Guild Wars 2

I’m kinda cool with the final mission requiring a group even though all the rest of the story has been pretty easy to solo.
But they could have bleedin’ mentioned it!! I spent ages trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

I got to the bit where you have to take out the three towers. Those gorillas. Brutal knockdown and pummel thing. It’s hard to fight back with a fat ape sitting on your head. After the first couple of fails I figured I must be missing something so I embarked on a whole sequence of different attempts.

Maybe I can avoid aggroing them completely. Fail.

Maybe I just need to kite ’em. This did have some success. It took ages but spawning elementals and wurms as I ran away eventually took them down. Then they spawned again. Fail.

Maybe I can spawn a wurm next to the tower and kite until it has done. Fail.

Maybe if I take out the other two towers some miracle happens and my NPC buddies turn up with a crate of drugged bananas or at least a big ol’ gun. Fail.

Maybe if I wasn’t so rubbish at the game. Fail.

My armour ran out. I quit and tried it all again. Then I Googled, expecting to find a little trick or switch or something that I had missed. Nopes. Turns out I need real people. Real people!!! In MY personal story!!! How rude. Next you’ll be telling me I’m not supposed to solo some mean dragon dude but, you know, I thought I had a whole NPC army to call on. Artillery, tanks, air strikes, the lot. Can’t I just nuke those towers? Ka-Boom etc etc.

I’m not really that miffed. I just thought some of you old hands might be amused at a noobie’s wrong assumption.

TL;DR;

What? I need real people? What is this? Some sort of MMO or something?

They changed it a while ago so that it doesn’t require a group anymore.

I’ve soloed it on most professions. Not sure why you’re having trouble.

If i am correct, you are talking about Arah personal story.

If thats the case, you are at the point where you are about to take out the 3 tower guarded by some foes.

It is possible to defeat by solo because Arah story has been made soloable couple months ago. All you need is to take it slowly, draw some foes, kill them until you can take on the tower.

Just one at a time, you can finally beat it.

PS. you should check your armor, it is best to do it with full lv80 exotic… or higher.

If you want help with it, add me in game, and I’ll come run it with you.

Oh no. That makes it worse. Now you are telling me I should be able to solo it hehe.

I’m a staff Ele. Armour-wise I have two pieces of Exotic, working on the rest. But I don’t think armour was the problem. I can kite them probably forever but as soon as I stop to fire off an attack those darned gorillas catch me up and knock me down and then keep me down.

Can’t get back up + can’t fire off any skills = dead

Despite a speed buff I never seem to get far enough away from them.

The one thing I didn’t think to try was killing two of the three then kiting and sniping at the tower. TBH I was so dismayed that they re-spawned after I had managed to take them all down that I lost heart somewhat. Then I googled and hit all the complaints about it needing a group.

I’m a bit of a one-trick pony at present. I drop an earth elemental as a tank then switch to fire and hit, kite and heal until done. It’s served my first toon well thus far but maybe it’s time I delved a bit deeper into all those other skills I ignore at present. I know switching the attunements is key but I just have not really needed to do that so far. And those gorillas just seem to ignore the earth ele distraction. Very unsporting.

Armor of earth can help. It is a stunbreaker and also gives stability. Also glyph of storms in earth for area of effect blinds.

Staff Fireball from a side can kill the tower without getting much attention from foes.
You’ll just have few foes to kill. Others can be ignored.

I did it saturday, and it’s definitely not group content anymore !
We were five and were amazed by the ease of the former bosses.

Well, it seems all I needed was to be told it was do-able solo. Job done. Died a few times. Still don’t like those gorillas though.

Oh, and after the final cut scene on the ship I almost got killed by a still-active tentacle. All the NPCs had stopped fighting and were just stood around whilst it took pot shots at me. Talk about ungrateful…

Thanks all!