Guild Wars 2

for me i have still yet to do the explore of arah , mainly because either
i can’t seem to find anyone wanting to do them
or i dont think people like the armor /stat/ look

for me as a necro , i find it upsetting that for my build , the arah armor would be perfect but i also hear the arah dungeon is very tough and gives out little to no reward for even doing them .

so my question for all of you is . why is it that arah gets ignored for explore ?

I did Arah explorable for the first time yesterday.
IMHO, it’s at the same time the most fun and difficult dungeon in the game so far (haven’t tried them all).
We did the asura path in 2 hours (noone did it before, so we had to understand how some points work) and we found very unique mechanics to proceed in the dungeon, it was a real huge puzzle and we enjoyed it a lot.
But be aware, the fun could be turning in frustration if the team isn’t good and you are not in vent/TS, becuase the difficulty level is really high.
Overall… if just you want to farm some gold, don’t play Arah. If you want a real challenge, variety of mechanics, puzzles… that’s the place for you.

i feel like more encounters should be as hard as giganticus. it seemed like after we killed him its a down hill fight to finish the instance. and honestly arah was my first explorable and the others dont feel close to as epic.

i did arah the 2nd week before almost anyone was lvl 80, or knew how to do the fight. i was in a mix of greens/yellows and gear wasnt even close to any of our issues, it largely came down to our group having to spec into aoe regen/ condition removal. (it did take us 7 hours though )

giganticus is by massive distance my favorite fight in the game, and i wish anet uses this encounter (prenerf) as where to set the difficulty bar.

on topic: its to hard with little reward for most people. for the amount of time/money you invest into it, you are getting very little money (in most cases spending more then you could ever make in there) so most people dont bother. also lets be honest, not everyone can do the harder fights… although i havnt seen post nerf giganticus

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i feel like more encounters should be as hard as giganticus. it seemed like after we killed him its a down hill fight to finish the instance. and honestly arah was my first explorable and the others dont feel close to as epic.

i did arah the 2nd week before almost anyone was lvl 80, or knew how to do the fight. i was in a mix of greens/yellows and gear wasnt even close to any of our issues, it largely came down to our group having to spec into aoe regen/ condition removal. (it did take us 7 hours though )

giganticus is by massive distance my favorite fight in the game, and i wish anet uses this encounter (prenerf) as where to set the difficulty bar.

on topic: its to hard with little reward for most people. for the amount of time/money you invest into it, you are getting very little money (in most cases spending more then you could ever make in there) so most people dont bother. also lets be honest, not everyone can do the harder fights… although i havnt seen post nerf giganticus

Giganticus is a really though fight. In the first stage we balled and killed grubs very fast as the boss does nothing but spawning locusts and grubs to enpower himself, the second stage is the most difficult imho as the boss does really much AoE damage and the final stage is obviously not as easy as the first but it’s still doable and easier than the second.
Overall, an absolutely epic boss fight (way more epic than the final boss).

As has been said- Arah is the most enjoyable and most frustrating dungeon there is.

Took my group 5 hours to get through but I’m sure it will be less next time.

The trash requires strats and the boss fights are actually challenging (and in a fun way rather than just having huge health pools or mega attacks).

The problem is that there are just way too many packs. Difficulty is great, but doing the same strat on high hp trash over and over again is not fun. Once a group has been mastered you shouldn’t ever be fighting the same pack again.

I do it daily. Necro too, MM.
People ignore it not grouping so much for 2 reasons: it’s hard, it’s long.
Add the DR bugged, and the mass leaving we had those days.
Maybe next hours something will change a bit. But don’t expect a large mass of pugs.

I ve done route 2 and 3 many times and Arah is my favorite dungeon in Guild Wars 2. I find it really fun and interesting.

I would only want to see last bosses to become harder, they are really easy as hell.

P.S. Arah is not long, I manage to run Arah rout 2 and 3 in less than hour and half. Our shortest run was hour and ten minutes so far.

Its only about knowing what to do. After you run Arah few times, you find it too easy.
But I am used to run dungeons for 3+ hours from other mmos Raids for 5+ hours

Gj areanet

Ye, skipping adds, expecially on path 3, makes thing faster. But we are talking about a pug (at least i guess, from OP)