Guild Wars 2

I would consider myself more than a casual player. I have beaten all the dungeons before this on both story and explore. They are difficult but not too the point of frustration that this one boss has caused.

I had 3 level 80’s with me that had finished it on explore and they gave up after dying so much. I don’t understand how this is the case if this boss in explore is even harder.
Yes I’ve tried that. I have literally tried every different tactic with many different parties.
I know it is is possible but my point is it’s just not good design, it’s a chore, it’s irritating and frustrating. That is a design failure in my eyes. And I know so many people that just couldn’t be bothered running the dungeon in story because they just got so sick of it.
Thanks for trying to help though.

Yes he is. There is a design flaw in a game when something is “a pain”
I have yet to speak to someone who doesn’t believe this boss should be addressed.

It’s story mode. It is the exact boss you mentioned above.

I know all the tactics for him.
There is, however, a point when something is so tedious and difficult that it drains any fun out of your playtime. This boss is that. It should not be the way it is.

As the title says fix it. It is in no way fun. It’s not just challenging, it’s broken. Sure it’s possible after you die about 30 times or if you have all professions with a skill that can block projectiles (which is nearly impossible to get anyway).

This is not fun, most parties just leave after continuously dying over and over.
How any of the devs thought this was in any way a good experience is beyond me.

There is a reason nobody goes to this dungeon.

I got a response from support and he said “I have reviewed the data you provided and I am afraid I was unable to locate anything which would explain your crashing issue. However, what I would like to do now is see if actually running the game is changing any of your settings. Due to power saving options, running these diagnostic tools outside of the game (meaning it’s not running) will often affect the results because the computer isn’t under load.” Basically they don’t know what’s wrong. I’m going to try to see if it’s a problem with my ram or mobo

No I have GeIL RAM DDR3

I’m having the exact same problem. I also cannot do the fixes people are posting, I just don’t know enough about computers to even atempt it and I’m sure there are more people in the same boat. Anet get it together and fix this please. From reading all this it seems to be the problem with how the game communicates with RAM, putting it in simple terms

—> Crash <—
Assertion: A file was corrupted in the archive. Please run once with ‘-repair’!
File: ..\..\..\Game\Main\MainCli.cpp(572)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4124
Cmdline: -allowInstall -isRelaunch
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15477
When: 2012-09-12T00:34:40Z 2012-09-12T01:34:40+01:00
Uptime: 0 days 3:49:24
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