Guild Wars 2

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You gonna have people asking how did you kill simin and when they find out you just dps her down attacking thin air, they gonna tell you your title is less legit ;P

Lol! Maybe so. Believe it or not, I did not find path 4 to be the hardest but path 1 was.. especially because I was a warrior without much condition removal. That aside, I am not sure what the fuss is all about with simin. Did they change something?

Yep, we have few threads already how broken he is because she now gets Determined buff (invulnerability) when going stealth. It’s still doable with decent teammates, you just can’t kill her by hitting thin air.

And we’re kinda similiar. I did path 1 as my last one but that’s because I had to repeat it few times because npc died during last fight

Determined buff? That does change things. I guess I have to watch that video someone posted in case I plan to do it again.

You can’t attack her while she heals.

You could before. That’s when I did it. I just saw that video. Its was a dps race then and its still a dps race now

SnowflakeJake.1645:

You could before. That’s when I did it. I just saw that video. Its was a dps race then and its still a dps race now

It’s not a dps race. It’s a race with sparks. And it probably was never intended as dps race seeing how anet fixed that.

haviz.1340:

SnowflakeJake.1645:

You could before. That’s when I did it. I just saw that video. Its was a dps race then and its still a dps race now

It’s not a dps race. It’s a race with sparks. And it probably was never intended as dps race seeing how anet fixed that.

Its whatever you choose to do, we chose dps-way, and it was a race for dps, if you choose to run sparks its a race with sparks…
In my opinion if the team has the potential damage, why even bother with glitchy sparks.
Last but not least, just yesterday I heard you can get simin bugged like subject alpha then she just stands there and does nothing and you have all time in the world to kill her unless you unbug her with some cc.
So is the boss working as inteded? Definitely not. The boss is broken as —--, and i am for certain more ppl kill her with dps-way or bug-way rather than to bother with glitchy sparks.

The problem with dps race is that it was fixed. You know need a very specific team composition to kill her from 50% to 0% in one sweep.

Bugging bosses is very common bug, doesn’t include simin and alpha only.

haviz.1340:

The problem with dps race is that it was fixed. You know need a very specific team composition to kill her from 50% to 0% in one sweep.

Bugging bosses is very common bug, doesn’t include simin and alpha only.

It wasnt fixed… place four sparks, put last at 50% and then dps her down on one go. Very easy. We had thief, ranger, necro, berserk warrior and mesmer. After we bought 10/10 tonics and dps food. It wasnt a problem to bring her down on one go.

Bartho.7896:

It wasnt fixed… place four sparks, put last at 50% and then dps her down on one go. Very easy. We had thief, ranger, necro, berserk warrior and mesmer. After we bought 10/10 tonics and dps food. It wasnt a problem to bring her down on one go.

I was referring to different strategy, not this one.

haviz.1340:

Bartho.7896:

It wasnt fixed… place four sparks, put last at 50% and then dps her down on one go. Very easy. We had thief, ranger, necro, berserk warrior and mesmer. After we bought 10/10 tonics and dps food. It wasnt a problem to bring her down on one go.

I was referring to different strategy, not this one.

I know you were referring to the dpsing her while she is invisible. That was fixxed, yet that doesnt mean the dps way itself was fixed….
Ppl including me still do dps way. And ppl can even get her BUGGED and she does nothing! Dont say the boss its okay, when its one of the most buggy bosses ingame.

EDIT: In the end I dont really care, i got my title and dont intend to rerun that path its just too long and boring. Prefer p1 and p3 by a longshot. Yet I think its unfair towards ppl who do her the regular way and have to deal with glitchy sparks. And others walk away after 2min cause she got bugged, or dps her down like searing effigy pre-patch.

A lot of bosses can be bugged, does that mean they all are broken? You also can’t bug them reliably.

haviz.1340:

A lot of bosses can be bugged, does that mean they all are broken? You also can’t bug them reliably.

