I literally fail to understand how anyone could find this boss even remotely difficult. Let alone dying so many times that you run around naked.
BIG RED SHAPE UNDER YOU, telegraphed 2-3 seconds in advance. Don’t stand in it. Win.
Heck, the dragon barely has any hp either.
Unless you play with 2000ms and 5fps, I honestly don’t know how anyone could fail. If this makes me an “elitist” then so be it.
This boss fight is on the same difficulty level as crossing the street in real life. How are you people still alive?
I know, right! It’s like playing guitar – why is it so hard for some people to play the guitar solo in ‘Highway Star’ by Deep Purple? Or do the Travis picking/banjo roll stuff in ‘Never Going Back Again’ by Fleetwood Mac? It’s just moving your fingers around. Nothing to it! Easy as falling off a log. Come on, people! Step it up already.
And writing – I hear people all the time saying, “Oh, I wish I could write!” And I say to them, I say, "Well, gee, why don’t ya grab a pencil and some paper and have at it! " It’s not hard. Anybody can write! You just put words on a piece of paper! Voila! “It was the best of times, it was a dark and stormy night of the lepus!” See? I just wrote something. That’s all there is to it. Now where’s my big fat paycheck and 7-season multi-million dollar deal with HBO?
And that acting business – hah! “Oh, I would love to be an actor! But I just can’t act!” Bah! You’re just pretending to be somebody else. That’s something little kids and people at job interviews do all the time. Nothing to it. Anybody who says they can’t act – is acting! Because it’s that easy!
And ‘pro’ sports wannabes – don’t get me started. “Oh, if only I was good at basketball, baseball, football, soccer, golf, water polo, whatever…” Get real. There’s nothing to be ‘good’ at. It’s just people running around knocking balls of various shapes and sizes back and forth. Again, it’s something little kids do – little kids! – for fun!
Seriously! How do some people even manage to breathe? If I didn’t know better I’d think maybe some people are just not as good at some things as others, and for some reason some of those who are good at some things, like, oh, I don’t know, video games, like to crow about how good they are on video game forums in some inexplicable attempt at making others feel bad about themselves for not being as good.
Or something. Now excuse me while I go put my left foot in, take my left foot out, put my left foot in and shake it all about.
Well, you have completely missed the point and decided to wrap it in a sarcastic rant-trip, but that’s ok, it was a nice read.
Anyway, just to address your… errr… critique:
To be able to play a guitar to that high standard requires years of learning and an excellent muscle memory, plus a million genetic traits that simply make some people better at playing musical instruments. Talent, I think it’s called.
Creative writing, acting and being a professional sport player, again, require a unique mix of talent and years of training. No wonder if you want to do any of your four example fields at a ‘professional’ level, you have to devote your whole life to it.
You couldn’t have picked worse examples.
The general combat play system of Guild Wars 2 on the other hand is incredibly BINARY. It operates on a basic “IF-THEN” level, from the first moment of the game up till now. It’s a lot less complex than many other MMOs out there, and the essence of the game can be mastered in a matter of hours.
The entire game is about dodging / moving out of red circles. The. Whole. Game.
That, and strafing.
Now, since we’re talking about the Living Story, which is only available to lvl80 characters, one would assume that the players got to this point somehow. They managed to get to lvl80 AND managed to get this far in the LS.
So I ask again: what EXACTLY was the difficult part in the dragon boss fight? What caused some people to die so many times all their gear broke?
This boss has absolutely no added difficulty, it operates with the exact same gameplay rules as literally EVERYTHING ELSE up to this point.
I see some people in this thread complain about having to dodge too much, so classes with access to Vigor have it much easier.
I just want to point out that you don’t even need to dodge at all during the whole boss fight, unless you get unlucky once or twice and/or position yourself badly.
So maybe it’s due to people not understanding the fight in general? Regardless, it’s not the fight itself that’s difficult.
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