Guild Wars 2

I’ve run Path 3 with a level 34 Guardian in the group. It was an easy run. Other times I’ve run with full groups of 80s and it was a slaughter. I even ran with a group where I was not only the tank, but the clear winner in DPS as well. I run a Necro. It was then that the Warrior, about level 43, told me about his gear. The level 22 Greatsword was about the best of it. Don’t ever be that guy, please.

The keys are to know what you’re doing and spec/gear to do it properly. You really can’t just fake it with these things, unless you’ve got a couple of exceptional players with you who’ll pick up the slack. In fact I’ve run into a few players that made the runs so easy I’m convinced you can do all the paths with just 3 guys.

Anywho, the only real problem fights in AC are defending Hodgins and defending the collectors. With Hodgins, there are 6 burrows that spawn in two chains of three. Memorize where they pop up and take out the chain that starts with the Western burrow first. Second burrow from the North burrow chain spawns a couple of Scavengers which can knockdown and kill within seconds so you don’t want them to pop up while you’re otherwise distracted. You may need one guy to keep the focus off Hodgins, but otherwise it’s a case of burning through the burrows ASAP. Once all 6 are down the remaining mobs despawn anyway.

Path 3 takes the burrow issue to extreme, but the key is basically the same. A new burrow will spawn every 10 seconds in a single chain. Thus, you need to kill the burrow and any remaining mob within about 8 seconds to avoid being overwhelmed. High damage AoE helps here. Burrow spawns are the same each time too so you can learn the sequence. Drag errant gravelings that are hitting the collectors into the groups AoE. If you do it right you should have the room completely cleared by the time the collectors get to 90%. If you kill the burrows really quick you can stop any Elites from spawning at all. In any case, you’ve just got to remember the burrows are the sole priority here. Don’t be one of those dudes that starts kiting gravelings into a random corner ever time one jumps on him. Those guys are worse than useless.