Guild Wars 2

Should it take 6 and a half hours to comple 1 path? That is expected of a 10+ man or even a 20 man raid group, granted that if after 2 hours you can stop half way and come back the next day or so and continue from where you left off then yes maybe.
But this dungeon is not set up like that, its a big dungeon and it is definately more than a 5man instance.

Path one the giant worm boss, the mechanice need work. Same for the flubber boss, he sprays a bunch of crap every which direction with limited ways to avoid, theres no sequence in it like a regular puzzle game per say.

The Lui boss which every path has to kill… He is at least 5 times bigger than the player, he clearly moves faster and its quite hard to avoid his bubble 1 shot kill with only 2 dodge rolls. His AOE spray zig zags and even with the red circles on the group which should give you the intention of where to stay away from it still hits you, then he also shoot random ones that hit you anyway. The npcs that remain alive during the first part of the fight tent to run around taking the position of the grub away from the stacking players.

I see anet patch bugs and exploit, but thats awful if they expect 5 people to remain in a dungeon for 6 and a kittenin half hours..Seriously we have lifes too…(can you tell me why this dungeon needs to be frustrating to complete?)

It has a serious overspawn of mobs, that most people try to avoid for 1 hour because its clearly imposible for 5 people to kills an overspawn of spiders. (since theres no tanks – supposedly mechanic in the game) – which by the way doesn’t really work so well.

I can see why most groups get to that point in the game gets frustrated and end up quiting the dungeon, its very expected.

Granted yes the dungeon needs to be challenging, but 6 hours isn’t challenging… Fractals 10+ is challenging but it doesnt take 6 hours to run.

This needs a tweak, some of the bosses need a tweak as well especially Lui, its a big room which he can cover faster than any player. (go figure)

I actually read this post yesterday before I logged into the game. Having not actually run Arah before since I hadn’t gotten to do story yet, I decided to join in on a whim and have to agree, the dungeon seems unforgiving.

Path 1 wasn’t so bad beyond a few bosses you have to figure out. But there’s definitely something wrong with path 4’s boss (the one that turns players to stone and vanishes to heal). Seriously, the amount of prep work, planning and coordination was just stupid compared to anything else I’ve encountered. You have to pile up a bunch of Dwayna’s tears, you have to pull the boss to a certain spot so 2 guys can round up sparks and the rest of the team doesn’t get aggro, you have to put in a certain amount of spark each round, then on top of all that, you MUST be top damage spec otherwise you might not finish.

It took me and my team almost 4(!!!!!) hours on that single boss trying to figure out how to take it down and by the end we all had to stop, respec our traits, put on specific gear and down the best damage food to finally get it down.

There’s seriously something wrong with that fight. It shouldn’t be turning people to stone every 2 seconds requiring a butt load of tears and a dedicated ‘tear person’ to counter. The sparks are idiots and will shoot at you from range if they don’t aggro any random NPC that might be nearby, and you have to practically force them into the designated point to trigger the boss to come out. The boss heals way too fast when she disappears and requires you to gather the sparks again and finally, it’s just kitten poor AI how she starts disappearing faster giving you less chance to fight her and more chance for her to heal.

I normally like a good dungeon crawl and enjoy repeating them on my various characters but I cannot go wasting 4-5 hours on 1 dungeon that doesn’t give any more reward than your random PUG AC.

For the record, I got 0 exotics from that run too which made the night all the more sour.

6+ hours? Just leave. You can’t blame the game devs for an uneducated unfocused group. Honestly that’s terrible. My average in arah is 30-45min, with the exception of p4.