Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

My guild and me just finished running all story modes with three to four people (rl friends), and now we want to move on to explorables. What is the best place to start?

We can easily find the extra people probably, but just to learn the paths we’ve found that there’s less hassle and complaining if it’s just the three or four of us. We don’t mind wiping a time or three/four/five to learn mechanics.

Thanks!

Hello Kenetic,
I would suggest you to start with Honor of the Waves (mainly paths 1 and 2). The overall dungeon is not too difficult. The bosses have high hp so some people may find them annoying; however, since it takes time to kill them they provide you the chance to try out different approaches.
Another starting dungeon may be Sorrow’s Embrance. Paths 1 and 3 are pretty easy (also path 2; it is just takes time to complete it).
I would not suggest you to go in the Ascalonian Catacomb for your first explorable dungeon experience. AC is not difficult but requires some coordination (especially path 1). Moreover, at the very beginning of each AC path you will encounter the Spider Queen. It is not a difficult boss but it requires some attention, which implies possible wipes before starting the real exploration of the dungeon (unless you want to stack in pillar… which is fine but I would suggest you to defeat the Queen without stacking first, so that you will know how to do both). Wiping at the very beginning of a dungeon may be not encouraging for some people, especially when they approach an exp dungeon for the very first time. Choosing AC not as first choice will give you the chance to chill out somewhere else in case you want to take a break.

By the way, fell free to contact me in game in case you play on a NA server and want an extra person in your team (I am on SoR). I am not an expert (did some dungeons one time only -> CM and CoF are not exactly friends of mine :P) but I like to run dungeons using different classes and tactics in order to make a change (doing the same thing in the same way all the time is not for me). Moreover, I do not mind eventual wipes especially if they are due to try out something new. I really like CoE (at the very top of my list), TA (even if I did the “new” p3 one time only), AC, and HotW. I like Arah too but if I prefer to kill some of the mobs (not all of them) to run easier; but that makes the run longer and I understand not everybody wants to do that.

Good luck

Hey Bau Bau,

Thanks for your reply. We tried AC once before, we got the spider killed without trouble (second try, and the first time we do a boss we presume we’re gonna wipe anyway, it gives you a good feel for the encounter), got the second boss down to 20%, then wiped and wiped and wiped since his adds seemed to stay there after a wipe.
We tried SE next (the path where you free the workers), managed to get to the last boss but the 5 mining suits before him were too much. We did get two randoms to finish it, so no worries there.
We’re in Europe, otherwise we’d be glad to have you along
But we’ll check HoTW with the three of us, and see if it’s manageable

HotW’s got some decent skins… & PVT gear as well.
As stated, the underwater bosses are very tedious… but atleast the trip towards them can have a few surprises and always level 75+ Gear drops & maybe even some good mats

As I said, we’ll give it a try with the group… we’re not really in there for the skins or rewards, just for being able to threeman it. Although a dungeon master achievement is on my want list