Guild Wars 2

During the story mission “Hearts and Minds” I chose Caithe and so had to fight the pale tree. Every time I get it down to 0%, it shouts something about the dream and heals up to 10%. Is this a bug, or am I missing some mechanic that I need to do in order to finish this fight?

I had the same issue.

Edit: I’ve had it happen 3 times in a row now.

Same issue here. I just can’t figure it out, utterly frustrating.
(My character is without armor atm, go figure how often I tried already.)

I didn’t choose Caithe, so I didn’t get that particular fight. All I can think is, did it give you the option to use the reality rift thingy?

Nope, it did not provide such an option.

Labjax.2465:

I didn’t choose Caithe, so I didn’t get that particular fight. All I can think is, did it give you the option to use the reality rift thingy?

No, it just seems to be on an infinite loop. Almost dead, back to 20% health. And repeat.

Ugh. I don’t know then.

Here is a screenshot since ANET loves screenshots. Show us how frustrating the content is … I mean how you’re frustrated with the content… no I think that’s not it either, oh well here’s the shot! Invul… and Canach not giving up his shield like he's supposed to. What a waste of time ANET.

Edit: also to add, I beat him the first time before pale tree went psycho.

Op,
It’s your error mate, hate to say it, if you let her stack to over 5 she will heal up, she stacks up by absorbing firstborn, so your job is to kill the firstborn asap as they spawn. Save your big aoe’s, they die really fast but you need to focus them with aoe. If she doesn’t stack up to firstborn stacks to high, she won’t heal. Really just any aoe on them and they drop like flies.

Fox.3469:

Op,
It’s your error mate, hate to say it, if you let her stack to over 5 she will heal up, she stacks up by absorbing firstborn, so your job is to kill the firstborn asap as they spawn. Save your big aoe’s, they die really fast but you need to focus them with aoe. If she doesn’t stack up to firstborn stacks to high, she won’t heal. Really just any aoe on them and they drop like flies.

If she stacks a culmative 5 firstborn before her first death, she will recover health depending on how many she absorbed. After her first death if this occurred, she will instead spawn more minions to absorb during her last phase to enhance her abilities and spam. It’s a race against the clock and her abilities, she’s very difficult.

Fox.3469:

Op,
It’s your error mate, hate to say it, if you let her stack to over 5 she will heal up, she stacks up by absorbing firstborn, so your job is to kill the firstborn asap as they spawn. Save your big aoe’s, they die really fast but you need to focus them with aoe. If she doesn’t stack up to firstborn stacks to high, she won’t heal. Really just any aoe on them and they drop like flies.

I’m very willing to accept that I’m making a mistake, but I’m not sure if this is it. First, when she gets the stacks, they are to a damage bonus. She doesn’t gain any health.

Second, there are so many adds at the end that it is simply not possible to kill them all.

Skolops.2604:

Fox.3469:

Op,
It’s your error mate, hate to say it, if you let her stack to over 5 she will heal up, she stacks up by absorbing firstborn, so your job is to kill the firstborn asap as they spawn. Save your big aoe’s, they die really fast but you need to focus them with aoe. If she doesn’t stack up to firstborn stacks to high, she won’t heal. Really just any aoe on them and they drop like flies.

I’m very willing to accept that I’m making a mistake, but I’m not sure if this is it. First, when she gets the stacks, they are to a damage bonus. She doesn’t gain any health.

Second, there are so many adds at the end that it is simply not possible to kill them all.

the key is to hold off the waves until she dies the first time, she’ll only heal a little with no damage increase and you’ll be able to burn her before it gets to rediculous. I admit i had a bit of trouble and wiped this fight once. I wiped the final one allot tough, so be prepared :p, if it’s really to hard bringing a friend makes this allot easier.

When I came back from work and tried again, it made me do the whole mission over so I chose Canach and won that way.

With all the moving around and not dieing, I was able to keep her to 4 stacks with my staff elementalist. However, she still healed. So the fight is either bugged or she has to be kept to 0 stacks, which seems all but impossible.