Guild Wars 2

In the last couple weeks, has anyone noticed a lot of extra spiders on the final boss of Twilight Arbor’s “Forward/Up” path?

We ran it tonight with a guild group. After a couple wipes, the spiders looked like an Eternal Battlegrounds zerg. None of the people who have run this path before remembered so many spiders. And none of the strategies that worked in the past seem to work now.

So I have a few questions:

First, are there more spiders than there used to be? (I’m especially interested to hear from people who have run this path a few months ago and in the last few days.)

Did we do something to cause so many to spawn?

Or is there something we can do to prevent so many from spawning?

And finally, how do we deal with all these spiders?

Yes. yes we have noticed.

if you scroll down a bit there’s a few threads already on this topic.

Solution is full melee + reflects. Make sure you have high dps team. This isn’t pug friendly unless you want to be class specific and specify that you want zerkers. Guardian reflects+mesmer reflects will do you fine, and ele with swirling winds to pop at start and end is also nice, rest can be glass cannon warriors. Trick is to stand inside the tree and inside the guardian’s walls/shields. Make sure your whole party commits to melee at the start, dont dilly dally around with the spiders. Ignore them and just focus down the tree. Be careful to wait for the tree to do his one shot life steal before entering.

Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B3ua0GEq8
Naked Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBkjdkhi0c

swiftpaw.6397:

Yes. yes we have noticed.

if you scroll down a bit there’s a few threads already on this topic.

Solution is full melee + reflects. Make sure you have high dps team. This isn’t pug friendly unless you want to be class specific and specify that you want zerkers. Guardian reflects+mesmer reflects will do you fine, and ele with swirling winds to pop at start and end is also nice, rest can be glass cannon warriors. Trick is to stand inside the tree and inside the guardian’s walls/shields. Make sure your whole party commits to melee at the start, dont dilly dally around with the spiders. Ignore them and just focus down the tree. Be careful to wait for the tree to do his one shot life steal before entering.

Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B3ua0GEq8
Naked Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBkjdkhi0c

You can’t crit the boss so no zerk gear needed…..

Puandro.3245:

swiftpaw.6397:

Yes. yes we have noticed.

if you scroll down a bit there’s a few threads already on this topic.

Solution is full melee + reflects. Make sure you have high dps team. This isn’t pug friendly unless you want to be class specific and specify that you want zerkers. Guardian reflects+mesmer reflects will do you fine, and ele with swirling winds to pop at start and end is also nice, rest can be glass cannon warriors. Trick is to stand inside the tree and inside the guardian’s walls/shields. Make sure your whole party commits to melee at the start, dont dilly dally around with the spiders. Ignore them and just focus down the tree. Be careful to wait for the tree to do his one shot life steal before entering.

Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B3ua0GEq8
Naked Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBkjdkhi0c

You can’t crit the boss so no zerk gear needed…..

You can however crit everything else in the instance on The way there. Also, u will kill that tree faster with main stat power than with main stat anything else. Pvt Or valkyrie is ur other option but it’s not needed with reflects.not sure about you but I’d much rather have a Zerker team than a pvt/valkyerie team for the entire duration of the run.

Puandro.3245:

swiftpaw.6397:

Yes. yes we have noticed.

if you scroll down a bit there’s a few threads already on this topic.

Solution is full melee + reflects. Make sure you have high dps team. This isn’t pug friendly unless you want to be class specific and specify that you want zerkers. Guardian reflects+mesmer reflects will do you fine, and ele with swirling winds to pop at start and end is also nice, rest can be glass cannon warriors. Trick is to stand inside the tree and inside the guardian’s walls/shields. Make sure your whole party commits to melee at the start, dont dilly dally around with the spiders. Ignore them and just focus down the tree. Be careful to wait for the tree to do his one shot life steal before entering.

Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B3ua0GEq8
Naked Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBkjdkhi0c

You can’t crit the boss so no zerk gear needed…..

No clothes are needed either.

colesy.8490:

Puandro.3245:

swiftpaw.6397:

Yes. yes we have noticed.

if you scroll down a bit there’s a few threads already on this topic.

Solution is full melee + reflects. Make sure you have high dps team. This isn’t pug friendly unless you want to be class specific and specify that you want zerkers. Guardian reflects+mesmer reflects will do you fine, and ele with swirling winds to pop at start and end is also nice, rest can be glass cannon warriors. Trick is to stand inside the tree and inside the guardian’s walls/shields. Make sure your whole party commits to melee at the start, dont dilly dally around with the spiders. Ignore them and just focus down the tree. Be careful to wait for the tree to do his one shot life steal before entering.

Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B3ua0GEq8
Naked Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBkjdkhi0c

You can’t crit the boss so no zerk gear needed…..

No clothes are needed either.

Without clothes we kill the tree with sexiness ;D

There’s not any more spiders than usual, honestly. People just can’t count very well.
It’s easy to mistake a hundred spiders for 12 after all.