Guild Wars 2

There is a Champion Elite Fire Shaman group event at The Blasted Hearth in Iron Marches that requires a couple of people to complete. The fight is pretty long, boss hits like a truck, at 25% he turns into a giant fire elemental (akin to meltdown clean up event in Metrica Province) and summons Blazes, with streams of fire separating the group. There are NPCs there trying to defeat the shaman as well. Due to distance from waypoints, it also seems like a rare case where it is better to revive a defeated person than to run back (if there are enough people).

Since it is high level zone, but not max level, and doesn’t really have an event like the Shatterer to attract high level heroes, it isn’t very populated. This is the first event I’ve ever stood around and said in map chat “LFM Group Event Fire Shaman, [The Blasted Hearth]” and waited quite a while for 4 other heroes to show up. We did really well, with people jumping to assist downed players and no one being defeated.

Much to our disappointment, however, the boss awarded no chest – merely a dynamic event completion, with no follow up or anything. I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but this event seems deserving of some kind of chest.

Mhmm, right now meta events are the only things that drop chests, so people who put in alot of effort to kill the giant at Nageling in Diessa or similarly strong champion monster end up being disappointed.

The fire shaman really is far off the beaten path. This must be why the designers added a bubble in the area that grants regen and makes you invulnerable to the shaman’s attacks.

I was pretty disappointed with the lack of chest and event progression as well. The fight itself was pretty cool, but I think they should consider adding particle effects to a certain attack (you know the one).

Yes I did this event last night, while it was hard and a very satisfying fight all I got was 1.42 silver and a white item. All that needs to be added is a small rock fall happens when he is defeted and a chest to appear behind it.

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The fire shaman really is far off the beaten path. This must be why the designers added a bubble in the area that grants regen and makes you invulnerable to the shaman’s attacks.

The one time I tried using it (before the group of 4 others showed up), the boss just walked in and killed me anyway. The regen was insignificant and the invuln could maybe be used to block off the dmg from his thrown cleaver if there wasn’t a delay on the invuln buff and the cleaver was a little more telegraphed. I think the bubble is there mainly for the NPCs so they can regen (the regen on them was far more noticeable).

During the actual fight with the group, I think only 1 person used the bubble once to bide time for their heal skill to come off CD while the boss focused on the others, which seems to be the only application of the bubble for PCs. And if you’re downed in the bubble, you can’t use your 4 skill to get back up since you are prevented from using abilities in the bubble.