I posted here a few levels ago, but finally got the winged set… now if only I could decide on a colour scheme lol… I stitched multiple cropped screenies together so I apologize for it not being a pretty job… just a quick Paint job :P
Preview gear and weapons on the trading post. Ever since the trading post has come up I’ve been browsing it often for upgrades, but right now it is very difficult to predict how gear or weapons will render based solely on the icon.
I’ve been using staff/sword-pistol in PVE-main map mostly. I switch out the sword-pistol in dungeons and near bosses generally though to a scepter combo or gsword… I find being ranged in those scenarios provides me with more survivability o.o
I have tried the seed turret and healing turret and not found them terribly useful as of yet, but I’m definitely liking the fern mastiff. It helps me out of sticky situations, is more durable than my illusions and does reasonable damage.
Ok, so I was working on “Down the Hatch” and everything seemed to be working properly, a little challenging, I died a few times, but nothing strange. Then I noticed [spoiler]the last batch of pirates (after you save Demmi and before you leave that instance) were not only near a turret that hits hard (ok, more of a challenge I guess) but [/spoiler]the pirates were consistently regenerating health REALLY often. It took me several tries to kill them all and progress with my quest. I don’t think they should have been regen-ing like that, seemed kind of like a reset but I was within range. I was playing a mesmer so maybe this only happens with ranged characters but please look into this, it’s a little ridiculous!
I played a mesmer for this quest. At level 30 I was failing pretty badly. So I waited until level 32 and a couple of karma gear upgrades before going back in. I barely killed him. I was dreading the face-off and let my npc followers regain full health after tackling each group. Then I focused on only damaging him, basically playing the tank for the npcs so they'd last longer. When the adds came I mostly ignored them, and then realized I was doing what Cai said… “Try not to waste any time on anything else” or something to that effect. I died once and for some reason his health didn’t reset, maybe an npc was still attacking him but I just ran in, hacked away again, and squeezed the last bit of hp out of him while in a downed state.
I think another thing that might help is making sure none of your utilities will be wasted or inappropriate for how you plan to tackle this guy. You don’t do any condition damage with Caladboge for example. I went for passives/defensive illusion on my successful attempt.
I see the “Defend the merchant caravan” event is still bugged in Gendarran Fields. I sent a bug report a couple of days ago on this. Hope it gets fixed soon!
