Guild Wars 2

So why does this boss have such a ridiculous amount of HP? Why does the buff he gets from the grubs last NINE HOURS? We perfectly controlled the grubs in stage one, but when he transitioned in to stage 2, he knocked down the NPC and spawned a grub under him and ate it straight away. Then we died trying to kill the grub.

This would be fine if there was a close waypoint. But there isn’t. And it’s extremely hard to res people on stage 2, since one person has to run away from Lupicus as he focuses on one person at a time until they are dead, the other 2 (assuming they are there) have to rez while dodging the red circle, which means nobody is doing damage, which means it takes forever. And it takes even longer if a grub managed to spawn under him.

Even if there was a close waypoint, and no random grubs spawned under him, and if he had a reasonable HP pool, the rewards are still so extraordinary terrible the only reason anyone would ever want to do this dungeon is either for the weapon/armor skins, or bifrost. I did not receive even a rare from the 5 hours I spent here (we did beat Lupicus easily last night, with luck). I received nothing. The rewards are terrible in comparison to dungeons like AC, considering you can do 3 paths of AC in 1 path of this dungeon, and in comparison to FoTM too.

And even if all the problems above were fixed, Lupicus managed to reset half way through fighting him in stage 2. We never stopped attacking and never left the room. He just reset back to full HP. He was still in stage 2, so by the time we stopped raging about what just happened we died to those red-death-circles.

TL;DR

This boss has too much HP. The grub idea would be nicer if the buff didn’t last 9 hours. He resets randomly. The waypoint is too far away, and it’s very hard to res people. The rewards are terrible. It’s just not worth it. It’s completely wasted content. I would even run the dungeon for the lore if it wasn’t so stupidly annoying.

And yes, this wasn’t our first encounter with this boss. And we use v-com. We are not stupid. This boss is.

I’m able to solo him throughout stage 2 and 3… This boss just requires practice, if you’re seriously having problems, get a guardian or two for aegis. If this boss gets nerfed then the hardest dungeon in the game isn’t exactly challenging anymore. There are video guides on YouTube all about this boss.

If you’re seriously having issues then I may be able to help out.

Watch that, the guy beats it solo in 15 min.

It’s a simple matter of practice.

He resets very rarely, happened to me once in about 60+ arah runs (excluding the situation when someone used stealth).

Grub buff is supposed to last that long. It’s like an aegis. It should lasts indefinitely. Also, he always spawn grub during transition to phase 2. You should either ignore that grub or try to kill it. But don’t do that if you gonna wipe.

Dungeon reward is arah armour/weapon. You might obviously get them by doing those speedruns but that would require about 460 runs assuming you will always get 3 tokens (which isn’t the case).

With decent, experienced team you can do path 2 in 30-40 minutes and path 3 in 20-30 minutes. It isn’t really that long.

Only real problem with Lupi is AoE being misleading it seemed (slightly larger than what it says), a slight bump to the red circle area would fix that. Also on path 4 the NPC AI uses melee. And the fact he does reset mid fight if you run too far. The actual HP/dmg of the mobs is fine as is. Bugs need to be fixed though as all bugs do.

Everything else is fine.