Guild Wars 2

I have two questions.

In Arah P2, how do you kill new Alphard without a ton of reflects/projectile destruction? You used to be able to dodge his bomb after he pulls you, but now it’s instant. His pull has nearly no windup like Kholer in AC so it’s very difficult to dodge. He was fairly easy when my party timed their reflects, but I can’t see how you could do it without them. I would eventually like to 2man this path, but Alphard is the roadblock to my friend and I completing it. There is no way we would be able to have 100% projectile reflect/destruction uptime as we main an elementalist and a warrior.

Also, I know Destroyer of Worlds is an easy boss, especially with a full party. My friend and I enjoy 2manning dungeons and we tried meleeing him. The problem was he had no pattern or tell when he would spawn adds so we quickly got overrun. Normally there is an order, timer, or obvious tell for most bosses. I couldn’t find one on DoW to time my reflects so his adds wouldn’t spawn. We ended up kiting him down with his adds chasing us, but I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to prevent his adds from spawning without reflects/projectile destruction up 100% of the time. Has anyone else found a pattern?

I’m hoping someone can help me out! Thanks for reading.

Alphard’s pull does in fact have a tell – very fast, but still avoidable. That being said, if your reflexes are bad (like mine), you probably will miss it, and it doesn’t help things that she can be difficult to see at times.

The sound of the attack comes a bit before the pull, you can also use that to dodge ^^

For the Destroyer of World when you stack him he won’t spawn Destroyer of Earth. But you like to knockback you and when he does you are no longer stack on him and he spawn Destroyer of Earth. Either you DPS as fast as possible, or use stability. With 2 Guardian with 10 in virtues you can have almost constant Stability, but you could try to see the knocback animation and time you stability for that (or block, etc).

He is not that hard at all, just learn to dodge his pull and avoid his unload. Here is a video of me soloing him on my thief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaGRxE1s3I

Good luck have fun with him ;-)

It’s a she. A pretty sexy one, too.

Rage.2017:

He is not that hard at all, just learn to dodge his pull and avoid his unload. Here is a video of me soloing him on my thief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaGRxE1s3I

Good luck have fun with him ;-)

Thank you! This was incredibly helpful!

Thaddeus.4891:

For the Destroyer of World when you stack him he won’t spawn Destroyer of Earth. But you like to knockback you and when he does you are no longer stack on him and he spawn Destroyer of Earth. Either you DPS as fast as possible, or use stability. With 2 Guardian with 10 in virtues you can have almost constant Stability, but you could try to see the knocback animation and time you stability for that (or block, etc).

Yeah, I was hoping for a non-stacking strat with an elementalist and a warrior. Kiting or stacking just aren’t as fun for me. Does stability prevent his adds from spawning when he hits you? I don’t have time to test it now unfortunately!

deSade.9437:

It’s a she. A pretty sexy one, too.

Huh, good to know I guess. Also, this information definitely upped the sexiness factor.

Thank you to everyone else who responded as well. I haven’t practiced much with Alphard since the buff (only run p2 with at least a four stack since), but I’m glad it’s doable. Thank you for the advice!

At least when I soloed Destroyer on my Warrior (GS camping) I did it with the adds. As long as you keep moving they can’t catch you.

But perhaps there is a faster/easier way.

Alphard’s pull, as many have pointed out, does have an animation and a sound to match.

It’s the same animation Guardian’s #5 Hammer skill has.

Well… I know that I didn’t do either of these that wonderfully but at least I got them done. Maybe it’ll help you out. I should really retry Destroyer of Worlds though because I’m not satisfied with my desperate struggle to survive even though I did manage it in the end >.>

Alphard: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3768848
Destroyer of worlds: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3642284