Guild Wars 2

I like the idea of the new dungeon reward system, forcing us to finish a path to get the reward, but is the amount of time and repair costs it takes to get it worth it?

It took my group 4 hours and about 40+ silver in repairs (that’s a lot to broke people like me) to clear the path and make several attempts on Giganticus Lupicus. The 3 bosses prior to this one weren’t too difficult. What was really slowing us down was the groups of silver-portrait Risen (Mage/Illusionist/Elementalist/Hunter). These groups, in my opinion, are much harder than any of the first 3 bosses. Then there’s the last one, which is way too overpowered. We had our strategy down pretty well, but still couldn’t finish him after 1.5 hours.

First phase was easy once we knew what we were doing; grouped up at range, focusing down grubs as they spawn. Second phase was proven too difficult. He usually had 0-1 stacks of empowered at this point, but his single target projectiles were still dealing 9-10k damage to me, and one-shotting others. Everyone was doing a good job at evading his warp-to-you ability and his ground AEs, but we spent too much time trying to revive others who get one-shot and end up dying ourselves. Then there’s times where we are doing good, but end up being too far from him, although still in his room, and he just resets.

All the loot that dropped I sold and that money went towards my repair bill. Didn’t recieve a single token in 4 hours. What a waste of time. I am very unhappy about this.

You understand that the Giganticus Lupicus AKA the guy you guys couldn’t kill, isn’t the last boss right? He’s the middle boss and there is the last boss after it.

Here’s the joke. Giganticus Lupicus is only the 3rd boss out of 5.
He’s probably the hardest though.

Keep trying, eventually you’ll learn how to CC/interrupt those risen mobs and they’ll be easy.

I agree, this system doesnt work unless you’re in a good group with communication. They implemented stuff like dynamic events and share-able nodes to help encourage people to play together and make the community stronger than they implement stuff like this. Which means majority of PUGS will fail… Spending hours of trying for no reward at all.

Every topic about arah “Inci” or “DKP” come to defend this dungeon.

A lot of dungeon paths in this game are horribly boring and rewards no skill or intelligence at all, but Arah is probably the exception here.

From reading your description it’s clear you don’t understand the mechanics of the boss completely, in which case wiping will come naturally to your group.

I do kind of feel that his HP could be reduced by quite a lot, especially during the 1st and 3rd phase, which are complete cakewalks compared to phase 2, but that’s about my only problem with Arah. Otherwise a very well designed dungeon with boss mechanics that are easy to counter once you are aware of them.

Read the Guide. Ofc, this dungeon is not that hard once you get what to do:) Spreading the knowledge of how to beat this dungeon makes it more fun for everyone. Its probably the best dungeon out there;)

Plus it saves me 10-15min of typing and explaining before every lupicus attempt. Although after each 10-15min of explaining, we beat Lupicus after 2-3 wipes. Pugs usually get the feel of what to do right after their 2nd wipe, but sometimes it takes 3.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-to-Kill-Giganticus-Lupicus-in-the-Arah-Dungeon/first#post252348

Everyone understanding the boss seems to not be enough a lot of the times when trying to complete a whole path with a pick up group. It seems they didn’t make a lot of the paths pick up group friendly without having to wipe way more times. But it seems the devs would rather focus on chiding us with finishing a path or getting nothing than fixing mobs like this.

You are not supposed to complete explorable mode in a PUG.

The thing is, Lupicus can be beaten with a PUG. The problem is, most of the GW2 community have near 0 experience in the correct way to beat Lupicus. This only comes from practice, and actually beating Lupicus.

Just keep trying untill you get it;)

Gab Superstar.4059:

You are not supposed to complete explorable mode in a PUG.

Which is bad for the game in general, locking people out of one of the few end-game activities to do.

From a purely PvE perspective, dungeon and legendary farming are the only endgame activities. People will get frustrated and leave the game, and this game will become another Diablo 3.

Having said that my only problems with dungeons right now are:
2. I think enemies have too much Health, and in certain fights, it gets extremely boring once you know what to do.
2. Not being able to do dungeons when my friends are offline. No point in spending hours wiping and repairing now that you don’t even get partial credit (Tokens only upon completion) and DR glitches everywhere.

Aesthetics.2671:

I agree, this system doesnt work unless you’re in a good group with communication. They implemented stuff like dynamic events and share-able nodes to help encourage people to play together and make the community stronger than they implement stuff like this. Which means majority of PUGS will fail… Spending hours of trying for no reward at all.

how many times must someone from ArenaNet say that explorable modes are intended for those who can work together well, communicate and play their character well?

Eventually people will all get used to it, and you can pug with whatever you want.

TurtleDragon.3108:

Gab Superstar.4059:

You are not supposed to complete explorable mode in a PUG.

Which is bad for the game in general, locking people out of one of the few end-game activities to do.

From a purely PvE perspective, dungeon and legendary farming are the only endgame activities. People will get frustrated and leave the game, and this game will become another Diablo 3.

Having said that my only problems with dungeons right now are:
2. I think enemies have too much Health, and in certain fights, it gets extremely boring once you know what to do.
2. Not being able to do dungeons when my friends are offline. No point in spending hours wiping and repairing now that you don’t even get partial credit (Tokens only upon completion) and DR glitches everywhere.

You farm dungeons too much if you get so bored fighting “trash mobs” in a dungeon. I dont farm dungeons at all, I just do dungeons here and there. Random one here, random one there. To me, none of the mobs are trash, they are just part of the challenge, and part of the dungeon.

Do jumping puzzles, merch, join a Guild. Talk with fun people, not whiners:) Do WvW, join Guild Events, go hunt special recipes for special items etc etc etc.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Best-Gaming-Experience-Arah-Explorable-2nd-Path/first#post250940
^That is my experience in Arah explorable, read it, and it may be helpful to you completing it aswell