Manifestation of self-doubt
Approach the ghosts that appear and press F to interact, you will get a skill to use on your assigned special key. Mine was M3. It makes the whole fight a breeze afterwards, but I needed help to figure out what I was supposed to do here too. Good luck!
Woah, thanks for this – I had no idea you had to interact with the ghosts… I gave up after trying to manage the stacks on it several times and then ending up with elite skill cooldowns on auto attack.
The instance tries to hint: it says “confront your doubts” and sure enough, if you’re close to the manifestations, the [f] prompt says, “Confront.”
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The instance doesn’t really help with confronting your doubts considering you fight your self-doubt, making you think that’s your doubts you’re fighting, and the ghosts are just character names, not “Doubts About X” or something, and since they are friendly color, I had no idea it was possible to go up to them and confront them since I’m trying to not die with the epic cooldown times on my skills.
Interesting idea, but man, they bungled the execution for this.
Also, if you select a ghost it will show up under their bar that they give you the buff (whatever its called).
I’d also like to state that the ghost arm that gives the crippling doubt stack (or whatever its called) seems to hit me before getting halfway across the arena, and i bounce between 50-70 ping (avg 60 in options). Are these actually able to be dodged? Do I have to go with the end of their statement plus .25 of a second to dodge it?
I’d also like to state that the ghost arm that gives the crippling doubt stack (or whatever its called) seems to hit me before getting halfway across the arena, and i bounce between 50-70 ping (avg 60 in options). Are these actually able to be dodged? Do I have to go with the end of their statement plus .25 of a second to dodge it?
I’m not sure they can be dodged. And with their homing, you either dodge or get hit, no questions.
Which I find exceedingly irritating. Bad form, ANet. Episode 6.2 was poorly executed, but this specific aspect is largely unforgivable.
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If you’re hoping to get the Fearless achievement where you have to beat it without the buff then Condition Damage will be your greatest ally here.
You can dodge the arm attacks. I accidentally got the thing down to about 70% health before I realized you could interact with the visions.
BTW I am not mad about this, it was EXCEEDINGLY obvious there was a secondary mechanic, the boss text and the achievement even told you so. I just didn’t think enough to hit F. It’s my own fault I didn’t find it for a few minutes, and it’s your fault as well if you didn’t find it.
You can dodge the arm attacks. I accidentally got the thing down to about 70% health before I realized you could interact with the visions.
BTW I am not mad about this, it was EXCEEDINGLY obvious there was a secondary mechanic, the boss text and the achievement even told you so. I just didn’t think enough to hit F. It’s my own fault I didn’t find it for a few minutes, and it’s your fault as well if you didn’t find it.
That was exactly my reaction…
…until I was in VoIP with a friend who was trying to bruteforce their way through the episode. I tried all sorts of hints, to let them figure it out.
In the end, they felt the same as some of the others in this thread: they were already fighting doubt, which is very similar to confronting it. They didn’t think of the briefly-appearing ghosts as being relevant to the in-game description of what to do.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I still can’t tell when I need to dodge to avoid the debuff, if it’s possible. Otherwise I think engineer might be the way to go. How are thieves affected by this since they use initiative?
I don’t mind that they have either the time increase debuff or the anti-speed attack buff, but combining the two seems a bit like overkill. Especially at 15+ stacks of time increase.