Guild Wars 2

I’m currently in this dungeon right now. I went up the stairs and fought the mobs that come through when the doors open. Died twice but was able to finish them off. Then from the top of the stairs I was able to take out the large shard. The three mobs didn’t even aggro. Once the shard shattered, taking out the three mobs was pretty simple. They seemed to be taking damage now with the shard gone and they didn’t even move or fight back.

Then was the champ that cam through the next door. This guy was tricky. Lots of kiting, dodge rolls and well times healing springs as well as good use of take root for the invulnerability. Eventually took him out.

After some trash mobs left over, I got to the stairs on the left which lead up to a bridge. I didn’t like what I would have to face so I stayed low and found some different stairs to go up. The mobs here were easy enough to kite around and take out.

I was then faced with a big door which wouldn’t open and a bridge opposite of said door. Across the bridge were two mobs on either side of a champ. I could pull the mobs without aggro’ing the champ and took them out. I then pulled the champ and took him out.

Timing it so I wouldn’t aggro two wandering mobs, I ran inside the place that the champ was in front of. There I face Kulag the Fallen. After a few attempts at trying to stand in the door way and shoot from there, I figured I would have to keep moving or get taken out by some AoE that he does. I made my way around to the opposite side and positioned myself against the wall just so he was barely in sight and not obstructed by some pillar. From there he stopped using that AoE and focused on just my pet. Although all he did was knock back, do some other attack(s), then knock back again when my pet got close.

So long as I kept using Healing Spring, my pet couldn’t die. I set healing spring to auto attack and at this time I had to go afk. When I came back, the boss was dead and there was a chest in its place. Yay. Time to move on. I get back out and there is some talk of tracks. I ran to the big doors and nothing. I took out the remaining mobs, nothing. I went down where there is an invisible wall I can pass. I ran back the start and went up the other stairs to the other door. Nothing.

There is no place for me to go to. The npc will not open any more doors.

hmmmm. I was curious after your post cause it was hard to get heads or tails out of it (I have done that dungeon and rewartched a youtube vid to follow your story a bit).

You are saying I and not we.

I am going to assume you are trying the dungeon alone (or you are very unfriendly to your partymembers).

All dungeons are designed for a group of 5 people. You came very far on your own and thats is recommendable. I bow deeply to you cause you are the better player then I am.

But you are doing a dungeon designed for 5 people alone.
You also used a trick to get passed a boss that needs to be killed for story progress (put healing spring on auto and go afk, so your pet couldnt die and eventually killed the boss).

It is very likely that the kill being made by your pet while you wheren’t doing the damage was causing this block. you got the chest and the cutscene, but the door’s didn’t open. Technicly you hit a bug but you are also playing the game in a way it wasnt intended to play it.

Even though what you did till the Kulag boss was very awesome, the fact that you killed Kulag wihout any effort means you used an exploit. On itself that is a bannable offense.

So the game prevented you to go further while you used an exploit.

Again I bow my head deeply to you for your amount of skills, but dungeons are made for party’s of 5 players and not to be done solo. I know its a good sport to try it solo but failure isn’t a bug. You actually found an exploit (accidently) and the game reacted as it should react.

So I consider your bug as a question, how can you beat Kulag without using an exploit and actually being able to progress??

I don’t have a clue, but its a very good question for the players helping players section.

Sorry for the long post. Again I bow deeply before your gaming skills.

I see it as poor game mechanic. If I could view and hit him, he should’ve been able to see me and thus use that AoE on me. It could very well be that my pet was acting as a kind of meat shield. A tactic that is quite commonly used. Even if he did use that AoE, it wouldn’t have meant anything. There is a decent CD on it and can be easily dodged.

It could be that it was because my pet took him down, but I did use my own attack for the first half of his health bar. Then my ex came to get something for our daughter. Real life and all :P

It is a personal challenge of mine to solo all the dungeons. I’ve done Ascalonian Catacombs (Story Mode) solo. Fighting the ‘lovers’ was the worst, I must’ve died 20 times. I’ve defeated the spider post patch on exploration mode and made 2 or 4 attempts at defending that npc while trying to collapse the tunnel. By then it was 1am and said screw it, time for bed.

I’ll give it another go. This time I’ll try not to find those “sweet spots” that all dungeons in just about every game seems to have.