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Shadow of the Dragon hitbox bugged.

I don’t know if anyone is aware of this bug (?) since I can’t find any devs commenting on this issue at all and it’s apparently been “broken” since, at least, March. If this is working as intended we can suck it up and learn to deal with it (or kitten about poor game design) or if it’s actually broken either way it would be nice to know.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Mystery_Cave

As it is today melee characters can’t land hits on the shadow of the dragon in the mystery cave instance with the exception of a few AOE attacks making this instance extremely slow to attempt to do solo.

Since it, in its current state, is a very very frustrating instance it’s very hard to find players to do it and even more so to find players who actually know it in order to help get the achievements. So unless the whole point of the instance is to force people to roll ranged characters it might be in order to either fix the hitbox or significantly reduce the health of the dragon (in case it’s too much work to do something about the hitboxes).

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Posted by: Aenaos.8160

Aenaos.8160

It is known!
Use a ranged weapon and single target attacks.

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Posted by: SpiroTris.3748

SpiroTris.3748

Did you ever see a dev say it is? If so please link it so I can stop whining about this

Yes, I can complete it by piggybacking on other ranged characters. But if it’s broken it would be stupid to just accept it as it is. Especially since it seems to create a lot of frustration for players which I’m sure can’t be the point of the instance.

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Posted by: SpiroTris.3748

SpiroTris.3748

Well, just did it with my guardian, took me six or seven burn phases. Turns out he’s not going down again once he hits the 25-30% area so you can just take your time and use whatever ranged you have. Anyway, using a combination of the staff and sword ranged attacks I managed to take it down after almost exactly an hour (excluding mid-fight break).

First or second burnphase I managed to get in close and land a few hits with one of the sword autoattacks but kept getting knocked down unless I could keep stability up so I had to get back, avoid aoe and use ranged skills.

I would like to say I will never ever do it again but knowing how ridiculously useless this instance is I’ll probably end up helping guildmates finish it whenever they need to.

In other words, still broken and still no word devs are aware of the problem.