Post your hardest Hard mode experiences!

I want to hear your HM horror stories! Those moments the whole radar seemed to be made of red spots, or when you met that ele boss that one hitted 4 party members at once! I want to hear it all! Success isn't needed, as long as the story is exciting enough (or scary for that matter!).

Hmm what about a inferno imp who saw my 7 piled up casters with full live and took 3 seconds to wipe them all out?

Yes my henchies had some DP and as it seems from reading the update notes they still had lvl 15 armor.

Ìncase youre wondering, the imp used Incendairy Bounds and Rodgort's Invocation right after each other making the dmg of those spells almost simultaniously.

I went and gave hard mode a shot on the first mission in chapter one, I was on my monk, we had a ele, a ranger and a warrior as well, all level 20. Now, there was nothing wrong with the ele or ranger, but the warrior, he was really dense, he was using FRENZY the whole time! Thankfully enough the ranger had shield of regeneration with her, so I had a bit less stress, but he did die once-_-

i was vanquishing mirror of lyss yesterday
when i arrived at the last mob (i think) consist of a mesmer boss (e-surge) most of the henchies and heroes were having 60dp already
and suddenly bam! 5 of them owned by 200dmg e-surge in a single shot
i could do nothing but to press the "Return to outpost" button

Mirror of Lyss
Ruby Djinn uses Searing Flames 3 times in a row, hench wipe out. One Hero survived - MM. sucked. Restarted.
Tried second time, killed one mob with Ruby Djinn mob.
Shezel Snowreaper Mob caused wipe out then.

Getting backbreaker chained by Grawl in old ascalon was pretty awesome imo. They wiped me.

Lol not only did I get whipped out by a party of 4 grawl, 2 hammers and 2 monks, but so did the NPC Protector guy who is outside the Sanatarium.

I guess NPC's will need a boost just to survive as well.

Also I heard stories of NPC's dying in missions also. NO ONE IS SAFE FROM HARD MODE!!

Otherwise its fun. Haven;t bashed my mouse on the desk since Gates of Madness back in November.

well more of a frustration story here.....was going thru the undead outside of hotsprings and totally cleard the area except for 6 mobs i couldn't find....found them close to one of the other zones.....2 monks, 2 mesmers and 2 warriors....we had already picked up a bit of DP so wasn't at full strenght...couldn't finish them off....grrrr

2 times killed 230+ mobs in sulfurous wastes and i get owned by last grp of undead with necro boss, that whipes my whole party in few sec... and then my friend does it with 7 ppl by lureing them at his heroes in wurms and kills them all...

well i've never had it this bad in a good while, I decided to try a vanquish somewhere, I wanted to wurmpwn so I chose Sulfurous wastes.

Everything went fine, took a bit longer since i avoided some mobs to get the hunt for them first, anyway, lastly I take out the necro uberboss up in the north, thinking that's the last of em.

errr, no.....check the pic

click here for ultimate LAMENESS

So it turns out i had to Jundu smash a friggin pillar to GET there, and I killed everything allready!!! no Ardenaline possible!!!!


3 friggin monsters......ARGH!!!

2 human Warriors + 2 hero monks vs. Grawl Ulodyte, Grawl + some Grawl monk boss. Oh the horror. We eventually made them split up so the warriors could tank the ulodyte and the grawl and monks wanded the monk boss. The ulodyte went down, with the grawl, and after a good while of spanking so did the monk boss... Area vanquished!

I tried some other area too but that was short lived since charr eles drop meteor showers...

trying to farm the deep

Monking the first few missions in Tyria, and getting [skill]Power block[/skill]ed freaked me out. Especially when your party size is 4 and you're the only Monk. And the 4 second knockdown of [skill]backbreaker[/skill] was kinda cool to experience too.

Anyone tried DoA on hard mode yet?
My worst experience was when I decided to try Sunqua Vale in Hard Mode.
Those damn Mantids spam Shield of Regeneration

Vanquished all of Jahai Bluffs......except for the little tower in the middle.

Got up the urge to tackle it......and that Damn Avatar of Balth wiped our minion wall first swipe, then tore us up 3 at a time. 4 Meteor Showers hardly did a thing to him.

Lina getting KO'ed in 1 hit from sanddrake using earth quake

My guild and I completed a 4 Area DOA run last night. Boy, those 8 Titan Gems for each player at the end were nice. Karlos posted a screenshot we took at the end in the Elonian forum. We completed the run in 7.5 hrs. Normally our 4 area DOA runs take 6-6.5 hrs. I was tanking and there were two particular areas we had trouble with:
1. The speed buff the margonites get caused me to keep letting them leak thru the door into the city on the last few mobs. Once I realized what was going on, it wasn't too tough to fix.
2. At the end of Foundry, the Fury was particularly difficult. Our usual strategy eventually worked, but it was tough. When not under SB or Obsid protection, the mesmers were shattering my enchantments for nearly 400 damage, thru Life Barier, Life Bond, Stone Flesh Aura and Armor of Earth. I'd hate to see what the actual damage was before the buffs.

We would have completed in just under 7 hours is not for that little mess.

vizunah square = not even funny!

i tried 3 times and both teams got wiped in the first room. hell, my team was dead before the other team even made it down to the first room. togo tanked the ele boss rather nicely though, to my surprise. the other team managed to kill the ele boss and my team was resurrected after the cut scene...but then we got completely wiped by the 65416541 afflicted soul explosions of doom.

embarrassing tbh XD

Nolani Academy...

Everything was going smoothly, I had completed the bonus objective, got to the stormcaller with Rurik....then it hit me:

Rurik really likes to aggro on this part.

I followed him down, and he immediately aggroes about 12 charr at once, including a monk boss. Within just a few seconds my entire party was wiped and there stood Rurik in the middle of his mob swinging his stupid firey dragon sword around like the inept leader he is...

Vote AGAINST Rurik in '08!

A guildie and I decided to try the "open the door" HM edition. We got wiped several times before we came up with a plan that worked. Sadly, we got to exactly the same spot you did and got wiped by the army of Charr who seemed to materialize out of thin air. What a pleasant surprise :/