Guild Wars 2

Okay so maybe me and my buddies just suck but we are really struggling with this one.

We rush in and kill the tentacles ASAP and then in that scramble right after they die we usually lose about 30 seconds getting settled in that usual corner and getting some crystals to us so we miss probably 2 or 3 hits on the Maw. Is a perfect, no-miss run needed to kill that idiot in 5 minutes or less?

Just use lifesteal.

spoj.9672:

Just use lifesteal.

It’s fixed, according to the patch notes. Did you try it yet?

Life steal is still possible.

Source: personal experience

Brb doing this quickly. Thanks for the info.

This one is actually really easy to do without lifesteal just by paying attention in a somewhat decent group. We did it on the first try where we actually knew when the timer started, and we had one DC, so it was basically 4-manned.

Nothing that they said got fixed was actually fixed. Condi dmg at dredgeboss e.g. still doesn’t scale up when he gets hit by the fire.
They probably just thought “hey, lets write it into the patchnotes, people probably won’t even try it out and just think that it got fixed.”

It’s very easy on the low levels.

We did it on level 20 to also get another achievement (do Jade Maw at level 20).

There’s actually new bugs, some things that used to be solid now aren’t anymore (molten facility drill, thaumanova forcefield in the turret room).

We did it with guildies and succeed first try (no lifesteal), still was far from perfect run.

Kill all tentacles during the p2 with the colossus, and as much as possible afterwards.

Or, if you’re lazy, lifestealsploit is the way to go.

Lendruil.9061:

Nothing that they said got fixed was actually fixed. Condi dmg at dredgeboss e.g. still doesn’t scale up when he gets hit by the fire.
They probably just thought “hey, lets write it into the patchnotes, people probably won’t even try it out and just think that it got fixed.”

That’s what I thought. lol
I don’t think any of those things mentioned there were actually fixed, except maybe Mossman. You can’t stack in the corners in Aetherblade Retreat either apparently.

I pugged it and also did it without live steal. The tactic is to just run into the middle, kill everything and prioritizing staying near crystal rather than running around and dodging the attack. Remember to prioritize killing colossus (look for red circles), but make sure that all tentacles are dead before phase 2. During phase 2, first spike one of the side tentacles and then stand there and range the rest. I found that ranged characters had a slightly easier time in standing near a crystal and killing tentacles.

Make sure you have a bit of time left on the timer when you do it. Me and a couple of guildies were doing for teh lulz, he started his last animation at like 5-6 seconds left on the timer and it didn’t count.

i did it without lifesteal pretty easily

What my group failed to realize the first two or three attempts was that Maw attacks faster in his final phase. We were originally keeping the jade colossi alive until we ran out of crystals, but when we realized he attacks maybe twice as fast after you kill the last colossus, we rushed maw into that phase and killed him with a good 30 seconds left, with several misses thrown in.

Lendruil.9061:

Nothing that they said got fixed was actually fixed. Condi dmg at dredgeboss e.g. still doesn’t scale up when he gets hit by the fire.
They probably just thought “hey, lets write it into the patchnotes, people probably won’t even try it out and just think that it got fixed.”

This is true except for Mossman. Open world really is the priority.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Lendruil.9061:

Nothing that they said got fixed was actually fixed. Condi dmg at dredgeboss e.g. still doesn’t scale up when he gets hit by the fire.
They probably just thought “hey, lets write it into the patchnotes, people probably won’t even try it out and just think that it got fixed.”

This is true except for Mossman. Open world really is the priority.

Just curious, what happens if you pull mossman under water?

dutchiez.7502:

There’s actually new bugs, some things that used to be solid now aren’t anymore (molten facility drill, thaumanova forcefield in the turret room).

Urban Battlegrounds barriers as well, you can just take the short path all the time

You can also skip the three champions in uncategorized and old tom but apparently that bugs the instance

Lendruil.9061:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Lendruil.9061:

Nothing that they said got fixed was actually fixed. Condi dmg at dredgeboss e.g. still doesn’t scale up when he gets hit by the fire.
They probably just thought “hey, lets write it into the patchnotes, people probably won’t even try it out and just think that it got fixed.”

This is true except for Mossman. Open world really is the priority.

Just curious, what happens if you pull mossman under water?

My group wasn’t able to pull him in anymore.. That said, a pug was doing the pulling so he could’ve just failed miserably.

pugged it, 4man maw (5th personal d/c during the running part and didn’t get back in time) and did it with 4 seconds to spare. we also didn’t do lifesteal.

dutchiez.7502:

There’s actually new bugs, some things that used to be solid now aren’t anymore (molten facility drill, thaumanova forcefield in the turret room).

Is that why Alphard’s crates are now only partially solid?

Did it with pugs, no lifesteal and about more than 30 seconds to spare. I think we missed one or two lasers.