Guild Wars 2

SRSLY, this event has no money. It is broke.

I may not be an ascended player, but I’m a L80 ranger in karma gear or equivalent, and I can’t touch this risen champion (still a champion). Really put a damper on my storyline completion. Why would you guys assume that a storyline event would involve multiple players? Am I doing this wrong? Isn’t this my story? Like something I should complete when my buds are not around?

At least it’s not just me! I’m playing a L66 Ranger and died 7 or 8 times before giving up on this for the night.

Once where I got him 80% killed, and then he ran back & reset!! [insert massive frustration sounds here]. By that time all my NPC buds were dead & if I tried to rez them, I’d just get attacked & killed.

That is so unfair, why does the enemy get to insta heal but not the NPCs?

This seems to have been corrected now, or maybe I got lucky, but success either way.

Aerlen.5326:

That is so unfair, why does the enemy get to insta heal but not the NPCs?

seems to be exactly the same to me.

pizza.9506:

This seems to have been corrected now, or maybe I got lucky, but success either way.

I did it a few hours ago after a patch and it was a lot better. Nowhere near as many locust swarms and the NPC’s didn’t all instantly die, so don’t know if it was patched or I got lucky but it seems to be fixed now.

After died about 20 times i logged out and came here. Logged in again and tried until have success.

Reading the post i really don’t believe there is a bug.

I think you should just use the item provided by the NPC you recruited before. To me was the vacuum.

Try spam 1, 1, 1 to charge up. Spam 2 to enable the 3 skill. If the Champion get closer alone spam 4 to kick and if it swarms spam 5. Use 3 to bring his life down.

Repeat the process again and again :-p

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mukudZ.5389:

After died about 20 times i logged out and came here. Logged in again and tried until have success.

Reading the post i really don’t believe there is a bug.

I think you should just use the item provided by the NPC you recruited before. To me was the vacuum.

Try spam 1, 1, 1 to charge up. Spam 2 to enable the 3 skill. If the Champion get closer alone spam 4 to kick and if it swarms spam 5. Use 3 to bring his life down.

Repeat the process again and again :-p

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Well fantastic for you. I chose the 2 Charr warriors… and guess what? They DIE, like all the other NPCs that try to ‘help’ with this personal story.

Rosebee.6534:

Well fantastic for you. I chose the 2 Charr warriors… and guess what? They DIE, like all the other NPCs that try to ‘help’ with this personal story.

U mad bro?

I just posted the process that worked for my thief. I never played with another class, so I can not guarantee that the process will work with the other. But it seemed to me that the difficulty is exaggerated to compel you to use the quest item (which in my case was given by Professor Gorr, but you should ask him).

And at any moment I said it would be easy! I had to run, dodge and heal me at all times while following the process described above.

No need to rage

Not raging. I’m truly glad you were able to make it work! I’m still struggling. And I find that frustrating because I feel that a personal story should be able to be completed solo. That doesn’t seem possible for me right now.

For others who have the same order and made the same choice, I’m glad you were able to share the hints that made it work for you.

No item given to me. Just 2 Charr warriors and a crapload of dying. I barely even recall this encounter in my other 2 toons but now, it’s nearly impossible to kill it alone.

“Attack champ —> champ teleports around + summon swarms —> all NPCs die in 5 seconds —> Locust swarms me —> use invisible and still being followed/damaged..then I die.”

Even if I do manage to hold my own for a little long, the boss regens HP like crazy as soon as he summons more stupid locusts. Why should I be forced to play with other people just so I can finish this low-reward PERSONAL story quest?

FINALLY! I got this last night. Two of my NPCs didn’t die immediately. One made it 2/3rds of the way through the Champ’s hp, the other 3/4. I killed the champ from a downed position, but he finally died! The rest of the quest was a cakewalk after that first bit.

I play a ranger, and my pet was trying to revive me (aka heal me from the locust storms) while I finished killing the darn champion. If I hadn’t had the pet to help like that, I would’ve died before I could’ve killed him. I was level 68 with level 65-68 armor

And this is supposed to be a level 59 quest? Yeah, right!

I can’t seem to beat this guy. Not even close. The swarm does insane damage and I don’t have time to help up the NPC’s which seems to just die or stand in the swarms. I tried a few different weapons and builds and even leveled 4-5 levels and try again but I’m not getting a dent in this guy.

The similar guy before this quest was hard too but there was much more room to move around in so you could always be ranged and stay out of the swarms.

I really do hope this is going to be fixed soon otherwize I’m gonna be stuck in my story.

I did this quest a couple weeks ago with my 65 engie. Took me about 6 tries but in the end I found it helpful to stay far away, let him hit the npcs and toss grenades at him. I think the vulnerability stacks (20 ish) helped the npcs do some damage.

Before they changed the champion mob, I pretty easily beat the story mission on necro, warrior, thief, and ranger. After they changed it, I beat it alright on my engie and mesmer, BUT I encountered the resetting issue time and time again when I tried on my guardian and ele. In the end, I got a guildie to help me on my guardian. As for the ele try, I ended up having to stack might with my fire spells and then use my ice bow to get him and the locusts down before they could kill me to death.

This is a definite pain in the butt, and that fix for it needs to go in.

