Guild Wars 2

So i just ran arah path 2 (alone) and cant finish it cause every time around 30% of her health, the risen come and destroy the thing… that sucks.
A guildie told me than a Pug told him that brie resets at 10% always
Than..

you fixed the p3/p4 skip right to the orbs(only thing i mentioned), thanks for this but appearently ppl can still exploit the whole dungeon with underwater map swimming..
are you even aware of this?!?
thats the bbiggest exploit in whole arah (i guess) ppl make tons of money and screw legit seller who have to fight with daily bugs (like alphard spins right at place sometimes, or just resets)
Than lupi can still be skipped someone told me etc. etc. etc. etc.

YOUR DUNGEONS ARE IN A VERY BAD STATE ( sry caps) for kittens sake pls fix this already..its almost the only thing ppl who dont like zerging and like to have a challenge have.

worst thing is brie right now for me cause i cant finish the dungeon and maybe she actually resets at 10% so its not possible to do this path…

share you experiences with bugged arah here pls to make the devs aware of this, its realy not funny anymore.

Ram Banson.4081:

its almost the only thing ppl who dont like zerging and like to have a challenge have.

…

its realy not funny anymore.

+10,000,000.

Confirmed you can still skip lupi? If so, I’m disappointed.

i dont know, i never knew that skip but ppl told me… im also very dissapointed

I think Brie is hard so that ppl wont get the invulnerable buff to kill Alphard. It’s probably just a hot fix, and fixing the whole map may be more complicated that we thought.

SeAU.5468:

you can skip lupi!… but arena.net went the wrong way to “un-exploit” arah… now all ppl are f***ed… brie is rly hard to handle now for 5ppl teams… no way to do it solo anymore… BUT: Why you dont fix your buggy blocengine? alot of “exploit-portals” are aviable… in the whole map… you improve bosses instat of fix the real problem… now you f***ed the whole community not only the “exploit-sellers”…. GJ (and sry for ma bad engl.)

This is standard operating procedure. Players have been requesting sane fixes in Arah since launch — as in, make bosses required, and don’t give dungeon rewards until all bosses are defeated. Bam — problem solved. Players can skip bosses for ‘fun’ reasons (for instance, skipping to a boss to practice soloing…also it’s just hella fun to jump around on top of the Arah ruins), but the dungeon can no longer be exploited.

Instead, they just make the mechanics ridiculous (re: Alphard’s bomb, and apparently Brie’s new reset “mechanic”) that don’t really even address the problem and just make the run more frustrating for the folks who are running it legit. Alphard used to be a fun fight. Now it just makes me cringe, especially with a PUG. As pointed out — sellers can still swim-to-win, find new jumps, etc…invisible walls and terrible, nonsensical mechanics are band-aids. Band-aids precoated in AIDS, specifically.

Iris Ng.9845:

I think Brie is hard so that ppl wont get the invulnerable buff to kill Alphard. It’s probably just a hot fix, and fixing the whole map may be more complicated that we thought.

I think that’s why, too….but it’s a kitten-poor fix — the party gets phase shifted before she dies. If she resets at 10%, the player fighting can just AFK out of Brie’s range at 50% and let the party faceroll the rest of the dungeon.

It didn’t fix anything.

The proper way to fix this is to contain the phase-shifted buff to players in Brie’s arena. I’m not holding my breath, though.

here it is! pls anet tell us, is this intended or not?
Actually it made the boss more interessting for grps, but it ruined my daily solos so im very sad about this.
And the worst part ppl can still swim and SKIP LUPICUS (omfg)

Ram Banson.4081:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Oc9S5pWhU

here it is! pls anet tell us, is this intended or not?

Good luck mate. I tried several times and many routes (forums, support tickets, etc) trying to just find out if the Alphard insta-bomb was intentional. Very polite requests, asked nicely, made a clear description of the behavior and why it seemed like a bug…

Every attempt got ignored or infracted. As players, we just don’t matter.

dlonie.6547:

Ram Banson.4081:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Oc9S5pWhU

here it is! pls anet tell us, is this intended or not?

Good luck mate. I tried several times and many routes (forums, support tickets, etc) trying to just find out if the Alphard insta-bomb was intentional. Very polite requests, asked nicely, made a clear description of the behavior and why it seemed like a bug…

Every attempt got ignored or infracted. As dungeon runners, we just don’t matter.

FTFY

Lilith Ajit.6173:

dlonie.6547:

As dungeon runners, we just don’t matter.

