Guild Wars 2

Anyone come up with a way to beat him yet? Im not asking for an exploit just an effective method.

Last night we tried the boss with the spiders (Fionna, F/U path) and we got stuck there so long that one of our guys left and another just would not listen. I think in the end we somehow managed to get the tree to run out of spiders because we were just 900 range away from the tree smacking him without any spiders killing us.

It’s refreshing to not know how to do a boss but I’ve tried my hardest to find a way, and is this the way to do it now?

have a non instance owner grab argo of everything, run behind tree and then log out and back in then wp back to boss and poof

RiKShaw.8795:

we were just 900 range away from the tree smacking him without any spiders killing us

Actually, that is how this boss was defeated before “the leaf” method showed up.

Just stay in corridor and hit the Nightmare Three from max range.
Use basic skills only (on staves is usually #1) avoiding any type of AOE/clones/illusions/pets otherwise spiders will be pulled.
Also, look at the animations of the Three; when it hits the ground with its left fist and shakes, dodge back its AOE or use something to protect yourself.
Bringing down the boss requires some minutes but, when got the right timing, it is an easy fight.

Hope it helps

Avoid bounce attacks like Winds of Chaos and Trick Shot too.

The initial waves of spiders are unavoidable. But if you accidentally aggro’ed additional spiders, the Tree will spawn more adds via egg spits.

Alternatively if you are in a team with strong melee dps, you can get the entire team to melee dps down the tree ideally with some reflection skills. Basically kill the tree before it kills you.

In path up how do you avoid the 1 ht kill he does? Sans leaf not sure how to do it. I remember we used to just stand in the corridor and then when the Aoe circles came dodge ack twice, but last time I did path up and didn’t use the branch he just 1 hit us in the corridor. Animation to look for?

I just did this with my usual team. We just went underneath the boss immediately after killing the first 3 spiders and DPS’d him down. We didn’t get downed or anything — random mixed team comp.

I got the idea from one of Strife’s video guides: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOydGiQQDw

Laurel McFang.7159:

In path up how do you avoid the 1 ht kill he does? Sans leaf not sure how to do it. I remember we used to just stand in the corridor and then when the Aoe circles came dodge ack twice, but last time I did path up and didn’t use the branch he just 1 hit us in the corridor. Animation to look for?

The tell for the attack is when the tree raises his right arm slowly and smashes it to the ground. There is no red circle for this and it randomly hits a target. It will hit more if targets are stacked.

You can dodge just as the arm comes down. Alternatively you can apply blind to the boss as long as the blind duration covers the attack. Or just use a block skill.