Guild Wars 2

No real interesting point to this post but just wanted to share a dungeon experience I had.

My friend and brother and one of my friends started playing GW2 recently. Right now they have a 42 thief and a 22 ranger. I (an 80 guardian) took them into CM story mode yesterday and had a very long, interesting and challenging experience.

My brother, the 22 ranger died at a blink of an eye. The agro radius around him was huge because of his low level I guess and sometimes the separatist snipers would ignore me and I would see them crouch down and point the rifle in some random direction. I would look over there and see my brother trying to get a couple of pot shots off and hide behind a wall….then BAM he died in one hit. Lets just say he got naked real early on in the dungeon.

He did help though, some things he kept on him and distracted long enough where we were able to revive and or kite things, but it was sure a challenge to get him through the dungeon.

My buddy, the 42 thief fared a little bit better but he did get smacked pretty hard if it ever stopped looking at me and decided to turn around and show him some love.

I am playing an AH hammer guardian right now and I only have yellows on that I bought from the TP with P/V/T cause well I was in a all MF set and wanted to buy a quick and cheap dungeon set to do fractals and other stuff without catching flak from pugs.

So our tactic was they hide, I face tank/dodge/run/try to carry them through the dungeon. We would pull and kill 1 or 2 things then run to reset the fight. Kill the non vets/champs first so we would have reduced incoming dps and make the fights more bearable, but it was still pretty rough if there were 3 medium level mobs (silver borders). All in all we did it and I think I personally died maybe 3 or 4 times (dogs and fears are rough!) but I got them through, we had a blast and this is the most fun I had in a dungeon.

We were on skype, we died more than I ever died in a pug EVER! But we were having a blast trying out different tactics and watching my brother get 1 shot left and right.

As many have said in the past, try to do a dungeon with an organized group and it is great fun. Hell I did it will an incomplete and totally unorganized group but we took it slow and had a good time.

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As many have said in the past, try to do a dungeon with an organized group and it is great fun. Hell I did it will an incomplete and totally unorganized group but we took it slow and had a good time.

I would put forth to you that you had fun because you were hanging out with friends on voice chat, with the intent of having a good time, not trying to gain anything from the dungeon. Trying to create a similar experience dying tons of times with random people would probably just be frustrating for most people.

It was a long ordeal, and I think the take away is that we were able to finish it with adverse odds and while it was an uphill struggle, we all felt accomplished at the end. So we finished a level 40 dungeon with a 22, 42, and an 80.

Would I want that to be the normal experience? No….but a challenge one time and success is rather fun. You are right I wasn’t trying to gain anything from the dungeon, other than face a challenge and succeed.