Guild Wars 2

Both I and my partner were also VERY disappointed in the dungeon as a final battle, and in particular the design of the dungeon.

We first tried it with a party of four 80s (two warriors, one ranger, one support elementalist) and one 19 (guardian). The 80s had rare or better weaponry, but of course the 19 had masterwork at best. The final battle was simply not winnable – we didn’t have enough DPS to get the flying armored turtle dead. After an hour of trying, the 19 graciously left and we replaced him with an 80 necro with exotic to legendary gear, and the the bosses went down without much difficulty. The bull did kill one of the party who just couldn’t get underneath him fast enough. All in all, we spent 3.5 hours in that dungeon, and nobody came out happy or cheering. It’s just so lame that dungeon success depends on party gear level – especially in a highly touted “living story” event.

Having a dungeon whose completion REQUIRES everyone use ranged weapons AND everyone have high level gear is just bad game design. It will surely frustrate low-level players who don’t yet have the skills and equipment to survive. If you’re going to be exclusive in a storyline conclusion, players should be warned.

You really need to post a warning like this on the storyline:

“WARNING: Only skillful adventurers with rare or better ranged fighting weapons can complete the story. All others cannot expect to survive the ‘molten core weapons testing facility,’ and therefore cannot reach the conclusion.”

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