Guild Wars 2

I may be wrong with the tactics and stuff, but I have gone through the five “rules” about choice of weapon, armor and so forth to match up the criteria for this path. Now I would like to spend few minutes from you to tell you my experience of path 3.

It is completely impossible for the casual pug. And when I say pug, I mean pick up groups that do not communicate with the other people through a third party software such as ventrilo, teamspeak, mumble, skype and such. If you’re spending a day in LA and observing what people are doing, their only signing up for CoF path 1 and 2, why? Because the casual pick up group can manage that. So what happen to 3? Again its too hard, the imps deals too much damage or the ooze spawn too fast for people to accomplish anything. And in most cases that is the cause people actually dislike doing path 3, it is impossible to do with the casual pug. My PUG team managed to get 4 torches up. We tried our best for about 2 hours, till the casual PUG said “Hey, I had enough.” A dungeon shouldn’t be like that. You’re not suppose to be stuck at the beginning of a dungeon struggling with a coordination of torches being lit.

I personally hope that Arenanet look at the path 3, either you must have a very good team with some sort of IP voice software, to coordinate.

1. when their killing the mobs, so they can lit the torches coordinately without being interrupted.
2. You must be aware to spend 2+ hours trying to get 5 torches lit.

i’ve done this several times without any kind of VOIP software, but i run with my guild and just tell them what to do and get it done quickly.

i prefer it this way, the Explorables were originally designed to be only for hardcore groups, sadly just about every other dungeon route is easy mode.

some serious lack of real challenge in this game atm beyond fighting against bugs that give you trouble.

Did it in 20 minutes with 4 people who were complete strangers to each other.
Just make everyone pick a torch, and stand at a place where no mob can hit you. Count to 3, and all kill their mobs. Count to 3 and all light their torch. That’s it.

I was able to do it with a random group yesterday. All you need is a good communication between each party member.

I’ve done this path several times with a group full of pugs, no VOIP. There are many strategies to to this. Before we start clearing the room to get in position I explain the event to everyone, I point out which spots are easiest or hardest. After that I tell them that when they are ready to start killing they have to type “K” which means KILL and then wait for 5 K’s on the chat, once they see the 5 K’s they have to start killing, once they have cleared their area they have to type “C” which means CLEAR and then wait for all 5 C’s to be on the chat, as soon as you see all C’s you click the torch. It might be difficult to coordinate but after a few tries you will get it.

I had a system nearly identical to Porian’s that worked well for my PuG. We had one coordinator standing on the rock where the NPCs ignored her, so she could concentrate on making sure everything ran smoothly. Other than her not having to kill anything, it worked just the same.

I’ve also done this in a random pug. Think i was the only one that knew what to do, and i had never actually completed it before. Took about 30 minutes to do.

It does seem out of place that this little part in the beginning of path 3 is way harder than anything else in any CoF explorable though.

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s harder than anything else. I’d rather deal with these torches than Magg and his stupid bomb.

I’ve done this on an almost daily basis with pugs not on any voip. Its amazing what a little bit of typing will do, but it seems too many people want to be able to zone into a dungeon and shut off their brain like in WoW. Hell, you only need 7 letters or less to do it.

Kill
r
go

Somebody calls kill, as soon as your stuff is dead type r, as soon as you have everybody typed r somebody says go and everybody hits F. Proceed to next room. Its amuses me the simple things people say are “impossible” because they can’t be bothered to type.