Guild Wars 2

Many people come on here to ask what the easiest dungeon is for their specific desired stats, so I figured it would be easiest to have an easily-referenced post with the rankings of dungeon difficulty.

So which dungeon do you think is the most challenging, and which is the easiest? List ’em by difficulty and hopefully newbies can get their answer without having to post every single time ;-)

AC is the easiest dungeon, end of discussion.

AC -All path
Cof – 1,2 path
are easiest dungeons

Don’t list just one—list all of them in the order of difficulty :-P
Doesn’t help if their desired stat isn’t in AC or CoF :-P

Crucible of Eternity:

Path 1 is easy. As long as one person in the group has been there before and knows the few tricks involved, it’s something a random PUG can do easily.

Path 2 is slightly harder, mostly due to the need to have quick reflexes when fighting the recurrent boss, and how the last waypoint is far from the boss fights (so it can actually regenerate health between players reviving and reaching the boss again). Random PUGs can do it, too.

Path 3… So far, playing in random PUGs, I haven’t cleared it yet.

This is for the average difficulty, not path specific. Also I will judge them by time consumed, not how hard they are (as they aren’t that hard).

AC
CoF
TA
CM
CoE
HotW
SE
Arah

disagree on CoE easier than Hotw.
HotW is just like Cof or even easier while CoE might take 1-2h each path depend how fast you fight those alpha.
i would rate COE and Arah the last 2 hardest both in path or mobs or time to clear.

You can disagree all you want. It still doesn’t change the fact that everything in HotW has so much health that every fight becomes excruciatingly time consuming. This coupled with the fact that underwater combat has kitten balance and is twice as slow as regular combat (there is a reason people only do Butcher), makes HotW more time consuming than CoE.

I’d put CoE before CM, and HotW after TA. You can do all three Honor of the waves paths in under an hour with an average guild group (all three paths totaling an hour, not one hour each).

Don’t have much experience with CM, other than I’ve done all the paths, so can’t really place that accurately.

I put CoE after CM because of the sheer amount of time it takes to kill the evolved destroyer. As I said, I estimated the average amount of time it takes to complete all paths of a dungeon.

i’m not sure if Gab even did CoE recently. or just talk.
HotW can easy clear just like Cof, nothing hard except for boss, which are same as in CoE.
but in COE u have to fight 3-4 alpha which = to 1 of HotW boss. not to mention those mobs with 1 hit KO

Thinking about it, considering path 3 of CoF, I’d probably put TA in second, just because of the sheer amount of trash you can skip. Not sure if combined time would total more than TA though… Just because of how fast path 1 is.

CoF path 3 require good co-operation. it might take 1-2h or more if the group not co-op well. while TA u can run pass the poision and kill final boss of the path from distance. i would rate Cof and TA are equal hard

I’m not sure if Nub even read my posts recently. or just talk.

i read, and that why i say you just talk.
if you’ve done both CoE and HotW you already know the time u can complete with each path.
underwater combat is not slow, it’s b/c people doesnt have good underwater weapon.
but even so, you still can finish HotW path in 30 min easy.
however, doing CoE path in 30 min is kind of hard and require a good organized group. not to mention submarine path when those golem bomber attack while u have to activate the console.

You can disagree all you want. It still doesn’t change the fact that everything in HotW has so much health that every fight becomes excruciatingly time consuming. This coupled with the fact that underwater combat has kitten balance and is twice as slow as regular combat (there is a reason people only do Butcher), makes HotW more time consuming than CoE.

Just my opinion etc etc. Ordered by the levels of rage and frustration I experienced clearing these paths.

Easymode faceroll dailyfarm no thinking required: AC; CoF1,2; HotW1

Medium actually-kind-of-fun-but-farming-is-too-long mode: CoE1,2; CM2, SE3, CoF3

Tedious boring mode: SE1; TA; HotW2,3; CoE3, CM1,3; Arah3

Surely-you-cannot-be-serious mode: SE2

Its own circle of hell: Arah4

I didn’t do Arah1,2 yet so I cannot comment on those, but my guildies say these paths belong with Simin on their level of annoyance.