thirsty river

Thanks for the tip. Anyone know the strategy for doing this particular kill with mesmer plus 5 henchies? I am thinking here that once I target the monk boss to cast spells, my henchmen will also automatically go after the boss instead of the priest. I probably would need to cast backfire on the monk boss and then immediately shift my attack to the priest again to keep the henchies focused there, right?

I think with some classes this is impossible to do with henchies. It's the Monk & Monk Boss duo that's the problem. I tried many, many times with my Ra/Me and just couldn't beat that last pairing. Of course I didn't have a good enough build until after some tips from this forum! (And had missed the choking gas skill before). The henchies don't do enough damage in 30-45 secs to counter their spam healing.

This is the only mission so far I had to do with a group (an interesting experience!) although due to lack of henchie-infusedness I'll probably be forced to group again for the Moladune mission (Is this forced herding of PUGs intentional on the part of ANet?)

Also is it my imagination or does the monster difficulty randomly change? Of the 3 times our group tried for it, one of those we were totaly wiped out by 5 devourers in a minute or so. We managed (if memory serves) with 2 Warriors (one level 17), 1 Ne/Wa, 1 El?/Mo (using only monk skills), 2 Ra/Me and one El/Mo I think it was (I'm ashamed to forget the last as he/she was the most helpful person in the group! I remember the name though )

Timing of killing the priest(s) is everything. I find this the most enjoyable and fun mission of them all and have run through all the missions past this one with ease, so those that are saying the missions afterwards are harder just aren't very good or in very bad groups. I've gone all the way to Mineral Wells with just a henchie group and got my Elites "Shield of Judgement and Flourish". This game is pretty easy cept for UW/FOW. I did meet my match in those zones. lol

One time I was the last surviving player, had (3) mobs on me I'ma W/Mo, but, with my build was able to beat them and rez my entire team and we still defeated the mission. Truely a HEROIC moment for me. I love this mission.

If you thought Thirsty River was a bitch of a mission..Wait till you to T.R.O.F islands..The first mission is bloody hard as...esp. the boss @ the end...jesus christ it took us forever to beat him >_<; I cbf'ed doing the second one.

Get a mes with high domination magic constantly casting diversion/blackout on the monk boss. Diversion should shut down the next spell the boss cast for a period of time should it might be worth having for the mes to carry in the mission. If you know any air eles that has ascended and has thunderclap that might be usuful if u cast it on the boss but be prepare watch their energy bar sucking away when you do lighting damage to it
I helped my friend on this mission and I play as air ele with thunderclap it works pretty good, if you just focus on interrupt the boss to stop the healing and let the other party members to kill the priest i'm sure you could breeze through this mission without a problem.

Thanks for all the tips! I tried a few times with henchies but don't think my Mesmer is strong enough. Will try again some time soon, hopefully with a few "friends" in the group.

I think the most frustrating thing for me about this particular mission is being so dependent on teamwork and a good group. With all the groups I tried this mission with, we came darn close a few times, but were not aware of the strategy regarding the monks. Needless to say, the groups that lacked teamwork and communication failed before even getting that far.

By far the worst experiences I've had with this mission is when there was at least one impatient party member who was extremely quick to blame the failure on others, e.g. lack of healing support from the monks. It seems like we always wind up with at least one of these in the group, and because of this I just want to get this mission over and done with. (We even had one in a party who seemed to think all players should either be monks or warriors, no other character was good enough)

I was lucky in that we didn't have any 'name-calling' in the PUG I joined. I was invited by one player who I assumed would be the leader, but after that, let's just say someone who liked the sound of his own voice joined...the first thing he said to me was "The answer to your question is 'no'." Apparently he thought I would want to ask for his bow...because it was sparkly. Everytime he kept rushing the priests too quick. As I had tried solo numerous times, then read the tips here, I knew the strategy. So suggested we attack the priest at around the 1.30 mark, was then accused of wanting to be leader, to which I replied "pfft..." and was then threatened with something to the effect of 'don't pfft me, I'll come and knock you over' etc. etc,so I just stayed quiet and did what I could.
On the last group I asked "left or right group first?" to which he replied "I'll decide when we're in". I just went left (after waiting at the gate for his lead which didn't come after 10 secs!) and luckily everyone else followed.
Also this player kept saying "Careful, we don't want to be ambushed by all the other groups"...I think he thought he was in PvP? Heh, Australian teenagers...that'll teach me to continue playing until 4/5 in the morning.

We tried 3 times (tried to get a full group before going into the mission about 10 times), some people leave if you don't have 2 monks and 2 fighters, some people leave if you don't win it first time, people who name call are usually the impatient, or those who cause their own deaths. I died trying to back up above Ranger when he rushed the priest on the first group. On average we had about 3 deaths each run, but no name calling . My advice would be to let the impatient do as they wish and stay with/support those of the group who are behaving rationally and for the last of the groups of warriors/casters, before the final priests, use your skills sparingly to allow yourself enough cooldown time so you have full energy for the priest.

And the point of all this rambling? Just to let you know if you need a hand message me in-game (several times because sometimes I don't see the messages!). I'm no superhero ranger, but I'd be happy to help, so bring res

Oh! and another edit because my memory's not what it used to be.
I'm not sure about this but maybe affects the bonus? I assume the bonus is how quick you do it (something about killing all groups before the King's ghost? is frightened off). In the last group of devourers and 2 sand giants, before going up and speaking to the ghost, if you go too near the righthand wall the King starts speaking...not sure if this will trigger the starting time of the bonus or not though...probably not...

Hi Ooma,

your experiences sounds a lot like ours on the day we tried 10 or so times to do this mission. Lots of "Warriors and monks only please". A few impatients that left the group after the first failed attempt. One guy was so bold as to start broadcasting "LFG, all warriors and monks leave your current groups, they are no good". But OUR group was better from the standpoint of teamwork; we just needed a few more tries to get the strategy together.

I guess with this mission it is necessary to attempt it several times, weeding out the egoists and impatients and non-team players along the way. Thanks for your offer of help; you might get a whisper from me some time ;-). I assume you are playing on the European servers (we play on the English european).

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these missions have all been discussed in detail allready before here on gwguru.com

thirsty is all about timing.
if you kill one team, take your time and simply wait till 2.00/4.00/6.00/etc mark before attacking next team. Take one ele with maelstrom/meteorstorm or a mes with diversion/backfire for the last (monk) boss.
that's all to it.

If you get desperate, I power people through this mission all the time for 25K, and they just die and watch. Lady Blue Steel

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