Guild Wars 2

so I’m posting here to get some help on what seems to be a great mystery to anyone I have talked with in game. I am a mace/shield guardian(although I scepter my hits to teq.) I am in full exotic armor(clerical backed by dolyak runes) I have an ascended mace(clerical Stats) and an exotic shield(clerical stats). my accessories are toughness/healing power/power based and 2 are exotics 3 are ascended. I am constantly getting 1 hit killed at teq. there is no warning, there is no dodging, there is no red circle when this happens. I am frustrated with spending most of the fight swimming/running back to the fight as I am in heavy armor and thus run slow. it seems unfair to me to contest the close wp by 1 hit kills, thus forcing a 1 minute+ run from the far wp. what can I do to prevent these 1 hit kills from happening? they don’t happen anywhere but here. please only useful information here in this thread, if its not helpful don’t post it.

It could be helpful to check your combat log to see specifically what power is hitting you. If you can pinpoint what is hitting you, perhaps folks here can give some advice on how to prevent it.

Are you perhaps being stomped on?

Ihave no log to check not sure if its an unclicked menu option or what. it happens both behind and out front of the turrets. I am outside of his tomp/wave attack range. it also isn’t the mobs that kamikaze and cause condition bomb effects.

I can think of two things it might be: Tequatl is stepping on you, his stomp can do lethal damage or krait dying near you, some of them do an AoE explosion upon death with a subtle animation and instant massive damage.

You are probably standing next to the bloated risen norns that explode like banelings.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloated_Creeper

Warlock.7136:

Ihave no log to check not sure if its an unclicked menu option or what. it happens both behind and out front of the turrets. I am outside of his tomp/wave attack range. it also isn’t the mobs that kamikaze and cause condition bomb effects.

In the chat menu, there are options to create different tabs. In addition to that, you can select what each tab menu will show (i.e. Combat log, loot, emotes, etc.)

it is not the norn things,i called these kamikaze condition bombs in a previous post, and i’m no where near one when it happens and it can’t be teq as I explained that I am out of range of teqs stomp/wave/breathe weapon. aka I am defending turrets not in dmg zerg. I read on a similar thread to this that when another player was having problems with this he was checking his combat log and it was telling him “unknown source of damage hits you for…”

Warlock.7136:

it is not the norn things i’m no where near one when it happens and it can’t be teq as I explained that I am out of range of teqs stomp/wave/breathe weapon. aka I am defending turrets not in dmg zerg. I read on a similar thread to this that when another player was having problems with this he was checking his combat log and it was telling him “unknown source of damage hits you for…”

Its not the bloated creepers or teq killing you, you are defending the turrets so you are fighting the krait and some of them will explode upon death for massive damage. You either have to move away from them when they are about to die, blind them right before they die, or dodge right as they die.

*or as a guardian maybe try aegis or blocking, not sure if you can block it though.

That sir is what we call a rolfstomp, I am sorry you had to experience this.

The krait in that area scales insane, since february patch. Reported, nothing happened, that means is working as intended.

Everyone gets one-shotted there

It’s the krait, as people has said.

I think the idea is to increase the excitement by getting you into a downed state. Unfortunately the moment you are stationary, you usually always die.

I consider this to be ‘grief design’, as really there is little the player can do to avoid such random killings, except stay well away from dying vets – which is not really a possibly in that area. I also consider this cheating, as such vets do not normally do this in PvE (or at least never noticed if they do).