Guild Wars 2

One more attempt at focusing Slick. Of course, we lose.

Wrong! Slick just goes into rage mode, shoots the oil out faster, and generally is just more of a jerk than before. We lose again..but at least we got one of them..

Wait…she’s back?! What?! No…no no no!!!..no..no…

We managed to get another and jump back into the fray, once again trying to keep the pressure on Sparki…and against all odds, we break her stupid looking suit. We actually made progress! Surely things will get easier now right?

I have to give credit where credit is due. The rest of the party hung on with me through all of this, even through all of the deaths and awful gimmicks. But while their patience held out, one of our team had to leave for other obligations.

So, new plan. Focus down Sparki instead, maybe we’ll get somewhere with this..

Oh, who are we kidding?

Of course the game remembers I exist and warps me in eventually…after everyone else is dead! Of course, another death.

Bugs? Why fix those? Then again, that one feels like it was left in on purpose…

Ooooh, a glitch! Right after that wipe, everyone respawned inside the arena except for me. Not sure how it happened…but there it is. So much for beta testing, right?

Okay. Try to pay attention to the random ooze attraction more..Or we could just die again…..

And again.. I don’t know anymore..

Okay, maybe a little talking and a bit of cooldown will solve this.

Or we’ll just get broken and burned again.

C’mon, this should work! Why is it not?!

Third time’s the charm…right?

And then it falls apart. But, we did a lot of damage. Next time, we’ll get him..I hope.

Round 2. Focus…I can do this…

Sigh..well, shouldn’t have expected the initial attempt to go well. Again!

Time to suffer. At least my favorite music in this game is playing right now. Maybe it’ll help me?

I still laugh a little at them running…can’t blame them. Well, let’s see if I’m up to it this time.

Thankfully a little stacking and line-of-sighting still works wonders on the rest of them, just like everything else.

And we get choked by a little too much trash.

Note to whoever is responsible for the dungeons: Stop putting silver veterans in them! They’re not fun to fight, ever. Ever since the champion loot drops, I’m willing to guess that silver veterans have probably taken their place as the most hated enemy rank now.

The only new enemy so far amongst the trash, and it just exists to summon more trash. Sigh.

And that happens again, and again, and again until we finally get lucky for once. Took only 33 minutes this time. I still hate it.

Don’t you just love it when you’re close, then 2 or 3 more lava elementals spawn nearby and chain immobilize the ooze to death? Apparently whoever designed this did.

The worst escort puzzle I’ve ever seen. This shouldn’t have ever been done.

“Hahaha, we’re clearly evil!”

Same old poison plants, again..

Third time’s the charm, right?

They probably won’t. But they should.

Charak.9761:

Nilkemia.8507:

Apparently yes. So much for avoiding the Dream/Nightmare dichotomy, eh Scarlet?

actually the aetherblades fight the nightmare wurms part way in the dungeon

The short story clearly says they’re working with, or have a deal with the Nightmare Court, allowing them to be in Twilight Arbor. Those wurms were probably either given to them or just left there by the Nightmare Court. Along with the pups they decided to burn..

Ok, so Caithe didn’t get turned evil right? She made it out of there just fine right?!

Parisalchuk.9230:

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

You’re probably right..which makes me die inside a little.

CHIPS.6018:

Scarlet: Caithe got a boyfriend! Caithe got a boyfriend!
Faolain: LOLWUT???

Shut up! Don’t give them ideas!

If it’s another stupid retcon like Eir suddenly having a son outta nowhere, then as far as I’m concerned, the Living Story should be retconned out of existence.

Alizianne.4058:

It’s not about Faolain. Scarlet says in one of the dungeon’s cutscenes that she knows something about Caithe that even Faolain doesn’t know. Then she adds “Should I start calling you dearheart?” and giggles a bunch.

Well, sorry. I didn’t know that, because I never got past Sparki and Slick, and there’s no video showing the story for that path except for the little preview they gave us which barely showed anything. Forgive me for failing too much..

Sigh. Hooray for the Random/Already Dying Story.

Looks neat to me. As long as there’s no Scarlet. However, I doubt they’ll do it justice.

Hmm. They look okay. Still, doesn’t really give off an “ascended” vibe to me. They look more like armor sets for a new dungeon.

