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That's literally the point of the fight. It requires forethought ahead of the fight. Before you enter the story, you need to think ahead past the fight with Balt to the fight with the Eater. I changed my Guardian spec from Firebrand to Dragonhunter and changed my utilities and elites to speed and CC-related stuff. Then I just circled Joko's cage. The fight was much easier the second time around. TL;DR this is NOT a melee fight. It's a ranged fight with a strong mix of speed and CC. All classes have these abilities. You will not be able to faceroll this boss, so don't try. How exactly are you supposed to "think ahead to the fight with the Eater" when you've never gotten there before? Psychic?Of course, once people have done it and posted how the fight is and what the best tactics are, you could prepare for it specifically, but if you're playing your story like a lot of people you have no idea what the fight will entail until you're there and see. Can't prepare for something when you don't know what is needed beforehand... Once you see his life drain for the first time you can adapt your strategy. Maybe if the boss is healing back to full you need to use your brain and find out why. It's not rocket scienceThe build makes a huge difference, and when you have NOT seen the battle/foe before, you can't have prepped a build suitable for it, so you can be stuck for a long time. The build I had, couldn't burst him like some suggest, and long enough range to stay well away on Necro, staff it would take an hour to bring him down, IF I never got caught ever by his heal, since one mistake and he erased what took so lng to do. I love the posts acting like I don't know how to play and or thinking I had to have failed to beat him just because I point out that when people said to THINK AHEAD to the battle, I say that you can't when you've never seen the fight. The majority of GW2 players never come near these or other forums, so they won't have ever read about the battle before doing the story the first time. Which means that a lot of people have and will encounter that fight with builds that make it way more difficult than it would be, or so slow that they don't even want to proceed... And if they die, having to go back so far and waste so much time to get to the eater again isn't enjoyable. Earlier, someone says combat doesn't have to be fun, well, that's moronic, the point of playing the game is to enjoy it, battles should be fun. Fun doesn't mean easy, but it means not slow, tedious, or frustrating. It's the basic storyline, not high end content. The fact that groups of less skilled players can't play together to get through it makes the situation worse., not only making your friends you play with mostly useless, but making it boring as all hell for them too.

That's literally the point of the fight. It requires forethought ahead of the fight. Before you enter the story, you need to think ahead past the fight with Balt to the fight with the Eater. I changed my Guardian spec from Firebrand to Dragonhunter and changed my utilities and elites to speed and CC-related stuff. Then I just circled Joko's cage. The fight was much easier the second time around. TL;DR this is NOT a melee fight. It's a ranged fight with a strong mix of speed and CC. All classes have these abilities. You will not be able to faceroll this boss, so don't try. How exactly are you supposed to "think ahead to the fight with the Eater" when you've never gotten there before? Psychic?Of course, once people have done it and posted how the fight is and what the best tactics are, you could prepare for it specifically, but if you're playing your story like a lot of people you have no idea what the fight will entail until you're there and see. Can't prepare for something when you don't know what is needed beforehand... You are NOT supposed to defeat a boss first try!It's a boss, it requires some L2P, there's nothing wrong with thinking of a strategy, failing, and redoing it better. I can't believe most people here never played a old school RPG, or any game with decent challenge for that matter....Don't quote me in your jabbering. I replied to the person saying to think ahead. You can't "think ahead" before you've encountered the bloody foe and have no idea what his mechanics are. Think ahead and bring these specific skills and do this specific strategy without knowing what's needed? The point is, it's a drawn out process to get to the Eater, so I'm sure it was a major pain for people that failed and had to go back through all the blah blah blah. I killed him the first time, but the build I had wouldn't do it well, and as I said, ended up catching him and let minions slowly kill him, which wasn't much fun, but more fun than dying and redoing all the crap before just to get back to him.

That's literally the point of the fight. It requires forethought ahead of the fight. Before you enter the story, you need to think ahead past the fight with Balt to the fight with the Eater. I changed my Guardian spec from Firebrand to Dragonhunter and changed my utilities and elites to speed and CC-related stuff. Then I just circled Joko's cage. The fight was much easier the second time around. TL;DR this is NOT a melee fight. It's a ranged fight with a strong mix of speed and CC. All classes have these abilities. You will not be able to faceroll this boss, so don't try. How exactly are you supposed to "think ahead to the fight with the Eater" when you've never gotten there before? Psychic?Of course, once people have done it and posted how the fight is and what the best tactics are, you could prepare for it specifically, but if you're playing your story like a lot of people you have no idea what the fight will entail until you're there and see. Can't prepare for something when you don't know what is needed beforehand...

I have killed him now on every new HoT elite spec in a minute or two. Wait. what? You've gone through the story on all 9 classes in the first week of the game launch? And you ran around getting each specialization on all the classes? Does someone really have that amount of time to play a video game?

People pointing out "I solo'd it", well, having others in your group actually seemed to make it more difficult as he would heal off those players who were just mostly useless wisps of light... Really dislike the story instances where if you're playing as a group, the others in the group become a waste of time. My wife and I play through the story together, and those missions make one person mostly useless and aren't enjoyable... On Necro, axe/dagger I couldn't seem to damage him quickly enough, he'd eventually catch me with his heal... Staff for longest range is very very slow damage... Ended up jumping up on some rocks and the Eater wandered confused while minions slowly took him down. Didn't make for an enjoyable battle though.