Guild Wars 2

Okay, there is hard, rightfully hard, boss encounters. Then there is cheap mechanics making bosses impossible to do 99% of the time. Lupis falls under the hard category. He is hard, but once you know what your doing, after you’ve practiced, he can be taken down.

But then there is Simin. You would think spending 2+ hours on the same boss, after spending 4 hours in the dungeon already, would lead to some sort of progression or completion. But nope, we had to give up. 6 hours wasted. There is an unfair mechanic to this fight, which makes it way more difficult than it should be.

For those who don’t know, Simin is the second to last boss of the seers path in Arah. By herself she isn’t that hard, she has some hard hitting attacks and some circles, but she is generally okay. The petrifying is also a nice touch, and some teamwork is needed. But then… oh but then, around 45% health she turns invisible and starts healing. In this time your team needs to gather 5 invulnerable sparks from around the room and bring them to the center. The longer it takes to do this, the more she heals.

It sounds simple enough, but my complaint comes from not the full aspect of the fight, but simply the tedious placement of the sparks in their own circles. This is just RIDICULOUS! Not only do they just miss the spots 75% of the time, they also leash on occasion. In addition, sometimes the graphic glitches out, meaning we have no idea where the last spark goes. Its just a big mess and its 90% luck whether your going to get it right or not. It is frustrating.

Out of the hundreds of times trying this in those few hours, we maybe had a good pull 5 times, but we still never got her below 40% or so. We scoured the web for tactics, we tried them all, but we didn’t get anywhere.

I know its possible, but this is something deserving of a new rank than just explorable, killing this should guarantee an exotic or something, its something you won’t understand until you’ve spent 2 hours of your life whaling on a boss that just refuses to die.

I do propose a solution, make it so the sparks just need to reach the statue, but not be required to be in a designated spot. If it was simply a ring around the statue, that would be perfect. It would still take coordination, but it wouldn’t be as cheap as it is now. If you must, make her stronger, make the fight with her more of a challenge, but don’t use this frustrating mechanic to make the fight impossible.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, so I would love to hear experiences or any thoughts on the subject.

Actually, That boss is bugged. We wasted a good 6 hours doing that path. We did everything right, but after she gets about 40%-50% health, the sparks just tweak out and doesn’t resummon her. We got down a method and were pulling in the sparks as soon as she went down taking no longer than 5seconds and it still wouldnt resummon her. They just need to fix the bug, and compensate me for wasting 6 hours on a bugged path

Simin is a routine kill for my group, isn’t the last boss of the path either… though the last boss is even more of a joke

The Dwayna Priestess fight is completable, she’s just hard. The only change I’d like to see them make is to make the sparks melee, so they’re easier to kite onto the circles.

Some tips:

- Fight her outside of the room w/ 3 people, have 1 ranged person managing tears and the 3 sparks at the entrance of the room, have someone else just chilling in the back to run the 2 sparks that spawn there to the center. This is a slower approach to killing her, but it makes the wonky way the sparks swap between targets actually manageable (and allows for pets/the npc to not completely ruin an attempt when a spark decides they’re their new best friend).

- She goes into STEALTH. She is not invincible when this happens. Yes, she heals, but she can still be hit. Have 3 people on her at ALL times, NEVER let poison fall off of her.

E Z.4721:

Simin is a routine kill for my group, isn’t the last boss of the path either… though the last boss is even more of a joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczh45-8sgM

What the hell? How is she healing so slow? We spent an hour on her, she heals like five to ten times faster than on your video.

Replying to some of the responses, yeah sorry, I just assumed she was the final boss.

And we used all the tips Orcao described, no luck.

E Z.4721:

Simin is a routine kill for my group, isn’t the last boss of the path either… though the last boss is even more of a joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczh45-8sgM

It doesn’t work that way, not for normal ppl. Consider yourselves very lucky.

Orcao.6419:

- She goes into STEALTH. She is not invincible when this happens. Yes, she heals, but she can still be hit. Have 3 people on her at ALL times, NEVER let poison fall off of her.

That’s more like an exploit. With that said, it still healed too fast for my team to manage, even after we swapped out some lower dpsers.

It is not really luck when this is getting close to double digit repeated kills on two different servers, with different group compositions.

Our DPS for getting her from full to the first stealth part is less than 50 seconds, with no CDs poped. Spark behaviors is annoying yes, but it only makes the difference of maybe 5 extra minutes.

Kurp.3207:

E Z.4721:

Simin is a routine kill for my group, isn’t the last boss of the path either… though the last boss is even more of a joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hczh45-8sgM

What the hell? How is she healing so slow? We spent an hour on her, she heals like five to ten times faster than on your video.

Just killed her again, her regen didn’t seem to be any different