Curse

keithmcm · Jan 11, 2008, 02:14 PM // 14:14

I have found this dungeon to be a breeze, until......
Attempting to kill the end boss. doesn't matter which. I'm an ele and usually just nuke. MMs are a big help getting through the dungeon, so i take 1 or even 2. I typically take Livia (mm), Vekk (nuker) and Dunkoro (heal) plus Eve, Mhenlo, Talon, and I've tried various henchies for last spot. I get to the end room with everyone =10%. Clearing out the others goes well. But regardless of which end boss, killing him proves impossible. He clobbers us. He regenerates health so fast, we can never get him below 30%. What spells actually kill this thing? any guidance would be appreciated. Last time I went with a paragon friend who used Gwen with 3 interrupts, but results were exactly the same. Thanks all in advance for the help.

bifter · Jan 11, 2008, 03:20 PM // 15:20

I henched this in both NM and HM, I remember finding the end boss (mesmer both time) an eye-opener in NM and had a few party wipes before bringing him down. Strangely, in HM he was a breeze - I guess I kind of aggro-locked him (ie lured him as far as he was prepared to come - another step and he'd head back to his start point), and ended up with the asura NPC (mesmer!) tanking him, and beat him down with no deaths. He only wanded - didn't use a single spell. It was pretty strange, and I can only think that it was some sort of glitch, that you might be able to reproduce.

If you can't reproduce it, then yeah - you have a problem with 2 MMs on your team when it comes to dealing with a powerful end boss. Basically you have a 6 man party. I would try to tweak the hero builds so they have some utility for this battle (both with PS maybe? a spammable death magic or soul reaping based attack spell? You'd probably get use by giving one signet of sorrow and letting the other die next to the boss

) The mesmer endboss uses e-surge, which is never fun in HM, so fan right out and use pain inverter. Pack your team with interrupts, anti-caster hexes and maybe some degen and hopefully you'll see it through.

tekDragon · Jan 11, 2008, 03:23 PM // 15:23

I've always had an easier time against the Mesmer boss. He casts E-Surge so pain inverter works well on him if I recall. The Rit boss uses spirit rift so ditto on the pain inverter.

Dungeon is easy enough to hench in HM so it's probably a matter of the builds you're brining.

mazey vorstagg · Jan 11, 2008, 03:23 PM // 15:23

I agree about HM, he didn't seem to kill anyone. As for NM I played for the yellows so I had a different boss. I suggest backfire if he spams.

The Meth · Jan 11, 2008, 03:35 PM // 15:35

1. Take BHA ranger and at least 1 MM.
2. ?????
3. Profit

Also, if you aren't doing this make sure are pulling the groups apart and face the majority of the enemies without the boss. I don't remember the specifics, but the boss should have 1 or 2 enemies attached to him if at all. You either have to pull very far or just keep your MM back, because when 1 group gets hurt a healer from another group can come in from rather far away to heal them, in which case if you have minions mixing it up you aggro the whole room 15 seconds later.

tekDragon · Jan 11, 2008, 03:48 PM // 15:48

BHA solves NM, but HM end bosses in GWEN are immune.

Jaceb · Jan 11, 2008, 03:48 PM // 15:48

Interesting. The Ritualist boss was rather passive on HM with his spammage, on NM we were constantly dodging the rifts from left to right the entire fight. Now for the OP that mesmer boss would like to meet Mr. Pain Inverter if you have access to it though it's not needed but mesmer bosses usually pack an AoE of some sort so you should spread out your group.

His Energy Surge deals alot of damage when everyone is hit by it. Though a person with decent amount of DP is pretty much one-shot, even if it just hits him. That's his most powerfull nuke besides the Power Spike that's nasty too - bye bye monk

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When i was trying to get to mesmer boss we were owned by the Patriach & 2-3 Paragon and one melee, yeah!. The more we nuked the more they kept on spamming. It was like .. come on. I think we kept on fighting against them like 5 minutes before we gave up. We only forgot one skill, Vocal Minority - that would have been cool but then we did the ritualist instead :P.

bifter · Jan 11, 2008, 04:00 PM // 16:00

Yeah, one of the last mobs before the end boss is fairly harsh in HM, and it is definitely because it is packed with paragons. I was relying on minions and SS for most damage, and usually trying to gank the rits (including patriarch) with pain inverter. Naturally the constantly spammed hex breaker aria saw the end of that plan. I actually DP'd out at that group on my first exploratory trip in HM, but just overpowered them the second time through.