Guild Wars 2

In a word: Boulders.

My guild and I had our first official dive into the game’s dungeons last night and as such we ran AC Story path.

A fellow Guildy and I were assigned to keeping Vassar away from Relena you see and so we began chucking rocks, as the encounter is designed as far as I can tell. I noticed that the rocks would often fly through Vassar and so we stood on opposite ends, stunlocking him. The result was amusing and frightening as between just Eir and my guildy and myself, we’d over half killed him by the time the rest of my part had killed Relena.

Then we got a wonderful, awful idea.

We all picked up boulders, all 5 of us, and proceeded to run over to King Adelbern. We took positions around him and proceeded to hurt ourselves from laughter. We were able to totally stunlock him into submission by way of boulder-spam. This had been our second trip into the dungeon by this point and we were experimenting with ways to make the fight easier for us.

But this worked so well that on our third trip in we did this elsewhere when it was manageable. With various bosses bouncing in place to hilarious results. Kasha blackblood, a champion troll, and a captain or two were stoned to death like some kind of biblical fable. At a few points we lost a boulder or two to randomness (at one point a boulder somehow attached itself to a ceiling, and did you know that boulders float apparently?) but you only NEED 2 or 3 boulders at most to keep this going.

Unsure of whether we were just being clever or had discovered some kind of exploit, we’ve decided to post about it as well as report it in-game.

Yeah, it can be done, but I don’t think it’s a problem since most people now run story just to be able to open explorable mode.

You only need a single boulder to endless knockdown the immobile mobs in AC story, you just have to be on your game with picking up and throwing. 2 boulders makes it substantially safer. I’ve unlocked explorable mode on all of my alts 30+ with those boulders.

Shhh. It’s the only thing that makes this doable with a group of 30s (not downlevelled 80s but real 30s). Don’t clue the devs in!!

Heh, I laughed at the description of stoning them like some biblical fable. I can hear the sound of lumps of stone smashing them and their ethereal forms flopping on the ground in my head. It makes me laugh at how sad it actually is.

Curious how long it’d take a group to stone the ghosts to death. I’ve never tried it myself.

Leo G.4501:

Curious how long it’d take a group to stone the ghosts to death. I’ve never tried it myself.

It’s actually faster than ignoring the boulders and attempting to straight dps. The boulders themselves do fairly good damage for the downscaling, and render the enemy helpless.

@Leo G
It was hilarious! We were laughing all night. :]

@Sarcasmic
I know, it was pretty abusive, hence our concern. My downscaled elementalist still had like 70+% crit chance thanks to his sigil and the boulders were hitting Vassar for about 700 damage on a crit.