Guild Wars 2

I have several problem with the last fight in the confessors end instance which make it nearly impossible to complete solo

1 the final room is too small
2 there are too many aoes going off at the same time
3 the boss has too much health
4 the re spawn point is in the center of the room where the boss is standing durring his shielded phase
5 my warrior will get two or three shotted by the boss while trying to bring his shield down
6 because of the above I am unable to make much of a dent in his health when i do get his shield down

in my last attempt before giving up i was only able to bring his health down to to 93%
please patch this, this the only thing that is stopping me from enjoying this release. otherwise great job.

throw bloodstone shards from around the room at the boss to break his bar (the NPCs tell you to do this). after you break his bar he’s stunned and you can do a bunch of damage to him. I had to break him 3 times to kill him.

i’ve been doing that. but i think my main problem is my build isn’t really suited to solo content.

(ps warior) http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Phalanx_Strength

Though my compliants about the re spawn/portal in point, the high number of aoes, and room size still stands.

I agree, this fight is too hard for all the reasons you’ve listed!

I really do appreciate all the hard work the devs have put into this update, and overall the new content/map is wonderful and the political story is fantastic and intriguing. Thank you! That being said:

The room is WAAAAAAY too small for so much to be happening at once. WAY too crowded with allies and enemies, too many random lights flashing endlessly, and the agony/special skill attack happens so frequently (every 2-5 seconds sometimes???) that I feel like I can’t do anything. It’s overwhelming in a terrible way.

If I try to pick up a bloodstone fragment, I just get killed within seconds from the aoe floor damage/agony attack, let alone throwing the darn thing. I was downed/dying so frequently that it would take 1 or 2 seconds for the room/Cadecus to kill me again because my armor was completely broken (and character was naked).

For me this boss fight went beyond challenging and straight into hell. I don’t usually get angry playing GW2 but the fight was designed so poorly that I was trying not to scream and cuss while struggling through it. In the end, when I finally gave up (after like 15-20 minutes of dying constantly) he still had 3/4 of his HP left.

Cadecus/the sub-chamber needs to be nerfed somehow. I could barely get his shield down, and when I did I would get taken down by the floor aoe or agony skill thing within 5 seconds.

If you’re trying to provide some kind of insane challenge for more hardcore players, that’s fine. But for people like me who play because we love the story/lore/exploration GW2 has to offer, this WAY too hard. At least suggest people do the level in a party, like a dungeon if you can’t provide some kind of easy/hard mode. I couldn’t solo it in the end.

The fight prior to this up in the mansion was just about right. Still hard and frustrating (though honestly incredibly convoluted as well), but it was manageable. The second battle with Cadecus is simply not, at least for the casual/story-driven player.

I was really enjoying the episode and new content, but I have the say the final battle was so impossible that it tainted the enjoyment/excitement I had all day for it. In the end I couldn’t beat Cadecus, so I quit the instance and switched to a lower level character to do other things/calm down.

I’ve played the game for 3 years and have enjoyed it greatly, every time a new story comes out I do the story on all 8 alts, this encounter with the last boss is ridiculously hard for all the reasons already listed, I played with my thief and its a constant die res die until all my armour is broken, its completely going to turn people off if the average player can’t complete it without going crazy first. Anet really need to address this issue ASAP and question the design and difficulty level set.

I’m so glad other people thought this! I was worried I would be the only one >_<
I must have died 15-20 times on my PS warrior, I figured how to break his bar immediately but still the amount of aoe’s and the small space, the special action de-buff, the constant cc from everything in the room. If I wasn’t dead on the floor then I was stuck to it or being thrown across it by something. And the Jade construct that spawns during one of his shielding phases just adds more chaos to the mix! It was a great story, really funny and full of content but this fight, especially after being disconnected once and stuck in a wall the second try, it did try my patience. It felt more like a solo raid boss than a story boss, which is fine if you give me a bigger room to work with!

Isnt all that hard finished it with glass ele. Did die 3 times at 25% hp left on boss. But atleast it doesnt reset.

Also helped my brother afterwards and finished it within 2 mins.

My biggest gripe with the encounter is the sheer fact that if you play any of the bigger races, you get to see nothing but the ceiling or your characters rear.

It’s a very unpleasant fight in a super cramped space that cause way to many camera control issues.

Have to agree with you there was anoyed when playing on a charr

Perhaps, the patch today will help address some of these issues.

Good luck.

This fight is terribly frustrating, confusing, and way too many issues…where do I begin.

First, let me say, I’m only one month new to GW2. I heard many, many people say great things about the game and I’ve discovered they are all true. I have enjoyed the stories, especially, and love the complexity and richness of the world environments, puzzles, challenges and various aspects of PvP…though I have much to learn.

With that said, this is the only complaint I have…I play on a PC with high-end equipment, screens and such…but once the Jade Construct add appears during the final fight, I just get stunned and tossed around the room constantly and endlessly. My screen camera view can’t keep up so most of the time I’m looking at the floor, ceiling and walls. If I manage to get up and take a swing…I’m dead quickly. I’ve died more than 30 times on this during this phase of the fight. The whole fight up to this point is easy, UNTIL the jade construct appears as an add. This is ridiculous…and I love a challenge but with the room so small and being tossed around from the Jade, I have no control and I the camera view struggles to give me the view I need to recover. This is just for starters.

In my opinion, the Dev who designed this got it wrong. GREAT IDEAS and CONCEPTS, just doesn’t work. SURE people manage to get through it…and so will I eventually….but I’m so angry right now I just want to stop playing. GET rid of the Jade Construct…and WAY WAY WAY WAY too many swirls on the ground with everything else going on. I can manage to stay in the middle until the JaDe ConStucT Appears. CHANGE THIS.

Stability might help you.

Linken.6345:

Stability might help you.

Depends. If you use stability for the spin then you’ll end up taking a lot more hits instead of being pushed away.

It is possible to kill Caudecus fast enough that the jade never gets to spawn.