Guild Wars 2

So far I haven’t gotten past the boss. We got it down to 75% life before the enrage timer wiped us all. The first 3 mini bosses were enjoyable. The difficulty on them seemed reasonable. The boss though seemed a bit unrealistic to me. It didn’t really matter how much toughness or healing anyone had, the attacks cut thru like butter. I found it difficult to get from 1 orange aoe to another in the big arena despite having swiftness. Which was probably one of the biggest problems we had, the fact that we spent so much time running from 1 end of the arena to the other and lacked the dps. I don’t mind the high damage the boss outputs but I think a bit lower HP would make it more reasonable. Otherwise it was decent.

The tank doesn’t need to sprint marathons, for phrase one generally it is enough to kite it inside the quad so your entire team doesn’t have to run around and missing dps. The lighting field spawns near the boss always. Watch some clearing video for tips.

Warscythes.9307:

The tank doesn’t need to sprint marathons, for phrase one generally it is enough to kite it inside the quad so your entire team doesn’t have to run around and missing dps. The lighting field spawns near the boss always. Watch some clearing video for tips.

It seemed to me that 50% of the time the orange AOE that people needed to get into was often at the very edge of the arena. Sometimes touching the electric field that surrounds it. That’s why we were having problems. For us it often was far away so we tried to keep the boss toward the middle.

The Lightning AoE always spawns in the same section that the Vale Guardian is in. If you keep it in the middle, he’s probably crossing the line when it spawns and its spawning farther away.

Enko.6123:

The Lightning AoE always spawns in the same section that the Vale Guardian is in. If you keep it in the middle, he’s probably crossing the line when it spawns and its spawning farther away.

Wow, thanks for the info. That makes much more sense now. I’ll try again with my guildies…. uhh, at HoT I guess.

Enko.6123:

The Lightning AoE always spawns in the same section that the Vale Guardian is in. If you keep it in the middle, he’s probably crossing the line when it spawns and its spawning farther away.

That’s actually a revelation that our group didn’t come to. The lightning AE always seem decently nearby since we tended to pull him to the edges of the arena often. We were concerned because of the phase where the areas light up and do damage, that them spawning in the zones would be RNG we’d have to deal with. Glad to know that it’s not.