Guild Wars 2

A week or 2 ago, one of the developers stated in another thread that any event that doesn’t specifically state [Group Event] would be doable by a single player.

However, this is currently not the case for the Defeat the Drake Broodmother event in the Lost Shores. The drake itself isn’t that tough, but the normal Reef Drakes that spawn around it make it impossible to defeat. They use a combination of pulling, stunning and a damage field that eats through your health in mere seconds even in tank gear, while you cannot do anything about it.

Now, before the usual responses of ‘use stability/stunbreaker’ or ‘dodge them’ come up, I can assure you I make full use of those. However, the ping-pong effect that happens when multiple drakes appear really amp up the difficulty of this event to Group Event status.

This event is soloable. I did it on my ele. The drakes around the broodmother do a lot of confusion, which is probably causing you to die. When I first tried the event, I noticed about 10-13 stacks on confusion on me, which took a good chunk of my health out quickly.

I did the event on my ranger, several times. It is soloable. Sure, sometimes it happens to die, but that’s just when I don’t pay attention to confusion.