Post by Loubell on Sept 21, 2013 21:25:03 GMT -6
Okay... so I just participated in my first non-successful Tequatl battle. And what I read during the event was a lot of people complaining about people who don't know what they're doing (strategy-wise). So I am going to post links/tips that I've found online to try to help us all get acquainted with the event (for anyone who needs/wants them). Please note: I did not come up with any of these tips, they're coming straight off the guild wars 2 forum.
Okay, this part is from me. Watch map chat and/or listen on TeamSpeak to get an idea of what people should be doing. Try to help as best you can. This is one of those events that you're probably not going to succeed in easily. Strategy matters.
If there's anything listed that doesn't actually work, please comment. If you have anything to add, please do.
For starters, here's a link to a video of a group on Blackgate's server successfully beating Tequatl Blackgate link
- If you die, use a WP and get back. Staying dead scales up the event even though you are not participating.
- Use Powerful Potion of Undead Slaying for 10% more damage against him and 10% less damage taken.
- If pure melee, try to remove poison fingers. They cause high damage to those on turrets
- People on the cannons use the number 2 skill to remove his scales. They can also remove the poison clouds around them with a skill. The others try between defending the turrets and doing
damage to tequatl.
Turrets (thanks to Broadicea.8294)
-1 Stake Thrower – Fires a stake, 1s recharge.
-2 Scale Penetration – Reduces his armor, 12s recharge (important for ensuring walls stay down and don’t interfere with DPS)
-3 Poison Cleanse (aoe) – 5s recharge
-4 Hylek Elixir (aoe) – pulses 1 stack might, fury, and quickness once per second for 8 seconds. 15s recharge (EXTREMELY useful for increasing DPS)
-5 Hylek Salve – Protection, Regen, Vigor, 5.5s ,15s recharge
So keep #4 up on stacks of melee folks, keep #2 on Teq as much as possible, and attack him with #1 which does decent damage. It is paramount that you get good people on the turrets as soon as the event is starting.
- From what I’ve noticed, his buffs appear after he gets hit by players on foot. Meaning players have to AVOID just hitting him directly in large numbers, it won’t help the event.
- You need small groups guarding the ones on the turrets, otherwise they can get easily overwhelmed by mobs.
- Best suggestion I can think of is 4 turrets dealing with Teq using #2 to take off his stacks and #1 to hit him, and the other 2 using #3 to cancel out poison and #5 to heal allies.
This is all just for the first phase, btw.
- KILL THE FINGERS. They drop the poison clouds, which kill the turret users.
Strategy Suggestion: We beat him, it takes coordination and good commanders. How we did it was, we broke up into 5 man organized teams for each turret and the rest follow 2 commanders on 2 different pathways, one left, one right and split the turrets to defend either left or right zerg.
Food/Etc Suggestion. Suggester wasn't sure if these would all stack:
Bowl of Seaweed Salad
60% chance to gain Swiftness.png Swiftness (10s) when you kill a foe
+10% damage while moving
+10 Experience from kills
Powerful Potion of Undead Slaying
+10% damage vs undead
-10% damage from undead
+10 Experience from kills
Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying
+10% Damage vs. Undead
Superior Sigil of Force
+5% Damage Damage
Strength Booster
Double-click to consume to gain a buff that increases your damage by 5% for one hour.
Okay, this part is from me. Watch map chat and/or listen on TeamSpeak to get an idea of what people should be doing. Try to help as best you can. This is one of those events that you're probably not going to succeed in easily. Strategy matters.
If there's anything listed that doesn't actually work, please comment. If you have anything to add, please do.
For starters, here's a link to a video of a group on Blackgate's server successfully beating Tequatl Blackgate link
- If you die, use a WP and get back. Staying dead scales up the event even though you are not participating.
- Use Powerful Potion of Undead Slaying for 10% more damage against him and 10% less damage taken.
- If pure melee, try to remove poison fingers. They cause high damage to those on turrets
- People on the cannons use the number 2 skill to remove his scales. They can also remove the poison clouds around them with a skill. The others try between defending the turrets and doing
damage to tequatl.
Turrets (thanks to Broadicea.8294)
-1 Stake Thrower – Fires a stake, 1s recharge.
-2 Scale Penetration – Reduces his armor, 12s recharge (important for ensuring walls stay down and don’t interfere with DPS)
-3 Poison Cleanse (aoe) – 5s recharge
-4 Hylek Elixir (aoe) – pulses 1 stack might, fury, and quickness once per second for 8 seconds. 15s recharge (EXTREMELY useful for increasing DPS)
-5 Hylek Salve – Protection, Regen, Vigor, 5.5s ,15s recharge
So keep #4 up on stacks of melee folks, keep #2 on Teq as much as possible, and attack him with #1 which does decent damage. It is paramount that you get good people on the turrets as soon as the event is starting.
- From what I’ve noticed, his buffs appear after he gets hit by players on foot. Meaning players have to AVOID just hitting him directly in large numbers, it won’t help the event.
- You need small groups guarding the ones on the turrets, otherwise they can get easily overwhelmed by mobs.
- Best suggestion I can think of is 4 turrets dealing with Teq using #2 to take off his stacks and #1 to hit him, and the other 2 using #3 to cancel out poison and #5 to heal allies.
This is all just for the first phase, btw.
- KILL THE FINGERS. They drop the poison clouds, which kill the turret users.
Strategy Suggestion: We beat him, it takes coordination and good commanders. How we did it was, we broke up into 5 man organized teams for each turret and the rest follow 2 commanders on 2 different pathways, one left, one right and split the turrets to defend either left or right zerg.
Food/Etc Suggestion. Suggester wasn't sure if these would all stack:
Bowl of Seaweed Salad
60% chance to gain Swiftness.png Swiftness (10s) when you kill a foe
+10% damage while moving
+10 Experience from kills
Powerful Potion of Undead Slaying
+10% damage vs undead
-10% damage from undead
+10 Experience from kills
Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying
+10% Damage vs. Undead
Superior Sigil of Force
+5% Damage Damage
Strength Booster
Double-click to consume to gain a buff that increases your damage by 5% for one hour.