Guild Wars 2

Mad Rasputin.7809:

So, once phase 2 starts at the 50% mark you will be working with the 45 second window.

If you are slow with the sparks, and Simin’s health reaches 60-65% range again, she reverts back to phase 1 and nulifies the 45 second window?

Then once you get her to 50% again to start phase 2, the window ‘may’ be screwed up due to the reset?

http://youtu.be/i4NtL6g1LYE

She resets at 75% due to not running sparks, fight goes on as normal.

I guess maybe the key here is to make sure you run the sparks before the 60-65% mark or else she will revert back to stage 1.

If she reverts to stage 1, she will again stealth at the 50% mark no matter how long it has been, even if that is only a few seconds? Makes a little more sense.

An endless cycle of stage 1 → stage 2 → stage 1 if you are not fast enough with the sparks.

I think the information about the phases resetting at around the 60% mark is the key here and is missing from a lot of guides/tutorials.

Seems like if your party doesn’t have high enough DPS, the best strategy is to DPS her to 50%, pull four sparks and place them into place while leaving the fifth alone, let her regen up to 75% and reset, then DPS her to 50%, run last spark, DPS her like crazy so she has no chance of regenerating up to 60% (Strategy is listed in the wiki).

Thanks for all the useful videos and posts. A true vet giving back.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I guess maybe the key here is to make sure you run the sparks before the 60-65% mark or else she will revert back to stage 1.

If she reverts to stage 1, she will again stealth at the 50% mark no matter how long it has been, even if that is only a few seconds? Makes a little more sense.

An endless cycle of stage 1 -> stage 2 -> stage 1 if you are not fast enough with the sparks.

I think the information about the phases resetting at around the 60% mark is the key here and is missing from a lot of guides/tutorials.

Seems like if your party doesn’t have high enough DPS, the best strategy is to DPS her to 50%, pull four sparks and place them into place while leaving the fifth alone, let her regen up to 75% and reset, then DPS her to 50%, run last spark, DPS her like crazy so she has no chance of regenerating up to 60% (Strategy is listed in the wiki).

Thanks for all the useful videos and posts. A true vet giving back.

The 4-1 method hasn’t worked for months. The only way to succeed with this fight is finesse in Spark pulling.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

The 4-1 method hasn’t worked for months. The only way to succeed with this fight is finesse in Spark pulling.

Yeah, I noticed that. I was never able to get that to work, wasn’t sure if it was just me.

Good to know. Thanks.

Darn wiki is so outdated it seems. Might be causing some of the confusion.

Interestingly enough, the one time I’ve encountered the “Only 5 seconds to DPS her” bug was trying the 4-1 the day the patch came through that addressed her healing. We let her heal after putting the 4 sparks in, she came out, we put 1 spark in, it didn’t work, we ran them normally but it prolonged the spark run, and we only had a few seconds to dps her since it was sort of panic mode. It still only took about 5 phases to kill her though.

Darn, thought I had that bug tonight… but she only went back to stealth once really fast and did not stick to it. However the stealth windows were not 45 seconds appart… they where going from like 30 seconds to 50 seconds…

Might have been due to the fact we got a DC / dead guy in P1… or not… that bug is really hard to nail… next time I’ll film the whole fight and try to make her bug, if not that 50% bug at least the stealth window non fixed timer.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

No, there is no DPS check. Her healing is also very low compared to what it was at the start of the game. The fight is about organization, not DPS.

Quoting for Truth.