Guild Wars 2

So I ran front door of CoE for the first time yesterday with some guildies, wiped once (because I wanted to show off and do the lasers with my armor on).

Did CM butler path and wiped countless times, huge repair bills, tons of high HP trash that plummets your HP in just a few seconds.

Can someone please explain why the hardest path of one of the harder dungeons is significantly easier than an easy path of an easier dungeon?

I have a REALLY good hunch that some of the Mobs in CM have bugged attacks right now.

PS: don’t tell any of my Guildmates this… we run Butler every single day, often without any Wipes… and I’m their “Tank” for it (even though I have a stupid Monk-wanna-be Healer-spec instead and half my gear is still Yellow). They actually think they’re still doing the EASIEST explorable right now, Heh.

downscaling is bad. It almost feels like sometimes you are downscaled but the enemies are not.

for comparison
Highest damage ive been hit for from a trash monster in arah, level 80: 4K chaos storm from risen illusionist (discounting deadeyes)
Average damage from something in CM, level 45: 2K

Well that seems reasonable, half level half damage. Surely my HP must follow a similar pattern meaning I can take similar amount of hits!

HP at level 80: 16200
HP at level 45: 6300

So I can take less than 3 hits from something in CM, whereas I can take 5 from something in arah. Oh and keep in mind the Arah monster only does that level of damage on chaos storm. Which they can only do maybe twice, three times a fight? Oh and you just roll out of it. Those 2.2k’s from CM? Those are bloody auto-attacks.