Guild Wars 2

what causes this and how can I avoid it?

the norm causes this, he shoots out oil from his gun which causes the fumes. they’re a little deadly though he uses sparky to light the oil which causes the fumes to be deadlier.
to avoid this your party or you will have the ooze scent over your chacracter, lead the ooze towards those oil spills that the norn shoots out so that the ooze can eat/absorb them. it doesn’t matter if they’re on fire either, the ooze will still eat/absorb it. – the little ooze scent symbol above your head will change from party member to party member so make sure that they know to lead the ooze towards the oil.

- you’ll hear him say something about the ooze eating the oil spills

when looses half his health he shoots those oil spills out more often.

No I am talking about the green debuff over your character that does damage over time. It does a lot of damages and it what is leading to wipes.

What Klonex said is correct. You need to get rid of the oil spils fast enough or youll die from unavoidable fumes.

the debuff) – the green debuff is caused because of the oil spills, it does damage to your character over time and won’t go away until the oil spills are cleaned up. if the norn continues to shoot them out then the debuff starts to stack and your party can be killed quite easily.

Does it have a range so you can get away from it at least? Seems to hit everywhere.

Have 1 person solely clean up the oil by getting the buff and kiting the ooze to oil, ideally a range weapon user so they can still dps bosses.

Oh I see now. Thank you I didn’t understand at first. Our party thought we could just kite the ooze, and only kill up the spills if they were in the way. Obviously you see our problem.

Nilkemia.8507:

Does it have a range so you can get away from it at least? Seems to hit everywhere.

nope, it’s pretty much everywhere.

Aajolea.8132:

Have 1 person solely clean up the oil by getting the buff and kiting the ooze to oil, ideally a range weapon user so they can still dps bosses.

mhm, i’ve noticed that this dungeon is super ranger friendly. a lot of it is needed. for my party the ooze scent would switch from person to person, so it was a little harder though we did manage to do it.

More than one person can get the ooze scent. I think the Norn speeds up when his friend dies so that’s when the oil fumes can really mount up.