(or scary for that matter!).
Post your hardest Hard mode experiences!
kimahri
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!).
(or scary for that matter!).
Marth Reynolds
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.
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.
Plushie Penguin
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-_-
ctbear
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
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
kumarshah
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.
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.
Thomas.knbk
Getting backbreaker chained by Grawl in old ascalon was pretty awesome imo. They wiped me.
Rusty Deth
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.
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.
Coridan
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
revelation
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... 
Draco Angelus
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!!!
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!!!
Corinthian
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...
I tried some other area too but that was short lived since charr eles drop meteor showers...
lacasner
trying to farm the deep
SuperDave
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.
holababe
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
My worst experience was when I decided to try Sunqua Vale in Hard Mode.
Those damn Mantids spam Shield of Regeneration
Wilhelm
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.
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.
onerabbit
Lina getting KO'ed in 1 hit from sanddrake using earth quake
tknorris
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Anyone tried DoA on hard mode yet?
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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.
rohara
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
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
TheDarkOneVK
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!
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!
Res Ipsi
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Originally Posted by TheDarkOneVK
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. Vote AGAINST Rurik in '08! |
Navaros
My hardest Hard Mode experience was trying to find a PUG who was capable of getting through Domain of Secrets in Hard Mode. Most of them get wiped shortly before or shortly after the first boss, and die constantly on the way to that point. 
Tar Alcarin
Easily the hardest expierience for me was beating the mission Chahbek Villiage in hard mode.
No, but seriously folks... its all hard for me.
No, but seriously folks... its all hard for me.
Batou of Nine
The hardest, hard mode experience... ever possible.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10146204
(Actually, it wasn't that hard compared to normal DoA, just took an hour longer then normal, i.e. refer to comments in linked thread).
cheers!
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10146204
(Actually, it wasn't that hard compared to normal DoA, just took an hour longer then normal, i.e. refer to comments in linked thread).
cheers!
Earth
Minister Cho's Estate... Those afflicted animals actually do damage now, they wiped Yijo within seconds.
Envious
Getting owned from fast recharge healing hands, while Dunkoro and company got pummeled to the ground.
Orinn
Getting bloodspiked by a trio of ravenous mandragors. 450 armor-ignoring damage with 1/4 second casting time (115 + 35 each.) Ouch.
Bohdabi the Destructive was pretty nasty too. He's fast-casting the animate spells while his acolytes rez the dead. Not fun until I managed to draw his group into my waiting Wurm squad.
Bohdabi the Destructive was pretty nasty too. He's fast-casting the animate spells while his acolytes rez the dead. Not fun until I managed to draw his group into my waiting Wurm squad.
Da Silva Fox
Visiting Varesh just to see how hard she had got........she didn't let me stay long
Rockby Quickfoot
I haven't had too much experience with Hard Mode yet. I've done all the missions in Ascalon so far as well as Chahbek Village and Tihark Orchard. Nolani was definitely the worst so far. I got in PuG after PuG today and we just never made it. Finally I got in a group with a monk, an SS necro, and a warrior (I'm a Mesmer). We cleared it all easy up to the point where Rurik uses Stormcaller (which is the point I had been at about 10 different times that day). This is where Rurik goes on a rampage. We had all failed numerous times though and we were ready. After the cutscene, before Rurik charged, we managed to pull and kill a group of stalkers, which probably saved us big time in a minute. We were getting ready to try and pull another group, but then Rurik was down amongst them. We began fighting and three of us ended up dead. I don't remember who was still alive (I died casting Ineptitude on a Charr and he hit me and died) but they were alive with Rurik distracting the Charr. We all managed to get back up on our feet and I barely had any energy before we had to rush off and save Rurik again as he continued charging. After that initial battle, it is surprisingly simple as there are only small groups of 2 charr and then an Elementalist boss. Finally finished that and went on to hero/hench Borlis Pass
creelie
Aurora Glade bonus. I'm having a terrible time trying to stay on top of the running waves.
I'm having a terrible time trying to stay on top of the running waves.
SirJackassIII
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Miral
so far.... zen daijun. affclited yijo can wipe most the party in one spell >.<
Skarigon
Err... Oh i know! when the henchies didnt move while the SH boss did 1500 damage to them!
Dark-NighT
For me Hardmode is nice, only the enemy's bonus is flawd, they are strong enough as it is and now they beat down my 4 man party like we are a pile of dust.
Ascalon in hard mode is fun, atleast the idea is but 2 groups of grawl quickly make you rethink and retreat. Remove the darn bonus, 4 man party size is nuts.
(Btw i know it's all about tactics and good spells, but still it's a pain doing it, i honestly thought the charr and all in ascalon would be lvl 20 instead of 6 and have some different skills and certainly no bonus
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Ascalon in hard mode is fun, atleast the idea is but 2 groups of grawl quickly make you rethink and retreat. Remove the darn bonus, 4 man party size is nuts.
(Btw i know it's all about tactics and good spells, but still it's a pain doing it, i honestly thought the charr and all in ascalon would be lvl 20 instead of 6 and have some different skills and certainly no bonus
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Steboy93
Gates of Kryta...Got right to the end with heros and henchies, thinking that it was going well, met up with justicar hablion(i think he's lvl18) and got told to clear the area of mosters.
After the cutscene i get a bad case of lag, and can only watch in horror as Hablion charges alone, into a group of lvl22-24 undead of all kinds and grasping ghouls. Two seconds later he totally PWNED and the message 'Your party was defeated' flashes up on the screen...
Damn sucidal NPCs!!!!
After the cutscene i get a bad case of lag, and can only watch in horror as Hablion charges alone, into a group of lvl22-24 undead of all kinds and grasping ghouls. Two seconds later he totally PWNED and the message 'Your party was defeated' flashes up on the screen...
Damn sucidal NPCs!!!!
Evilsod
Dreadnought's Drift...
Need i say more? Our party got wiped TWICE by the same mob of Blessed Griffons. The Balth Aura + Symbol of Wrath spam vs balled up morons (hench) flattens them so fast...
Then once we reached the first Stone Summit mob... well, 12 of them? Need to say i just gave up.
Need i say more? Our party got wiped TWICE by the same mob of Blessed Griffons. The Balth Aura + Symbol of Wrath spam vs balled up morons (hench) flattens them so fast...
Then once we reached the first Stone Summit mob... well, 12 of them? Need to say i just gave up.
flipfly2004
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Originally Posted by Draco Angelus
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!!! |
Orbberius
Wow, that is annoying. I'll have to keep that in mind when I clear the area.
Messy
I think what's the most important is planning!! thinking ahead of time what you might run into, and ways to counter it.
We just did DoA, quad run (all 4 quests) on Hard Mode. It was long, took about 9 hrs, but I'm sure it can be done faster. Some of the party members were very experienced there, some were less, like me.
Planning ahead, being on the same page, sticking to a strategy has its rewards. If this can be done, I think mostly anything can:
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We just did DoA, quad run (all 4 quests) on Hard Mode. It was long, took about 9 hrs, but I'm sure it can be done faster. Some of the party members were very experienced there, some were less, like me.
Planning ahead, being on the same page, sticking to a strategy has its rewards. If this can be done, I think mostly anything can:
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Mister Overhill
The hardest part for me is getting my ranger in a group. Easy enough for my necro and monks, but the ranger gets no love.
Easy enough for my necro and monks, but the ranger gets no love.
LifeInfusion
Bringing 4 people in a 8 person zone. It was big mistake since I didn't see the 4/8 thing on the party window.
Worst part is, I figured this out when I cleared half the map.
Worst part is, I figured this out when I cleared half the map.