Guild Wars 2

Like others before, our kiter for the Deimos fight didn’t receive credit on his Demonic Heart, most likely because he didn’t tag the boss/dealt enough dmg to it.

Hilariously though, our maintank in the fight died at 40% (kicked off by deimos after a failed roll), so our second-highest toughness player – aka, our kite rev – had to take up the role of tank for the remainder of the fight while our heal-ele kited. (Back-up)

As it turns out, a tank-rev used for kiting does not deal enough dmg to proc participation for the demonic heart post 40%. While everyone else in the squad with access to the heart finished the achievement (outside of our tank, ofc) our kite-then-tank Rev didn’t get credit for it.

His tickets have been ineffective so far, too. Saying he should make sure to tag Deimos and that A-net is “working on a fix”.

If kiting is not the intended strategy (considering that you – somehow – need to tag the boss to get credit) why is Deimos even designed in a way that makes kiting the only logical step?

Player furthest away spawns hands? check
Hands deal ludicrous damage? check
Deimos stepping on hands provide a permanent dmg buff to the boss? check
Hands are consumed by homing in to Deimos after every Saul? check

So what is this kitten?

That’s progress for you right there. So far your rev seems to be the luckiest one with their ticket. I was basically politely told to go f*meow* myself. And I was neither told that tagging the boss is necessary (even though I asked if that’s the case), nor that anet is going to look into this issue (though I actually asked about that too). So your kiter’s got at least something, at that point.

I have only ever killed this boss while kiting. When I got my heart I was helping a group with their kill (even though I already killed him that week), and told them I was not going to kite hands sub 10%. It might be not getting credit because you don’t deal damage to the sub 10% boss and not the actual boss prior. I think this might be the case because when I got my heart I didn’t attack Deimos until sub 10% and I was a heal ele so damage is near nothing to start.

Edit: P.S. Kiting Deimos is aids, let your kiter do something else in the fight for once.