Sooo your argument is that bcs other bosses can be bugged its okay to bug simin? :p good job

Bartho.7896:

haviz.1340:

A lot of bosses can be bugged, does that mean they all are broken? You also can’t bug them reliably.

Sooo your argument is that bcs other bosses can be bugged its okay to bug simin? :p good job

Have I really said that? But enough of offtopic, I can already sense moderator nearby

Now u r gonna be flooded with ppl tagging u to do path 4 Simin. Or cof path 3.
I like to keep it quiet…oh crap no I didn’t lol.

Whit a DPS team its cake.First time I did it We’ve managed to take it down in less than 2 mins once we’ve learned the mechanic well .So I wouldn’t say its the hardest boss.Get some BS thieves in there you’ll see how fast it goes down.
Sparks are not always reliable and a lot of things can go wrong but theres a lot you can do to minimise that too.So if nothing goes wrong it can be pretty fast.

Welcome to the master club I gotten mine quite a while ago (see signature) it’s a nice feeling to have achieved all that Well done!

It’s a shame you did it with PuGs, it was far more challenging but also more fun to come up with tactics yourself because they simply weren’t around in the first month of the game. With lower level characters and blue/green underleveled gear. So much fun I miss that time when it was all new and people didn’t skip everything.

NightyNight.1823:

Whit a DPS team its cake.First time I did it We’ve managed to take it down in less than 2 mins once we’ve learned the mechanic well .So I wouldn’t say its the hardest boss.Get some BS thieves in there you’ll see how fast it goes down.
Sparks are not always reliable and a lot of things can go wrong but theres a lot you can do to minimise that too.So if nothing goes wrong it can be pretty fast.

Finally someone who understands what the problem with this boss is.
DPS-way >>>> Sparks running. And it shouldn’t be that way. Boss is not working as intended.

Once you get the grip on it, have the right builds, you can dps simin down every time in less than 2minutes.
While ppl who run the sparks will still have to do it for 10-15min cca. Even if they are good in it and do the boss the way anet intended it.

Fay.2735:

Welcome to the master club I gotten mine quite a while ago (see signature) it’s a nice feeling to have achieved all that Well done!

It’s a shame you did it with PuGs, it was far more challenging but also more fun to come up with tactics yourself because they simply weren’t around in the first month of the game. With lower level characters and blue/green underleveled gear. So much fun I miss that time when it was all new and people didn’t skip everything.

Thanks for the appreciation. The disadvantage of puging is people leaving when things get hard. I did AC in the first month too and we would manage to kill Kohler in 1 out of 5 groups. Every time, I had to explain how the boss works and even then people would not know what to do. Then they would try weird tricks like pulling him into the water… My first group in Arah kept dying at lupicus and ultimately did it after pulling him all the way to a waypoint 0_0

I did wish many times for a dedicated group.

Bartho.7896:

NightyNight.1823:

Whit a DPS team its cake.First time I did it We’ve managed to take it down in less than 2 mins once we’ve learned the mechanic well .So I wouldn’t say its the hardest boss.Get some BS thieves in there you’ll see how fast it goes down.
Sparks are not always reliable and a lot of things can go wrong but theres a lot you can do to minimise that too.So if nothing goes wrong it can be pretty fast.

Finally someone who understands what the problem with this boss is.
DPS-way >>>> Sparks running. And it shouldn’t be that way. Boss is not working as intended.

Once you get the grip on it, have the right builds, you can dps simin down every time in less than 2minutes.
While ppl who run the sparks will still have to do it for 10-15min cca. Even if they are good in it and do the boss the way anet intended it.

People don’t realize that its easier now That boss easily took an hour when I did it (we did not know of any spark exploit).

Lol, I killed simin after patch and got dungeon master. Did not make a thread about it because it did not feel like an accomplishment.

And it is not easier now, because you actually need some spark management and not only DPS and poison. Still not hard though.