Guild Wars 2

On SBI, we have noticed that Tequatl seems to be counting up his Hardened Scales buffs when he shouldn’t be. To the best of my knowledge, here is what is required to have this occur.

Teq’s health drops to 75% and the 1st Battery Defense event starts. At end, Teq lands and we have the 1st ‘stun’ phase where we damage him enough to drop him to 50% and he immediately begins the 2nd Battery Defense event. At the end of 2nd Battery Defense event, Teq lands and we have the 2nd ‘stun’ phase where we damage him enough to drop him to 25% and he immediately begins the 3rd Battery Defense event. HOWEVER before he flies off, he ticks a “Hardened Scale” and while flying around during that 3rd Battery Defense event, he accumulates it up to 20. As a result, at the end of the 3rd Battery Defense event, Teq lands and instead of the 3rd ‘stun’ phase starting like normal, a Bone Wall appears. We have to break the Bone Wall to be able to damage him during that 3rd ‘stun’ phase.

We have NOT seen the ‘Hardened Scale’ buff start when we chain him from 75% to 50%, (ie we don’t get a bone wall when he lands after the 2nd Battery Defense event) nor have we seen it when we fail to chain him from 75% to 50% but do chain him from 50% to 25%. So, it seems that we need to chain him BOTH times (from 75% to 50% AND from 50% to 25%) in order to have him start counting up his Hardened Scales at the start of the 3rd Battery Defense event and cause a Bone Wall at the beginning of the 3rd ‘stun’ phase.

Hopefully some others can elaborate further on this (or correct me if I’m wrong in my recounting of the bug at all).

Harlowe here~ I believe Courin’s description is accurate. For clarification, burning him from phase to phase means we go to battery before post-stun fingers/watery grave are summoned. I’ll try to be more observant about it next time it happens (and screenshot it if I can).

I can’t guarantee these are ‘always’ or ‘never’ situations, but, as Courin said, this is what seems to be happening for us:

75% → stun all the way to 50% → stun all the way to 25%, scales begin to stack as he leaves (shows on his bar) → bone wall @ start of third stun, as/right after he lands

75% → stun, but not to 50% → 50% → stun all the way to 25% → no wall @ start of third stun

I believe it is purely based on doing the FULL %25 of damage within a stun phase. Desolation has managed to achieve this bug a couple of times at the %75 > %50 stun/burn phase. It always makes me proud when we do so

I wondered if that was the case! Our first stun/burn phase must just be a little too slow~

Noobix, so you’ve had the bone wall come up during the 2nd battery/stun, not just the 3rd?

Yeah, its more rare than getting it during the 3rd. But we have had it happen. Likely due to people getting into the swing of things for the start of the fight^^