I've sharpened my swords,
readying my scepter, polishing my staff, but to be honest I think
nothing can prepare you on the first run on Guild Wars 2 dungeons,
below I put on some words of my (cursing) time with them :D
The Hell and Heaven
Runs on Story Mode
Welcome to Ascalonian
Catacombs, where every Ascalonian dead elite fighters are still
thinking that they're alive and everything that walks in two legs are
charrs, AC is the lvl 30 dungeon located in Plain of Ashford, Charr's
starting area, this is my first dungeon, tried the story mode a week
after Guild Wars 2 release (still a cute lvl 27 at that time) but
it's apparently bugged so we tried again on the next week.
The mobs are all ghosts,
and they're nasty, when you have a party on minimal level prepare to
die a lot, but as I told you before: dying is a requirement for Guild
Wars 2. So we have nasty mesmers that confuses us, elementalists that
rain down destruction from above, and some nasty archers that trapped
and one shotted us. After several hours tried to clear the story mode
we realized something else: our repair bills exhausted our pocket, we
cleared it though.
A week later we tried the
level 40 dungeons, the Caudecus Manor, located in Queensdale, humans
are the denizens on this dungeon, regular bandits and regular
difficulty, I was kinda surprised how CM is completed in only 20 mins
rather than AC (which took us two whole hours), I've heard they fixed
the diificulty (buffed it through the roof) on the latest patch, I
haven't tried it again.
Since I was at max level
now (I didn't even pay attention when I leveled up) so I've been
running some more dungeon, Twilight Arbor is a nasty place with a lot
of poisonous mobs, Sorrow Embrace is an exhausting place since it's a
big dwarf city, Citadel of Flames are... well... fiery, and at Honor
of The Waves the difficulty are plunging down again, in fact SE and
COF final bosses doesn't require you to have some madz skillz, it's
more like “stay away from the fire” kind of fight combined with
using environments so the boss will somewhat hurt themselves (or
taking a heavy damage from a tool) while we laugh in a safe
distance, pretty easy, but the journey to that easiness is
effectively hellish.
And yes, this is on story
mode only, means you run it not for the rewards but simply an
optional story, no loot table on bosses but they do awards you with
some nice hat according to your class first time you complete it,
which in my case: go straightforwad into the mystic forge just
because I don't like the shape of it on my head when I wear it (most
of the full-cap light armors hide charr horns, making me look like a
superdeformed dolphin with fangs)
After The Runs
I sometimes think that
the devs are experimenting with dungeons, there's a couple of
interesting fight in there with mobs that have special abilities, but
it's usually hard, and lots of dodging are required, on the other
hand we have some boring standing generic bosses which are easier.
The Dynamic Events (yes there are events in dungeon) are somewhat
catchy but it requires awareness that you don't drag mobs from the
events into another pack, the “pull it apart” strategy are
common, it's more like crowd controlling but in a shorter time, one
regular dungeon monster is enough to wipe you and they mostly did it.
There are lots of...
'unbalanced'.... difficulty on bosses, for example the first boss on
COF is the most sadistic of all from my experience, try fighting a
hard hitting whirlwind-ing boss while face a sentient invulnerable
weapon of his (which also creates a whirlwind of fire), while the
last boss of COF can even be faced naked, yes, naked, with no penalty
since everything is coming down to you hitting him with a boulder he
rolled at you and burn everything on him when he's stunned, after
that it's just rinse, and repeat, also: you can't die on him since
there's an invulnerability bubble erected from an NPC, so one of your
party member can chill out while everyone tried to hit the boss's
face, and the waypoint is right outside the room, so when you died
and return you can still continue where you left off because one of
your friends is bubbling and the boss will never reset while he's
still there
I can't even suggest the
devs to add/fix something from the dungeon, because it have so much
extreme ups and downs on difficulties, but overall until this day I
still think along the lines of “dungeons 'r hard”. For me Guild
Wars 2 dungeons seems of a sort of punishment for me because of my
usual facerolling on WOW Twilight Dungeons
I liked story dungeons, I
do, but I probably won't repeat it unless I'm helping someone runs
it, the story mode is not even the true dungeon, the real one is the
Explorable mode when you face harder enemies and acquiring phat
lootz. If the easy mode is not... well easy (for me and some
guildmates of course) I think I need more time to try the Explorable
Modes (like next month). I do want the Twilight Arbor's Greatsword
=))
UPDATE: I finally managed
ran two Sorrow's Embrace explorable mode on the last three days, next post is just up there
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