Despite his champion rank when you target him, the Unseen Hunter’s defense is utter garbage, meaning a character that doesn’t rely on condition damage can still hurt him quite a bit. (I’ve seen my characters hitting around 1000 damage per hit on him sometimes.)

A good way to protect the remaining three Wyld Hunt is to watch for the Unseen Hunter approaching from the east when he proclaims “No escape”. If you engage him quick enough, you can keep him from the Wyld Hunt members and prevent the chance of him killing them.

Of course, you must be wary, since he hits pretty hard and has a twirling shadowstep, but has no range attacks, so ranged kiting works here. The only really annoying thing is his utter immunity to conditions. He’s the only boss I’ve seen that has this, but it once again just makes conditions seem kind of pointless.

LameFox.6349:

-Explode before loading in.
-Be summons.
-Scale. Ever.
-Exist.

About time we got at least one of these options. They are not designed to work in an online game.

Plus one.

Well, the new path is out now. do we actually learn anything interesting about Caithe or no?

Apparently yes. So much for avoiding the Dream/Nightmare dichotomy, eh Scarlet?

Guesstori.8072:

Nilkemia.8507:

Wait…Caithe got captured and we didn’t save her?! :o

Yeah before the electronic platform room , she was taken hostage and wasn’t killed on sight on order of Scarlet ( we rescued her after the last boss is defeated ) so I wonder why she was only taken and not killed.

Oh, ok…so we do save her and she isn’t teleported away to some unknown place for Scarlet to dissect…thank you..

Well, like I said, it probably involves Faolain, or something between her and Faolain, or something they did together. Since she’s working with the Court now (funny how her original motivation was not to choose Dream or Nightmare, yet she’s clearly Nightmare by this point), part of their deal might be capturing her alive to take to Faolain so they can try to break her into nightmare. The whole “secret” thing was just a way to get Caithe to even come to the dungeon, taking advantage of her solitary nature to get her easily, since she didn’t just travel with us.

Part of me worries they’ll just make something stupid out of thin air to be the “secret” though.

Wait…Caithe got captured and we didn’t save her?! :o

Well, I’m guessing it’ll be involving Faolain, since the short story for Twilight Assault says that she got the Nightmare Court to let her run some of the place.

As for Caithe’s secret, it probably again involves Faolain, since she’s been the only one intimate enough with Caithe to know her secrets. Hopefully it has a point and doesn’t turn out to be an awful retcon out of nowhere, like they did with Eir..

They’re just…around, but at the same time, there’s no point. They don’t even help with other things going on now, just sitting around with no more emissaries to escort. Did Queen Jennah just forget to recall them?

ilr.9675:

Nilkemia.8507:

it seems that the level of coordination required for this path is utterly PUG-unfriendly.

…just like the Path it replaced.

Hey, atleast they’re consistent, right?

No. They replaced it with something even worse.

Better yet, blow up the entire path and bring back the old one. Better a path with only the last boss being a pain rather than a path where everything is a pain.

Everyone had to leave after that, for whatever things they had to do, or simply because that path was utter torment for them. I can’t blame them. Three hours wasted on 2 attempts and nothing to show for it all other than more pain, more sadness, more reviling my weakness, and a slight contempt for the Living Story blooming into hatred.

Apparently they didn’t learn a thing, besides how to make more annoying gimmicks that rely on coordination (that P.U.Gs simply won’t have) and an insane amount of luck.

I’m still planning for a third attempt, but…I have little hope for success now. Forgive me Caithe, I’m not strong enough….

We manage to get more (again) and try to focus Sparki down first. And that’s the furthest we got.

And it gets worse! If someone decides to mosey on into the boss room again after wiping, the whole team is warped in and locked inside with no prompt or warning whatsoever.

At least with the Frizz fight, you had to talk to Kiel to prompt it to happen first, so you couldn’t do it by accident, or have someone troll the group by doing that.

How is it that they’ve managed to add even more bad gimmicks and at the same time forget the few things they did right?!

And of course another death!

Oh whoops, did I say one quit? I meant two.

Another wipe, another quits. Did some damage this time. Maybe we’ll get it…maybe.

And people start leaving. It just starts falling apart here.