Guild Wars 2

So I was running AC Explorable yesterday with some guildies. We were doing Colossus Rumblus (third path) for the AC Achievement, myself and one guildy were the only one who had done the path before. It is, in my opinion, the most difficult of the three paths.

A bit of info for those who haven’t fought Colossus Rumblus. He’s basically the Howler King (first path boss), only his conal AoE scream is his 180degree front arc, rather than just a 30-45degree cone. His scream does more damage, and will down most players if you get hit by it. When he burrows, he’ll chase your squishiest, lowest health party member and cause an AoE knockback doing pretty high damage, and, to top it off, he makes the ceiling cave in, creating numerous AoEs that can be pretty hard to dodge if the RNG decides it wants to toss 3-5 at you. He normally chains them via: Rockfall, Burrow, Scream with ~10second delay between each of them, giving you very little breathing time.

On to the story:

Well, that 10seconds of breathing time I mentioned? I had been calling out which his next attack would be and giving a vague countdown in Vent, only to have him decide, “Nah, this time I won’t let them have some breathing room.” Immediately after burrowing onto my guildy who had done it before, causing him to go down, he decided it would be a good idea to scream while our party was heading to Rally our friend. The end result was all five of us on our backs.

The guildy who had done it before, tanked a couple of hits from the boss, granting us a second or two, only to go into the defeated state, and, having fought the boss before, tried to Graveyard rush back to prevent a full wipe (as Colossus was <50% hp).

While he took those two hits, Lick Wounds came up on my down bar, and my bear rushed back to rally me. Once Rallied, I popped a quick heal, rushed to my nearest ally, and, during the Rockthrow attack, changed pets, commanded my Bear to rush in, and used the Quickness from 5 points in the Beastmastery tree to Speed-Rally my ally.

My Bear began to take a beating from Rumblus.

Dodging to another ally, I popped Quickening Zephr and speed rallied him as well.

The three of us quickly were able to rally our fourth before Rumblus’s Burrow attack came off cooldown.

The end Result? Four of us were at full hp before the defeated player had even gotten halfway back to the fight.

Lessons to take away from this:

-Being able to rally yourself with your pet is HUGE. It lets your allies focus on other things during a fight if you go down in the right spot (I made sure I was the farthest from the boss when I went down, as, thanks to my more defensive stats, I was the last to drop)

-Pets are other targets for enemies to attack. Nobody can take very many hits from bosses. It’s usually 2-3 and you drop. Pets can take that many hits, effectively increasing your party size by one.

-Quickness is incredible for Speed Rallying. I’m always watching the health of my team and trying to be as close to people taking hits as possible. We can speed Rally through situations that would often cause both players to be defeated, such as AoEs.

We have plenty Explorable Utility. It’s just utilized differently.

And this right here my friend, is why i have 30 points in beast mastery.

I typically have 15. For the first two Minor Traits.

Getting Quickness on pet swap is great, and doing it 20% more frequently is just delicious. Plus it makes my pets feel like they’re not soggy noodles.

I also use quick zephyr and 15 point in beast master but i wanna just ask you what are the others 2 utilities, heal,, elite and pets that you use?

For dungeons I always take a Brown Bear (team condition removal), but I’m toying around with my second pet (it’s usually a Polar Bear for the AoE chill). Moas are looking pretty attractive at the moment, but they are definitely more frail than Bears.

I doubt my right bar is what you would expect.

A basic outline of what I use:

-Troll Unget
-Spike Trap
-Lightning Reflexes
-Zepher
-Entangle

If you’re interested in more specific information about my build, you can read a write up I did here:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/66729-how-to-be-a-great-greatsword-ranger/

Vecuu.2018:

For dungeons I always take a Brown Bear (team condition removal), but I’m toying around with my second pet (it’s usually a Polar Bear for the AoE chill). Moas are looking pretty attractive at the moment, but they are definitely more frail than Bears.

I doubt my right bar is what you would expect.

A basic outline of what I use:

-Troll Unget
-Spike Trap
-Lightning Reflexes
-Zepher
-Entangle

If you’re interested in more specific information about my build, you can read a write up I did here:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/66729-how-to-be-a-great-greatsword-ranger/

Actually, Moas are deceptively sturdy, they have their heal which scales off of your healing power, with 0 healing power it heals for 3250 health, the moa will only use it when it, or any ally within range falls to about 75% health, if no one is at that % or lower then it will not use it.