Guild Wars 2

Per the title. I’ve been noodling around near the boss and not gotten sucked in once. Admittedly I gut reflex roll out of any circles on the ground, but as most of them are poison this is good.

How do I spot a whirlpool to get in so I can dive for the treasure? That’s the last achieve I need from non-kills (haven’t killed him yet, so I have 4 achieves waiting on a success, and I will be doing an organized attempt tonight that I don’t want to screw around with).

as far as I know the whirlpool is very short so you have to fight him head on, but when it triggers is a matter of luck.

Good to know. Where does it trigger? What does it look like? I’ve just done 3 Tequatl fights and never seen a whirlpool. Does it happen in the first 25%? The fights were overflows that didn’t get near a laser blast.

Donari.5237:

Good to know. Where does it trigger? What does it look like? I’ve just done 3 Tequatl fights and never seen a whirlpool. Does it happen in the first 25%? The fights were overflows that didn’t get near a laser blast.

The whirlpool attack doesn’t start until you get it down to 75% so after the first laser attack it will start using it. The animation is a fairly big and obvious swirly water whirlpool thing even on a fully packed instance. Once you are inside it is fairly easy to find on the bottom but you might get downed/die from the degen when you try to get back out.

It triggers at multiple locations, possibly random or target at some specific player. I’ve seen it near the turrets and multiple ones showing up near the DPS group by the foot.

Many thanks, Khisanth. I’ve only seen below 75% twice, so that explains why I’m not finding the pools. Of course, on a fight that is actually denting him, I want to get the Quick on Your Feet achievement. So I would rather avoid the pools when we’re doing well, darn it.

Perhaps I’ll try for the killing achieves tonight and then be willing to find a watery grave after I have a kill under my belt.