Guild Wars 2

Sylvian, lvl20, downgraded to lvl16 at personal story, yet I’m constantly dieing and dieing. If this supposed to be a single player, story mode then you guys terribly failed. I can only kill the enemy destroyers one by one IF I’M LUCKY, and death is guaranteed during a fight.

This is not the first time, it happened many times during my lvl14-20 experience, even in open world events.

Feels like diablo 3 inferno level tune-up. Terrible, and Congrats!
/big breath not to harm my own computer thats how its frustrating this is/

P.S.: Elementalist, using arcane shield, mist form and self heal to just keep myself alive for one lousy kill. I stun, CC, blind enemies and use AOE spells.
All my equipment is broken too. So no, I’m not that bad but this is just pathetic, to send 8-10destroyers against one player.

Really amazingly frustrating!

LOL!

I managed to kill a big pack of destroyers… alone, witouth the npc helper group… THEN to my suprise another such group appeared! Awesome! I just quit this kitten probably, I’m not dealing with this crap.

What is your race? I have no issues myself as a Human. It may be a good idea to form a party to help if you’re having issues with a particular quest.

Eochaidh.4106:

What is your race? I have no issues myself as a Human. It may be a good idea to form a party to help if you’re having issues with a particular quest.

Sorry I don’t feel like forming a party for a personal story. This supposed to work alone, this is not a dungeon. I wrote down the race too. Sylvian

I’m an elementalist too and I never had problem with personal story quests even if few lvl above mine. Try using different set of weapon, it might help kill it faster.

With Staff you get 2 extra heals from Water as well as Speed buff to move away faster in Air with aoe skill that stuns and in Fire you have extra evade skill from Fire.

Or you could use Scepter with Dagger that gives you extra heal and shield that chills in Water, in Earth that is earthquake skill that throws all opponents on the ground, and in Air you have skill that pushes you and mob away from each other.

Also if you have that Gryphon Something skill that summons an elemental based helper use it too. Earth one lives the longest and is the best help. I’m not sure on what lvl you can get it though.

HOPE.1498:

Eochaidh.4106:

What is your race? I have no issues myself as a Human. It may be a good idea to form a party to help if you’re having issues with a particular quest.

Sorry I don’t feel like forming a party for a personal story. This supposed to work alone, this is not a dungeon. I wrote down the race too. Sylvian

Oh, it just wasn’t clear. I suppose you mean Sylvari. It might be an issue with the race’s individual quest difficulty scaling, I suppose.

Ivienn.6354:

I’m an elementalist too and I never had problem with personal story quests even if few lvl above mine. Try using different set of weapon, it might help kill it faster.

I’m using Scepter/Dagger combo, got 48% crit rating I think that should hit like a mule. These weapon sets got similar helaing spells too on water attun. Two spells that should help (made another topic about this, these healing spells are TERRIBLE weak, healing less than 10% of HP, which is useless in a combat, considering they got high CD).

Eochaidh.4106:

Oh, it just wasn’t clear. I suppose you mean Sylvari. It might be an issue with the race’s individual quest difficulty scaling, I suppose.

Oops, sorry you’re right, Sylvari.

I don’t know what else could help you. I listed all tricks I use to survive without listing those 7,8,9 button skills because I don’t know which one you have and on what lvl I learned ones I have.

I didn’t have any problems with my ele, in fact i did the battle in the island castle (no spoilers!) 3 levels below and managed just fine. Youre probably killing the enemies too slowly, focusing too much on CC.

My brother, who is a very good player (better than me) got stuck on this quest. He’s also rolling a sylvari elementalist. It is very difficult. We ended up doing it with a full group of guild members (so five people total, some who were over leveled) and we still wiped the first time. Second time we kited and pulled and it took a while but we got them all. As far as I know, this one quest needs some extra hands.