Dude, can you fix this stupid mob anytime soon and punch the guy who thought it was a good idea to put an unavoidable champion with OP abilities in a story quest right in the face? And please kick him a couple of times in the groin, while you’re at it. One kick for each time a player died to this ridiculously stupid designed minion seems appropriate.

18 days. What the hell, Anet? This is ridiculous, it shouldn’t be that hard to implement your fix to your stupid mistake.

I beat him today with no real effort – felt kind of strange but I’m finally back on my story.

At this moment this champion is still unkillable for me, just got beat down by him several times in a row and finally decided to look him up and found this forum on him. Now that I know he is actually broken right now I can relax, thought it was something I was doing wrong.

Just went full on Toughness/Healing at lv74 Guardian and im dead within 30seconds, NPCs are pretty much 1 shot lol

This guy gave me a serious beatdown the first time I tried him. What I noticed though was my NPC Doern (Order of Whispers – not sure if he’s order-specific or if everyone gets him for this fight) does tank the champ awesomely – all my other NPCs (Benn Tenstrikes’ crew) died in 2-3 hits but Doern stayed up awhile fighting the champ. So I respec’ed for pure damage – loaded all my utilities with stuff to help my burst, and tried again. I was able to kill him this time again with Doern taking most of the damage, I just burned him down faster. Somehow this brute-force method worked. Sorry for those still struggling… just figured I’d put what worked for me.

I tried this story mission again today with a friend. I’m a level 80 warrior and he’s a level 63 elementalist. We both were owned by the champ plaguebearer and his locust swarms repeatedly. If the plan is to downgrade to a veteran, the fix hasn’t found its way into a patch yet. Come on, ANet, this is getting serious. You’ve had 2 patches since the post about the fix went up 18 days ago. This is really frustrating for a lot of people. Please push this into the forefront for necessary immediate fixes. It’s no fun playing a broken game.

Stuck at this quest with my level 62 warrior (in tanky traits and gear). If i melee him I die in seconds. If I try to kite him with a ranged weapon he resets and fully heals up. Please Anet fix this guy so we can advance with our character’s personal story.

Dear GW2 Staff:

Whomever did this, please fire him. After you fire him, rehire him, and fire him again. After you do THAT, rehire him one more time, and FIRE HIM AGAIN.

I know that sounds nonsensical, but you know how job applications ask for your last three places of employment, and why you left?

All three of them deserve to say FIRED, for whomever did this. He or she should not work in the game industry ever again. This is a game-breaking tier f*** up. Some person broke your game. It is unplayable. THE MAIN STORY CONTENT IS CURRENTLY BROKEN, AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER A MONTH.

PLEASE ensure that they are never employed in games again.

I’ve never gotten this far in the story before. I will literally never get to see this content if this problem isn’t fixed, unless I go limp, defeated, to the bowels of youtube to watch some crappy LP.

I didn’t pay $60 for this game to NOT GET THROUGH THE STORY ONE SINGLE TIME. Okay?

Thank you.

Just got in this part with one of my alts. Still bugged , can’t do a thing. NPCs die way too quickly and he heals off of them. Can’t solo him after they are dead , he resets at about half health left. Any news on a fix?

Sorry, I just did it with a Necro and he was easy. Keep trying?

Rhaegar.1203:

Sorry, I just did it with a Necro and he was easy. Keep trying?

Me and many people have failed with 80 level friends helping them. How did you do it? With the NPCweapon?

It’s funny, I just went there like 1 hour after reading this thread, when I realized I was fighting him, I said “Wait, what’s the big deal?”. He was just a regular champion, dangerous, but not fatal. The NPCs did help a lot.

Oh, he did down me when he was 1% and I rallied seconds after.

Sorry, for real, I did nothing special.

same problem here. cannot kill him he resets at half health and hits way too hard, cant continue my story.

I did it without too much difficulty. Here’s my situation: lvl 60 Norn Engineer, kitted out in approximate lvl greens and a lvl 50 yellow or 2. i had the 2 Charr recruited. I talked to Snarl (the Ash legion Charr), and took the ghostbore gun he had, set it up (this probably helps a lot), dropped my own gun turret, and a healing turret, then used my flame thrower. Now, here’s something else that could help: I did not kite him to the end of the platform (our starting end), but made sure to stay at least 1/3 of the way in (towards the beacon), that way he wouldn’t leash and reset. I suspect he has a very short leash, which could explain the resets people experience. A few of the NPCs died, but not that many. I can see other classes having a hard time, though.

As an aside: this is not the 1st time that changes outside the PS affect the PS in a very bad way. Please, for the love of all that is holy (and unholy) would the people that make these changes PLEASE check out if their changes affect the Personal Story? One would expect that this lesson would be learned by now. It’s very annoying for us players.

From today’s patchnotes :

Personal Story

• “Retribution”: Reduced difficulty of the Risen Plaguebearer.

Anyone tried it after the patch?

Kleevah.8095:

From today’s patchnotes :

Personal Story

• “Retribution”: Reduced difficulty of the Risen Plaguebearer.

Anyone tried it after the patch?

Yes, they’ve reduced the Risen Plaguebearer to “Veteran” difficulty, now he doesn’t cause any problems.