Guild Wars 2

I guys,
I tried a search first and find nothing about, what it’s weird tough.
The legendary skeletal lich drain life skill look like active all the time, what makes it impossible to be killed.
Just asking if we can hope to see this fixed before the event end, so we can do the achiv for it?
Thank you.

A good way to do this with a zerg is to stack on it and just have everyone spamming heal skills.

Not sure what aspect of it makes it work- the stacking or the heal skills, since the life drain skill has absolutely no recognizable tell other than “Oh, my HP is dropping insanely fast, guess I’m getting life drained.”

Either way, with the stack & heal method, it goes down fairly easily.

Using Mesmers or Necros to strip boons off the skeleton minions helps too.

Was in a successful group today, so I know it can be done.

Pull it into a corner and stack on it.
That way you dont need to care about the skeletons. Most of them wont get aggroed.

Heres a tip from the pro , stack inside the house , everyone melee range n strip boons/heals , easy mode , its not bugged i farm this

Most people die from the retaliation than life steal.

Yeah, the strategy to beat the Lich is as follows:

1. Pull the Lich inside the house and stack there to avoid aggroing most of his spawned mobs.

2. Mesmers and Necros should bring boon strips and use them whenever they see it up. (Illusionary Disenchanter is great for this!) If the Lich has both Protection AND Regeneration up, when combined with his life steal healing he can outheal even a massive zerg’s damage.

3. Keep Poison on him at all times to reduce his healing.

Thank you for all the tips to beat the Lich guys, but now i am confused!
Are you trying to say with all this, the Lich “it’s working as intended”!?
Please devs can you help? Bugged or working as intended?
Thank you all.

Yes, I think it’s working as intended. This is how it worked last year, too.

Zaxares.5419:

1. Pull the Lich inside the house and stack there to avoid aggroing most of his spawned mobs.

I notice people don’t seem to realize something: The mobs that spawn don’t spawn on one static position. They spawn on players. So you’re not just avoiding “aggroing” them (they’ll attack you anyways), you’re actually trying to get them to spawn in the same spot so you can cleave them all easily, or AoE nuke them to death!

That’s why you still have some mobs spawn in weird places away from everyone, when you have ranged players attacking, well, from range.

And Lich is totally doable with 15-20 people. Buff strip out the kitten , pack stun breaks for his fear, water fields and heals, and stay tight on the Lich for the mob spawns.

Done. =3

Draconicus.7564:

Thank you for all the tips to beat the Lich guys, but now i am confused!
Are you trying to say with all this, the Lich “it’s working as intended”!?
Please devs can you help? Bugged or working as intended?
Thank you all.

He was the same way last year.

So preemptively, I’d say he’s working as intended. xD

He’s super easy with 4-5 people, less mobs spawn and you can spend more time on attacking the Lich rather than trying to avoid hitting the skeletons with tons of retaliation.

Hide and stack behind the mountain further to the right of the door, next to a pile of rubble. Have one guy knock and pull. Burn down in a minute or so.

If you don’t have enough players dodging his life stealing, he will just heal back up faster than you can damage him.

An alternative to this of course is to just zerg with so many people that you reach the cap in upscaling and you can easily out damage his life steal after a few minutes.

So, it’s working as intended! Terrible sorry for the topic then!
Glad to know it’s all a matter of proper tactics:)
Thank you all!

Decrypter.1785:

Heres a tip from the pro , stack inside the house , everyone melee range n strip boons/heals , easy mode , its not bugged i farm this

^^^ This ^^^

Very farmable event if you have people stripping and spamming heals.

People keep claiming this is being farmed, I have yet to see it farmed once during this event.
The thing is that during last year’s Halloween, I was seeing the Lich being taken down. Either something’s changed or players have become more disorganized. So far I have witnessed numerous attempts, all stacking in proper locations (the house or around the corner) and they end up failing.
Players are just avoiding this encounter from what I have seen. That’s fine with me. From what I remember from last year, it was a boring, tedious encounter anyway.

DoctorOverlord.8620:

People keep claiming this is being farmed, I have yet to see it farmed once during this event.
The thing is that during last year’s Halloween, I was seeing the Lich being taken down. Either something’s changed or players have become more disorganized. So far I have witnessed numerous attempts, all stacking in proper locations (the house or around the corner) and they end up failing.
Players are just avoiding this encounter from what I have seen. That’s fine with me. From what I remember from last year, it was a boring, tedious encounter anyway.

It is definitely possible to kill the Lich. I did it several times in the last few days. The first time it took a very long time as we used mostly ranged attacks (me too). I think we only succeeded in the end because we got 20+ players and some boon removal. The second time was much easier. There was a commander who got us all stacking in a corner and I was with several guild mates so it was somewhat more organized.
The last time was without a very organised group (no one from my guild). I activated my commander tag to just get people together and I got most players stacked on top of me attacking the Lich. As I was on my PVT Guardian with some condition removal I could stay up and motivate the others to keep attacking in melee range. It wasn’t as easy as the second successful attempt but we killed it.

So I think you were unlucky so far. I wont say I farm this boss but with a commander I have no second thoughts about attacking the Lich. And if I am the commander and I see players following me (and doing what I ask) I will not hesitate to attack it again.