Guild Wars 2

Are the Sparks working correctly? My group coud not consistently get sparks to get trapped when luring them to the appropriate location during Simins heal phase. They would just stroll around the pillar ignoring the cage things even though they were pathing through them. Sometimes however we would get them locked up extremely quickly, which is confusing as we would not do anything differently. Sometimes it worked, others not. Our strategy seems appropriate, 2-3 breaks right before the heal phase starts to collect them. 2 stay back. Thoughts?

They probably are not, but no official word on this from countless of threads that have been coming up regarding this fight during the last month.

Killed Simin twice now. There’s some really funky stuff that goes on in that fight. Sometimes there’s an extra spark which can’t go anywhere, causing her to regen until she appears again. Other times she just randomly reappears when the first spark is put in place, various other weird happenings related to her regen/invis/sparks.

Best way to kill this boss: simply ignore the spark mechanic altogether. We’ve killed her quite a few times now, and it’s the only way to reliably do it in one shot (or not taking 30 minutes).

If you kill her like that will she come out of stealth at one point or ur just trying to outdps her healing?

She will come out. It appears (as best I can tell), a timer. Sparks are used to pull her out before the timer runs out.

Brute force it. It’s so much easier than pulling the some times glitched sparks.

Has anyone encountered Simin since the patch yesterday? Any changes? (Anet definitively changed something, since path1-2 are broken now:p)

Sina.9208:

Has anyone encountered Simin since the patch yesterday? Any changes? (Anet definitively changed something, since path1-2 are broken now:p)

We (guild) tried this just now – still broken. Sometimes the sparks does not “lock” in place even if we lead them exactly through the designed space, sometimes there are 6 sparks preventing the mechanic completely, sometimes it takes only 1-2 sparks to unhide the boss…….

We just killed this boss. First trying to bruteforce it but we had too little damage for that unfortunately (normal bosses our dps was great but this one went slow as some people couldn’t properly hit him properly in stealth).

After 2 tries we used the sparks with 1 of us running sparks and the others still dpsing him, this worked surprisingly well because for some reason it did not take all 5 sparks to restealth her twice in a row. Which really made me wonder if they changed the mechanic or if this was yet another one of his silly bugs.

Just killed her, she died in a minute. She did 0 ability, no petrify, no red circles, no restealth, bugged perhaps?