Crystal Hibernation, psh, Yeah right...

Ok, get this *excuse it this is posted b4 but search turned up nothing*


Took a group of 2 W/MO, 2 Mesmers, 2 Nukers *me being 1*, and 2 monks down to Dragons Lair

1 mesmer was Ineptitude+Empathy
Another was Backfire+Wastrels

Well, we easily complete mission, and i like, hey, this group seems pretty well suited for fighting glint. So i explain to them how it will all work, including the War who would sidestep the fireballs while holding teh egg.

So all goes as planned down to Crystal Hibernation, "Mesmers, interrupt it!" i scream. Nothing, Hibernation goes through, i immediately tell everyone to stop attacking to prevent more healing. After Hibernation going through about 3 times, i learn noone in our team has interrupts *me and nuker have Meteor Storm, but u cant knock Glint down* After about 5 min of hibernation screwing us like that, i was about ready to give up, til i read skill further. *it heals NON-PHYSICAL ATKS!* So, i like "OK, everybody, casters included, grab a melee weapon, we all gotta smack glint, sidestep war and monks-u keep ur position. Just keep Glint down and she wont go back to Jagged"

now Crystal gives 7 regen, one of teh wars wielded a FDS, so i used Mark of Rodgort to continually burn glint, and he bled her, turning the 7 regen of Crystal into Degen. Every person cept the 2 monks and the sidestep war is on glint's ass-the war with the FDS-me, the other nuker, and the 2 mesmers pwning wiht hammers that dropped in mission-standard clean, and not even max .

The mesmers restacked their hexes when they ran out, and we just went to work on glint with those melee weapons-all while Hibernation is running- Then, Glint at about one fifth to one eigth of health, CRYSTAL BONDS! WTF! The war goes down immediately, i quickly rez sig him, then we go back to work. She Crystal Bonded a few more times, but the monks were ready this time. She finally fell, and we all w00ted endlessly at how we won without disrupting Hibernation!!!

Here's a pic, notice the hammers in mine *the orange ele's* and the mesmer on the left's hands. *excuse glare, have no idea what happened, and sry for no action shots, didnt think we would win "



U see, It can be done while Hibernation is running!

When I beat glint my team consisted of

2 w/n
healer hench
protection hench

we never interupted anything and used grenths balance a lot...it was really easy

Power Leak/Spike/Drain doesn't interrupt skills, only Cry of Frustration.

Ahh, so this is how it's done! *makes a note to try this one day* I've always wondered why you would want to attack her though. She's been helpful, isn't a lich, and yet everyone wants to attack her.

*goes off to wonder about this mystery*

why even let glint use it, a ranger with a single interupt makes glint so much easier, letting glint degen to death is SLOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I wish there were more bosses like Glint. Yeah, it's not that hard once you realize the proper strategies, but it was a fun and interesting bonus fight that made you think a little.

It was also cool because I first "discovered" that bonus through the old "hmm, I bet that egg has treasure in it... uh... oops...". Priceless moment.

Didn't have a ranger...and as i said, we only planned mission. I was the one who proposed glint fight.

Mesmers didnt use drain, leak, spike, they were illusion, *one, my guildie, used backfire+wastrels*

I know Balance is ez, but we didnt have a necro, and Balance is a bit 2 ez

I finished off Glint with a team consisted of 2 W/Mo, 3 R/--,3 monks, 1 protection and 2 healing.

It only took us about 1 minute and nobody even went down below 80% HP. The warriors had Endure or Defy Pain all the time, so they didn't recive much uncontrolable damage at all. Anyways, killing that stupid old dragon was fun .

Drain, leak and spike wouldn't have worked anyway. Glint doesn't use any spells. What I'd like to know is how you all didn't die when she went into her 'Jagged Crystal Skin' stance while you were beating up on her at close range.

only responding to the drain/spike/leak comment from Murder in China

and she does use 1 spell-the opening phase, Crystal Haze

as i said earlier Sekkira in my opening post

If u keep her low enough during hibernation, she wont go back into jagged, she'll continuing dying...and then after that-Crystal Bonds

We only went melee crazy after hibernation, besides, she couldnt regen nyway-burn+bleed with no non-physical atks to heal her

Yeah, agreed. I'm also largely in favor of really tough bosses and hope arenanet put some in the game in the near future. Reminds me of those old-school games that had those invincible bosses with the one little weakness that you had to continually exploit in order to beat. Too many bosses nowadays are just "beat on it for long enough till it stops moving."

As for glint, yeah, all you need is a ranger with 2 or 3 interrupts, and a monk with protective spirit. If you have those and know what to do with them, glint is cake.

Or a necro with Grenth's Balance. I watched a friend of mine almost solo Glint with it. (The rest of her party died.) She had capped it earlier that mission. Got her down to about 25% health before she made some mistake.

Oh well.

......thats not the point......, we dint have a ranger or a necro, we didnt plan to fight glint-i brought it up...

the point is, without interrupt, balance, anything else u can think of, we killed glint even through her hibernation...


O and there will b super impossible bosses in Factions-its called the Elite Missions (see GW FAQ on www.guildwars.com)

There's a ranger quest in Iron Horse Mine in which you have to kill a beastmaster boss (level 14 or 15).

Does anyone remember in the betas when the boss was lvl 28? That was such a good challenge. 20 minute fights ftw.

I did it with a ranger with barrage, dist. shot, savage shot, (I don't remember the rest of the skills I used) and 7 hench. Glint was dead in under 2 minutes.

I've experienced Glint use Jagged Crystal Skin throughout the whole battle, right up until we finished her off.

Must be some kinda update since u last did that Sekkira, we never ran into jagged after implementing the all out melee strategy

I Too have noticed Glint not resorting to Jagged Skin much.

and Leech Signet...