Guild Wars 2

I just completed the new fractal on T4 (great job on it btw) and spent 2+ hours on the last boss alone. Nothing surprising, Bloomhunger was the same when it first came out. The boss has a few hard hitting, usually insta-down attacks that must be dodged. Once you figure out the tells, it’s easy to avoid damage.

What really challenges me is the final boss’s last bullet hell orb phase. The orbs + AOEs + knock back pulses are almost impossible to avoid. Compounded with the constant agony, it means your health will only go down. It’s essentially a matter of how long you can prolong your death.

I managed to complete the fractal because my team mate managed to solo 3 out of 5 capture points by himself after everyone was down. And he did it seemingly without being damaged, as his health was almost full throughout. What I wanna know is how do you guys survive this bullet hell phase, and how to avoid damage?

The orbs don’t deal that much damage so you don’t really feel them unless you eat tens after tens. What matters is to look on the ground for the red circles, those are the problem. If you use 5 stack potion + have some protection (condi druid has on dodge for example) you can easily solo all 5 circles.

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The orbs don’t deal that much damage so you don’t really feel them unless you eat tens after tens. What matters is to look on the ground for the red circles, those are the problem. If you use 5 stack potion + have some protection (condi druid has on dodge for example) you can easily solo all 5 circles.

Something else to add to this which isn’t obvious, but the blue orbs heal you for a decent amount as well.

For that fight in general, if you are having trouble keeping everyone up don’t be afraid to bring a healer and slot in auto-res skills/traits like SnR, Spirit of Nature, Transfusion, and Function Gyro. Protection and other damage reduction skills are also useful. Keeping Vigor up is extremely helpful as well.

You can jump over the knockback wave. For me, that is the key to avoid damage.
If you try to dodge the knockback wave, you will have a good chance of putting yourself at a bad position after the dodger roll.

nm I just did it for 2nd time now and I was its like facepalm moment for me..

ye dunno y I couldn’t see nothing last time, but now its like yeah another classic case of multitasking like matthias and stuff. and imo once u get matthias down, this is like child’s play

I did die once at the last orb phase tho, but ye I never did shine in jumping puzzles and all puns aside this is in fact a jumping puzzle..

I found the endboss too ez, I mean you get rezzed from down midfight lol

You can actually follow the pattern out of the circles. They don’t decap, and if that is what you need to stay up then you can do that. The spiral alternates so you will advance the capture each time you pass through the circle.

You can also jump over the orbs to reset your position if the pattern shifts on you. Not sure if that’s intentional or not.