Guild Wars 2

For all three paths, I suggest that the entire party all stack together regardless of what path.

The huge reason why is:
It will be 4 times easier to res the downed player before the second AoE defeats him/her. If the player makes a mistake, You and three other players can speed revive him/her before the huge damaging AoE attack kills the downed player and send another one down. Resulting a huge loss of dps and almost zero chance of recovery.

If a player is downed, it is your job to stop dps-ing and start reviving. This is the only small-window chance of recovering. If you don’t take it, your pug group will fail.

Also make sure you and the other players are informed on knowing what to do. Mistakes can happen. But mistakes in CoE are costly and quick. You don’t want 4 downed players at the same time.

There is no secret in Subject Alpha. All you have to do is dodge attacks. There is no specific skills you need other than auto-attack and a dodge meter.

Also, pay very close attention to people if they get crystalled. If some gets stuck in a crystal, you need to break them out asap or it is highly likely they will get downed/defeated.

I’ll second this. Most of the time people get too afraid of the red cirlces that they waste their dodges on stuff they can easily walk out of without dodging. Stacking makes it easier on everyone as alpha doesn’t move around as much and he’ll go down much faster. Alpha is unforgiving and stacking makes it easier for everyone.