Dulfy Reborn

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• Iwakura

  Two questions; what is the actual difficulty on 1-10 of getting all of these and 2; I had read that there is a queue to get into the arena. How bad is the wait on these?

  • Ellony Ella

    The queu depends on how much ppl are queued for it, you can have empty arena’s or you will have to wait for 1+ persons. I never had to wait longer than 2 mins

    • Iwakura

      That’s good. How difficult is it going to be to get all these achievements I wonder? I’ve gotten every one for every event so far in the game myself and it’s just a fun little goal. I imagine beating a 3 with 5 gambits is nuts. Dulfy should post about which gambits would be the easiest to deal with in combat over others.

      • ddc

        i did subject 7 with the first 5 gambits of the list (exhausted, on fire, frailty, squeamish, hamstrung), but it’s probably a bit class specific as i did it with my mesmer and needed a lot of reflect (focus#5) to negate the minion damage

        • Dolics

          ye, reflect mesmer has little trouble with subject 7, even with 5 gambits.

• Mannechiel

  Do somebody know where i could find advices to defeat some of them? I hoped to see some here and i don’t understand the fight with the fire Asura.

  • ddc

    first he’ll cast a fire circle, you cannot go out, you need to avoid the flame bolt he throws at you in the circle

    then he’ll pop fire right under your feet, you need to keep strafing and not remain stationnary

    finally he’ll do both, a fire circle and you’ll have to continuously strafe inside

    • Mannechiel

      Thanks! i didn’t understand the fire under my feet and that’s why i died everytime.

• harnace

  Seems like you have to reroll berserker warrior for Masticus 🙁

• Mootal

  where is the arena?

• despisesvk

  How to defeat strugar and chomper with warr ? :-O

• YoYo-Pete

  There’s no reward mentioned. Isnt it the torch?

• Flatbedotr

  Love the changed made gauntlet tickets soul bound instead of account bound.

  • Tomipips

    how is that a good thing?

    • Flatbedotr

      I hate the change, so being sarcastic.

• milary

  Any advice on how to kill the norn with the dog?

  • Despise

    i have the same problem (im warr)

    • Nathan

      eat two of hte meats he throws it will increease your dmg and kill the dog first

      • Andele

        Dont kill anyone really “first”, use longbow, hammer or a mace offhand to keep the dog off jumping to the meat, also you can eat as much meat as you want if you got a stunbreak ready for every 4th application of it, best thing you could do is try dps them down to mid hp (both of em) early, while keeping the dog from eating (heals him), then finish off the dog, bulls charge the norn and 100b instakilling.

• Kaede

  How to defeat Strugar and Chomper?

• Eriolle

  Anyone gotten to Liadri? Exactly what are you suppose to do? Lol.

  • Lakvar

    Well, not that I’m an expert, but if not asleep, you can consistently get to P2 this way (playing this on engie)\ Phase one mechanics:

    Liadri – stays in the middle. Has 3 stacks of invulnerability. Casts necrotic grasp (Necro staff #1). Casts triangle shaped AoE circles that cover area between her and wall in a cone – you have 4-5 seconds to get out or activate a blocking skill.\ Orb – can be killed in 1 hit, pulls you regularly to it, putting you in a knocked down state. When coupled with AoE, you’re dead.\ Vision of Mortality(VoM)- slow moving exploding bombs.\ White light on the floor – if you kite a VoM into it, it despawns and leaves a light orb. Pick it up and throw at the boss (has a short wind-up animation that has you rooted in place). It removes one invulnerable stack.

    Skills: A stun breaker / invulnerability can remove some of the RNG if you get pulled into an AoE by an Orb and you can’t dodge or use a block skill (Mist form, Elixir S, Distortion, Block on shield, etc). Having mobility in this fight is very useful. If you can get perma swiftness, do it. Blink / teleport skills are good as well.

    1. Be cool.\ 2. Kill the Orb! Always! A ranged weapon could be your friend. A friend spectating could be a better friend to call the orb if it spawns behind you and you don’t notice right away.

    3. Calmly kite in a circle – mark the white spiral when it spawns.\ 4. Wait for an AoE and either kite or pull a Vision of Mortality into the white circle.\ 5. Pick up the resulting light orb and throw it at Liadri, taking off a stack.

