Guild Wars 2

So i was running around at Vandals Claim in Brisband Wildlands and i noticed a Group Meta event. It had 1 champion and 2 veterans.

I decided i would try and solo it and see what happened because i had never seen this meta event in that area before.

To my surprise, the Champion had 1 particular skill that was doing exactly what Anet had been describing what the new taunt mechanic debuff would do. Once ín a while, the champion would do the warrior shout which put a debuff on me. All my character did during this 1 second debuff was walk (not run) towards the champion where she would then perform various other moves.

My question is, am i just NOW coming across this because it has been in game for a while? Or has this actually now been implemented into the live server on some chosen npcs for testing?

You know, now that I think about it I noticed the same thing when I did that event the other day. I don’t remember it ever happening before that time, either. I honestly thought I was just lagging, but yeah, every so often I’d end up running right to him while I was trying to kite around him.

That boss has had that since launch. The trio there are a tongue in cheek stab at the Holy Trinity (note that his description is “Tanks”). I think when they were describing the new Taunt mechanic they referenced him as an example, it’s just now players and other npc’s will do it too.

I would have sworn that boss was a female sylvari.

I guess I glossed over the reference to this boss when I read that article. Good to know!

And it might be female. I truly don’t remember.

I can confirm it was a female sylvari and yes… it was a triad that it was called during the event.

You may be right. I never got terribly close, but it’s Ebon Knight Carriadar according to the wiki. Apologies for my using “him” generically when I didn’t actually know the gender, I try not to do that.

Donari.5237:

You may be right. I never got terribly close, but it’s Ebon Knight Carriadar according to the wiki. Apologies for my using “him” generically when I didn’t actually know the gender, I try not to do that.

No worries. It was just my way of getting someone to look it up for me to finalize my memories of that fight.