Guild Wars 2

Speaking of dodges… how do you evade the leap with one dodge?. I’ve only done the fight twice, but I think it’s a ground AoE from the leap with an unblockable tremor projectile (in one direction?). I’ve done the dodge successfully a few times, but other times the 2nd part of the skill hit me.

I’d prefer to avoid double dodging on that attack if I can?

Wethospu.6437:

It’s definitely soloable, was able to do it on first try. Just practice bit and dodge and you should be fine!

Warriors are too strong!

TurtleDragon.3108:

Speaking of dodges… how do you evade the leap with one dodge?. I’ve only done the fight twice, but I think it’s a ground AoE from the leap with an unblockable tremor projectile (in one direction?). I’ve done the dodge successfully a few times, but other times the 2nd part of the skill hit me.

I’d prefer to avoid double dodging on that attack if I can?

Dodge when he starts moving back towards the ground and you should evade both hits. Evade skills like blurred frenzy help a lot.

Just something I noticed on AC troll, you can evade leap, then jump over shockwave (with spacebar) and take no damage.

Also if you stack on him the shockwave won’t hit you. Was actually thinking about that jump after I had beated it, should be very useful in pugs.

I just pugged him.

It’s so much funnier than before. I hope PUGs won’t safespot him any time soon.

I have a great idea what could be done to make all dungeons more challenging: copy paste a wild-Giganticus Lupicus which spawns, surely, but in a random moment, in every dungeon (When last boss is at 1% hp, last burrow in AC, at the very entrance of the dungeon!!! and making sure it blocks progresses if skipped. Must, mostly, be added to AC story to make it even more friendly for new players who get started with dungeons!! ) It’ll also do for those who don’t like to run Arah, so that they’ll be able to get Arah tokens from every other dungeon!!

Pip.2094:

I have a great idea what could be done to make all dungeons more challenging: copy paste a wild-Giganticus Lupicus which spawns, surely, but in a random moment, in every dungeon (When last boss is at 1% hp, last burrow in AC, at the very entrance of the dungeon!!! and making sure it blocks progresses if skipped. Must, mostly, be added to AC story to make it even more friendly for new players who get started with dungeons!! ) It’ll also do for those who don’t like to run Arah, so that they’ll be able to get Arah tokens from every other dungeon!!

But only if you mildly change its colour!

Does the AC troll drop HotW tokens now?

Cause then I’d really be confused….

dlonie.6547:

Does the AC troll drop HotW tokens now?

Cause then I’d really be confused….

Nope, it’s the troll in Queensdale.

what a legend he wiped my two latest pugs

On second thought im a kitten and I delete that.

so is all of his skills unblockable? i had aegis and it didn’t strip it. is this supposed to happen? i mean its fine, buff the guy but every attack is unblockable now. which completely negates my guardian. it also seemed that stability didn’t work either. also had the shield up on my focus and he did the stomp, my shield still stayed up but i took massive damage. to me that sounds bugged or broken, i’m not sure.

edit: typos

Thank A-Net troll buff is a + and makes skipping more dangerous. + 1 for put more skill requirements in PVE.

I for one am kinda glad they changed the boss. HoTW P1 is one of my favorite runs. The troll boss as always been super easy. By pass the dogs, run to the door and fight the troll there, now we have a reason to take out the dogs so we have a little more room to move around and fight the troll.

I have never found the troll in AC to be terribly difficult, and I play a zerker ele, so I dont think changing the troll in hotw is going to be too big an issue.

Barbarka.9362:

Thank A-Net troll buff is a + and makes skipping more dangerous. + 1 for put more skill requirements in PVE.

How so? I don’t believe the troll could be skipped before.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Barbarka.9362:

Thank A-Net troll buff is a + and makes skipping more dangerous. + 1 for put more skill requirements in PVE.

How so? I don’t believe the troll could be skipped before.

Skipping the wolves becomes a bit more tricky now since most PUGs need loads of room to range him.

LordByron.8369:

We need to fix the zerker meta:

More 1hitKO will fix it for sure…

It won’t fix the problem because people will just learn to dodge the one shot skills and they will just run full zerker to melt it faster. If Anet wants to fix the meta they need to change the boss to do lots of smaller hits so that people can’t dodge all of the damage and will be encouraged to run new builds for more vitality and toughness.

was sarcastic…
If i get oneshot as much with soldier as with zerker…wich equipment do you whink i will use?

Barbarka.9362:

Thank A-Net troll buff is a + and makes skipping more dangerous. + 1 for put more skill requirements in PVE.

Yea, it was a bit sloppy to have it drop the wrong tokens, but path 1 is a lot more fun with this troll.

Dalanor.5387:

Wethospu.6437:

deSade.9437:

Can anyone explain to me while they do all these stealth things to dungeons?

You should be happy that stuff actually gets bit more interesting.

But can someone tell does the AC troll have leap on his jump?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW_ahozaWb0

Lower the volume if you use headphones. =]

Must stop replaying.

TurtleDragon.3108:

Speaking of dodges… how do you evade the leap with one dodge?. I’ve only done the fight twice, but I think it’s a ground AoE from the leap with an unblockable tremor projectile (in one direction?). I’ve done the dodge successfully a few times, but other times the 2nd part of the skill hit me.

I’d prefer to avoid double dodging on that attack if I can?

If you’re not inside trolls AoE stomp range, you just need to watch and dodge once the earth projectile. If you’re within it’s AoE range (two attacks coming from troll, the stomp damage and the earth projectile), you can also dodge it once with the right timing by dodging towards troll.

What a terrible and lazy change. They couldn’t even be bothered to test this by killing him once. Can I have my money back for the armor repairs? Why suddenly drop this guy into HotW path 1 (an enemy who is a lot tougher than the final boss of that path), and without testing it, or putting it in the patch notes?

It’s basically a guaranteed armor repair bill the first time you run into him, since they didn’t inform anyone of this change.

/Massive facepalm

No worries, with the removal of repair fees they will never have to announce anything again.

He’s very easily done via range. You’ll have more armor breaks from taking care of the wolves than you will from the troll if you range it. However, I still think the change was silly and not well-prepared. It should be tweaked and be given the correct loot drop.