    If you focus, the first phase is easy and quick and if you can get out of it on full health.\ What changes in second phase is this:\ Visions of Mortality are still coming. The AoE Triangle is now hourglass shape, cutting the arena in two (extends to both directions from the middle). Liadri is no longer stationary, but melee.

    As an engineer, I got through all fights till this one using a 30-10-0-30-0 HGH – I will change it to 30-10-0-20-10 for this fight, keep grenades range, pick up speedy kits.\ For utilities, so far I’ve settled on Elixir S, Tool kit, Grenades, Pistol/Shield.

    If you play it cool and use your blocks smartly, you should get far. I am full condition spec but not sure if my damage will be high enough without 20+ might stacks so could prob. respect to a more zerker oriented engie.

    Good luck.

    • Lucrezina

      I can only agree to Lakvar, except 1 thing, i didnt kill the orbs, cause if you get in down state, they could ress you. I played shatter mesmer so i have enough skills to be invul. 😉

      • Lakvar

        EDIT: Got it – just hit the orb as if a mob 🙂

• Bearlicious

  How do you defeat the ravenous crew? I manage to get one down, before I die within seconds. Any order you should kill ’em in?

  • Andele

    Boss>Healer>Sniper>Last guy, or if you got thief/warrior/shatter/in general zerker burst set healer as last since her regen could screw you over.

  • lueboll

    As a phantasm mesmer I went with Healer – First mate – Patches – Sniper

• Anemone

  How do you kill liadri ?! She’s very hard to kill, and when you are lucky to put her in P2, the timer kills you…

• Kyo Akumetsu

  she is rly easy if u know how lol i did it 4times in a row now 🙂

  • WatchTheShow

    mind sharing your secret?

• Cellofrag

  Win third tier matches with one active gambit”\ –> do we have to win 1 T3 match or the 4 ?\ Seems impossible

  • Akamon

    i think it should be just one T3 match : ))\

• Speedyh1

  Just succeded against Liadri after about 100 tries.\ I’m engi, which is great because of the great sustain by healing tower (pop, overcharge, pick up). Useful skills are Elixir s and the toolkit 4 (the shield), since you can avoid the 1 hits like that.

  Also used superior sigil of energy to regenerate endurance.\ You need some toughness to survive the auto-hits, so I traited it.

  Inventions -> Power shoes are damn useful as well.\ Rest of gear was berserk with divinity runes.

  First phase is easy with some training.\ Just dodge the mobs and throw the cores.

  2nd phase seems unfair, but the AoEs have a pattern!\ They pop first on the first 50% of the map, then on the other.\ That basically means that you can either kite the boss in circles around the map or just from left to right, where you have to look out because of the illusions.

  I personally safed elixir s for the pulling thing. If you have 2 people just let the other one tell you, when one spawns. Would make it a lot easier.

  The whole thing is just a skillfight, in which you cannot afford making mistakes since they kill you nearly every time. If you have any questions, ask.

  • Lakvar

    After a few tries last night before I fell asleep, I plan to go in fresh with this:\ http://intothemists.com/guides/458-liadri_gauntlet_build\ Modelling after a tank guardian, who kills Liadri off of his retaliation buff.

    Think it’ll work or needlessly complicated, since I can just go zerker and shorten the time I need to surviva, theoretically.

    Also, last night I was convinced that Elixir S was a must, since most of the bad RNG tries I had ended on an orb pull into AoE. But I didn’t know to rez off the orb back then. Can still slot it in place of Bomb Kit, though, maybe a better idea.

    Also, can you describe the AoE in Phase 2 again? I thought it looked more like a squished X or was I mistaken?\ Congrats on being an engi champ 🙂

    • Speedyh1

      You can switch from one safezone to the next pretty fast, because no part of the arena is hit twice.

      I don’t really know, whether retalition works well. Didn’t try that out.

      But remember that you have only a limited amount of time before you fall to death.

      I hit her down by throwing nades behind me – bombes should work just as well.

      Also tried using shield and pistol in order to have 2 sigils to help me. Didn’t work out well, since I lacked the dmg to hit her down then (used survival stats though) – my time just ran out.

      The orb revive thing doesn’t always work – plus you get disoriented, which killed me a lot.

      All in all I’d rather try zerking her down, whilst remembering to have enough vita/toughness to tank a little of her dmg.