I’m an elementalist, I did most of my personal story up to lvl 55 constantly 5 level below the recommended level, and I nearly never died.
I use scepter+dagger, cleansing flame, armor of earth, mist form and summon elemental as elite (very useful in PVE as it takes some damage away from you).
Seriously I dunno how you can die as an elementalist, if you are in trouble just mist form away to recover, heal with your heal skill + your water skills and go back into the action. I also rely a lot on blinding skills and stuns (with air and earth attunement) to avoid damage without dodging.
Try this and tell me if it works. Proof:
http://i.imgur.com/BCTkn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mXfGv.jpg

You shouldn’t have issues completing your story line solo. There’s something you’re doing wrong. Be it your build or game play.

I admit some of the quests are actually really challenging, but they’re meant to be that way.

If you struggle and can’t progress, invite a buddy to help you out.

I’m a sylvari elementalist but I don’t recall this quest, but either way haven’t had too much trouble myself, love the 2x dagger skill set and seem to kill things fast enough.

But what I wanted to say, to the people saying ‘group up’ this arguably might not help, as the mobs get scaled to the number of players partaking in the story quest, as well as high levels being nerfed as stated before, so everyone in the team would have to pull their weight to survive…

I assume this is the quest/step “Mirror, Mirror”, I also found this one to be much harder than the previous ones with my Guardian. Having no escape options like Mist Form, I found it was impossible to kill the destroyers if the NPCs and Golems were all down, so it was all or nothing.
I finally managed it by filling my bars with all the spirit weapons I had unlocked, letting them do the killing while I focused on defense and control.

I sometimes think the level adjustment is a bit too strong. I am not a very good player and I know that; in most games, when I’m stuck, I just leave and come back two levels later. In this case, it doesn’t work.

The game is still fun, but I die all the time, especially in my personal story.

I believe destroyers are immune to burning attacks so make sure you’re not relying on fire attunement?

Like other people have suggested, you may not have been bringing the right weapons with you. I don’t know the elementalist that well, but after lecturing my guardian friend, I was able to convince him that using a greatsword against many opponents that were spread out and attacked from range wasn’t going to go well for him. Single-target ranged (scepter) was the better way to go for that fight. Stay ranged, and focus them down one at a time, especially if you’re having trouble. Position yourself well and pull the enemies towards you (try not to aggro them all at once).

It’s even tougher sometimes because the NPCs that fight with you are useless after a while. Sure, they can take the brunt of the damage while you pick at guys one at a time, but then they’re going to start dropping like rocks. Then all the enemies turn onto you! I find it easier to complete missions when they’re all dead sometimes. lol

Plus, I always grossly outlevel my personal story, so I usually never have these kinds of problems. I can totally see where you’re coming from though. I’ve been there. Try out different weapon sets, or bring a friend! That’s all you can really do until ANet (if they do) decides to do some adjustments.

I would take a look at your traits. This is something people need to get better at doing for survivability. You should have trait points to pick up vitality and toughness, at the very least put some in here (you can reset your traits at the guy who sells the trait skill book).

Speccing for glass cannon all out dps is doable in pve environment but if you want to be able to run instances and complete story you will find adding in vitality and toughness will stat the odds in your favor.

I’m not sure if you played GW1, but Destroyers were extremely difficult then too. You had to pull them one or two at a time, and not use fire skills as fire doesn’t work very well against fire. I helped a friend out with this quest as an Ele. He was a level below the recommened lvl, and me a couple above. Still extremely difficult. But that’s expected. But we got it done with just the two of us with all of the helper NPC’s defeated on about 30 mins. Pulls one at a time and keep moving. I also switched back and forth between staff and scepter+dagger.

Your problem is your playing a glass cannon and getting hit. You can build elementalist a bit tanky using earth however even then you should avoid getting hit at all costs since most enemies will wreck you.

I don’t know what weapons your using so I’m not going to try to give you advice on that, others seem to have already recommended weapons however you’re likely to no change once you’ve picked a weapon type.

With this story mission your actually at a huge disadvantage due to your race choice since elementalists highest damage output is fire and buring damage and destroyers are immune to burn. I’d recommend you fallback to ice/air and simply try to keep them off of you.

Destroyers are immune to burning which completely screws over some builds.