Guild Wars 2

http://imgur.com/Zt2HK (unkittened swearing)

Given how absolutely disgusting this boss was (2+ hours alone of the 5 hours that route took us) I wanted to post to A) complain, and beg anet to nerf it, and 2) tell people how we did it.

Basically, after ages of pulling her all the way out near the oozes, or fighting her in the cavern like you would think you’re supposed to, what worked for us was firstly, picking up like 50 tears and dumping them around the outside of the cave. Put a tonne by the sparks and then even more further out.
Secondly, have two people inside the cave. One stays at the back, one stays near the entrance where you dumped the tears (no matter how many you put there there probably won’t be enough.)
Thirdly, drag the boss outside the cave – far enough into the weird coral things or whatever that the remaining 3 people won’t aggro the sparks or anything, but close enough that the person by the mouth of the cave can throw tears to cure frozos.
Fourthly, begin DPS. We had a mesmer at the cave mouth so I think greatsword 4 did some work, and also she was able to timewarp us once, but mostly we just had me (ele) fire/earth nuking her with the rolls and using heals to deal with the kitten storms, a mesmer doing time warp and uh, some other stuff mesmers do I guess, whatever. Also, we had a thief with D/X and bow spamming poison.

When she disappears, KEEP MAULING WHERE SHE’S STANDING. The people inside the cave will go to deal with the sparks without the sparks getting distracted all the time. I’m told you can’t pull all 3 of the front ones at once so that’s something to be aware of, but the person with the poison and probably the other 2 need to stay outside and wail on the thing and un-frozos each other with the spare tears. Remember to wait for the purple debuff to go or it’ll just refreeze them (she likes to spam it even on people that are already petrified, which is especially dumb since IT ALREADY DOES THAT if you don’t cure it.) After about half an hour of this, even though she kept spamming the heal, there was enough of an interval between each vanish that we could eventually whittle her down.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Apparently you can get all 3 at the entrance actually, just got to be fast enough or something.

EDIT:

Ok, another thing. When we beat this route, the guy just vanished into thin air with no text or any explanation of what just happened. Is that meant to be that way or did it bug out for us? If the latter, can someone please PM me with what is supposed to happen if they remember?

Just did it after 5+ hours of trying with some russians from Element of Storm on Desolation. She bugged out at 45% didnt disappear so we could kill her.

Anet QA, you cannot tell me, that you tested this…

Btw, thanks for having waypoints at all the bosses in this route, it’s just depressing not having them in the other routes and facing gigantic runbacks. Especially GL.

Well ye, you should have saw a text inviting you to continue.
Arah is definitively a matter of coordination and team work.
On giganticus, on bosses. Your post is about a pug or guildrun?
Because if was a pug i’m not surprised, most pug have player who don’t listen.
And don’t want to play different from the usual pve against a moa.
You can keep explain billlion times, hopeless.
This fight is done after nearly 3 minutes, go figure, when people do his work with sparks, even remaining inside the cave, no need to do long pulls.

I think you may have gotten confused and posted in the wrong topic. That or you’re misunderstanding the fight. The fight does not take 3 minutes when she disappears like she is currently set to do. It’s easy to be smug if she bugs out (or rather, “doesn’t bug out”, I have no idea which version anet wanted to happen.) I’ve seen youtube of that too. My post was about what to do when she does her disappear thing all the time. Even if she doesn’t regen that much it still takes a while to dps her down, and the spark aggro is so buggy it’s way easier to do that part with 2 people than 5.

Also, it was a pug, and GL has nothing to do with anything I said (though he wasn’t really a major issue, he bugged out and reset once despite me being in the arena unstealthed and available for attack AND not near the walls, but that’s it.)

I admire your patience.
Im not going to step a foot in that dungeon until Simin gets fixed.

Just beat her too, such a joke boss. The sparks are buggy as hell and 1 person can get it delayed like crazy. She has a blue buff icon that comes up just before she disappears so you can use it as an indicator for when you need to go get the sparks. Just swap to a ranged weap and you can leash them pretty easily. Then the boss after that.. lol. You can’t even call it a boss. Dungeon Master is finished though so good enough.

Shiri.6728:

I think you may have gotten confused and posted in the wrong topic. That or you’re misunderstanding the fight.

Absolutely not. I know perfectly this fight, and with proper damage, it’s done in a few minutes. Last time i tried was around 3 minutes, maybe was 5.
And no, it’s not bugged at all this fight, as much i remember. (At least i don’t remember any bug). Curious the text didn’t appear. That’s a bug. Not the fight.
Never tried pulling her out leaving 2 guys to do the cave, i’ll test

The Simin fight text was fine, since I got a PM about this too, I just got confused as to what happened at the end of the entire route.