Guild Wars 2

I’m having a lot of difficulty with Honor of the Waves. Each time I enter the dungeon, about 30 minutes in I fall asleep. Does anyone have any advice so that I am able to stay awake and complete a full path?

unfortunately our good friends at ArenaNet are using us as test subjects in a psychological study to find the common breaking point in humans under a certain set of circumstances.

This is why the mobs in HotW have more HP than a Champion Giant despite dealing 170% less damage and having less mechanics.

You cannot be helped, we cannot be helped.

LOL!
- Chat with your group
- Try a different build
- Play more support oriented build
- Have something on in the background (Not music, like a discussion or something)
- If hungry, have a snack/drink something while playing

One of my guildies experience the same thing while running with him. Kinda hilarious and infuriating at the same time.

My guild did a run of HotW mostly drunk once…. someone kept refilling our guardian’s glass with apple martinis… I think it was her husband on his ranger, I seem to recall that he was drinking a dark and stormy, but I could be wrong. My g/f was on her engineer sipping hot apple cider and tuaca, and I was working my way through a rum and coke. Our guild lead gave up on staying sober and went for something, but I can’t remember what….. flavored vodka tends to be her drink of choice.

Consensus was: Booze makes a dungeon that’s already kind of crooked feel even more sideways to run around in, but fun was had by all.

Every time I do HotW I attach thumbtacks to my palm so I can use it to zap myself awake when I’m feeling sleepy.

themaster.9802:

I’m having a lot of difficulty with Honor of the Waves. Each time I enter the dungeon, about 30 minutes in I fall asleep. Does anyone have any advice so that I am able to stay awake and complete a full path?

well my first suggestion would be STOP TAKING DROGS!!! or if you have too keep it to the speedy stuff.
second, drink lots of soda.
3rd. be better at it so you can speed it in less then 30 min ;P

serious answer:
you can’t do anything, if you find the dungeon wildly boring do something else, dont wasted time with it. if your farming for a specific set, get your finger out of your kitten and bite the apple and just get it over with, its so few hours you need to grind it, you will manage.

Alright, there’s a few simple steps to avoid this.

1. Waypoint to the door. If you are in combat, you will need to break combat before waypointing.
2. Step out of the “Honor of the Waves explorable” dungeon.
3. Cleanse your mind of any thoughts that might remind you of how cool the armour looks or how pretty the dungeon itself is
4. Do a different dungeon until they fix this kitten.

imo, only do p1 since it’s the fastest. Therefore, you’ll be not having fun for the least amount of time. It’s what I do… Or, because every encounter in that dungeon has an afk area, stand in the afk area and watch a movie. By the time the movie is over the boss should be just about dead and you’ll be ready to move on to the next one!

Yeah, just run p1 for tokens. 2 and 3 are just too long now that they’ve “fixed” them.

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Bukkebruse.2810:

Yeah, just run p1 for tokens. 2 and 3 are just too long now that they’ve “fixed” them.

What was fixed in 2 and 3? I haven’t done HotW in awhile, but I’ve done it after the huge map exploits were fixed. 2 actually seems quite fast. The last time I did 2, I just skipped one of the dogs. Then after the two quaggan guy boss, swam straight to the final boss.

:D good one,
there is a good advice: whole team take suicide glass cannon gear(you frankly dont need any defense in HotW..).
Even with 5 glass cannons it will still take ages to kill the bosses, but at least not centuries

You’re confusing difficult enemies with boring meat tanks.

No don’t fix it. HotW is the perfect cure for insomnia and some people I know depend on it for sleep.

But yeah, 5 glass cannons improve clear time drastically that you won’t feel yawnful. Plus having to dodge occasionally helps you not get bored.

Sera.6539:

Bukkebruse.2810:

Yeah, just run p1 for tokens. 2 and 3 are just too long now that they’ve “fixed” them.

What was fixed in 2 and 3? I haven’t done HotW in awhile, but I’ve done it after the huge map exploits were fixed. 2 actually seems quite fast. The last time I did 2, I just skipped one of the dogs. Then after the two quaggan guy boss, swam straight to the final boss.

Both of the end bosses have insanely large HP pools (especially for an underwater mob) and the other bosses are just as boring. The final boss on path 3 also spawns barracudas hitting for 3-5K in addition to his suicide jellyfishes.

Listen to music. Talk to teammates. Leave and go run FotM.

I do really good damage while downed underwater against the bosses in P2 and P3 as a necromancer.

themaster.9802:

I’m having a lot of difficulty with Honor of the Waves. Each time I enter the dungeon, about 30 minutes in I fall asleep. Does anyone have any advice so that I am able to stay awake and complete a full path?

HOTW takes more then 30 minutes?

I did hotw drunk on new years, that crooked ship really is worrying, though drunk lupicus was more fun

XGhoul.7426:

You’re confusing difficult enemies with boring meat tanks.

I think you missed the joke.