Battle at Lion's Arch, WTH

Only hard part of BLA is finding a damn monk. Takes ages to get one.

Why? I've done this 3x now with a guildmate...never used a Monk.

Me: Imbagon
Guildie: R/ (Barrager)

Me: A/R (Barrager...yep, mainly a mule ~ no other 2ndary prof)
Guildie: Rit/ (SoS)

Me: R/ (Barrager)
Guildie: Rit/ (SoS)

Then, the following Heroes:

MM
Panic Mes
Nuker
N/Rit (with Splinter & some heals)

Easy when they ball up at the stairs for minions and spirits with the barrager, nuker and splinter support up on the hill. The first time, we wiped twice (not knowing what to expect) but recovered. The others, one Hero death each time. Why stand around in LA spamming for Monks?

Remember every one of those !! is an interruption. That means that many less actions that your group has to deal with. I noticed when I went w/o a Panic Mesmer there was quite a bit of Unsteady Grounds and Firestorms to contend with. I've done this 3 times with a human Panic w/o 1 death...w/o human Panic 2 times (both had 1 full wipe and couple individual deaths)

I still need to do it with my warrior and sin, unless I want to stand around and admire the view I'd better bring a monk

Could go crit barrage sin I guess.

Quest was quite easy not sure what all the fuss is about.
I ran it with a splinter barrage(me), SoS(hero), Roj monk(hero), panic mes(hero), lvl 10 mes and monk.
Only tough part was a few waves of mursatt.

You know, I haven't even managed to complete this quest yet (tried a couple of times with a friend earlier - we lost primarily due to positioning issues and suicidal heroes), and yet I've still had a blast with the attempts I've made. Yes, it can be fairly difficult. It's supposed to be. But damn is it a ton of fun. There's nothing quite as amusing as balling up a dozen WM on the steps and just scything my way through them. Love it.

Crazy thought here: can you form a party of 8 in ToA, walk to LA, enter the keep, and do the mission like that? Might not work with henchies, but should with people/heroes, right?

just did it with h/h (gwen/livia/xandra/mes/ranger). i used my ranger with barrage w/ xandras splinter. funny that one of the middle jade bosses made it past the 2nd set of stairs, but the final bosses wiped my group in between the 1st and 2nd stairs and ran back below the 1st steps. i don't think they would have ever went up the stairs since they started patrolling back and forth. maybe one of the spirits stayed up or one of the npc came back and pulled them. got wiped 4 or 5 times so i tossed up armor and a summon. should be a lot easier now that i know what to expect with my necro. kill underlings and focus fire on 1 boss at a time. do a little kiting.

Since you start the quest inside Lions Arch Keep, no.

OP

You as SoS
mes hero with panic
mm hero
aoe hero

Plus - you have cons, summoning trinkets and dp removers at your disposal.

The real problem with this mission is that it's fine if you're with at least 1 other real person and their heroes alongside yours but with the default L10 npc's this mission is impossible.

Also for some odd reason with real people the jade wave doesn't seem to madrush Salma like they do with just pure H/H.

Let's see how that pans out in a few months when the hype of this quest chain is over and no one is doing it, or very very few people are.

Now go solo it with 2 level 10 henchmen and 3 heroes.


This please!

After reading the rest of the thread I see that people have done it with some of the L10 henchmen, so I'll have yet another go at it on my warrior and see how it shakes out. My first runs were using builds very similar to what was already posted. I think I'll dump alesia and just add another heal or two to some of the necros and take another damage dealer henchman like the archer.

I wish I could do this with 4 or 5 heroes but no second account that would work

I usually do all questing with h/h in hard mode but i fear this one is too much. I need some more trys but it's sooooooo difficult to deal the damage quickly enough.

panic
deep freeze
echo savannah heat
????
win

Its not impossible.... just very difficult.... this took me several attempts



I didnt use any cons... or stones... just popped the aplles etc for the last wave and used some honeycombs after the one and only wipe...

EDIT:--- Just to highlight this can work with any character as I didn't use any Monk skills at all throughout the mission
Have fun :-)

mission was simple with 1 war 4 rangers and one monk no cons

Just easily completed with:
Me (AEcho RoJ + EBSoH + EBSoC)
MM
Panic Mes
Curses Nec
Alesia & Dunham

Strategy was just to stand up on the cliffs with the rangers, keep the Ebon Battle Standards up, and RoJ groups (any other decent AoE would work in RoJ's place, I was on my monk). I used a summoning stone but it was a saltspray that got killed in about 1 min, so nothing terribly useful there, and some personal cons (apple, cupcake, cookie for extra energy). Got wiped once near the end when Perfected Aegis came out, but that was not that bad.

Completed this the other night, it was a nightmare. Hardest part was Perfected Armor and his group. I did as others, staying on the ledge with the archers until he was down. Pretty much solo'd the last 2 bosses (ele and mo) with spirits.

no cons or summons

Going back over my earlier predictions:

So, I'm still waiting on someone to manage BLA HM with H+H.

Also, if anyone tests out 8 players from ToA, let me know.