Guild Wars 2

Me and 3 of my friends(plus a random) were doing Cadecaus Manor Story earlier and we were getting absoloutely annihilated doing it, I have to admit I was running something very glasscannony but we constantly had about 5-6 Elites on us, were we doing something wrong or is the instance designed to overwhelm you with mobs?

I know we did a couple of things wrong:
1. I was as I said running a glasscannony build
2. The random we picked up had just hit 40 and I’m not sure how well geared he was plus we didn’t communicate much with him.

But we had ran Ascalon Catacombs just before and we had absolutely no problems there and from looking around forums everyone else seems to have the opposite experience with AC being punishingly hard and CM being a cakewalk in comparison.

So any tips would be very helpful. My group of friends are, a warrior(Me), a guardian, a ranger and an Elementalist.
And regearing won’t be a problem for any of us so Build suggestions for coordinating these proffesions optimally are also appreciated.

it helps if you say which part you had the most trouble with.

general idea is bring a lot of projectile reflection/blocking, because the snipers deal double damage against moving targets and even the base damage can take you down to half health. remember to always focus fire on a single target at a time to take it down faster (use ctrl + T to target). being careful with your pulls is always a good idea too.

Well I can tell you what works for me, my warrior is tanky and cc specced (using hammer and double maces) and i pretty much carry the whole group through the dungeon almost as easy as it was pre buff, the same goes for some of the other dungeons as well.

So my suggestion would be to reevaluate your spec. Glassy builds are horrible for dungeons imo and well coordinated cc makes any dungeon easy.

We tried to run Caudecus Manor last weekend and had some serious trouble. We were also 4-manning it, which put us down a bit, but we hit a serious brick wall. After thinking it over and re-strategizing, we went back in last night, and I led the group to a full clear in ~60 minutes with only one full party wipe.

Here’s my suggestions:

• The golem at the start is a jerk but what’s important is that EVERYONE gets away when he spins up. Similarly, his missiles are terrible; they need to be either dodged, reflected, or absorbed.
• The first pack after the door guard, with the bomber, is borderline impossible to fight in the basement. Pull him back up to the room with the doorguard, and you will have plenty of space to get out of his keg throw.
• Every pack after this has a Champion in it so be prepared to crowd control it somehow, or at the very least, be prepared with some heavy healing or utility skills.
• The dogs have a 5-second fear on a short cooldown, and each dog can cast it so you can get unlucky with the fears. Have some kind of Stability source ready (your guardian can use Hallowed Ground)
• The snipers are a monumental pain, either line of sight them or have reflects ready. Seriously, use reflects if possible. Each shot reflected will smack them for around 1000 damage.
• I just saw you mention getting overwhelmed by mobs. After you kill the door guard you will get swarmed but all but one or two of them are normal creatures that should melt if you group up and AoE them down. There is a second point where you may pull an extra couple mobs (when you’re freeing the first ambassador). This is the point where we had our only group wipe, just be prepared for it and focus down one mob at a time.

In all seriousness, the worst pulls are the bomber pack in the basement and dogs.

Now, I don’t have much experience with the other classes, and I’m not sure what level your guardian friend is, but here http://tinyurl.com/cb6xujn is what I’m gunning for my guardian at 80 (I’m at 78 currently) as support/heal. This will give him a lot of healing off his weapon skills and group protection off the shield. The staff is useful for setting up ranged pulls as I’d use Staff 2 then set down Staff 5 to get away. Healing Breeze is weaker than the other two heals, but Breeze is the only one that will heal others. Merciful Intervention isn’t the biggest heal but will get him close enough to drop a Symbol or use a shield skill to protect them. Wall of Reflection is really good for this instance, thanks to the snipers, and Hallowed Ground provides a fire combo field for the group and grants almost 12 seconds of stability. And I cannot stress enough how absolutely incredible Tome of Courage is, with a spammable heavy heal on 1, a group buff on 3, an aoe stun on 4 and a full heal on 5.

Hope some of this helps you out, good luck!