Guild Wars 2

While I’m still farming lvl 10 dailies for those pristine tokens, I am getting the hang of dealing with most bosses’ agony attacks… except for the asura at the end of the harpy fractal. I tried blocking them with wall of reflection and spirit shield but sometimes they still sneak through and eventually down me with agony ticks. I also tried kiting him around those pillars to LoS those bolts but eventually some will catch up to me and do enough damage to kill me. I’ve never heard anyone else having trouble with him is there something I’m doing really wrong? My temporary solution is ask my team if anyone has 10 AR and hide behind them but I obviously can’t do that forever lol

just take an eye on asura and evade sideways the agony shots.

This fractal used to be more fair.
Asura shots could once be evaded rolling toward boss for 100% success, but in order to remove a small glitch they punished legit players as Always….

dodge the lightning balls.

get more AR ! my opinion

LordByron.8369:

just take an eye on asura and evade sideways the agony shots.

This fractal used to be more fair.
Asura shots could once be evaded rolling toward boss for 100% success, but in order to remove a small glitch they punished legit players as Always….

I haven’t done many fractals since the patch. You can no longer dodge toward the asura to evade?

You can still dodge towards the asura, but the “speed” of the projectiles is faster now since they travel directly towards you instead of taking a longer arcing path. You will not, however, have enough endurance to hold aggro with just one person. Everyone needs to be able to dodge the attack, which is difficult and people will probably end up dead

Another strategy is always moving away from the asura because the projectiles have a max range.

This is a lot to consider while being attacked by cute adorable deadly cat golems.

You can also use projectile reflection skills to bounce them, and as they’re pretty slow moving projectiles they’re pretty easy to intercept for your teammates.

Much easier now imho. The old projectiles where so slow and had strange movement that I always dodged too early. Now you just dodge into them and done.

old projectiles could be dodged towards asura for 100% evade (legit).

Now you have to evade sideway but its not guaranteed to evade all 3.

they can still be dodge towards asura… because they are ‘homing projectiles’ it’s a lot harder to time ‘side’ or ‘away’ from asura dodge.

or just go the easy way and use zilion of reflection skills ;o

Why don’t just place your projectile destroyer directly under his feet and stay close? He usually targets nearest player.

Saulius.8430:

they can still be dodge towards asura… because they are ‘homing projectiles’ it’s a lot harder to time ‘side’ or ‘away’ from asura dodge.

or just go the easy way and use zilion of reflection skills ;o

erm i was quite used to evade them toward asura…

When i tried post patch (ignoring what they did) i died miserably……

They should ve just fixed the wall and left the projectiles as they were

Dealing with the Asurans agony is a teamwork affair. Generally what I try to have happen is one player pull him whilst the others work the golems. In alot of cases thats me because I have high AR and high suvivability as a Necromancer. I still damage and assist with golems but take alot of the attacks from the asuran. If I get into trouble with it, I bait him to someone else. If your in an organized team its easier because they will actually react and bait them to attack them. Asuran agony actually hits pretty hard compared to most bosses. Kiting and teamwork are key. Overall its not a really hard boss because the golems go down quite easily, but just beware the agony, especially if you have no AR.

yesterday: i have evaded towards asura few times when projectiles wekitteneging me and didn’t get agony.

maybe you had that weird dodge bug, when evade failed to work?

thanks for the responses guys, I might just need more practice. and yes the evades do feel a bit wonky at times.