So lesson for today is read the forums more.
Decided to run some SE today.
Path one, bazillion mobs running at us. We spent some time hacking through them, after a few eventual wipes i did some google-fo and found path one is bugged.
Np’s we’ll do another path, enter path 2.
Never done it before but we got all the way to the last boss and proceeded to attack his golems. (note – we did pay attention to the buffs so knew it was a target swap fight) only to have me (the guardian) pounded by static field after static field. Sure the first one hurt so I started dodging out. Dodge, dodge .. oh crap no end run. dodge … run .. dead. Really? The golem just stood there chain casting them on me all the while mark I was on my kitten 100% of the time. Couple more attempts trying to use feedback and reflect walls and we did a little better.
Pretty much as soon as my wall is down i am toast. The rest of the group can stand in the Avenger shield for 20s however i cant since mark I is on my kitten 1400 dmg a tick, if you have a dodge you can avoid all damage id you pay attention which seems fair. If you dont have end even moving as the attack lands will net you 2-3 pulses. ~5K dmg. Since the bugger seems to focus ONE person at a time theres just no way you can dodge everything and you do get downed. Of course downed sounds all nice and you can get a hand right? Nope, since the bugger will continue to pound you so people cant get near you b/c of the 3 overlapping fields. Joy.
So some more google-fo reveals to me that apparently the general opinion is this boss has been WAY over tuned. The few vid’s i found show people dancing around in the fields taking next to no dmg so obviously pre-patch and yes, it looked very trivial that you could pretty much ignore the fields. But there is a middle ground between ignore that mechanic and that mechanic causes tons of dmg and is fired off continually. Maby A-net needs to try middle grounds?
So lesson learned. Before we decide to run any more dungeons first order of the day is to check the forums and see which ones A-net has screwed up first so we dont waste our time.
Cheers forum people, in future i’ll seek wisdom here before I go pound face on something.