Guild Wars 2

Ignore the bad plays for now as I’m very rusty but I’ll get back in shape soon if I keep on playing. I had some ideas that might work but I’m so trash right now I didn’t want to waste time in there trying to figure it out.

I know the human elite grenth skill, the aoe chill works on the grawl but is there any thief skills that would work as well? I was thinking ice drake venom MIGHT work but wasn’t sure how it’d work against the blocks. My other idea was that caltrops might cripple the guy while flying as well but I’m not sure about that either.

I am pretty sure daggers are the fastest for taking down the shield. I know it’s faster than pistols and sbow but I’m not sure about how d/p 3 would work against it or any other weapon combos.

Also is there any food buff that might help to take down the shield? Any advice would be appreciated

Like i already mentioned on Youtube you should try Thieves Guild…. with Signet of Malice + Caltrops + Cluster Bombs you should have enough heal for yourself. With Smoke Screen and much luck your Thieves will not die and attack the shield.

Slowing down the shaman with grenth skill works pretty fine as well, our ele is always using this skill right before the eles spawn.

I spend many hours in this fractal and tried different methods… It is disappointing that our skills count only as one attack (Unload, Cluster Bomb, Caltrops)
But I’m sure thieves are able to solo it… anyway either I have no survivability (Haste, Critical Haste…) or not enough offense

btw: I didn’t test grenth by myself and Ice Drake Venom… I’ll try 30 points in DA and Sigil of Hydromancy to chilling him for 9sec + Cripple him
edit: with +40% Condition duration even longer

oo that’s a good idea! The sigil that chills in an aoe on weapon swap. Guess I’ll just waste some cof tokens and pick up a new dagger. If caltops also slows that’d be amazing but not necessary and might not even be worth it with the cast time. I found when killing the vets that they didn’t get as far if I didn’t use caltrops.
Not sure if thieves guild would be worth it. Will have to try it just to make sure but I’m pretty sure they’ll just insta melt after 1-2 attacks.

I always use Signet of Malice, Shadow Refuge, Caltrops and Dagger Storm.
Chilling works just out of his shield, that means you are just able to chill him right before it appears (unless you are staff ele and able to AoE ground chill).
Crippling works in the same way, so you can’t cripple him with dagger 4 while his shield is up, but you can use caltrops as ground AoE to make him slower

I’m able to brake his shield and get a nice heal with Caltrops (500 heal per second) and Dagger Storm right after. If I had 2 healskills it would be much easier – with the Signet I have to dodge nearly every attack when there are no eles with everything else I die before I get the shield down v.v