Guild Wars 2

I feel your pain. Totally. I’m on that part of the story where you have to jump off the ledge to hit the updraft to continue after your buddies. I’ve been at it an hour now, tried running and holding spacebar from both ledges, different times, and my friend says she sees me go right through it, but all I see is that it doesn’t deploy until I’m well below the updraft. Quite disappointing as I only preordered specifically to come back to the game to play with my son and friends. OP, did you ever get past that part of the story, and if so, how? Thanks

points to the half a dozen or so other threads talking about the same thing. It’s the latest patch. They’re aware, they’ve tweeted that they’re working on it as well as posted it here.

I’m actually proud to say I’m a 44 y/o woman with 2 grown kids (well, one is in college, the other is 16 and in college prep school, so yeah they’re grown). I’m a launch day player, but the person that bought me this game so we could “hide from all things Blizz” decided soon after that because I wouldn’t totally leave WoW, we didn’t need to be friends anymore. So I left the game and only recently returned, but I do have 278 total hours across 1,146 days.
So I guess I’m still a “noob” at the game but not a real life one

After recently returning to the game, I rolled a mesmer, and earlier tonight, I was leveling up and knew it was almost time for Shadow Behemoth, but I was only level 17, and my bff and guildie told me not even bother with it until I was 80. Some very nice guy appeared in map chat and offered to help new/low level players through their first world boss encounter. I waypointed to him at the garrison, and told him I wasn’t new, but I’d actually never done SB, and especially not “at current level.” Everything was fine, it was a training lesson he and his guild provide on a weekly basis to new/lower level players.

He had a blue commander tag, and pretty much told us to stick with him, and told us to expect to die a lot. He explained the fight, and as a veteran WoW raider, it seemed pretty simple considering some crazy mechanics I’ve seen in other games. Bear in mind I’d never seen the SB up close and live before tonight.

So the others are doing the pre, and the portals spawn, and I’m happily tromping around behind that blue tag, with the rest of the newbies/low levels, and then out popped SB. That thing is HUGE, and apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought so, because /say exploded and there were about 10 of us or so that just ran away to where the others were.

He was trying to tell us to come back, but nope, I was safe hidden among many level 80’s and didn’t even die or come close to it. The ranger I noticed, was running around shooting everything in sight and just in a tizzy.

Suddenly we both stopped and at the same time went “Why are we panicking? This isn’t even hard”.

Then he hit phase 2. I completely lost sight of both commanders, and all I kept seeing was “Everyone in” and at that point the ranger and I were back to full fledged panic and just running around slicing and shooting whatever we could, because something was hitting me, but I had no idea what it was.

Then SB was just dead like that snap. The rest of the group went on to the next boss, and myself and the ranger thanked the guy and I quietly wp’ed out, embarrassed that I had acted like a complete noob and feeling stupid that I was acting the same way I did in my very first wow raid ever back in Karazhan.

I was embarrassed, but it was pretty awesome to know that the community is still as great as when I had to take an unfortunate leave before.