Guild Wars 2

I must confess, before this week, I had never stepped foot in Sorrow’s Embrace explorable mode.
I noticed there were a lot of groups for P1 and P3, and after a few attempts, I found groups who were willing to let me join them even though I didn’t have experience in this dungeon. It became immediately obvious that P1 and P3 are the speed run paths of SE; and truth be told, I’m looking forward to learning how to run them correctly, with all the stack spots etc.
P2 was another matter entirely. First of all, there were no groups to be found. I waited a few days before I found a group of two people, and I was actually worried we couldn’t get a full party; luckily it only took a few more minutes (perhaps we got lucky because it was Saturday, so more people were playing). It turned out we were a group of players new to P2, so we decided to move slowly and learn along the way.
And I have to say: it was one of the most fun experiences I’ve had in GW2 dungeons.
The dialogue between the Dredge is, of course, excellent (it may have to do with the fact that my country suffered under a Communist regime; for some players it might seem silly and over the top, but the irony of all those speeches on how the workers enjoy their lives, while they’re actually terrified of the regime, is quite painful).
The path itself, is more enjoyable than P1 or P3; I also found it a little bit more difficult (nobody to tell the group, “stack here” etc.) and it was clearly longer. Picking out the foremen one by one was fun, the fighting in rather small spaces had us on edge (mainly due to the adds, really ). Protecting the Dredge while he was on his way to pick up a “small” stone was quite intense, lots of mobs in that fight almost overwhelmed us, but it was great to see it through without wiping.
The Taskmaster fight had a nice mechanic, it took us a while to figure out where we’re supposed to lead him to break his shield (mainly because I got downed by one of those crushers, that was the “A-ha!” moment). We eventually positioned ourselves in a circle around the central crusher to make sure the Taskmaster was always getting crushed almost as soon as his shield was up. The rock gathering was a nice break from fighting (we made a joke that we were Starcraft drones and were waiting to hear “we require more minerals”), I really enjoy these moments in dungeons that remind you you’re not playing a mindless hack-and-slash (like the bombs in CoF P2, or the lasers in CoE).
The last fight was a bit annoying at first, since we decided to focus on one golem at a time and couldn’t understand what we were doing wrong. When we figured we should try to kill them more or less at the same time, we failed to do it (too much health left for the second golem). I had to ask for advice on my guild chat, and was told we should chill one of the golems if we can, or use other CC to keep him away when he has too little health, so that we can focus on the other one without worrying. At first, it seemed like we wouldn’t make it yet again, but then we just “clicked” as a group and we were able to finish them a few seconds apart. And it was that feeling that made the whole (long) fight awesome to experience.
So thank you webluki, Bimo, Arkela and Serpentsting for a great run!
And thank you ANet for the dungeon, I really enjoyed SE P2.

I ran that path this week, in my group no one was experienced. The path is not hard, but you have to fight lots of elite mobs and in some parts you cant skip then. The part where my group wiped the most was before the final boss, there are like 5 mining suits that keep spawning more dredge, we had to wipe like 3 times to clear those mining suits.

The final battle with those 2 golens we managed to do on the first try because we read the wiki (we wanted to know how far we were in dungeon).

That path to become more enjoyable to run they need to remove some of the elite mobs that we are forced to fight, they do too much cc and burning and stuff.

In my opinion the path is not really that long, but we can’t just skip all the mobs like we do in other dungeons, imagine TA foward if we were forced to kill all those mobs in that road that we use to skip before the tunnel with the puppies.

When you ran SE tens (or even hundreds for some) of times, you generally gravitate to shorter paths as the novelty wears off pretty fast and you usually want to just be done with it and move on to other runs.
I personally don’t mind SE p2 and always do it, if someone needs it for dungeon master or smthng, unlike something like cof p3 fe, which I just find annoying and unrewarding.

P2 is for me by far the most fun to play but as Casmurro said is to hard because of the 5 mining suits, if thei would nerf them a little bit so that they won’t be as tough as they are it would be more enjoyable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwMTfaOVyFw