Guild Wars 2

Sykper.6583:

Nice information on the attempts and the Actual kill – Enrage Timer, going to presume the raid likely had full ascended (given the vendor in the raid instance) then.

I can also dig the idea of locational and buff-orientated aggro like the Slime from Aetherpath.

I really would want an actual attempt myself on the content though but this is excellent information nevertheless, I both thank and congratulate you on this constructive raid feedback from an actual kill! Hearing you getting hyped is making us all a bit hungry for more I imagine!

Yea we know that A LOT of people were not able to get in, or only had very limited time. We just happened to be one of the few groups that were trying at the right time. I look forward to release or future tests where more people can get in and min-max their own strategies to see how it evolves.

Also ANET definitely has some awesome mechanics in store for us. At the end of the video you can hear how hyped all of us are to get our hands on the rest of the raids.

—>Yea we were in all ascended. However, it wasn’t optimized at all. The DPS engies were in Rabid instead of Sinister. Also we used Undead Runes instead of Nightmare or Aristocracy. Not everyone had top of the line food too, we were very limited by what ANET actually gave us.

Sykper.6583:

When you said close pulls at low percentages, were those with respect to the Enrage Timer or just pure mechanics and damage were abundantly punishing your group?

Probably ought to know if the Raw Damage Builds (both condition or direct damage) were the difference or if you could have brought 1-2 people with bulkier, supportive set-ups to absolutely prevent downs or wipes.

Over the attempts we had pulls that were close and failed to both. Right before the kill we got him to like 0.1% and failed because we had too many people down from the mechanics, but we had a few people up when the enrage timer hit.

Honestly it was a mixture of both. In the end though we had about 1;10 left on the enrage timer when we killed him. I am sure you could take more supportive classes if that is what your group prefers. Min-maxing damage and safety of future mechanics is going to be very important.

Enko.6123:

I had the commander tag as an engi in our first attempts and it was staying on someone else. Looks to be similar to the previous system of highest toughness.

Gratz on killing it.

I believe this to be correct. The Vale Guardian himself seems to agro on whoever has the highest toughness. During the split you get a buff for which pillar you are closest too. Each guardian will agro to someone who has the buff that corresponds to their color.