Guild Wars 2

First time I ever did this today thanks to a group needing it for dungeon master, cant say I have ever done it but this path seems really well done. Its got a good mix of different things and twists and turns and winds etc, the ending boss battle platform/room is really nice, and sets the mood for an epic boss battle. He wasnt such a pushover either.

I wish we had more dungeon content similar to this, for even more people. Dungeons in gw2 could be so well done with dodging mechanics.

Oh wait dungeon developer got laid off.

I too always enjoyed that last boss fight. I think it’s one of the better ones in the game.

I also love that path’s boss. And he’s a pretty solid enemy. Not particularly one shotish, has a cool little lag on the rock wave that requires you pay attention, and the entire group can end up in the lava, not party wipe if they can come together.

Sadly the path itself is a bit of a pain to pug, or at least seems to take forever. A coordinated effort is needed on the torches which can cause problems.

Yea the push half of group into lava always a classic =P

last boss of that path is pretty fun, the immobs the push back the fairly hard hits, all make it extremely interesting especially the first time you do it.

However, rest of the path is pretty annoying with the torches in the beginning and the bombs later on. Although so far ive only ever pugged it or done it with pvp friends so it may be more fun with a better group.

The torch part is usually too painful, even when I lfg “… know torch part”, I normally get people who keep following me from torch to torch. Stacking is too strong in pugs when they shouldn’t stack.

I also thought this was a nice path, even though I never ran it much. The problem is that it is indeed quite hard for inexperienced people, between the torches, bombs and attrition fight (the part where elite enemies spawn).

I had to shudder when I remember the first time I tried this path. At that time you were required to light all 5 torches simultaneously, but 2 or 3 people from the party could not solo the respawning normal enemies at the torches without getting murdered, so we had to give up:P

The bombs don’t detect you if you’re in Stealth, so a thief can make the bomb run really easy.

My favorite part is watching people struggle to run past the bombs.

I just hop on my thief for the torches, and switch after if I’m with people who I know can run through the bombs. Otherwise, I just stay on thief so everyone can have a good time! I like this path a lot, I wish I could convince people to run it more often

CoF P3 >>>>> P2.

p3 is great, but I hate the invulnerable phases on the final boss. That is one of the many places where the new break bar system would be so cool instead of an invulnerability.

CoF p3 is one of the best paths. It is even faster than p2.

Pugged this last night with two rangers and was expecting the worst. But it went smoothly! Succeeded on torches the first try, had a blast barely scraping by the defend event, a few died on bomb run but not too bad, then boss was a piece of cake.

I do think the end reward should be buffed a bit. Not because the path takes any longer, but it does take coordination which is why most pugs avoid it.