Guild Wars 2

Racthoh.8703:

Save your endurance for the white flash and not the pull in that he does before it. You can also use line of sight.

We try to do this. Sometimes the only option for avoiding a red circle is to dodge. Also, we have all noticed that sometimes he does not do the pull before flashing, or that sometimes he flashes so quickly after the pull that you are still in the “stunned” state and cannot dodge. We also have tried to LoS the boss but as he still attempts to close to melee distance usually only 1 or 2 ppl can LoS him. Also, since he reflects projectiles about 50% of the time in this phase it means your DPS is going to be very low. I also think that the penalty for failing to dodge one VERY FAST attack is far too severe in this case.

I would really like to hear someone’s sound strategy for the final boss of Cliffside at fractal level 20 or higher. Specifically my problem is with the 75-50% phase where the boss uses a combination of agony-applying Necro circles and the “white flash” agony attack. Above 20 you cannot remain in the room with the seal as powerful adds continuously spawn (tested and CONFIRMED this on 12-10-12 at 4PM PST). Dragging him into the narrow room on the right negates the issue with the adds, but avoiding both the red circles and the flash becomes extremely difficult. Every player in my party has 15 agony resist, but failing to dodge one white flash will almost always cause a down. Normally a downed player can be revived quickly by your team, but in this case the boss almost always follows his flash by conjuring red circles. Usually this negates any ability to revive as standing in the circle to revive someone can kill you, and a downed player taking one agony hit will most assuredly be defeated (usually they will take 3-4 agony hits while downed as they are incapable of moving.)

If anyone has an actual strategy that works for this fight above 20 please let me know. If you have a strategy that doesn’t rely on having a guardian, that would be even better.

Other than that all I can say is this encounter above 20 feels broken and untested. There is no other encounter in this game that comes anywhere close to the 75-50% phase of this fight. The people I have been running fractals with since they were put into the game are at the point of never wanting to run 20+ again due to the nature of this one encounter.

I would gladly pay $5 to redesign my character from race on. Not re-do anything that changes the personal story just appearance.