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Robmart

Just had an amazing experience in a public strike

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DISCLAIMERS:

  • My English is bad.

  • I'm also a fairly average player.

It was my first strike. Just randomly decided to try one out, well aware I was most likely going to fail. The strike in question was Boneskinner, today's "Priority Strike Mission."

First guy that joined was only mastery level 20 or so. I decided instead of discouraging him I'd let him try. The two of us started chatting (mostly me describing what I'd seen of strikes so far, not much). We danced and had a fun time until more people joined.

Once six people had joined, we engaged the boss. SPOILERS, it didn't go so well. I'm fairly sure none of us knew a single mechanic of this fight, but still we tried. We went down like a sack of bricks at roughly 97%. It was bad. But we talked, strategized and we managed to get him down to 92%. Better, but still not remotely good.

We left and rejoined to get more players. Whist waiting most of us played music and did emotes. Even one or two jokes were made.

At 10 players we decided to go again. This time we looked up tactics (stick together, don't go for the torches, actually have a dedicated healer.) It went much better, we managed to take him down to roughly 85%. I know probably not a spectacular achievement by anyone's standards but I know I sure felt like a god at that moment.

We tried a few more tries until we got the best run of the night. After many trials and tribulations (and smart-ass jokes) we managed to get him down to 72%!

Unfortunately after that one of us had to go, and the rest soon follow suit.

I know this is not a significant achievement or a particularly riveting story but I wanted to share this because It was the first time a have actually met random people in an MMO and instead of them immediately leaving when it all went to shit, we actually took the time to strategize and get better together. It felt amazing.

I of course added them all to my friends list and I hope I'll get to play together with them again.

(The mastery level 20 guy was actually a fairly good player, he had definitely extensively played another MMO before.)

(Robmart.7438 if anyone wants to add me for any reason :) )

Posted Sep 7, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

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Brawhalla_•

Just want to add off-topic: your English is lovely!! This was a super fun read.

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RobmartOP•

Thank you :)

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daddyfox30•

What a charming story! Reminds me of our guild of old folks trying out T2 fractals. We do not have the reflexes of teens anymore but we got the patience to try again and learn the mechanics and strategize what went wrong. Just keep it up and i am sure you can make it!

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Schattenform2678•

This time we looked up tactics (stick together, don't go for the torches, actually have a dedicated healer.)

You might have started with the toughest of all strikes :)

Even average groups with raid kill proof die on this one fairly often

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RobmartOP•

Did not know that :)

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Meischta•

Inmho this kinda thing is typical for any kind of group content if there's a learning curve involved.

Fractals, Raids and strikes were always the place i met new people/friends while playing the game while open world was always the place to go for a casual Singleplayer experience with random encounters of silent bot like entity's called "players".

And the fact that Anet tends to put most of their effort into the latter while still claiming to create an MMO irritates the crap out of me.

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BlueWarder•

Raid trainings are very similar - that's where people learn the mechanics of the raid bosses, and usually most won't have killed the boss yet.

Boneskinner is probably the hardest strike mission - it's arguably harder than a few raid bosses. Glad to hear it was still enjoyable. For healing, I would recommend >!at least one healer per subgroup (also on most raid bosses). Boneskinner seems especially healing intensive to me, at least the way I've seen it played.!<

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darkmayhem•

I would argue WoJ is harder as Boneskinner can easily be cheesed

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AlreidMore Violets I say, less Violence•

If players are good its not that bad. And projectile blocks help dealing with the adds attacks. You have to dodge the boss when he jumps into middle of arena and try to avoid to some degree the aoe from mobs. Since everyone stacks, all mobs are targeting the same place so slight movements to the left or right when those aoes are about to land saves a lot of stress from the healers.

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BlueWarder•

Definitely, stacked Grasp instantly downs you and if people get hit too often, even scourges can't save it. But I've seen a few squads struggle even with 3 healers, and by that I mean the damage auras. People downed regularly without being hit by Grasp. In that case we didn't have projectile defense though.

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RobmartOP•

I'll keep that in mind, thank you

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Marshal_Trahearne•

Boneskinner is definitely heal intensive if you skip torches, which every lfg group does

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TehOwn•

The torches are a noob trap. They're never worth doing. It's faster, safer and easier to just bring more healing.

They need to rework the Boneskinner.

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AlreidMore Violets I say, less Violence•

Yeah, I think a one shot mechanic would be interesting if all torches go out. However, dont make it so punishing actually going for a torch. Atm you will mostly likely get killed if you're doing torches and your group isn't super efficient.

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TehOwn•

I'd think the pulsing field should apply blindness, less damage and always hit the entire room but hit more often as more torches go out. That way, you lose DPS if you ignore it but it doesn't kill everyone.

But maybe it's supposed to encourage healing and teach the important raid meta of stacking on the boss and cheesing the mechanics.

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Lunaira•

you can easily do the torches as a heal scourge, but who would pull the dps players out of the aoe's then? :D (I love healing and this strike is a good place to practice)

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o_oli•

Also recommend a heal scourge, because they can teleport anybody who went down out of the instakill aoe area, and if you are pugging it definitely will happen.

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tershialinee•

This is so wholesome. I’m glad you had fun with other people!

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AnodicShadowyoutube.com/c/anodic•

You'll get it down one day!

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M4n0Robert Wagner•

hey man!

Thanks for sharing your story. It sounds amazing and warm.

Say, do you play on EU or NA? Im asking so we can play together :D I'm from NA myself. Im also not a native english speaker :p So yeah, thanks again for sharing!

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RobmartOP•

I'm from EU, sorry

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M4n0Robert Wagner•

oh ok, no problem. Still a great story though :)

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Lefarxx•

Yup thats the way to go. Well done to you all...

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CloakedBartenderBiologist•

I expected this story to be about you striking for like higher wage or something and then randomly meeting another GW2 player there.

Still a cool story though :)

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DymondHed•

just an FYI, you don't need to leave the instance to get more people

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RobmartOP•

You do if you've already started the fight

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DymondHed•

no you don't. everyone wipes and respawns, then you just lfg. no one has to leave

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DirtCrawler•

Don't the public instances work differently?

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DymondHed•

oh, the title does say public. pro-tip: don't ever expect anything like this to happen. i've tried public strikes, and they're ALWAYS a huge mess. you can get into an lfg squad just as easily

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yumi369•

You can't post stuff like this! What about the firm believers that raids and strikes are toxic?

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apneax3n0n•

none ever said this about strikes. or, anyway, toxicity is not even comparable

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yumi369•

You haven't been on this reddit all to much right? Because if you did, you would remember the post about people getting mad, because they got kicked out of strikes xD

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xtian88•

Honestly boneskinner is the most easiest one, as you ignore all mechanics and just brute force your way to kill it. usually play with my guildmates and we are usually just 4 , we pug the rest without any qualifications, i usualy just play scourge, one plays druid and 2 dps. Doesn’t matter if the rest of the group is dead, as long us 4 of us were alive we can kill it . You just need small amount of people who know what they’re doing and the rest can just tank the floor.

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