Guild Wars 2

Okay, after 3 days of trying to complete the Champion Golden Ooze for the Hope Oxide Compound i am convinced that it is nearly impossible to do. The first 5 tries I failed do to just too few people… killing the little golden oozes… some are vets or elite it would seem… to prevent them from healing the Champ takes more than 3 people (let alone actually killing the Champ). Getting a full enough map to do all 4 posts and getting enough people to do each of the event is tough to do even with at tag. The last 2 days a added twist that if the other events complete while we are doing the Champ Golden Ooze event… it all just vanishes… no body, no reward… and I am stuck waiting til the next cycle in hopes that i can complete everything in the small window. Been trying to do this for 4 days now.

Just did it 2 more times… this time with 10 people… didn’t even get close before the event flipped

I appreciate why this is an issue and there are mechanics that small groups often ignore to be able to kill it with only 3 or 4 (kiting being one) making it frustrating for you to kill this mob.

However, I agree it’s annoying when a year on these events are becoming harder to complete now for things you need to progress. May I suggest you pop a request in the players helping players subforum, stating NA/EU. I guarantee you, you will have this done in no time at all if you do.

If you are on EU and I am online, you are welcome to pm me and I can come help and maybe bring some guildies.

The easiest way to kill that ooze, and I’ve done it with just myself and one other person there, is to lure the champ round and round the pillar as you fight it. The little oozes move so slowly they can’t keep up, and so they never get close enough to the champ to heal it.

With this strategy, you can kill the ooze very quickly

it maybe a bit much for some but I found it doable solo to not bother going to forums.

A lot of fights are easier when people try not to DPS everything down. There are strategies for a lot of fights that involve more than just trying to do damage. Some are listed in this thread.

I can’t tell you the number of times someone in my guild told me something was impossible until he was shown how to do it.

While it’s true some encounters do require huge numbers of people, this isn’t one of them. In fact, more people can make this fight harder if they don’t know what to do.

Vayne.8563:

While it’s true some encounters do require huge numbers of people, this isn’t one of them. In fact, more people can make this fight harder if they don’t know what to do.

This is why events should display their scaling / intended scale. Many people think solo content is group content and group content is zerg content, then think everything is easy while they’ve never actually played it as intended. It doesn’t help that that ArenaNet rewards that behavior. When they see a low population, they assume failure and are either hesitant or don’t bother. “Taxi in more people or we’ll fail” is something I’ve seen many times for events I’ve either done solo or with a fraction of what we already have. However, those could just be the leechers wanting a effortless ride.

Vayne.8563:

A lot of fights are easier when people try not to DPS everything down.

As an example, the sloth queen in ember bay will fail if everyone just does DPS. Didn’t expect that did you? Most people probably think she’s easy as they effortlessly zerg her, but have you ever tried her with ~3 people post-buff to see the actual encounter? Either everyone there needs to be pro zerkers or nobody can DPS since her phases are based on her health. You need to wait out the food deliveries to put her to sleep, or you’ll fail.

Healix.5819:

Vayne.8563:

While it’s true some encounters do require huge numbers of people, this isn’t one of them. In fact, more people can make this fight harder if they don’t know what to do.

This is why events should display their scaling / intended scale. Many people think solo content is group content and group content is zerg content, then think everything is easy while they’ve never actually played it as intended. It doesn’t help that that ArenaNet rewards that behavior. When they see a low population, they assume failure and are either hesitant or don’t bother. “Taxi in more people or we’ll fail” is something I’ve seen many times for events I’ve either done solo or with a fraction of what we already have. However, those could just be the leechers wanting a effortless ride.

Vayne.8563:

A lot of fights are easier when people try not to DPS everything down.

As an example, the sloth queen in ember bay will fail if everyone just does DPS. Didn’t expect that did you? Most people probably think she’s easy as they effortlessly zerg her, but have you ever tried her with ~3 people post-buff to see the actual encounter? Either everyone there needs to be pro zerkers or nobody can DPS since her phases are based on her health. You need to wait out the food deliveries to put her to sleep, or you’ll fail.

Well said.

Try to use DH with longbow. I saw a solo player kill the golden ooze by luring him in circles (healer oozes can´t catch the golden ooze) and shooting from distance with longbow with some traps to help the dps.

Btw, Legendary Vinetooth Prime is much harder to kill. It took me 1 week to find a map with players who know that we must cc him.

Coelho Nat.4697:

Try to use DH with longbow. I saw a solo player kill the golden ooze by luring him in circles (healer oozes can´t catch the golden ooze) and shooting from distance with longbow with some traps to help the dps.

Btw, Legendary Vinetooth Prime is much harder to kill. It took me 1 week to find a map with players who know that we must cc him.

it’s not harder to kill but easier to fail which is not quite the same.

I am slightly surprised that 10 people couldn’t manage to kill the ooze fast enough

I did it with a person. Just keep the adds away from the ooze and kite around so it wont get any healing. You need to have knockback skills though.

Khisanth.2948:

Coelho Nat.4697:

Try to use DH with longbow. I saw a solo player kill the golden ooze by luring him in circles (healer oozes can´t catch the golden ooze) and shooting from distance with longbow with some traps to help the dps.

Btw, Legendary Vinetooth Prime is much harder to kill. It took me 1 week to find a map with players who know that we must cc him.

it’s not harder to kill but easier to fail which is not quite the same.

I am slightly surprised that 10 people couldn’t manage to kill the ooze fast enough

Same, i play hot like 1 year, and the ooze never seems a issue. Smoother than Balthazar Champ.

but my 2 cents: single target classes focus on ooze, luring him and making him move in circle, then, the strong aoe guys like elementals, or viper-necros can take care of smaller ones.

ugrakarma.9416:

Khisanth.2948:

Coelho Nat.4697:

Try to use DH with longbow. I saw a solo player kill the golden ooze by luring him in circles (healer oozes can´t catch the golden ooze) and shooting from distance with longbow with some traps to help the dps.

Btw, Legendary Vinetooth Prime is much harder to kill. It took me 1 week to find a map with players who know that we must cc him.

it’s not harder to kill but easier to fail which is not quite the same.

I am slightly surprised that 10 people couldn’t manage to kill the ooze fast enough

Same, i play hot like 1 year, and the ooze never seems a issue. Smoother than Balthazar Champ.

but my 2 cents: single target classes focus on ooze, luring him and making him move in circle, then, the strong aoe guys like elementals, or viper-necros can take care of smaller ones.

Balth can be solo’ed … at least if you don’t mind a bit of cheese >_>