Guild Wars 2

Engineer level 46, full level 45 crafted set of armor and weapons, minor sigil of the engineer x2, marks / jewels in the rest, level appropiate green pistol with sigil of corruption, shield. Usually I play with mine – FT – Elixir R – Supply drop and I’ve exchanged FT with grenade kit for this one since destroyers are immune to burning.

I usually do the story missions 1 level or more under since I like the extra challenge. But this time there were WAY too many destroyers accompanying the Queen. I think it was actually a bug, since the ones I didn’t manage to kill during the initial attack didn’t go away when the Queen appeared. So I had to fight 3-5 Destroyer Trolls, 2-3 D Harpies and lots of crabs. The AoE being thrown around was insane. What’s worse, I as soon as Destroyers got close to me I got burned which was bullkitten, even with throw Elixir R under my feet I still got burns because it didn’t clear fast enough. 4 dodges and all my control weren’t enough to keep them all away from me long enough for even one mob to die. I died about 6 times.

The Destroyer mobs were level 47-48, but that wouldn’t have been a problem if there weren’t so many at the same time. There were 3 D Trolls near the entrance that I could kill at the same time without any problems, but downstairs it was simply hell. The Queen was level 50 but surprisingly she was the weakest mob in the group. She basically died from all the AoE I was throwing at the minions. By the time the last destroyer crab hit the dirt the Queen was at 15% HP.

The allied NPCs were of course, as usual, completely useless. Tybalt died instantly and couldn’t be revived without aggroing.

I’m having the same problem. The queen comes in with the destroyers, which is intended (?) according to the cut scene that says she’s coming early.

Playing as ranger. I pulled everything that could be separated and ones that followed me back after dying and were in small groups. Now I’m going to try running back and dying close to the entrance to see if some stay there and can be separated that way. Npcs are all down and same as above re Tybalt.

This really needs to be looked at for absurd difficulty.

Yay! Super.

I found the trick for the ranger was serially pulling without the pet active. Then tanking the queen with bear pets and staying ranged wasn’t a problem.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The 9/24 update does have some adjustments to this story step. (It wasn’t intended for so many destroyers to be active at once.)

I guess we couldn’t get some preemptive patch notes for all the other juiciness.

Thanks man Even though I’m done with it, it’s nice to see the game is in good hands.

LOL. I thought that quest seemed crazy. I don’t remember all of the details, but in the end I somehow pulled the queen away by herself.

Funny I notice this thread. Just last night I was trying this quest on my lvl 46 Human Ranger. I tried 3 times, then gave up and went to bed. The quest lvl is 47, but the boss is lvl 50??? Insane… absolutely insane…. it was just not doable for me

I solo’d this on my mesmer. It was very challenging, but I found it best to kite around until only 1-3 mobs were attacking you, then use the terrain and mob pathing to wear them down.

This is the personal story quest I had the most difficulty with!

The trick for me was to lure each of the trash mobs (destroyers) away from the queen and take them out first. Then, tackle the queen on her own and avoid the red circles (lava or something, I believe) to the greatest extent possible. She doesnt have many ranged attacks otherwise, so kiting seemed best. The ranged attacks she does have seemed pretty easy to avoid.

Also important to note is that even so much as going up the ramps while fighting the queen can cause her to de aggro and start regenerating her health. This can also happen if you stealth, as a thief, and stay stealthed for the full duration (I think I also had the +1 second stealth trait, fwiw). This was the most frustrating part for me. It seemed sporadic though, and not consistent. None of this seemed to be an issue with the destroyers.

Its good this quest was adjusted, I am very happy to hear that!

Funny, I just did this one last night too. Died only once, but I tried what others did, kite away the destroyers in packs, then blinded to reset the queen. When it came time for the queen, I just kited, evaded and dropped caltrops like a madman.

I agree that one was insane! I barely made it through. I just kept hitting and running. That’s about all you could do or you’d be swarmed over with Destroyers.

No wonder it was so hard! I’m glad you guys are going to be fixing it. =)