Guild Wars 2

I might buy a pack of cigarettes and start smoking again before I finish this thing with the flamethrower on my mesmer. Okay look, I play ranger and ele mostly, so I was determined to master my mesmer with these achievements but even without the challenge my mes gets downed by a tentacle before she can even get close enough to burn the boss. What’s more, is I instantly lose the flamethrower the moment I’m downed, of course there’s no one going to rez her unlike the rest of the instances, and no way to restart the challenge aside from logging out and logging back in. I managed to finish the glowy shoulders crap, why the heck is a stinkin flamethrower making my morning hell?

Also, I’m an adult, I don’t expect this game to be easy or hand things to me, nor do I want ‘that’, but for crying out loud, if you want us to beat it with a flamethrower, can you please let us go and pick it back up or restart the challenge without forcing some of us to ‘rage quit’ to start it over? I mean after a few times of this I actually feel like putting the game down and not fighting for it. For those Mes who already beat the challenge, did you speck power/crit or did you have to build up your toughness to not have the flamethrower fly out of your hands?

TL;DR: Mesmer has butterfingers with flamethrower.

Here’re a couple of videos on how to do the achies on a mesmer: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/s2/Spoiler-LS-achievements-in-one-go-on-mesmer/first#post4570878

Aside from that, yes, mesmer is generally a bad class for PvE as it gets balanced around PvP goals which have nothing to do with what the new LS is about.

This was super easy in a group.

Kill the vine(s) near the boss first. Stability helps but isn’t necessary. You should kill a vibe with a single full blast with the flamethrower the boss should go down with two.

Thank you, and that makes sense. It’s a bit sad because I prefer PVE and it doesn’t seem like I can utilize much of my skill palette compared to other classes. Still, gotta love all the dramatic flair of the Mesmer. To be fair, I made a Sylvari Mesmer, so maybe that’s why she has trouble holding onto a flamethrower.

Ayrilana.1396:

Kill the vine(s) near the boss first. Stability helps but isn’t necessary. You should kill a vibe with a single full blast with the flamethrower the boss should go down with two.

Good to know. lol if it doesn’t I must be doing something wrong.

If you’re really worried about losing the flamethrower, then don’t pick it up right away.

Go into the central room, kill Modrem until the boss shows up, and THEN kill all the remaining enemies except the boss.

They won’t respawn once the boss is there, so you’re free to run back, grab the flamethrower, and kill the boss completely unhindered by anything (except the boss itself, but that’s pretty trivial if you know how Thrashers work).