Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I recently started doing TA Aether in hopes of phat lewtz. Generally I have between 1 and 3 additional people that I run it with, depending on their schedules and such. I was hoping for some advice, tips, and answers for the bosses. I looked around for speedrun videos/posts/etc but did not find any. Maybe iwasdoinitrong?

Our party generally is:
Guard (thinking maybe swap to ranger)
Ele
War/Pug
Mes/Pug
+pug

My guard is not 100% full zerk master(thus the hope to swap to ranger), everyone else is. If it is recommended to bring a guardian, getting absolutely full zerk is doable but not preferred.

First, The dual bosses, Slick and Sparki.. We do this without wiping every time, however it takes a long time for us. I was wondering if it is possible to pull them to wall & FGS (+ LH in the event they don’t die from only FGS) them both down before we wipe from the oil stacks. If it is not possible, is there a different efficient way of doing it? – this is probably slowest part of our dungeon run

Secondly, the Foreman, can we FGS him on pipes safely, provided we dodge the spin attack? Is there a better location from this? We tried it once but he kept moving away from the pipe and we ended up wiping and doing it more haphazardly.

Clockheart is pretty easy, I just had question about how easy it is to get him to a wall to FGS or if we are better using LH + fire field stack.

It has been taking us ~1 hour to complete. I am confident with us 4 + a random pug that can follow directions we can do it in under 30 minutes, killing everything for chance at phat lewtz, I am looking for your help to achieve this goal.

Also note that we cannot use good performance boosting food as we will be stacking MF food + birthday boosters + MF boosters + Scarlet Slaying Potion (those work here right?)

Thank you,
Kojin

You can do Slikk and Sparki really fast if you use the FGS with teleport utilites (kill Sparki first). I think you can get the Clockheart to one of those generators. Also the icebow is really good there.

Slick and sparki – if you kill slick first it goes faster as far as I can tell, but you have more chance you’ll wipe.

we FGS the Foreman straight down on the right side, he pulls all the way there. Also, we go for 5 FGS (so 3 eles), guardian puts down hallowed ground and just burn the kitten. We usually do this because we go with new ppl from the guild who need the achievement and you don’t rly pull any other mobs there. (just 1 group) Also, if he doesn’t pull correctly or you only have 2 FGS, you can LOS him again on the other side after he did is annoying spinning attack (as long as you dodge out in time :P)

Clockheart we LOS on one of those generators, you can FGS into the generator to burn him down extremely quickly. We usually do it right after the first hologram blew up on him.

I usually bring my full zerk guard there. It’s really not an issue whatsoever. You sometimes get downed at generators because holograms blow up in your face but ohh well. It’s rly good for stacking (wall of reflection) and condi removal, as there’s a lot of confusion stacks in that dungeon.

Thank you for the help. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, probably today or tomorrow I can. I’ll let you know how it go

I created this thread long ago, might work to answer some casual questions, but i warn you this is a guide for “casual run” and not speedruns: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-for-TA-Aether

I should be honest, i’d hate if aether is done a speedrun habit. That place is fun because it takes hours.

Thanks for the help everyone. Ran it with some pugs using many of these tactics and it was much smoother and faster than usual. 2 of my pals haven’t been running with me so 3 pugs :S