Guild Wars 2

Since the last update it was the first time that we had dredge dungeon in fractals (grawl—> ice norn —> drenge ice)
we were doing lvl 20 and we had 3 members with 15ar and two with 10 (i personally have 10, but i did lvl 24 with no problems)
The legendary boss however we thing he might had some problems, we try to kill him over 5 time and the results where 2 full broken armors.
possible problems:
1) AR in all members seems to had no effect on him
2)Fearing him did not had any effect
3)dealt dmg was two low, and he always regenerate
4)normally with 10AR at lvl 20 is 6.25 per tick, the boss was hitting with 4 ticks so 25% total. a hit from ice shards personally dealt me 50% of my life. normally even with the hit and the agony i should be alive. But nether member from the group could withstand the hit from ice shards, it was an 1 hit down move (i am a necromancer with 26k life and i was also using protection)
5) elementalist arcane shield did not protect him from any of its attacks

general prob: the red circle for the ice shards is too big and in some occasions there is the possibility to be on the platform and cannot see it (also some camera probs, that disappear if you are completely dead)

just lost 2 hour of fun game

This boss encounter might be slightly bugged in that blocks do not “block” the Icicle drops. The damage that the icicle actually does is quite significant before factoring in agony damage. Agony is an added condition damage on top of a “base” damage done from the attack that deals agony. The ground ice field grants agony stacks on anyone inside of it, so yes you could rapidly kill yourself if you stayed in it for longer than a split second.

How to beat this guy: Dodge icicles and Dodge ice fields.

1) Agony resistance might be bugged during your encounter, I personally have had no issues myself though. Do note that at level 20, mob/boss hits are quite painful so avoid them even without agony.

2) Defiant now stops fear as of a few patches ago.

3) Just try to kite in a clockwise fashion and when it stops to heal, have some sort of interrupt or stun. Stun is preferable because it can bypass defiant for when its needed. To apply damage constantly keep it superheated.

4) Again damage from the attack itself is more than enough to down at 20, unless you are bunker build, in which case you were probably under overlapping circles when the ice shards hit, thus you were hit twice.

5) Not sure about this one.

aimasira.3786:

Since the last update it was the first time that we had dredge dungeon in fractals (grawl—> ice norn —> drenge ice)
we were doing lvl 20 and we had 3 members with 15ar and two with 10 (i personally have 10, but i did lvl 24 with no problems)
The legendary boss however we thing he might had some problems, we try to kill him over 5 time and the results where 2 full broken armors.
possible problems:
1) AR in all members seems to had no effect on him
2)Fearing him did not had any effect
3)dealt dmg was two low, and he always regenerate
4)normally with 10AR at lvl 20 is 6.25 per tick, the boss was hitting with 4 ticks so 25% total. a hit from ice shards personally dealt me 50% of my life. normally even with the hit and the agony i should be alive. But nether member from the group could withstand the hit from ice shards, it was an 1 hit down move (i am a necromancer with 26k life and i was also using protection)
5) elementalist arcane shield did not protect him from any of its attacks

general prob: the red circle for the ice shards is too big and in some occasions there is the possibility to be on the platform and cannot see it (also some camera probs, that disappear if you are completely dead)

just lost 2 hour of fun game

This guy is a bit annoying. Daze could interrupt his heals and if you keep the lava on him it should work. (eventually)

I wish they’d reduce his hp pool, since the whole fight is basically repeating the same sets of actions over and over again and his higher hp pool does nothing except prolong the fight.

DeathPanel.8362:

This guy is a bit annoying. Daze could interrupt his heals.

Daze only interrupts his heal if all Defiant stacks are gone, just like any other cc.

If he’s Superheated he’ll Stun himself when he attempts to heal. No cc abilities needed.

The above is the same for the Dredge Mining Suit as well.

Sarcasmic.6741:

DeathPanel.8362:

This guy is a bit annoying. Daze could interrupt his heals.

Daze only interrupts his heal if all Defiant stacks are gone, just like any other cc.

If he’s Superheated he’ll Stun himself when he attempts to heal. No cc abilities needed.

The above is the same for the Dredge Mining Suit as well.

Just pointing out an example.

The whole fight is extremely boring since it’s just kiting back and forth between 2 points. (or clockwise/counterclockwise depending on people)

It’s more a test of patience instead of difficulty since if you save your endurance you can easily dodge out of the boss’s aoe rings out during each iteration.

yeah is know how to kill him. and i remember that i did the dredge dungeon at lvl 24 before the patch, but i cant remember which boss.
i always try to dodge the circles but even one of them hits you and you dodge you are dead only from the agony. normally however with 10 and 15AR we should be alive even after the agony.
it was like the agony had no effect

even the shroud mode did not help. i used it after being hit, and entered shroud mode to avoid the whole dmg of agony. but again shroud mode life was depleted and also my own life again. not only me but all our members had this prob

we have done the grawl dungeon and neither of us had died (which i personally think is the hardest)

Were your back pieces broken? That can fubar your AR

Shouldn’t rely on “surviving” agony, you should avoid it entirely. The only place where AR matters is jade maw.

nop i only have 2 rings, so it cant be broken

i know that i have to avoid the agony but there are some times which you cant

today i did the same dungeon (dredge) with the ice boss on lvl 10- helping some guys out which remain at lvl 2… first time i had my both rings and i step into a circle it hit me with 15k dmg but the agony did not do any dmg.
after our first fail try i removed both of the two rings just to see the result. the total hit of the circle and the agony of lvl 10 without AR left me with 3k life

As i know of, having 10AR at lvl 20 is the same as having 0AR at lvl 10

I don’t understand the point of this post. You got enough time to run out of the red circles, u don’t even have to dodge. Damage too low? He wont regenerate its health unless u don’t use the lava correctly.

There is a standard dmg together with agony in his aoe attacks. So you are downed by combination of these two attacks. Stay range (he has additional agony attack when melee) and dodge twice on the aoe.

the point of this post is not to learn how to kill him or dodge his attacks, i very capable of doing so.
they point was that they may created a bug again to this boss or i was just once. I know that its attacks are dealing a lot of dmg but this time was unreal.
i know there was a bug, and i created this post to see if other had the same problems
however i cant understand why most of the answers are telling me to avoid attack

avoiding attacks its obvious