The Overpowered Bosses?

Post. Of. The. Year.

Really though, the only problem I have with it is that it causes henching things to be literally impossible without severely altering your build JUST so that you can fight bosses and not be torn up like paper mache. One of this game's selling points is the ability to AVOID those horrid PUGs and roll with henchies for many things. Traveling from town to town should not be something that requires a Monk with Reversal of Fortune AND Orison of Healing, or a W/Mo with Bane Signet. Agreed. I don't mind a challenge. However, the combination of over powered ele (one hit kill) bosses & the extreme stupidity of henchy res'ing, makes getting passed these bosses extremely frustrating and tedious.

If the bosses are to remain as they are, fine, fix the dang henchy res'ing logic! It is VERY broken as we all know.

Fun times in Raisu Palace...

In all seriousness however, while I would prefer that ANet made a group of equal level monsters for hard fights rather than single huge bosses, it would be much more difficult to write up the AI for that.

In the meantime, enjoy the big numbers HOLY SH!T

all pve is piece of shit ups cake. very ez to beat just bring right skill and tactics + hencies is usefull if u know how to use it all pvp is piece of cake. very ez to beat just bring right skill and tactics and there are no bosses, or drops.

Back on topic though. If some of those overpowered ele bosses were henchman I would use them more often. There are plenty of threads about ele's not doing enough damage, and then you come up on one of these bosses and are like WTFBBQ!?

-132 from a Barrage hit. FFS fix your game already. This is funny because normal Shadow Archers in FoW hit me for 100+ with barrage already.

I got advanced skill hunter with henchies, ele bosses just take some domination magic and interrupts, and they die.

try taking down tarnen the bully outside HzH in ferndale... he can single-handedly take down and entire army of henchies :O I've never had any trouble with him, nor have I ever really had any trouble with any of the bosses particularly. Yes you might die a few times but they're not as hard as everyone makes out. I done pretty much all of the game with henchies as I'm too lazy and impatient to wait for a group and I have experts/masters on most of my missions. You just need to play the game patiently and actually consider your skillbar.

Well, i remember getting hit for an arc lightning from a boss for 280 dmg. Well i can say that my team went down pretty fast. The henchman just follow me everywhere, the casters don't spread out and we all get hit by chain lightnings and stuff like that.
The elementalist bosses are just way too powerfull. I have to pack up ward against elements on my ele all the time to protect my teams casters if we face an ele boss. Had the same problem with a Rit boss, hit me for a instant 330 dmg Channelled Strike, and I agree about ele bosses, the one in Ferndale incinerated the henchies in about 4 seconds, and the comment about Fast Casting is very true, I play a Mes with maxxed out Fast Casting and I wish I could cast as fast as the regular mobs sometimes let alone bosses.

Well I went out to try and cap charge today that elite skill that allows you +25% speed whilst not effecting stances.

OK so I found it on the map and took me about 3 mins to sight the boss.

Sunreach Warmaker is his name and he wields a hammer and has some really nasty KD moves.

Well fine I figured I'd try lure them out and take a few of the adds down one at a time, nope all my hench die we can't kill a single one of the guys sorrounding him and I rage quit thinking he can keep his damn charge. : /

Mind you his mobs consisted of 2 x spirit , 2 x Earth ele's, 2x forest warden(hammer warriors) and another type forget them now. There just seemed no way to get a look in at killing him , like his adds had all their bases covered. 'k, this boss can be a pain, but only reaching him. when you killed the groups around him, you just run in, run around some bit, wait until the eles used their AoE spell (churning earth or something :/), then take them out, the rits after, the normal warriors that are a joke last and the warrior for the end. the hench should be totally able to take care of that. but i suggest killing another boss that has it, the 1 in jade sea are way easier >_> (gyala explo, just evade some groups and you can reach him by killing 1-2 enemie groups, or the one in unwaking, just die, you get rezzed, kill 3-4 easy groups and youll find him in a weak group of outcast peeps)

the ele bosses are by far the most annoying one. the one in ferndale somehow killed me instantly on the first try (well, to be precise; he killed the whole group with a fireball...which isnt really possible)

the dragon dude in unwaking waters was mean as well, but that somehow wasnt a problem to kill. just make sure not to stay at one place, and hope that they all wont ride at your direction =P

the one in cavalon was probably the worst one...i and the hench are half dead when crossing the spiked stuff, then he somehow attacks me without me aggrong him, so after like 15 times of death penaltys, i had an idea which actually worked :P hench were casters only, aurora and daimien (?), and i played the tanker. prot spells + mist form. worked good, no instant death for the group, and they killed him from a safe distance.

tho, i have to say, i love them being stronger, gives you a nice challenge with henchman. when i go do some missions in tyria now, its pretty impressive how weak they are rofl! just hilarious -.- you get bored so easily :P

In that are with sunreach are 4 different bosses. One is right next to sunreach.
Me and couple of my friends used to farm there. We took all of them out preety easy, all you've got to do is agro them well. in no time you'll separate minions and boss, and then it's a piece of cake.

But i had problems with that dredge with shove. With that two healers, there is just NO WAY you can kill them.
Dredge gardeners are IMO the most anoying mobs i can think of! Nobody can heal THAT fast Oh the guy with shove in ferndale, I found- rather stumbled on a way to easily take him out. When I was doing that Black Moa quest I started from the town past the Heltzar and worked my way back there. Well when I came to him from behind the area where the bugs and stuff are he killed me almost instantly with his kronies. So 2nd time round I ran thru them all and as I crossed to the other side the bug guys aggroed him and killed them all gardners as well. =)

Oh, Mokone I tried a few different things to take the sunreach guy down but sadly he's the only one I can get at atm. I havent completed Waking waters yet so dont have that as an explorable region and likewise for the hatchery. I have got prophercies now but not too sure where the boss for charge is to cap it there.

I'll try those suggestions and maybe get him down sometime, I'm open to changing my 2nd proff if I need to as well.

Anything... anybody... but Kurvie Firewing. I was fighting random Shiro'ken guys in the Unwaking Waters explorable area and I saw that guy. Me and my team of henchies had a +4 morale boost and it was only Kurvie and his 2 dragon minions! We died in less than 10 seconds... And than i was hoping for a respawn and it said my party was defeated and to please return to outpost! Oh well, I'll never try to fight that guy again with henchies.... I managed to take down Kurvie Firewing with Henchies. That is in NO WAY to say that he is easy - I completely agree with you that he is way to harsh. It took me over one and a half hours to cap him, after an hour I had to go back to the outpost since I had a 60% dp, and started again. I feel what makes him harder is:

a) the fact that when he spots you so have NO TIME to prepare yourself - he's onto you, pummelling the hell out of you due to his elite spell.
b) the sheer volume of Onis which spawn around him when you get anywhere hear him, like his own personal bodyguards.

I feel Wavecrest Stonebreak (in Rhea's Crater) is way overpowered also. His cronies are easy to take down, but Wavecrest simply will not just SIT DOWN. Me and a friend tried just exploring the crater with 6 henchies. We killed Wavecrest's buddies, Wavecrest killed our Henchies, we backed off, and Wavecrest dondered on on his merry way, without a care in the world.