Guild Wars 2

So my guild and I have run Teleporter and Submarine in the past 2 days, we’ve yet to do front door. In sub alpha uses that damnable earth spike cone crap yet everyone is talking about just simply dodge it. Well, my problem is between trying to run from adds and destroy crystals I cant see it coming. On tp of that, even when I’m staring straight at him I see little to no telegraph, then boom 4k hp gone (if im lucky enough to only be hit once). That f’ing move travels at mach 3 and despite my best efforts dodging only works like 1 out of 5 times.

Seriously, need some advice from some of you CoE vets on how to see this thing coming. I know he alternates between attack 1 and attack 2 regularly, but even with that knowledge I cant get a good prediction on my dodges. Am I missing something?

Usually he’ll cast it at whoever he was looking at while casting the previous spell (which depends on the path you were taking, of course). So if you’re doing the Submarine path and he turns to face you whenever he casts Dragon’s Tooth, you can be pretty sure he’ll be tossing that row of spikes at you. He also sometimes turns halfway through while tracking his target before casting, I think it’s just kind of buggy. Unfortunately, I can’t help you with the actual timing of the dodge; I’m in NA playing on EU servers, so my dodge timing is probably way off. I usually dodge extremely early before he even actually casts the thing and I get the evade message, but I feel like that’s probably not the normal timing lol.

Yeah, what omg said. He faces you. Move around a bit and if he’s staring at you, he’ll launch the spike volley just before the dragon fangs hit the ground.

Can you give us something more specific – for example, what your class and utilities are? Most classes have utilities that can greatly improve their survivability in this fight.

Get up close and circle strafe him melee range. Avoid being in front of him, though. The earth cone is tiny when right next to him, and he’ll sometimes miss you completely even without dodging. If you go down, the rest of the team should be up close fighting with you and able to rez quickly.

Staff ele traited into healing toughness and arcana.
Utilities are:
lightning flash (for escaping crystals, bugs sometimes)
frost bow (for destroying crystals)
[was using glyph of renewal, thanks anet for making that completely useless]

And we did get in his face a good bit which really helped, but even then I had to run when hp got low

Ender.3508:

Staff ele traited into healing toughness and arcana.
Utilities are:
lightning flash (for escaping crystals, bugs sometimes)
frost bow (for destroying crystals)
[was using glyph of renewal, thanks anet for making that completely useless]

And we did get in his face a good bit which really helped, but even then I had to run when hp got low

Swap out bow for Arcane Shield, Glyph of Renewal for Mist Form. Pop these when you’re out of endurance and need to survive. At least, this is what my ele friend does for this fight. He also likes to swap to Sceptre/Dagger for the Arcane trait that improves endurance while wielding a sceptre. Deaths seem pretty rare for him, and he uses Mist Form to help with risky rezzes.

But, yeah. R.I.P. Glyph of Renewal. You finally found a place on my skillbar, but it was too good to last.

The problem is that if I dont have the bow, I dont have the burst damage to destroy crystals trapping my allies. But yeah, since GoR is pointless now I could prolly get arcane shield or some low CD cantrip on my bar. Perhaps get glyph of storms and use it in water for the chill effect. (One of the best conditions in dungeons IMO).

I still wish I could see that kitten attack coming :/