Dalessio Hard Mode

The whole mission is pretty easy for me until i reach Dorian at the temple. healing him isn't the, problem we cant stay alive and protect him we just get overwhelmed too fast. Any ideas or tips?

As with any "defend" objective, a minion master will aid your party greatly. Granted, there are very few corpses in that part of the mission, but a Jagged Bones (+Bone Minions/Jagged Horror) necromancer can make good use even of the few that the ghouls leave behind.

I believe the team I beat the mission with consisted of the following:

"Good old fire ele" (Me) - Meteor Shower, Fireball, Mark of TROGDOR, Flare (to set off mark), dual attunement, Aura of Restoration, Rebirth
Template code OgNDoMz/ECTX+CY0CXkSmA
MM Hero (Whispers) - Jagged Bones, Bone Minions, Jagged Horror, Blood of the Master, Signet of Lost Souls, Leech Signet, Power Drain, Resurrection Signet
Template code OAVDMTxGPL1qwRFPUV7BZABA
SS Hero (Olias) - Spiteful Spirit, Reckless Haste (for the miss chance), Barbs (for the minions), Enfeebling Blood, Signet of Lost Souls, Leech Signet, Power Drain, Resurrection Signet
Template code OAVDMjxHP5BhWZwOUV7BZABA
HB Hero (Tahlkora) - Orison of Healing, Ethereal Light, Healing Touch, Dismiss Condition, Remove Hex, Divine Spirit, Healer's Boon, Resurrection Chant
Template code OwAT043A5Jj87yJb6WiNJuiGBA
Stefan (for Charge and tanking when minions are minimal)
Alesia (for healing)

This setup actually gives you some interrupts without forcing you to give up a slot for a ranger or a mesmer. It has decent anti-melee capabilities in Enfeebling Blood and Reckless Haste, and capitalizes on the many weak minion attacks with Barbs. If your problem is offensive rather than defensive, you could always ditch the SS and bring two SF nukers; if you do, Zinger's paragon tank hero build has excellent synergy with both the MM and SF. Search these forums for it.

One final note: try this mission with just you and heroes/henchies rather than with other PCs. In my experience, Tyrian missions (at least in Kryta and Maguuma) seem to compensate for the inherent weakness of henchies by spawning fewer or less difficult mobs. I failed this mission twice in a HM PuG before acing it on my first try with heroes and henchies.

I did it yesterday, it was so easy i couldnt believe it. I tried all henchies and heroes before with fire aoe and MM, but that just doesnt work too well.

Now i used:
1 healboon monk
1 rc prot monk
1 smite monk with judges insight and a load of smiting skills
2 warriors (eviscerate, and steady stance)
1 fire AoE nuker.

Breezed through the mission, had to wait for the next wave to come cause we dispatched them so quickly.

I did this mission yesterday in hard mode and it wasn’t too bad. What I did was make sure that myself (warrior) and all my heroes inflicted Holy Damage. I brought along Melonni, who used Avatar of Balthazar, General Morgan, who used Heart of Holy Flame (dervish skill), and Talkora, who took a number of smiting skills to accompany her healing skills. For my warrior, I took Judge’s Insight and Symbol of Wrath. Symbol of Wrath is great, go to an area where there’s 3-4 undead clustered together and cast it. It will hit at least 3 times before they scatter, sometimes it will hit 5 times in which case you’ll do a total of about 240 AoE damage at 10 smiting. I can do crazy damage with Judges Insight as well. I’ll do anywhere from 40dmg to 160dmg per each swing. A critical hit does around 120 damage so try to do as many as possible (ie. Keen Chop). I imagine a holy assassin would do ridiculous damage, although I didn’t take one because I was worried about the weak armor. I had a little trouble with the Sorcerers because they do a lot of damage and they blind, but other than that the mission was easier than I expected with this setup.

I did it today

My party setup:
- Myself as a Holy Haste LoD Healer
- Jin as BHA Interrupter
- Olias as a SS nuker
- Norgu as a shutdown domination mesmer
- Orion
- Alesia

I didn't have much probs with the part you mention, just take care you take out the monsters soon.
BTW. Minion masters are not very effective here, as most undead don't drop corpses

with the huge buff to the smite line, you can breeze through the mission with a smiter's boon ogden.

sandstorm warder, defense para, lod/aegis/extinguish on monks. no super-secret tricks to this, just be able to stand in one place and hold your own. *shrug*

Pulled this off after many tries using:

Me (Ranger) - Heart of Holy Flame Barrager
Melonni - Avatar of Balthazar
Souske - SF
Tahlkora - Prot
Orion
Alesia

The holy damage/fire damage combo just tore right through the undead at Dorian and was able to outdamage his Heal Area with the Grasping Ghouls. After that, the mission was easy. No one died, we had enough firepower for the ettins, and got bonus completed as well.

The difference between the sucessful run and the previous unsuccessful ones was holy damage for both me and Melonni. That made all the difference.

I personally used a bear form warrior wit heart of holy flame
lyssa avatar wit heart of holy flame
SF fire ele
Tahlk LOD
Alesia
and Stefan

the lysaa avatar wit heart owns pretty fast it can drop half life on undead wit holy flame on. that was my key to doing it.

i did it with 3 heroes and 2 henchies, it was really easy just like presearing, (LoL)
i took the following party:

1. (Me) Barage Ranger with Judges insight at 9 or 10 attribute.
2. Takora Rc protection monk(any general protection build will do0
3. Odgen(Monk from gwen) set as smiting monk with all smiting(elite signet of judgment- any will do)
4. Dunkoro was a LOD monk
5 henchie mage
6. henchie necro

it was cake walk, just remmber 90 % of monsters are undead( holy dmg does double dmg tom them) - use smiting monk. your character can be anything, if monk, go smiting or healing