Guild Wars 2

Have everybody stay in close range to him to reduce/prevent gears. Keep a holo nearby, but make sure not to kill it until his armor goes up. Once his armor is down, treat it like a tequatl burn phase.

Edit: If a holo is really close to him when his armor is up, let it get to 20 stacks or so; then you’ll have more time to burn him.

I’m shocked to see how many players haven’t killed him yet… I personally loved this content, but I can understand some of the hate (afks have been a problem on our server, of course, but I haven’t personally witnessed any turret trolls.. luckily).

Our record so far is somewhere over 3 (waiting for uploaded video to see exact time), but I thought I had read about a run done by Blackgate (assumption) that had over 5m left. Crazy :P

Edit: I can only speak for 3 of our server’s kills

Talissa Chan.7208:

I feel you SoS, its the same on dragonbrand. We’ve had 2 kills and they’ve both been by roving huge guilds and once offs. The guild that beat it for us yesterday did it on Devonas this morning. If you’re lucky like I was you’ll be in the map when they suddenly rock up because they can fit all their guildies in.
The best we’ve done is 50% and its usually because we just can’t get the dps.

OT, but it wasn’t one guild on DB. That was a collection of a few large guilds and many small guilds that decided to band together until we got it done (and we’re still running it daily, albeit on overflows sometimes when there’s too many afk’ers or non-TS people).

I’m sorry SoS is struggling so much. I hope y’all are able to find some guilds that are willing to work through it, and keep at it until it happens! (Side note, as you find guilds that want to work at it, try to get everyone to watch videos of other servers’ successes… especially when you can hear their TS because you can really learn a LOT about all of the background strategy that’s going on)

Wallace MacBix.2089:

1st attempt, ~51%
2nd attempt, ~45%
3rd attempt, killed

Go darkhaven!

That’s just how it went on DB! It takes a lot of coordination, patience, and everybody knowing their role and working together. The feeling when it all comes together is awesome! Good job y’all!

9/10 – Almost perfect!!— but I’m not a fan of the hair :P

Here’s mah lil Epic

We’ve been creating a group of 10ish players that stick near the dps group to take out nearby fingers; it works well at keeping the number of poison circles down. And yeah, the DPS group can’t just sit in a puddle..

pachex.9723:

Was an honor to be a part of this. Amazing job Dragonbrand! Also a big thank you to arenanet for creating what is now the best experience I have ever had in game. Keep um coming!

It looks like I’m either bowing or throwing up… O_o It was an absolute blast (each and every attempt)!

Mash Hog.5672:

Dragonbrand just killed him!
We had 2 minute to go!

Hey I see me! I’m the tiny little dorito icon :/ Gj Gasmic! As always, a pleasure working with ya!

That’s the way I always went… I didn’t know there was a ‘proper’ path other than that one… interesting.

I like it! I think it suits a warrior well.

My asuran is named Epic

Had I not been completely saturated in lag the entire time, the event would have been more fun, for the first 10 minutes. It became tedious after awhile. The design was awesome, but the execution was flawed. Condense the same event into an hour or so and it would have been great! I was pleased that the rewards were FINALLY something to get excited about. I honestly expected to open the chest and get a 12 slot bag and a green or two. Was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? Only for the last 10 minutes of the event.

I mustered up the motivation to log in… It didn’t take long to get bored. It’s not that the EA nerf/fix destroyed my ability to kill or survive; it’s just not nearly as fun to fight anymore.

Rhyse.8176:

Holy kitten.

Note, not nerfed. Eliminated. The mobile field/dodge style was unique and very fun. Now it doesn’t exist.

I agree completely! I guess it just didn’t make sense to have a trait that was useful for more than ONE attunement.

Qori.9671:

Look at the bright side Anet just free’d up 10 trait points for us since there is no reason to go 30 arcane anymore lol !

So anyone know any other mmos comming out soon ?

I’m having trouble finding a trait line worth putting the extra points into. I was disappointed with most of the previous patches, but this one really destroyed the most fun aspect of playing my ele.

My impish lil piece of awesome

Epic – Elementalist