      • Lakvar

        Alright, thanks. Food for thought and I have the gear so it’s as easy as respeccing. If orbs give me trouble in phase 2 I might go back to grenades for the range. Will post how it went for me.

  • Lakvar

    Did it with the spec I posted below, just ditched bomb kit for grenades. I’d advice you go full 30 in explosions with grenadier even.\ Learn to do phase 1 quickly, with magnet-kite-magnet on the first three whirlpools.\ I had no problem with orbs except being saved by one, so I’d not go for Elixir S.\ Boots not needed either if you kite in a circle with half the diameter of the arena – you’ll always be able to simply walk out of aoes or dodge just in time. Keeping chill / cripple on Liadri makes this a simple fight and if you feel safe, drop the shield for another pistol and glueshot her occasionally.\ She goes down quick.

• Apo

  The reward for the meta is 2g 🙂

• Dolics

  Against Liadri you might wanna consider using Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew\ on your toughest character. Engi and guard come to mind.

  Just did the 8 orbs achievement on a celestial guard, using 0,0,30,30,10 and just a staff.\ After a dozen tries you’ll notice that P1 has always the same pattern.\ In P2 keep moving and whittle her down with staff #1 and your burn, which will also refresh your vigor on crit.\ Staff #3 swiftness saves you a few dodges and makes kiting her and the shadows easier.\ GL and do try to have fun.

  • Lakvar

    I second that, except Engie can run a perma vigor build with just 20 useful points invested – so the food is less useful.\ The Phase 1 streamlining is important – on engie you want to get it done with the first 3 whirlpools.\ 1. Spawn – kill orb. 2. Move onto whirlpool – face the spawn of the Vision of Mortality 3. Pull her with Magnet immediately 4. Pick up orb, move out of aoe, #1 on Liandri 5. Move towards next Whirlpool then a bit to the right – when VoMs get close, get on whirlpool. 6. One despawns, Get orb, throw at Liadri 7. Move onto last whirlpool – the last VoM walks into it – a Rift (Orb) spawns also at that time, so watch for that.\ And there – you’re in Phase 2, hopefully on full HP! Just play it cool and kite in a circle with diameter half that of the whole arena.

• Dagnis

  Against Liadri, you can certain ranged attacks to dmg and destroy orbs. These orbs rally you, so if you find yourself downed and near one, attack one fast!

• Shadowsing

  How to do High Stakes Gambler with Warrior\

  • Dyers Eve

    At my tries, the quaggan spawns not at his side. Instead, he spawns in subject 7. Makes this video impossible for me to repeat on my own.

    • Shadowsing

      Here’s an alternative way that may be easier for you\

• Mortifer Ultor

  Concerning the “High Stakes Gambler” (5 Gambits): As Engi with full\ cleric’s and 10/0/30/30/0 (Bigger Bomb Radius, Healing Bombs, etc.) it\ was fairly easy to take down Subject 7 with the first 5 Gambits active\ (Exhausted, Frailty, Hamstring, On Fire, Squeamish). My skill setup\ included Healing Kit, Bomb Kit, Elixir Gun, Flame Turret, Supply Crate. I\ simply stood as closely as possible next to the ooze and spammed bombs\ to damage it and any further oozes spawned. Due do Smoke Bomb and Smoke\ Screen (Overcharged Flame Turret), only few attacks hit me. Ongoing heal\ due to Healing Bombs, Healing Mist, Super Elixir and the main Heal\ Skill kept me at 50%-100% HP during the whole fight.

  • Cosmos Black

    Thanks Mortifer! I used your idea to great effect. My engineer was fully geared in rampagers equipment. Took me two attempts because I accidentally used Big Ol’ Bomb which threw the oozes all over the arena on the first go.

    • Mortifer Ultor

      So it works with less tanky equipment as well. Your feedback is very much appreciated! Indeed one has to refrain from using those otherwise awesome knockback-skills =)

  • Jenster

    This worked perfectly for myself and my husband as engineers, both running with a shaman setup. Once we got the hang of it Subject 7 went down quite quickly. Also used Omnomberry Cookies just to help with health/healing.

• DanFariasM

  For high stakes gambler if you are a mesmer and still struggling with it… Instead of the hounds you can pop time warp as soon as deadeye ports besides you and just melee his other eye out of him 😛 In my case he didn’t even have time to port the 2nd time

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