Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to do lvl 21 and up with only 10 resistance? I mostly run with pugs and I noticed with lvl 20 agony hits way harder.

Because of the RNG mechanics of FotM I was sitting on 10 resistance until the early 40s before an infused ring finally dropped, so it is possible. Most of those levels were pugged and the ones that weren’t were with people i met while pugging.

The Maw is the only boss with an agony attack you can’t avoid. Having the resistance to survive the Maw (perhaps the easiest ‘boss’ fight in FotM) isn’t nearly as important as knowing when to dodge or hide behind a nice reflective wall.

Max-range everything and prepare to die in Maw.

I puged lvl 20 but found a way to kill Maw even tho no one in the party had over 5 resistance. We sent down 2 players to the area where agony start hit us and had 1 warrior revive us with a banner as soon we got in to downed state, we ended up being able to res our self and the rest of the party when they came.
If we had known about how much dmg he do we would not have played lvl 20 tho.

You can survive Maw with 10 resistance. BUT you’ll need to heal ALOT. As a elementalist use your normal heal skill → followed by all your water healing → if you get down wait till you get to low hp then use skill 2 to regain 50% hp.

This will let you survive without 15 res.

If you don’t heal your dead.

I’m a most berserker ele, one of most vunerable classes. I have only 12200hp, and yes I can survive in most fight on lv 20+. It just need some stratgy. If you keep strictly 1200 feet away, you will get very little hurt from most bosses. Also dodge and mist form can help.

The only problem is maw, but I tried and yes I can survive without help. Switch to water and drop two healing ring before swithing phases, then use healing skill. After downed, use skill 2 when low health. In this way, after all agony hurt, I will be still downed and have little health remained (maybe 1000-2000). Then can slowly rez myself.

Thanks for the the replies, my healing isn’t that great as I’m a warrior with around 27k hp with knight gear mostly. So I’m not running glass cannon.

Your vitality is killing you.

Wethospu.6437:

Your vitality is killing you.

oh… interesting. guess i have a use for my knight’s set after all :P

I got to 30 with 0 agony resist, sure I die at jade maw, but if jade maw wouldnt exist I could get way higher if I wanted.

Why doesn’t any ele play cleric instead of glass cannon? Way better survivability and u can be lazy while everyone does their magic.

Stridix.4260:

Why doesn’t any ele play cleric instead of glass cannon? Way better survivability and u can be lazy while everyone does their magic.

I don’t think cleric is a good choice because healing is useless (mostly). It doesn’t make much difference with cleric and berserker when you heal, but it makes a big difference when you dps. If you really want survivability, just change to AC set with power, toughness and vit. This is how most guard do.

I’ve been PUG’ing up to close level 30 with +10 resistance on both of my characters. Yeah, it’s possible. However, if you don’t know which attacks to dodge from bosses, it’ll cause a big deal of frustration.