Guild Wars 2

Getting knocked down all the time, even when inside the shield bubble when trying to light the ring of fire.

Yep—-done with it. Broken

just about done with this garbage too. this whole episode has been nothing but tiring, repetitive, aggravating combat and the NPC’s are absolute garbage at aiding

braham can’t set bubbles in time, and half the time the dragon still knocks you down even when your in the bubble, and Majory’s intervals of sending you flames are too slow basically having this vicious cycle of having the rings lit just so that they can be extinguished by the little shadows

This is impossible to do solo as of January 14th, 1:45 AM Eastern. Also, when in a party, I did not get the choice to accept credit and had to do the whole thing over. it was pretty fun as a group, but having it be impossible solo just ruins the entire experience.

edit can not even get a group because “your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging!” what are you even doing, anet?

I had those problems when trying to light the fires, too. The shields most often had no effect; even though I’d be shown in a bubble and having stability, I’d still get knocked down and have to start over lighting that part of the fire (or run off to try another spot).

I’m not so sure the mistiming of the shields and fire was unintentional, but it did add to the difficulty. Maybe it was meant to represent the NPCs being distracted?

I only managed to make real progress after I started completely ignoring Braham’s shields and going for just any fire-lighting-spots I could. It took a loooooooooong time to complete, but it was doable, at least.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d been having intermittent problems with lag, so maybe that’s a factor?

I did it solo, Neughkanice, but I also did it at an earlier time; maybe that’s a factor, somehow.

no. you’re supposed to be able to kill the shadows while imbued with light. when i tried, they were still invulnerable.

Yep, impossible. Shields don’t go up fast enough, and 3/4 of the time the fire spot across the ring from where I am trying to light the fire is the one that gets the shield. By the time I get across to it, the shield dissipates and I’m either dead or hoping to get a new one. Shields don’t prevent stun/knockdown/interrupt consistently. Fire doesn’t come soon enough, I spend too much time running in circles between lighting the fires waiting for a new fire. By the time a new fire shows up, last fire is already out. Barely got a third one lit, usually can only keep 2 up at a time. Shadows are invulnerable at all times, so can’t keep them from putting fires out. This was obviously completely untested, or the slightest hint of lag throws off the timing of the NPCs too much to make this doable. Shadows either need to be killable, or the fire just needs to always be in the center of the ring so I am not waiting for it while the shadows put everything out.

Neughkanice.1574:

This is impossible to do solo as of January 14th, 1:45 AM Eastern. Also, when in a party, I did not get the choice to accept credit and had to do the whole thing over. it was pretty fun as a group, but having it be impossible solo just ruins the entire experience.

edit can not even get a group because “your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging!” what are you even doing, anet?

Many people have beaten it solo across all of the classes.

There’s a LFG tool that can be used rather than spamming the chat channel.

Neughkanice.1574:

no. you’re supposed to be able to kill the shadows while imbued with light. when i tried, they were still invulnerable.

You lose the buff when you kill one of them. If there are multiples then you need to keep reapplying the buff after each kill.

I don’t believe this fight is bugged at all.

In solo, if you alternate your imbues, first to channel one of the “thingies” and second to kill one of the shadows then you will find it much easier. When a shadow is around the knockdowns make it almost impossible to do the channeling, if there are no shadows then there are not many knockdowns at all.

I have noticed during this fight the dragon seems to only target the person who started the story instance even after the player is dead it still attacks them.

I did it solo, but I did it as Guardian. The bubbles shield spawn at random, if you choose to light one without paying attention, Braham will change the shield to your location sometimes, but not before you get hit. The shield only prevents knockdown from his claw attacks, when he comes up from beneath you it will always interrupt.

Yeah same problem, bubbles dont give stability keep getting knock down. And even getting no light when I have 3 fire walls activated, till I am back at 2 fire walls actived. Was expecting at some point an adverd for buying repair cansters from the gems store.

Seems that after x amount of time like 45min per rotation you get stability in the bubbles and the circles spawn faster to get the fire walls activated.

Should better grind for the bandit crest to get the “special” rewards. Also because the blue gear bags are a waste of time.

Well maybe next storyline is more interresting and less buggy than this one.

Ayrilana.1396:

Neughkanice.1574:

no. you’re supposed to be able to kill the shadows while imbued with light. when i tried, they were still invulnerable.

You lose the buff when you kill one of them. If there are multiples then you need to keep reapplying the buff after each kill.

There are no multiple shadows at any point during lighting the torches part of the fight. And yes, on the first day i have also run into the problem when even with the divine fire buff on you shadows continued to be invulnerable (haven’t seen it repeat later on, though).

Did it solo as Necro with no blocks or self stability. You just need to go to whichever cog has the shield, though the shield only protects you from the slap-down attacks.

Astralporing.1957:

Ayrilana.1396:

Neughkanice.1574:

no. you’re supposed to be able to kill the shadows while imbued with light. when i tried, they were still invulnerable.

You lose the buff when you kill one of them. If there are multiples then you need to keep reapplying the buff after each kill.

There are no multiple shadows at any point during lighting the torches part of the fight. And yes, on the first day i have also run into the problem when even with the divine fire buff on you shadows continued to be invulnerable (haven’t seen it repeat later on, though).

I’ve seen up to 3 at one point. Either that or ones spawns immediately after I killed another.

Multiple shadows only show up if you are not doing the instance solo.

The shield DOES give stability.

But, stability only protects you from one of the dragons two attacks. The double claw swipes. They’re a normal knockdown and are completely blocked by stability.

The other attack the dragon has that can interrupt you is a bite / head attack. That attack throws you into the air, and stability won’t prevent that since its not really a control effect, its just the game moving you up. It does also knock you down after you go into the air, but that should be blocked by stability. Still, just the act of moving you into the air puts you out of range of the fire spot, which cancels your channel, stability or not.

The dragon seems to have a pattern of 2 claw swipes, a rock attack, then a bite. So if you’re having trouble with the bite hitting through stability, you could try waiting a bit until he’s not using that attack.

Lazaar.9123:

Multiple shadows only show up if you are not doing the instance solo.

That’s probably where I saw them. Whether there be one or more shadows, you have to have the buff to kill them.

I was doing this fight today and noticed that after I died and respawned the quencher spawns became invulnerable and I was not able to make progress. Did I miss something or did the instance bug out on me. I am trying to solo as an elementalist.

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