. I’m always happy to squish this arc with one of my geared out 80th characters. (Disclaimer: When the game launched, it would bug out the quest series if you ran it with another character who chose the skritt arc in the past. Make sure that the person helping you never went through the skritt content on the character that they are using.)

Best of luck to you. If you ever need help, don’t be afraid to send me a PM. Assuming that you’re on the NA server cluster, I’d be happy to watch your back for that quest arc.

Thanks Wiser but * points to sig *. I’d love the option to swap, though.

What kitten me off the most was that Anaxandra was in rares but ran out of money to upgrade her weapons. She STILL melted faster than ice cream in the sun.

So true. The AoE effects from the destroyer mob types aren’t that big of a deal to my Warrior who uses their Signet & traits for constant health regeneration. If I had originally taken my defensive Hammer Warrior on that arc, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. Yet I took my Thief who is built around AoE control effects that can’t deal with destroyers very well. I was like a paper tiger and was getting constantly shredded into tissue paper.

Depending on your class and specific character spec, this arc is a nightmare. Just ask for help and someone should be able to help you stomp through this thing. It’s really a shame. I love the skritt story line and the much later appearance of your aided race (aka skritt in this case) has some really funny moments with the skritt NPCs.