Guild Wars 2

It doesn’t make any sense. Those elementalists and rangers are way way harder than anything you find in AC Explorable. Why did you make Story mode the hard part and explorable the easy one?

Dont you like it? Thats means more runs for you.

Story mode in AC is harder than explorable? What a laugh.

I spent several gold trying to make Hodgin survive the Shelks. We tried countless times until the group fell apart because of the impossible difficulty.

First run in AC story my PUG wiped hard and disintegrated.
Second run, my PUG wiped several times and disintegrated after the first real boss.
Third time was a total breeze. The only difficult part was the lovers. Rangers are easy once you know what to look for when they use their spike traps. Elementalists are pushovers as long as you don’t stand in the middle of their AoE attacks. If you have a thief with an off hand pistol, have them spam headshot and black powder as much as possible, especially for bosses (but not on the king as he seems immune to both blind and stun). It makes a huge difference.

runeblade.7514:

Story mode in AC is harder than explorable? What a laugh.

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prophet.3461:

runeblade.7514:

Story mode in AC is harder than explorable? What a laugh.

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Thirded.

It has the same trash enemies, except you get to fight them 4 at a time sometimes instead of 2 or 3. Add to that bosses that can wipe your whole party instantly and brutally hard events, and story mode, while hard, is nowhere near as hard as explorable.

This really made me laugh. AC Story is easy compared to Explorable mode. I was told you had to do Story first before Explorable but I hit AC late and did Explorable first at level 36 and finished it after several wipes.

I then decided to do Story since I wanted to experience that run and I was like wow what a difference. I’ve since then done about 8 AC Explorable runs with 5 successful runs against the GhostEaster(easiest final boss)

AC explorer 2nd route is the easiest for me.
My team spent around 2 hours to clear the first route, being most of the time spent in that 6 burrows. The second route is the easiest one and it was like “What? cleared?”. The third route is also a nightmare. We spent more than 2 hours in that burrowsssssss stage alone.
But I think the difficulty is fine, we had a lot of discussion about tactics. This is fun for me.
What is not fun is the reward. 30 tears + crappy equipment. Also, I really got nothing for clearing all routes of the AC, except for the 110k exp on my last route. Come on, I don’t play AC for leveling.