Guild Wars 2

Ok, so this isn’t beneficial really to anyone but me, but I had to go somewhere and vent. And since I love ANet’s censors turning everything into kittens, I’ll save them the trouble and just type kitten for all my curse words.

I have over 5 hours of Ascalonian Catacombs Path 2 experience. Most of that is spent on Ghost Eater. Still, I have not yet killed him. This has been an ongoing experiment of mine to beat this path, but every time I play, I get a terrible group. People quit (or worse, the dungeon starter quit). People kick so that they can invite friends of their own. People kick me because I want to do it (so I can finish the dungeon) when everyone else in the middle of Ghost Eater changes their mind. People are just kittening impatient kittens!

If mean kittens like that weren’t the only problem, unfortunately I do have to blame some of it on nice people who just have no idea how to play. Even when the strategy is all laid out, they still do the wrong things. They attack Ghost Eater in ghost form. They do not dodge out of the ice spit circles of death. They find all the easiest ways to die and ruin it for the team.

I find myself unlucky for soooo many hours of gameplay. I’ve played with 15+ people on this dungeon and I can never find a full group of 5 that knows what they’re doing! It’s so frustrating. I’ve started my own guild for people who don’t ditch others and who are respectful of others. The guilds I’m finding out there just are not helpful. I know good ones exist, but I seem unable to find them.

I think “maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the bad player losing it for the party”. But when I’m following my assignments, following the correct strategy, picking up or lifting the targeted oozes, luring ghost eater into the traps, avoiding the ice spit circles of death, and am the one NOT dying on the team, it leads me to believe I really have been this unlucky in finding groups! Bad players can get by on attacking things when they’re told, but when the smallest amount of thinking is involved, like “He’s an invulnerable ghost unless put in traps.” Or currently for the southsun dungeon going on “STAY OUT OF THE RED TRAPS!”, people suddenly have 0 brain functions. They still do not avoid the ice spit. They still attack NULL when he has a shield and run into red traps countless times. It’s really really frustrating! So many hours of my life wasted without in-game accomplishments.

Kitteny Kitten Kitten Kitteners.

I have a kitten now. Kittens are cool.
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
I wear a bowtie. Bowties are cool.
I wear a stetson now. Stetsons are cool.

Goodnight all.

This path used to be one of my favorites till the ghosteater started resetting with little cause. Have not touched it in about four weeks. Most everyone knew how to do this but it is just a pain now. Good luck.

Nikaido.3457:

AC has the worst pugs. For some reason this dungeon is surrounded by the worst players you could ever find in gw2. I’ve had bad pug groups for “harder” dungeons like arah, but most of the time the groups were 10 times better than anything you’ll ever stumble upon by pugging AC.

Pugging AC takes a toll on your sanity. I can’t wait to have all the ghastly weapons I want so that I can finally say that I am done with that dungeon and never run this again.

The dungeon itself is fine, and rather easy, but the only players who are interested in running AC are for some reason almost all brain damaged. Their dodge key is broken as is their ability to read party chat.

Glad to see I’m not alone! Once I finish P2 and get the achievement, I highly doubt I’m ever doing AC again. It’s kind of nice though hearing the other dungeons are not as bad. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE!

Get in a good group. THat’s all I can say. I don’t think the dungeon is that hard, so if you ran it like 5 times, I doubt you’ll fail 5 times ina row unless you are really unlucky with getting good party.

One good strategy for the last boss is to fill “all 3 power” first before you engage ghost eater. So you don’t need to power the thing during fighting.

I used to run AC all paths a ton. If you are on an US server I’ll add you to friends and, if you are online when at least one of my other friends is on I’ll probably do it with you (though I might ask you to do a 3 path run).

laokoko.7403:

Get in a good group. THat’s all I can say. I don’t think the dungeon is that hard, so if you ran it like 5 times, I doubt you’ll fail 5 times ina row unless you are really unlucky with getting good party.

That right there. That’s the issue with AC nowdays. Truly, a good group makes AC quite easy. But a good AC group is also quite tricky to come by.
As someone mentioned already, most of experienced players have no interest in it any more and LFG is full of people who don’t really know how what to do in this dungeon. Which would be fine, but Catacombs is the one dungeon that is very unforgiving to new players.

I’m farming armor tokens form my new character and I’ve done a bit of AC yesterday. Had a great run with the guildies, we got through p3 very quickly. But then I PUGed for p1 and it was a nightmare. We tried several character switches for different party configurations, but ‘new guys’ couldn’t make it through the Hodgins burrow event, even though the rest of us explained what to do on multiple occasions.
I’ve then joined a group who needed to replace a rage-quitter for p2. They were quite good players, but unfortunately not so good party configuration (2 ele, ranger, mes + my guard), so after agonizing 30min we called it. Maybe it was buggy as the Ghost Eater was healing faster than usual as someone pointed out, but still, I don’t think updated p2 is at all good for a group that doesn’t have a good party configuration with preferably lvl80s.

Well, if it makes you feel better, I made a post last week about finding players for a new dungeon master group. I got some great response and really awesome new friends from it AND we cleared this path on the first attempt. 3 of the member had never done it and I hadn’t done it since the changes. Here’s a link to the post Dungeon Master Group

Ahh… and another one… No, really, i share the pain in this matter, OP. I got lucky a few times in getting good in-guild groups doing AC a few times and it was cakewalk. Kohler? Really? That guy dies faster now it seems.

But then I get some bad pug groups and it bcomes total insanity. Kohler is like a granite wall everyone is just bashing their heads on all of a sudden. Also, why PUG it? because most ppl, even most guildies dont wanna run it, apparently it is “impossibly hard now” or too mindblowingly annoying…. so they only run it for DM title or just for Gift of Ascalon (legendary Greatsword chasers!), which most of us have already, so…..

I could agree on that bit abt being annoying. Path 2 AC seems to bug out on me a number of times and we had to quit the run because of this. Annoying enough FINDING a group to run AC (and thats not even certain its a good group) but bugging out like this makes everyone quit and not return.

also OP… Fez… bowtie? ………..Doctor Who fan?

Thats a huge problem with that boss, that healing. It makes impossible for low dps groups to defeat it as it heals faster that we can charge the traps, so if your group can’t kill it with 3 traps then its better to give up the fight.

Once i was in a group with 2 players that never did AC and one dungeon master that haven’t done the new AC yet, but we still managed to complete the path 2 quite easily. But after that i was in a group that just didn’t have enough dps to kill the boss before it regenetates its health. Now i don’t have courage anymore to try that path with new players.

yeah i also don’t understand why pugs insist on standing inside those wells and die. iirc the boss doesn’t regenerate health if you don’t hit him too many times with the ghost shield up. any slimes out of the trapped will eventually be absorbed by the boss to regen health.