Guild Wars 2

After reading some threads on the forum today, me and my irl buddy had a random discussion about AC difficulty at work and we jokingly thought that maybe we could duo it. Well a cig and a few workhours later we decided to give it a shot. Here’s the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYcWNcOr6hU

It took us one attempt to clear the whole thing and we didn’t wipe once, we had to do the burrow part 3 times, because the NPC died on first two tries.

Anyways sorry about the potato video quality/some parts missing, first time using bandicam and I was a bit lazy to use anything other than windows movie maker to put these clips together.

You can probably get some tips/tactics from this video as well.
Enjoy.

P.S. Had to cut the original sound, since obviously if you listen to some random artist while playing makes it unavailable for 200+ countries.

To comment a bit from my side, it was rather nice. The idea started as people were saying dungeons are awfully difficult and kind of grew to a “Let’s try something different” sort of challenge.

At first, it felt like something to try in near future but somehow we ended up giving it a go the same evening.

Why path 1 and AC? Well, we wanted to 2-man it and the mechanics of this specific path seemed most suitable for it. I know some people do solo-runs and pick up fillers for specific locations, but in my eyes, that’s semi-cheating. :P
On why we tackled AC, we are both quite familiar with the place and have had the chance to fine-tune our tactics.

Regarding the run itself, we had to pace ourselves a bit not to pull too many mobs at once. Main tactics were quite straightforward, stay alive and keep going.

• Spider Queen: mow down gargoyle heads and spiders, avoid poison AoE and pewpew away.
• Kholer: avoid the spin (you can predict it rather nicely). If you get hit by it and pulled closed to him, stun-break and dodge away or mitigate it (I use death shroud quite often there, if I manage to time my dodge badly)
• Burrows: this place took a few attempts. There’s a pretty good pattern for clearing the burrows to avoid getting too many gravelings on the map.
• Scepter pieces: stability is your friend, so are fears, stealth, whatever you can bring that allows you to grab the pieces and not get killed.
• Final boss: clear breeders beforehand (you really don’t want to pull a breeder while focusing on the big guy), use your interrupts and profit. For this run, I used staff #5 and Doom to interrupt his soul scream and summoning parts. He does a nice wiggly dance before both, so it’s quite easy to predict. Scream dance lasts longer.

We were both on voice chat and coordinated via that. And we are actively considering on what challenge we should tackle next.

Cool accomplishment and all, but AC is not the dungeon people are complaining about with difficulty (Not to mention path 1 since its by far the easiest to do with less than 5 people). Go Duo something like SE and then you’ll impress me.

Parisalchuk.9230, re-read this forum. AC is among the most complained about. sadly it literally is among the easiest so this just shows you how sad alot of players are. i’m not sure the point of your knee jerk post, there’s often multple QQ posts about AC on the front page of this forum.

and your SE comment is pretty foolish. that can be solo’d by some classes and it is an easy duo.

I don’t know why AC gets all the complaints, sure it got some really annoying bugs with NPC triggers not trigging, but I clear that place daily with pugs.

SOMETHING LIKE SE… as in higher level, more difficult.

I would like to see AC path 3 done as a duo. I couldn’t get past that DPS check event. =/

As I said, we’re open to new challenges. And I’m sure we’ll try tackling higher level dungeons as well. This was the perfect place for starting out, just to see how’d it go.

And from what I see, the video we got has some nice tactics, ideas and approaches, which can make life in AC a lot easier. So maybe someone finds it of use and motivates people into trying out stuff, just because “why not?”. Challenges are really motivating.

Parisalchuk.9230:

SOMETHING LIKE SE… as in higher level, more difficult.

SE is easier than AC though, as a re several higher level ones(HotW, TA about the same). your post was a knee jerk post, don’t really know the reason though. CoE, CM and Arah would qualify…but all 3 have at least one solo/duo video already.