Guild Wars 2

I’ve just come out of Caudecus’s Manor path 2 and was honestly the hardest dungeon I’ve ever attempted. It started smoothly until you go back to Caudecus’ Estate Waypoint. They practically spawn kill you there and the objective to plant the barrels is utterly ridiculous in my opinion with this new waypoint fix.

In addition to that, we failed to defeat the last boss after being spammed by his plague and AoE attacks and not being able to recover because of THE NEW WAYPOINT FIX.

The new restriction to waypoint when your team is in combat goes completely against the rules outside of a dungeon. If a party decided to do an event, the dead player could still spawn while his teammates are still fighting and rejoin the fight. So unless anet think it’s a good idea to keep this update then I ask can you please go over and fix these dungeons, there too overpowered, thanks.

The planting the barrels section is quite difficult and requires more coordination than anything else in dungeons short of Arah, IMHO. Get everyone on the same page and coordinate your actions and it is much easier.

Tips:
- Have someone run ahead and toss a barrel far off to the side to distract the bandits.
- Decide who has each barrel drop spot.
- Have everyone run together with barrels and set them down simultaneous.
- If you have a ranger, use Entangle. It extends your timing window.
- If you have warding skills (enemies cannot pass skills), use them. More time extension.
- Don’t forget to use skills causing cripple and chill to further give yourself more time.

Synfulchaot got the barrel general tips, so I will say something about the final boss.

You range the boss and dodge when he runs to you, that is literally it. This is not CoE where you have to time it perfectly or Alpha gibs you with no way of others reviving because alpha will gib them too. You will just be loaded with conditions with more than enough time to run away with swiftness/dodge and heal up before rejoining the fight with a ranged weapon.

I did that dungeon when I was lvl 50ish or so and I didn’t see anything difficult with it. In fact I consider the Seraph path the easiest CM EM route.

The final boss in this path is very easy. You can solo or duo him no problem. His plague form can only travel in straight lines. Also if he can see/target you, but cannot reach you with his plague form then he stands still doing absolutely nothing.

basically? When he goes plague form stand behind one of the many crates strewn about the hill. He’ll just lock up and sit there until his plague form ends. Then you can proceed to murder him some more.

have 2 people spam picking up barrels and throwing them anywhere and everywhere, have the other 3 run and place them. this has worked for me everytime for months now. eventually every bandit gets a barrel and tries to just barrel the 2 spammers to death, so unless the other 3 are completely useless they should have no issues running back once to place the last few.