Guild Wars 2

Skoteinos.4213:

How to Overcome Jade Maw Agony at Fractals 40+

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There are three ways:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ97yrn2Z9s
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99% Succeeded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXkae5kQCrA

It’s impossible with current AR limits.

He does something like 9 ticks at 18% each even if you have 45 AR.

It’s conceivable you can survive in downed state if you started at 100% health if you have 45-50 AR.

The guardian elite that gives you 3 sec of invul mitigate it a little bit reducing the ticks to 6.

Maybe once they create infusion recipes for all the acc slots you can get 55-60 AR, with which you can survive it.

With 35 AR, a perfectly timed Tome of Courage #5 skill will leave you at ~1-5% hp in downed state. Just throw in warbanner / illusion of life / deathshroud / mistform into the mix and you can survive it the legit way.

I believe all the old res tricks (ranger res, 99 res) still work for the 40’s, haven’t played since a little after the 1/28 patch though. You will not be able to complete any even fractals level 50+, as they added a mechanic to the maw agony that applies the agony even on res.

I believe the added agony from amulets and accessories, giving a max of 45 at the moment, will allow you to legitimately complete level 40 fractals (without res tricks), but 50+ will still remain utterly inaccessible until more content is added.

99% works for the 40s, haven’t been able to do it at all on 50s though.

Or you can have 2 members die and rez both at 99%, less room for errors.

shadowdust.2018:

Or you can have 2 members die and rez both at 99%, less room for errors.

How do you do this? Jade Maw hits everyone with lethal agony. What skills do you use to survive?

It isn’t a skill, it’s a technique. Before the Maw agony is applied, you have one or two members of the party die. Res them to 99%, trigger agony, res on receiving agony (small window). Done.

The end of this fight is the oddest thing. I usually don’t even get hit by agony, i just get downed and defeated a split-second later.
According to my combat log, i wasn’t hit by anything, nor am i dead.
But it still happens in almost every run, while another person can stand right next to me, picking their nose and nothing happens to them.

bytes.1650:

The end of this fight is the oddest thing. I usually don’t even get hit by agony, i just get downed and defeated a split-second later.
According to my combat log, i wasn’t hit by anything, nor am i dead.
But it still happens in almost every run, while another person can stand right next to me, picking their nose and nothing happens to them.

Jade Maw hits everyone with an ultimate laser attack before he dies.

You’ll need to have a reflecting crystal in hand to survive it.

Aragorn Son of Arathorn.4015:

It isn’t a skill, it’s a technique. Before the Maw agony is applied, you have one or two members of the party die. Res them to 99%, trigger agony, res on receiving agony (small window). Done.

That’s a great idea. Going to have to try that.