Guild Wars 2

I think the Rytlock/Majory thing needs to be put in the bugs forum. No, they don’t do as much DPS as you might, but they are crucial to tanking the adds enough so you can focus more on the boss. It’s more work YOU have to do, since the adds aren’t exactly slouches (they can hit for a decent amount and can overwhelm you if you leave them alone for long).

The bloodstone mechanic isn’t too hard to do…once you realize the way you should do it. I do agree that this isn’t communicated well that putting the enemy in between you and the stone is how the game is wanting you to do this, basically because any other time, the bloodstone mechanic appears to work by you getting right up into the enemy’s face for it to register hits with it. Maybe the reflecting mechanic is how they communicated it, but why didn’t it just use the term “reflect”?

The other thing: does anyone else see the window that it gives you between when you see the AoE range of her knockdown attack (the cone indicator, not the circle one; the latter is okay) being extremely tight? I swear I only got a half second window between when the game indicated the AoE range of it and when she did the move. It’s a nasty knockdown that you probably should do whatever you have to do to evade, and if you had the NPCs working as intended, you could have a better time trying to dodge this. But it’s a split second chance for you to dodge roll or evade move this (I think I’ve times this at around a second, if that), and I’ve heard some classes have an easier time dodging this than others. But is anyone else finding it too tight of a time window to dodge this attack?

This might have been answered already, but on some of the mastery tooltips, it says “Requirement Heart of Thorns: #”. Though I could guess what this might mean, it’s not completely clear as to what this is talking about.

It has me slightly confused. Does the number mean the part number that is listed in the story tab of the Hero panel requires that mastery to progress through it, or does each step of the progression of each story instance have a number to it in which that number in the mastery tooltip refers to (hope that made sense)?

Was wondering because I’ve reached a point in the story in which I think I might need a mastery to continue, but the tooltip for the mastery in question states “Requirement: Heart of Thorns 10”. Not sure what the HoT 10 refers to, but it seems like I can’t progress in the instance I’m working on (part 5) without it. So I’m lost on this aspect.

And it might help if it was a bit clearer what this actually refers to so stupid people like me don’t get confused by it.