Guild Wars 2

Hi !

Yesterday I had encounter one unsolvable problem. I was going in factal 9 for the daily with only new player. Ok, the last boss in grawl fractal isn’t the easier. But I wasn’t expected to see them wipes when the boss go to 75%. More or less 10 times in a row.

It’s an easy level, even if the boss hit hard, and even with as much reflect as I can provide as a mesmer they keep dieing.

I will ask them which problem they meet, but I ask what should I say them. Which advice do you give to your “young” player?

Thanks for your help!

I believe this food can help a huge amount when young players first learn this fight

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feast_of_Ghost_Pepper_Poppers

If your whole team has this, then you’ll maintain 7sec of chill and that will delay all his moves and bring the fight down to a slower pace for people to work from.

Edit: Ops, To answer your question I tell them 3 things:

- keep moving so you don’t burn

- watch out when he shoots an arrow at you ( dodge when he draws the bow back )
This is his main source of damage so once you learn how to deal with this, you’ll find yourself with a lot more hp during the fight

- Take down his shield first, then deal with the fire elementals.

Also if you can, try get the group to fight him in a star formation around him ( if this makes sense ) so you can easily tell who he is about to shoot. It doesn’t matter if they melee or range him as long as they are spread out. Oh and make sure they know about rallying and to target something to help with the rallying.

Make sure to have reflects/projectile absorption up for the elementals.

When the boss shields up, keep the boss targeted while you Attack, you don’t actually have to hit him to knock his shield down.

Multi-hit attacks like Hundred blades only counts as 1 attack for shield removal.

Don’t run over the lava pits.

A guardian with shield of the avenger will make life easier, make sure the guard pops the shield right under the shaman and everyone gets in underneath him. If you do it right, you should be able to take out a few of the lava elementals while hitting the shield. A mesmer with time warp is very handy here as well as for extra reflects.

When the shield explodes, the guardian should pop wall of reflection and everyone should dodge to him. Keep an eye on the AOE’s that the shaman fires when his shield explodes.

Being a legendary, blinds don’t work that well on him but they do work. Chaining blinds on him can help during his arrow phase.

Other advice:
Don’t spread out too much
Warriors should bring Battle Standard just in case.
Keep shaman in the middle or his shield phase can get tricky
Rangers should keep pets close on passive. Fern Hound is useful for the Regen.

you can use medic feedback trait. At least you can keep them alive for a few extra seconds for an rally

Thanks all for your answers!

Many I had said to them, and have done my self, some other not ^^ (I especially wasn’t expected to have a food for advice XD )