Guild Wars 2

I sent a ticket to the support and they said that this is not a bug and that I should ask help in the forums. So let me explain what is happening first:

In GW2 you cannot hit big targets anywhere you want, so you cannot hit at his big fat belly even if it is right in front of you. To do so, you need to select the red target reticle but in this case the reticle is behind the dragon’s neck as you can see at the screenshot.

So the next selectable thing between me and the dragon is the cannon and that is the thing that I keep selecting every time I go to the cannon to shoot at the dragon.

Now, to hit at the red target reticle I need to wait for a slight frame window where the dragon lower his head and shows the reticle so I can select it and shoot at the dragon.

Some cannon position is easier to see the reticle than others but meanwhile I keep dying to the poison and the mob that appears at the ship deck.

To avoid death I can reflect the dragon’s poison or I need to leave the poison pool or kill the mob and by doing so I am losing the frame window to hit the dragon’s red target reticle and this is kittening me off.

It seems that I am the lucky one cuz I’ve searched the forums and no one is having this trouble like I do. Also you only need to kill this dragon once per toon, so even if people are having trouble to kill it they eventually forget about it once they kill it.

So… What am I missing here, could anyone help me, please? Do I need to do some mechanics like attract the mob that is in the ship’s deck to somewhere or something? Does the reflect shield makes the dragon lower his head more often?

This may be helpful: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Victory_or_Death#Walkthrough

Good luck.

Clear the adds whilst the dragons fly around and then when they hover in front of the ship, jump on the cannon which is nearest to it and attack. Shouldnt really be anything else to worry about from memory.

You don’t need to see the reticle to shoot at it and shouldn’t need to see it to select it either – just click in the area you know it appears (aka the dragons neck) and it should still select. As long as you’ve got the dragon selected as your target that’s where the cannon will fire.

You can keep firing for the entire time the dragon is hovering and it will hit, regardless of whether you can see the reticle or not. The only reason to stop firing during that time is to apply the shield to reflect his attacks – which does help a lot because then you’re not standing in a cloud of poison.

And as Randulf said you can use the time while he’s flying around to clear the other enemies so you’re not getting attacked so much while fighting him. If necessary skip a round of attacking the dragon to clear them – you can’t run out of time in this fight.