FTFY

Indeed. Maybe we should have to pay gems to start Arah runs? Then they might care…

Ram Banson.4081:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Oc9S5pWhU

here it is! pls anet tell us, is this intended or not?
Actually it made the boss more interessting for grps, but it ruined my daily solos so im very sad about this.
And the worst part ppl can still swim and SKIP LUPICUS (omfg)

FUNNIEST: in DuoExploit Arah p2 solved in 15-18mins! GG arena.net!
still aviable to skip lupi/ still aviable to swim underwater / still aviable to exploit p2 (to sell exploit p2) ESPEACIALLY P2!

They just made it harder to exploit / made it harder for 5ppl groups!
But still possible to exploit…. -.-

we just duo’ed it, its realy easy and actually more fun! but you can exploit everything and thats jsut kittening ridiculous , ANET CMMON!!! it shouldnt be that hard,

what a useless change, good kittening job ANet. they literally can’t do anything properly. perhaps they should just let dungeons alone and let their hired monkeys concentrate solely on developing our beloved LS “content”.

guanlongwucaii.3162:

perhaps they should just let dungeons alone and let their hired monkeys concentrate solely on developing our beloved LS “content”.

We are giving in T_T

The only way is to force their hands. Make videos, make it public and well known. ANet will have no choice. Really, there is no other way. I personally have recorded and sent arenanet video showing exactly what the exploits are and suggested how to fix them. To this day NONE of them are patched.

I checked videos play history and the ones I sent to anet have been watched ONCE on the day I sent it in and have not been touched ever since. It’s been months now. I’ve lost my faith in getting exploits patched peacefully.

Or you know, just keep it quiet and keep exploiting for your own gain… -.-

What’s up with Brie? Yesterday (pre-patch), right before killing her, my whole party was teleported a previous part of the run and we had to kill her again (totally legit run). Is this the issue being talked about, or something even newer?

Kuru, that’s what happens when the mob destroys the console outside of Brie.

Hellow
I just managed it to solo brie)
Just kill those mobs before they kill the terminal, its quite tricky;
you have to watch for the deadeyes because they either knock you out of the godmode or run themselfes out of it, you can get obstructed to lure them to you.
Than the 3 Technicans, mostly aggroed by grubs, you can kite them around those corners ,so that they cast there stuns against the wall, and dmg them.(anyway take stability with you, it helps with the deadeyes too)
Its tricky to watch the terminal meanwhile, cause the berserkers cleave and deadeyes (not sure of it hits the terminal) pierces.
Anyways i like that change! it makes the kinda dull fight way more interessting for groups as for solos.
Good direction to make dungeons more challenging (i like the alphard change aswell)

but for kittens sake, PLEASE FIX THE EXPLOITS its a HUUUGE exploit because ppl make lots of money with it, and screw legit seller

dlonie.6547:

Kuru, that’s what happens when the mob destroys the console outside of Brie.

Oh thanks… Didn’t even know that was one of the mechanics!

I didn’t either for the longest time, lol. Then one day I was running in a low DPS group and suddenly we were surrounded by inquest techs in the middle of the fight xD

None of us know what happened, it’s a very ‘WTF?’ moment the first time it happens. We all figured it was a glitch at first (after all, it is Arah!) ;-)

Another sad example of how a lazy fix on an exploit significantly impacts legitimate players.

In any case, I did manage to solo her in the end. For me, it was basically 100b whenever I could (after her laser) and landing eviscerate at ~50% to drop her to 35-40%. It basically takes full out DPS and pray to the GW2 gods (and I don’t mean human gods) that you don’t get the lightning spawning under you right as you start 100b all the time. (Also had 25 stacks, 10% undead, and 80pwr/60 prec food)

I’m a bit worried what’s going to happen to this when they nerf the crit damage, however.

the arah run itself is still possible, a simple trick at the boss and here we go, no problem solo with the mobs ….
kittenload of bugs, reported 100000 times, in the game for ages, easy to fix, never fixed … welcome to arenanet, where we just do wat we want and dont care whats actually happening in the game …

“I report bugs in Arah against another Exploiters invasion, and ANet trifles with invisible walls.”

http://youtu.be/eqYWiyg_2M0?t=25s

I think the biggest bug in Arah is p3. When you finsih p3 you get 1.5ish gold. A comparable amount to Ac, HoTW, CoF, TA…I am surprised players have not reported this one more, that they only received 50% of what should have been a reasonable reward for a dungeon that features stronger mob types, has more champions and generally more ferocious encounters.

No it’s not.