Guild Wars 2

In the penultimate act of this mission, you have to sabotage three catapults and then clear out the rest of the shore defences. By the time I got to the second catapult, there were probably about 50-60 mobs around me and my allies. We all died very swiftly.

I restarted some way back down the beach and quickly took off all my armour, realising that I would inevitably die repeatedly and the only thing to try to salvage was the repair bill. The mobs came right for the checkpoint, and the rest of the battle was me standing there in my underwear, dying in a matter of seconds, and restarting again in the same spot. It was sort of like god mode, but also infuriating.

Is this some kind of bugged instance where far more enemies spawned than should have? What makes it even more infuriating is the amount of interrupt/force-move attacks the Risen mobs have. I couldn’t fire off a single ‘slow’ attack because it would be interrupted. I was pulled this way and that, and then repeatedly made to run away from them with that floaty black skull over my head. They had more control over my character than I did!

To add insult to injury, when you’ve completed the mission, Trahearne storms the beach with a massive assault force that would’ve have been very useful when we were outnumbered 10 to 1 back there.

I believe you’re meant to strategically use the bombs strewn about the area to take out the larger groups, without running in head-first. Assuming it’s the mission I recall, at least!

Yeah. The demolitionist guy or whoever drops about 5 signal flares, you throw them at the big mobs for the people on the ships to blow up.

Garenthal.1480:

I believe you’re meant to strategically use the bombs strewn about the area to take out the larger groups, without running in head-first. Assuming it’s the mission I recall, at least!

I wish they could be a little clearer on that. I remember those, but thought I was meant to use them to help take down the catapults, seeing as that’s what we’d spent the whole mission attacking up until then!