Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to chime in to say that I had the same difficulties (and frustrations) others are experiencing. (59th level Guardian)

Even though it seems that there are workarounds, something doesn’t seem quite right. Each time I tried it I had different issues.

1st Time) Pathing on Allies worked but “Clear the Courtyard” section was impossible. Fairly quickly it was tons of reds to just a few greens. Packs of really fast mobs killing me in no time and overwhelming my allies. Not possible to revive them, I’d die too fast. I had a phone call and hung out in safety at the gate. After about 30+ min on the phone somehow (I wouldn’t have thought possible), the endless entry of new npcs finally whittled them down and I was able to succeed. As an experiment, I exited and tried again.
2nd Time) Pathing problems with the ally with the device to go into the tower (would not move) casued me to have to exit and restart.
3rd Time) Pathing with one of my gold allies kept him from moving with me but I was able to succeed by securing all the points on the wall and immediately making a beeline for one of those crazy acolytes that summon. As others have said they are the key. Was able to bring the first one down since all my allies were still up and move onto the next. Once they were gone as others have said, it seems to be do-able. Still, this could be yet another variation of a “buggy” mission and perhaps next time it would have not worked.