Sad truth about ANet trying to fix arah.
Just take the noble route and teach pugs how to skip everything.
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Given that the WP appears randomly later on in the dungeon, it seems more likely that it’s a bug. (Although given how long arah p1 has been missing its WP after the slime boss is probably not a bug that will get fixed any time soon). I don’t think the alpkittene is a bug, however. It seems like an attempt to punish melee stacking. The scorpion wire is near impossible dodge with 5 people stacked on top of her, unless maybe they were all asura, but it is a slow moving projectile. At range it is very easy to dodge, probably easier then kholer’s big wind-up. With 100% reflect uptime you can melee her the same as always – it just requires a but more coordination which IMO is a good thing. If your group is more casual, you can spread out and range using the boxes for cover.
It’s still as easy to dodge melee as it was.
If you’re having that much trouble with people stacked, use free camera.
Another sad truth is that this makes legit soloing for classes without reflects a whole lot harder. Effectively cleaning out the market of legit soloers. As a result all the underwater exploit users will have A LOT more customers. Add to this that PuG runs are near impossible…
So ANet, you just enforced exploit arah path 2 selling by a huge margin with your stealth ’’fixes’’.