Guild Wars 2

I always run Arah exp with people I know, pug is the main reason that makes your exp run a nightmare.
I know exp mode is a bit hard but that’s what an endgame is going to be.

Dangerkips.6035:

Well I just did my first ever dungeon run; AC Story with a pug. And wow. I am still in shock at how horrible this experience was.

There was me (elementalist), a warrior, thief, ranger and a guardian being oneshotted about 5 times over on every pull; even after switching to staff just so I could cast geyser/healing rain etc.

The whole thing just made it painfully obvious that no trinity just doesn’t work! You try & pull even just one mob and the whole thing turns into a bursty zerg kittenfest, but hope you’re not doing the most damage, because the mob will turn all its attention to you and come over and one shot you!

Five minutes of complete fail later, gz, you killed one normal mob! Now onto the boss that spawns 15 more of these kittens for no loot worth mentioning!

TL;DR: Dungeons are a chaotic burst russian roulette mode, mob damage is mostly unavoidable due to them being near instant casts, and at the end of it all, all you got was an hour worth of sheer frustration and a nice big repair bill.

COFFIN. NAIL.

You should expect such things since this was you first run.

You can not have a nice and enjoyable first run since dungeons are hard enough to let you have many attempts and practices.

And you can also try to run with you guild mates or friends instead of pugs, you will have an uncomfortable run for sure you all your group members are unexperienced.

I run Arah exp almost everyday with someone I know and we usually had a good time.
Practice more and you will see the difference.

I think it’s a good thing that exp dungeons are a bit hard.
People doing dungeons mostly for skins and gears and you can kind of stand out with you skins and gears you got from dungeon tokens because you can not get them easily.
You don’s want to see everyone wearing the exactly the same gear.

After you get used to it, you may take only like 2 hrs to have a full run with a pro grp.

Just wait till Monday patch and see if it will get fixed, if not, I will just laugh, nothing more to do for me.

The DR system is bugged and A-net are trying to fix it on Monday patch, MAYBE it will be fixed but it’s not 100%.

Btw, I am not going to tell you I got mega kitten by getting only 15 shards of Zhaitan from a full Arah run.

hmm…I don’t know what to say because I have no idea what they are thinking about lol

I just simply do not play GW2 till they fix the DR system, I got a lot MMOs to play =.=

This boss is very hard but it’s not impossible to kill.

Part 1 is easy, just stay together, have 2 people on add and grubs, 3 people on boss.

Part 2 is the fight which makes the boss very hard, it has 3 skills during this part:
1. He will look at you and throw a ball to you, you need to predict the path of the ball, and dodge it.
2. AoE, this is a large scale AoE you need to watch out, just use dodge or get away as soon as he cast it.
3. Teleport, he will be hide himself and shadow step to you, need to dodge it.

Part 3, after 50% hp:
1. huge AoE.
2. single ball attack like part 2
3. a small AoE which blocks you from getting out, my thief use shadow step to doage it.

This boss fight requires instant respond to dodge skill and predicting AoEs, you need to have many tries to kill this boss.

Hard, but not impossible.

1. Did 2 Arah full runs all for it’s 1st time that day.
2. Each run I only got 15 shards of Zhaitan.
3. I spent 3+ hours for each full run.
4. Died like 10+ times during the 3rd boss fight.
5. All my other group memebers got 60 shards only me got 15 shards.

I deal with this reward bug very easily:
1. Will keep updating my support ticket till it got responded.
2. Will not play GW2 till this bug get fixed.
3. Play Tera/CoD/WoW/FIFA/BF3/BL2 instead.

this is pissing me off srsly, I had an Arah full run yesterday, that was my 1st run that day, we tried so hard to finish the freaking hard map, especially the 3rd giant boss which is kind of impossible to kill imo, after like 2 hour try we finally killed the boss, and spent like another 1 hour to finish the whole map, and what I got? only 15 shards of Zhaitan, this happened to me twice this week, I never get 60 shards for my 1st run after patch, I spent 4 hours in Arah and just for 15 shards, I wakittena kitten I will not play GW2 till the support team respond my ticket and give me an answer to this stupid bug which makekittenet 15 shards while all my group members get 60 shards.
And I need to talk about the patch for a bit. the latest patch fixed the “speed runs” and kept the3rd boss in Arah hard enough to make you spend like 1-2 hours to even try to kill it, and of course this is not a “speed run” anymore because u need like 2 hours to kill a boss in Arah and you have to do it because the shards can only be rewarded at the end of the map, I think A-net thought we are all pro enough to finish Arah like a boss for only like 40 mins which is bot, because my group spend like 4 hrs to finish one path.
I just dont get the point why they make map like this, is not fun to kill a boss wihch is almost impossible to kill.
Please fix this seriously, I know is it right to make endgame a bit hard, but I am pretty sure spending 4 hours in Aarh is way more harder that endgame.

Hi all,
This is really pissing me off, I had an Arah run yesterday, that was my 1st run that day, and I only got 15 shards of Zhaitan, all my group members got 60 shards.
And I did an run today, still only got 15 shards, I will not run any instances till my support ticket get responded and my problem fixed, mega kitten #8230;
Can anyone tell me if this kind of issue happened to you guys before?

I’d say its not right, if I see things like this I will report -.-