Guild Wars 2

Did they change it on purpose so you have to use the pew pew guns to bring the wall down at each interval, thereby creating an artificial time sink to the event that doesn’t really add any sort of challenge or increased difficulty (other than the withstanding of a patience tried)?

Or is that just a bug that needs fixing?

I didn’t see anything in the last patch notes to determine whether that was intentional or not? Unless that’s one of the many things under “Fixed bugs and exploits”?

I sure hope it’s a bug. Those “Jonny Space Commander Galaxy Star Rockeaters-Don’t-Eat-Bars” guns aren’t terribly fun. :\

What I ‘like’ to do is lay out heals and passively heal people on auto-attack in between with my water blast…albeit poorly.

AFAIK, the bomb packs are still the best way to bring the walls down. 3-4 people running bombs make short work of walls/pillars. And then you have the useless people flailing away from the sidelines doing jack all. But that is another discussion.

Its just a targeting bug that they said they plan to fix (cant find the post, but positive I saw it).

You can target and attack the wall if you click at just the right spot at the base of the wall in the center.

Imo, though, the bombs are, by far, the best way to take the wall down. They do a ton of damage and running them through the ice of death (while dealing with fear, falling shards, the knockback wave and the timer on the bombs themselves) can be pretty exciting.

It’s a bug. Sometimes the wall is slightly underground and sometimes it’s not.

Stacking AoE is by far the fastest way to bring the wall down. Elementalists stacking meteor shower, glyph of storms, frost bows and any other AoE over times can easily take the wall down in under 60 seconds. 5 or more doing it could probably take it down in under 30s.

Thanks folks. Glad to hear it’s a bug and not intended. I was concerned it was a change to purposely get us to use some of the toys, which under the right circumstances isn’t a bad thing. In this case, it just seems to draw the whole thing out needlessly.