Guild Wars 2

Hello,

at first i want to mention that this first raid wing was imo the best content that was ever added to this game, thanks for this and keep up the great work!
However, there are some weakspots or oversights that i want to address here because I dont want raids to turn into dungeons 2.0, where you could just ignore boss mechanics.

At valeguardian it is possible to ignore the damage that occurs if you fail to send 4 players to the green light by simply using invulnerability. While using skills to avoid damage is generally a good thing, i think it should not be possible to bypass core mechanics of a boss fight.
Instead, the damage from the green light should counter even hard invulnerability, just like the world eater attack from gorseval or the flamewall of sabetha. It could even be instant kill to make failing a bit more punishing, however since it’s the first raidboss I don’t really care that much as long as you cannot simply ignore the green circles.

At gorseval you can ignore all the updrafts by doing enough dps to phase him to 66/33% life before he finishes his first world eater attack. However, pulling Gorseval to the wall, getting the wall cleaved and taking an updraft to escape the worldeater attack is a core mechanics of the fight and imo it should not be possible to ignore it.
A solution would be that if you phase Gorseval before he finishes his first worldeater attack of each phase, he still will do it even when he is invulnerable, so you are forced to take one updraft in each phase.

Why do you feel its necessary to punish people who can dps Gorseval down fast enough to avoid his world eater.

Okhu.7948:

Why do you feel its necessary to punish people who can dps Gorseval down fast enough to avoid his world eater.

Because, like I said, you can bypass a core mechanics of the fight with this. Furthermore, there is not much skill involved in stacking as many condi warriors as possible and spamming F1 all day long. Ofc you have to dodge the basic attacks of Gorseval and know what’s going on, but you have to do this anyway if you want to succeed.
We had this already in dungeons where you could kill bosses before they even were doing their attacks, and it just got boring after a while.