Guild Wars 2

(Needs attention so posts as well – Also is the kittank of this group of awesome people)
For tanks: Your first few attemts will most likely hurt. A lot. Your healer will most likely also hate you for dropping like a fly.
Once you get used to the timing of the bosses attacks you will see progress.
Noting a few things that helped me. Your personal experience may vary.

== BUILD ==

For my build, little improvements made my job an aweful lot easier.
The build I used
(was using Scholar rune at the time.. but Chronorune is just freakin awesome.)

Persistence of Memory is a beast. Shatter your clones after blocking (mostly while in “blurred frenzy” and you basicaly have around 80% block/evadeframes.
Remember: With my build you need to shatter with 2 skills so your illusions are killed and give you the recharge!

Signet of Ether Helps to keep your health up, because you will basically have permanent uptime of 3 illusions (sometimes maybe a clone) and the passive effect refreshes all illusion-summoning-skills. And – guess what – your block is such an illusion-summoning-skill. Even more block uptime.

Mental Defense is the reason why you will have 3 illusions at all times. It’s awesome and eats damage you (or your DD’s) would take.

== ENCOUNTER ==
Phase 1

Face that thing away from your group. seriously.
If Vale guardian is not a gigantic kitten you can time your block to always hit his attacks with a roation like:
Echo of Memory -> Deja Vu -> Blurred Frenzy -> mind wrack + cry of frustration
(Evade blue cirlces (teleports) as needed with dodges, distortion or well of precog)

Distortion and Well of Precognition (sometimes mimic’ed) can be incorporated into the rotation but I decided to leave those off cooldown to safe some butts. Remember: Distortion will be spread around you in a radius of 300, however your go-to butt-saving skill will be Precognition.

Situations like that would be: Teleportion fields or seekers inside of green circles or generally near the DD’s positions. (2 seekers can wipe your friends really really easily when there are no knockbacks available at the time)

Phase 2 – Split

No question: blue. Your Auto Attack strips boons. Enough said.
Build up illusions/clones (3) but else focus on Auto Attacking. You want to get that invulerability off the Miniboss as fast as possible.
Break with Diversion if needed, move on to the Green boss

Phase 3 – Circling

Start in the red third near the border to the green.
Shout at people for standing in front of the boss and getting their butts cleaved.
Move as soon as the lit up area changes (keeping the boss as steady as possible maximes DPS!) In this phase people can stay behind to go into the green if necessary, you don’t need to go into the next third however it cuts walking time to spawn the green thingy in the right circle which can also provide a boost in DPS

Phase 4 – Split again
see Phase 2

Phase 5
Circling again, now 2 lit up zones
Start at the red third near the border to the green third again.
Move early! count to around 16 or 17, then move.

Remember: your illusions will stick to the boss! Run ahead when he is in the breakbar phase and position near the next border. Break with Distortion.

Phase 6
Take a screenshot in front of the chest and get your bad loot.

== Counting ==

It helped that different people counted different things as well:
Lightning Circles (green): Spawn every 15 seconds and got a 6 second telegraph.
Blue Circles: Spawn every 10 seconds and got a 2 second telegraph
Lit up Areas: Change every 20 seconds (move in at around 16-17s)
Breakbar Phase: every 30 seconds (should be broken in 2-3 for smooth boss-movement)

== Most valuable hint I can give: ==

Have fun. Can’t stress that enough.
If you don’t think it’s fun you will be bad and not beat it.
Joke around between fights and get a good feeling inside your group. Drink a lot of water to keep concentration up, let some air in and have a good time with people ^-^

kill kittens, resurrect kittens, repeat
Also: #blamejosh

Mookanik-Breakdown: for copy-pasting
Enrage: 8 minutes

Phase 1 (100% health)
RED field: Seeker Orbs: 20s interval, near each pilon, moving towards players (CC-able)(chase for 15s)
GREEN field: Lightning Circles: 15s interval, 6 second telegraph, 4! players (downed don’t count)
BLUE field: Teleport Circles 10s interval, 2 second telegraph, displace randomly

Phase 2 (66% health)
RED: Condition players
GREEN: physical DPS
BLUE: 4+ physical DPS (need boonstrip)

Phase 3 (66% health)
Same as Phase 1
+ Danger Zones (20s interval)(starting G → B → R)
+ Breakbar Phases (30s interval)(~3s breaktime)

Phase 4 (33% health)
= Phase 2

Phase 5 (33% health)
Same as Phase 3
+ Danger Zones (20s interval)(starting G+B → B+R → R+G )

IF Lightning Circle in Danger Zone => Group up => Protection => Heal
IF Boss in Danger Zone => don’t break. ranged dps.

Guild-related upgrade panels are not scrollable/klickable, I can not deposit things into the treasury (not dragable) + 5-12 seconds loading lag on those panel contents.

Asura, Male, Mesmer

Cut in the neck of my Asura when wearing the Vigil Mantle and sheated Weapon
With every possible combination of Faces/Hairstyles/etc.

