Guild Wars 2

Straylight.7408:

I’ve had no problems killing Doc Howler on my Level 10 thief by making extensive use of the bleeding condition through dual-dagger death-blossom and the caltrops utility skill followed by “roll for initiative” for even more death-blossoming goodness.

I did the exact same thing.

This is one of the most gratifying threads I’ve read on these forums.

I quit playing this game for about a month and a half because of Trahearne. At first I didn’t mind him even though there are many valid points about how he takes over, has terrible voice acting, and his AI is terrible. I was willing to let these things go.

But then came “Forging The Pact” where I have to go ask all the leaders what they think about Trahearne being the Marshall. It was fine, they had their reservations due to his experience and what would happen to the pact if he should die. Completely valid concerns. And then comes the part that me made stop playing, a priory scholar comes and says his buddies need rescuing. I’m thinking, cool, I’ll have to go save them since I appear to be the arm of the Marshall. What does Trahearne do? Comes with me. What? That’s not what leaders do. Send me, man! I can do it. Plus, I just told you these guys are worried what might happen if you die. Ok. You’re going to come anyway? Fine.

So I swallow the stupidity and go do the quest. It’s bugged. I do it again a few days later, having to endure the same stupidity. Still bugged. Do it AGAIN a few days later and make it through. The whole section felt like Trahearne was making the wrong decisions on what we should do. How can I follow this guy now? He’s a terrible leader. How can I convince others to follow him?

I didn’t rage quit the game at this point. I still played it. I just avoided doing the personal story. I talked to my friends about how dumb I thought that part was and how that section showed he’d be a terrible leader. Then I eventually talked myself out of playing the game. I couldn’t bear to log in to listen to this wooden goof “lead” me.

When I came back I got my main, an Engineer, the last few levels to 80 but I’ve done none of the personal story. I started up a Thief who is level 63 and I’m just past “Clawr Risland”. It is soooo painful and I dread when I get to Forging the Pact. Absolutely dread it. I will trudge through it though with my Thief, but my Engineer will stay blissfully unaware.

I even have a Sylvari Mesmer who I did the earlier stuff about Trahearne and that made me like him even less. If there was ever a story option to betray Trahearne I would do it in a heartbeat.

I loved the Tybalt character. If he had rose above his lack of confidence to become a great leader and warrior I would be praising this game instead of berating it. Instead he goes the whole unnecessary self sacrifice route which totally made no sense since we could have closed the gate without him being on the other side and still gotten away.