How do you survive unavoidable damage?

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Posted by: Murderin.8269

Murderin.8269

Q:

I was doing CoF story mode on my d/d zerker thief today and realized that its impossible to both survive and do damage on a specific boss. He did a constant AOE burn that cannot be avoided, and chased only me through the whole fight. I assume there are many other situations like this in fractals and other dungeons.

My heals are weak, roughly 30% of my HP every 15 seconds.

Am I missing something?

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Posted by: yolo swaggins.2570

yolo swaggins.2570

That’s why you bring a ranged weapon and not sit on d/d. p/p for single targets and bosses and SB for everything else.

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Posted by: Jayden Ennok.3687

Jayden Ennok.3687

Or go d/d, 6SA with shadow embrace and regen for that particular fight (would be good for the last boss fight too since most of the time you run with the fire balls, burn is on you).

That boss you are talking about, he seems to agro on low HP targets (always goes after my ele), yes gw2 agro system is just weird. You’ll get focused a lot in particular fights. It helps to let someone else get the agro first (heavies should really do this all the time) and if you get another low HP class in party (like eles, those are tasty victims of gw2 agro), put 3pts in acrobatics and watch that ele get rekt.

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Posted by: oxtred.7658

oxtred.7658

Signet of malice. If it’s really annoying, invigorating precision.

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Posted by: Narkodx.1472

Narkodx.1472

Everything is avoidable

Nothing is impossible

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Posted by: Axyl.9408

Axyl.9408

I run 5/6/0/0/3 in PvE with S/D and D/D. Use signet of malice. If you land a cleaving Pistol Whip, that’s almost a full health pool. Pistol Whip is also evade spam, so that should help you survive too.

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Posted by: Azure The Heartless.3261

Azure The Heartless.3261

Shortbow, or p/p acrobatic unload build with malice and invig presc.

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Posted by: Rezzet.3614

Rezzet.3614

you just have to understand the boss learn its pattern so yuou dont take any direct damage as the effigies deal massive damage on burning foes thats the point of the fight

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Posted by: SoulSin.5682

SoulSin.5682

Are we talking about that mini-boss on story mode?

Just use a shortbow and burst him when the AoE is down.

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Posted by: Sir Vincent III.1286

Sir Vincent III.1286

Shortbow is your answer for that fight because unlike P/P, you can actually use your weapon to shadowstep out of a jam. P/P is preferred for a stationary fights.

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Posted by: Meryn.6875

Meryn.6875

Take 6/6/2/0/0 with d/d.
Critical strikes XIII and SA with regen on stealth.
Signet of malice heal

This together with berserker armor will make this an easy fight, if you can dodge his autoattack (easy tells)

If you are more comfortable with s/p, use 5/6/0/x/x and spam away.

Easy soloable with this setup. Good luck!

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