Guild Wars 2

So I tried to do this quest 6 times last night (stopped after 3, repaired equipment and started over)

Things I noticed;

If you wipe and choose “restart from checkpoint” you run back into the courtyard and all the NPC’s are still dead, yet the mobs are still in full force. So restarting from checkpoint is almost entirely useless.

I didn’t notice this the first 3 attempts, but when I came back fresh on the 4th attempt I had all NPC’s alive and well, huge group of us run into the courtyard and were doing good, taking out a couple groups of mobs. Then all at once (with no red circle notification anywhere) ALL of us instant down. All the named NPC’s and non named NPC’s my character (mesmer) and my girlfriends character (guardian) instantly dead and had maybe half a second of downed time before finished off.

So I checked the combat log. Hit by Unknown with Explode for 6000+ damage. Couple more of the same thing in a row, all of them in the thousands.

Restarted from checkpoint, went back in fought for a bit and kaboom dead again. Same Unknown/explode/tons of damage thing going on.

So maybe the mob level isn’t the main problem? Anyone else notice this?