Whisper’s Cowl (Armor Requisitioner Betje)
Vigil Mantle (Crusader Eira @ Vigil Keep)
Vigil Garb (Crusader Eira @ Vigil Keep)
Vigil Gloves (Crusader Eira @ Vigil Keep)
Genius Leggings (Clott @ Rata Sum)
Genius Boots (Clott @ Rata Sum)

All require lvl80 due to Transmutation

Ghastly Greatsword/Ghastly Sword/Zenith Flame
Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings

Description:

A Clip/Fissure in the Neck most visible with sheated Weapons (seen as red circle in the picture)

When the finished Enemy ports away the whole animation of the new guild finisher disappears, which kind of looks odd.. there is this big sword in the ground which disppears from one second to another…

This behaviour can not be spotted in the use of other finishers (like for example the sanctified finisher) where the finisher itself stays even if the enemy rallys at the waypoint.

Would really be cool if you could look into it as it looks really really odd for a pricy but really cool finisher like this one

Best regards

It’s just such a big effort for such a poor reward (especially for asura characters) I mean really.. you cannot even see the horns.. oh well.. you have 2 orange dots in your hair.. yays \ \(._.)/

Tiny, tiny horns.. please rethink the scaling of the horns on the asura..
it’s pretty cool that they are direktly on the head.. but they are soooo tiny.. you cannot even see them form afar when fighting :/

Dear Dev’s there’s a lot speculation about the effort and the outcome here..
I think we all would be very pleased to hear it from you:
1) Is it possible?
2) Is it doable without too much effort?
3) Could you think about making it?

The want in the community is clearly there. And as already mentioned a minority of players browses the forums so there are supposingly even more ingame-only players that would also love to give a character a second chance.

Best regards

+1 Race change

Do it.. and do it soon.. please ó.o

I did learn them, yes all of them.

I cannot play any song on my flute.

If i press one key (1, 2 or 3) the skill-icon keeps blinking for some seconds in which I’m not able to play any other note.

Even if i’m patient enough to wait for each note to be fully played i cannot complete the song (tested it by standing next to a bomb-location while playing the 1-2-3 1-2-3 “moto-secret-song”)

I got my achievements thanks to some great friends but latest for the next world I’d hope to have this fixed.
Don’t know if it’s the same issue but I also get those symptoms at the pipes in Ebonhawk.

Gilburt.9146:

These are the 3 items I would most like to see added to the gem store:

Race Change DNA Manipulator Kit
-Cost: 800 gems
-What it does: Changes the player’s race to one of the other 4 and resets their personal storyline. This does not affect the player’s level or gear (except cultural armor, which will not be wearable until transmuted to a different skin). Players will not get rewards for storyline steps that have previously been completed. The Race Change DNA Manipulator Kit has a single use.
-Why it’s necessary: Some players have put a lot of effort into a character but may not be satisfied with their storyline/appearance (etc.). Why require them to start from scratch when you can profit from giving them this reasonable convenience.

Basically this. I really would like to transfer some of my characters to asura..
If not this at least a instant-lvl-80 item.

Why? Some people may like leveling, i personally did the first 2 times. Now after the 5th charakter it’s just utmost annoying and I think many people feel the same or at least a similar way.
(natural leveling supplies you with gear and drops, so it would still be an advance. But also there would be a good solution for the endgame-players. And really it doesn’t matter if the char is instant-80 or you have to spend 2 days leveling professions regarding fairness. It’s just less annoying.)

Generally: The Race-Change would be really really great!!! Thanks to Gilburt for suggesting it

I’m still having the same issues though it works properly after 1 to 2 restarts that is not how it should work ^^

I really really love the Dance-Book, though i found something to be annoying:

Switching dances or inviting people to dance causes the weapon to be drawn for a moment which leads to the displaying of visual boon-effects like the blue energy-shield of “aegis” (As an saurian guardian I am really upset when a shield blocks nearly the whole of my charakter)

Also I would really love the adressed emote-panel for a lot easier use of emotes

Issue mostly concerning the Gem-Store-Item "How to Dance, Volume I)

If I decide to invite someone to dance or to switch the dance the visual effect of boons (e.g. “aegis”) pops up.

Possible solutions:
- Using a skill draws the toy? -> Make the dance-change-skills instant (as e.g. the mesmer-portal) -> no weapon/toy drawn
- Generally disable visual effects of boons while dancing/wearing town-clothes

Especially as a asurean guardian i really would like this to happen as the effect of “aegis” covers my whole character (though a shuffling asura just looks awesome)

Nayaru.4716:

For everyone having problems joining dungeons. If you get no prompt at all just re join the party. I haven’t seen relogging fix this any time.

If you get the prompt but nothing happens try guesting to ANY server. Doesn’t have to be the server of the person who started it, just the act of guesting seems to clear that. Changing maps works too but not every time.

Works for me sometimes but sometimes the window still keeps disappearing after klicking “join”.
I had similar problems with groups and instances but since the last update it became even worse :/