Guild Wars 2

Hi Devs,

Alas I just can not complete this instance as I find it way too difficult.
I have watched several videos showing how it’s done but I simply do not have the appropriate quick reactions (I’m 66 in May) and can not orientate myself quickly enough before I die – I can not even get up into the first cave where the boss is as the tendrils just fry me.

I have tried this story line for several hours now (had to repair my armour several times) and have alas, given up now as all the fun I have been having has been sucked out of the game.

I understand that this is my failing and no one one else is to blame but is there any way to bye pass this instance and move on to the next phase of the story? These fast jumping/key-stroking puzzles are just too difficult for me. When I was playing Living Story 2 I could not complete two of the story lines as I found them too difficult so I just skipped to the next one (I managed the final one).
If not it does seem that I am done with HoT and that would be such a shame as I really was enjoying playing.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Perhaps, asking another player for help with the instance is in order.

I don’t think the CS Team can just skip your character(s) ahead.

Good luck.

If you are on NA servers, hit me up, if I’m on (and not in the middle of something) I will gladly help.

I’ll gladly help you if you’re on a north american server as well. I’ve run a few people through this instance. Just message me in game.

Hi all,

Thank you for your responses to my question.

Alas I am on a European server as I live in the north of England but my thanks to the two Americans kittenponded with the magnificent offer of walkthrough assistance.
I am not in a guild and have played solo the whole time indeed I didn’t even realise I could team up in a story instance with another player!

As I love this game so much (it keeps me occupied and out of mischief) I shall log in now and again and try the instance (after trying to memorise the video walkthroughs) and hopefully crack it. It may take a while between the disappointments and rage quits but I will get there…I hope.

Once again thank you so much for your kind and generous offers of help.

Hi all,

Thank you for your responses to my question.

Alas I am on a European server as I live in the north of England but my thanks to the two Americans kittenponded with the magnificent offer of walkthrough assistance.
I am not in a guild and have played solo the whole time indeed I didn’t even realise I could team up in a story instance with another player!

As I love this game so much (it keeps me occupied and out of mischief) I shall log in now and again and try the instance (after trying to memorise the video walkthroughs) and hopefully crack it. It may take a while between the disappointments and rage quits but I will get there…I hope.

Once again thank you so much for your kind and generous offers of help.

Just cracked the instance!
Onwards and upwards as they say…

Glad you made it through!

Gratz! That’s the worst of it…until the last instance. Good luck!

I’m stuck on this too as learning a completely alien set of movement skills in two seconds flat before I get Instagibbed by tendrils seems beyond my skillset…
Oh well fun for the first part anyway..
Also if I have to look it up on Facetube it’s not really playing is it?

Stevieboy.4192:

Also if I have to look it up on Facetube it’s not really playing is it?

It isn’t? How is getting help from youtube any different from asking another player for advice? (Aside from the once-removed social interaction.)

There are lots of nuances to playing games and I’m lucky that I can figure out a lot of it on my own. But I’ve yet to play a game where I could intuit everything on my own. I’m happy we live in an age where it’s easy to look stuff up, rather than beat our heads against a wall, if we so choose. I don’t mind trying 100 things to beat an instance, but I’m not a huge fan of scavenger hunts, so that’s what I look up. Someone else might love decrypting all the clues and hate trying to figure out how to deal with a gnarly boss.

In short, there’s nothing wrong with getting help for challenges, regardless of the form it takes.

Stevieboy.4192:

I’m stuck on this too as learning a completely alien set of movement skills in two seconds flat before I get Instagibbed by tendrils seems beyond my skillset…
Oh well fun for the first part anyway..
Also if I have to look it up on Facetube it’s not really playing is it?

The crystals are very very similar to the crystals in Dry Top. The first one jumps you high. The second one zooms you forward. And the third one is a ground targeted teleport that you zoom to.

Since Dry Top has all those crystals, and they do the same stuff, you can go to Dry Top learn all about them and then figure out that these new versions are exactly the same.

There’s also an adventure in AB which uses the same crystals exactly as that story.

Now, if you didn’t do Dry Top, you skipped a zone and jumped right to HOT and you missed that learning, in which case you would have to look it up online.

See there are two ways a game can be. It can lead you around by the nose and spoonfeed you everything, or it can encourage you to explore and figure stuff out.

That means that sometimes, you’ll feel you don’t know what you need to know because this game isn’t linear. Still Dry Top was out long before HoT.

You had plenty of time to figure out what the crystals do without looking up a video.

Vayne.8563:

There’s also an adventure in AB which uses the same crystals exactly as that story.

That’s probably the best place to learn these skills. I remember having a lot of trouble with this story on the first run, but after i have spent a lot of time on that adventure (trying to get silver) i found out that not only doing the story is easy, i have also managed to get both achievements tied to it without much effort.