Guild Wars 2

greyman.8105:

It’s an interesting combination of ‘stuff’ but really a mixed bag. The Jellyfish really was just a ridiculous spamfest with a boss with way too much health and not enough real sense of danger or strategy needed besides swim in circles and click skills.

The Dredge fractal ending with the Legendary Rampaging Ice Elemental broke our team’s spirits though. That fight was either bugged or just foolishly difficult. It’s one thing if you can only hurt him when he’s dripping with hot oil, but to have him fully regen as soon as he cools was a bit of a kick in the boys. Particularly when he would tend to stop and sit down for a while during the fight (giving just enough time for the superheated thing to wear off). Despite our best efforts we couldn’t dent him and gave up after 20+ minutes of total futility.

20 minutes? Our group got handed that piece of kitten as our 3rd fractal, having already been messed over by the dolphin level losing us a lot of armour bonuses. We played that boss for well over an hour and a half, when none of us had any armour pieces left and in the end we just had to throw in the towel. What you have to do is blindingly obvious, but executing is nearly impossible.

You miss one, just one, of those lava pots and bam he has full health, nothing you can do. It is ludicrously easy for him to path out of the zone. With no armour any of his abilites 1 shot everybody, and even if you interrupt the heal he still gets more health back than you can take off in one superheat.

Awful. And I was loving the dungeon till then. Sigh.