Guild Wars 2

Dasorine.1964:

there’s a time and a place for ridiculous difficulty, a public boss shouldn’t be that ridiculously hard that it takes cheating, luck or very specific builds of specific classes to beat.

It’s still much harder than before the patch but now the mechanics are actually doable for everyone (as in you can actually DODGE the death patches)

I did the fight – pre nerf – as a glass cannon warrior with a GS. I died to death patches three times, and got downed by shades 3-5 times. After the second death on the patches I figured out how to avoid them and the third one was just bad luck with dodge bar being out. So I wouldn’t say it was ridiculous difficult just comparatively ridiculous to what people expect a easy public DPS lolspamability1 run to be.

I quit playing a few months ago, just after halloween. At that time with a full group of 80’s some of the paths of AC were really difficult and we’d be lucky to get 1 or 2 done and we’d be wiping/respawning a lot. Yesterday I ran AC all three paths in just over 2 hours with not one death or wipe, personally I think the dungeons are far easier and better than before. Not being able to zerg death rush is an improvment IMO

If you read the notes, the events will build up over the month. This isn’t it. It’s a living story and as such it lives and breathes and will expand as people complete the events, they said to check back every day for new things – hence the heralds – so don’t judge it based on the first 30 minutes you spent doing the first 1/10 – random figure but probably relevant – of the content.

I’m dissapointed they made it easier, I for one enjoyed the challenge in a game that really lacks hard endgame content. I was hoping it was a sign that they were going to start making all the end game content at least slightly difficult.

The chest is the same as any other large loot chest. Five items of blue + quality

I agree I much prefer the high skill requirement of the fight, and the trait only helps if you don’t/can’t dodge it in the first place. During the attempt we finally downed it on Piken Square I only got hit once in the entire fight by the drop circles and that time I survived because I rolled when I hit the ground.

Piken Square EU should be open for business

Obly.9243:

Piken Square just pulled it off, after like 10 tries, we had about 30 people for it.

We figured out, Ranged DPS + -50% fall damage trait, also you can dodgeroll the second you hit the floor and avoid almost all damage.

Yeah I just put a topic up talking about how we did it, just so that people could make sure that other servers can down it eventually as well.

We just did this on Piken Square – about 20-30 of us – so I decided to just put some hints and tips of how we did it on the forums.

First of all ranged weapons are the best choice here. With a ranged weapon out you can stand further back and spread out more meaning that the anti grav death drops spread out and become easier to evade.

Secondly using the damage reduction fall trait means that with low corruption you generally don’t die.

Thirdly if you do end up hurtling face first toward the ground, roll just before/as you hit it and generally you don’t die – although this is a little hit and miss.

Fourthly kite the shades toward Jones, and make sure you have people in the land of grenth hitting them otherwise you soon get overwhelmed by them.

That’s just about all we learned from our attempts, what I will say is that personally I like this new encounter it promotes teamwork and skill over DPS and is actually rather easy once you get used to it.

Thanks all and I believe we were the third server to down the boss so GO PIKEN SQUARE.

Quick edit for warriors – As a warrior if you get downed in the mess of AOE’s just use vengeance and go die properly up towards the contested way point because then people can rezz your properly dead corpse a lot easier meaning it saves you a corpse run from Anchorage.