What we have done and learnt so far in Spirit Vale

[starrifyx]

Spirit Vale - November 17th, 2015

The first 3 Guardians were fairly easy and straight-forward.

Final boss though, here's what we've done and learnt so far:
General:

1. If you die completely, you cannot be ressed.
   
2. 8 minutes in total to complete EVERY phase.
3. Note that there isn't only 2 phases, that's what we've reached so far. However, I believe it just repeats the same phases?
   

First phase: Where green circles spawn and 4 people have to stay in them, red orbs will spawn and deal damage, red teleporting circles will spawn, also got constant dmg aura.

1. Player with most toughness (it was Paul tonight lol) gets the aggro of the boss. Previously he tried running around in big circles,
2. Then we tried to stack and stand in the same spot, which seems like there were more dmg output, but quite difficult to survive if we stack in a spot as the red orbs will always go to the middle, as well as more teleporting circles spawning in the middle.
3. 4 people STAY in green circles till it goes away, generally classes with leaps or blinks are good for that job.
4. The 4 people on circle "duty" go back to the middle after each circle.
5. Calling out how many people got into the circles seemed very effective.
6. Seekers appear every 20 seconds. (Credit to Reddit post¹.)
7. The Green circles appear in the quadrant that the Boss is in. (Credit to Reddit post¹.) Does this mean we can follow the boss?

Second phase: Where the boss gets to 66% and 33%, and splits into 3 of the original Guardians as before.

1. All 10 players have to split into 3 groups: DPS for Green, Condi dmg for Red, and Boon stripping for Blue.
2. As the Boss in the first phase go INVULNERABLE, all 10 players have to go to each colored pillar so they get the right colored buffs.
   
3. If you're in Green, DODGE OUT OF TELEPORTING CIRCLES, because they will teleport you to other quadrants; (Did they only spawn in the Green quadrant? I'm not entirely sure. Yes, credit to Reddit post¹.)
   
4. Players in the wrong colored quadrants will die very quickly.
   
5. You can help other quadrants out after you've finished yours, but STAY IN YOUR QUADRANT.
   
6. Once the HP bar of each colored boss is down, players have to break their CC bars to fully kill them.
   
7. Seems like the 4-ppl green circles only spawn in the Blue quadrant, mirroring what each of these guards do before the final boss. This means there has to be 4 people for Blue guard.
   

Loot-wise:

1. 1 Magnetite Shard if you don't wipe and at least get it to 2nd phase when timer goes out. (My memory is fuzzy on this, I'm pretty sure it's the 2nd phase.)

Footnote:
¹ Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3t7ryn/spoilers_raid_vale_guardian_tips/


As of November 17th, 2015, we have so far reached getting Green and Blue boss down in the 2nd phase.

If I've missed anything, please add them below and I'll edit them to the list. ^-^

[Indigo]

Few things I've learned from last night, reading around, watching videos etc.

• DPS DPS DPS. This cant be stressed enough, we did a really good job of learning the mechanics last night but our DPS was severely lacking, are you DPS-ing as much as possible? I know not all people like to hear this but it's worth checking your builds, can you get more Power or Precision into your builds? I know my build was a little too tanky and I'll be looking to change armour stats today. 
• Staying as a pack, this as we quickly discovered allowed 2 things, we could put out much more dps and it made the healers job a lot easier also as all the water fields were easy to place on the stack.
• Only 1 healer is really necessary, we had pretty much 2 people healing consistently, and if we stay as a pack more, we should only need 1.
• Mango Pies are perhaps a good food option for the constant heals.
• BLAST Finishers, we were lacking blasts yesterday. A Shortbow Thief on the circle team might help there. 
• We lacked a condition damage player, we had 2 but could have really used a 3rd for the vale guardian.
• Between 150 and 400 Magnetite shards are needed for an Ascended Armour Chest purchase. 250 for a 1 handed weapon, 500 for a 2 handed weapon. To unlock the Magnetite merchant you need to defeat the Vale Guardian and unlock the mastery.

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Maybe i'm wrong but, do you believe would be useful a Chrono with 27 seconds of AoE Alacrity and 24 seconds of AoE Quickness every 90 seconds? I'm not a pro but this combo is not hard to do and raise the DPS (plus the Chrono can still use a full assassin/berseker gear).

My 2 cents.

[Indigo]

So we had another set of runs last night, some new things I learned.

• 3 condition damage players would be optimal, it kinda worked with 2 but it was slow.
  
• Single target damage seems to be preferred to AoE's, they're easier to hit for the individual and it's easier for myself to tank the Vale Guardian
• The way I tanked it last night was better but I can do a better job of it, and I think I have some simple techniques to stop the Guardian moving so much. So melees can use burst skills and aoes are easier to hit.
• When the boss splits to 3, 3 people on red (the condi players), 6 people on blue, 1 person on green seemed to work best with the blue team heading to green as soon as blue is down.
• We had 1 person on healing last night and with the way I was tanking I didn't see a lot of people dropping, we were much more grouped up. The healer was also in the circle group keeping them topped up as they were taking damage from the circles.
• Circle group should always have the ranged DPS in it, all melees should be on top of the tank as much as possible.
• Our group last night was a little ranged heavy, we could do with another melee or 2.
• Class diversity was pretty good.
• We definitely had our best runs last night, getting it to 50% before wiping twice and time still on the clock.

[paul]

I think if I try again (I will) I'll have a look at using greatsword for DD against the Vale Guardian; obviously that puts me in the circle group. Then switch to more condis for the red guy.

Prof if you can keep that sort of alacrity up for everyone it sounds like it'd be super helpful. 50% faster skill recharge for oodles if time? Yes please. I run chrono but haven't really looked too closely at the trait line beyond what makes my build work - and to that end can't be as much of a time lord cos I really need the utilities for other things than wells. What do you think Indi? 2 mesmers viable? Prof could certainly keep boonstrip up if he runs sword/something, too, so that'd be that task under wraps too.

Either that or I'll bring Teekap as DPS/boon factory. I've not felt so terribly useful on the vale guard, but that's probably cos you don't get to see big numbers when you hit condis. Think something needs to change up so I can be of more use anyway.

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Alacrity AoE can be applied to 5 targets and is cumulative:
The Chronomancer can give 28,5 seconds of Alacrity and 24 seconds of Quickness with this combo (2 illusions needed) :
Continuum Split » Time Warp (12s Quickness) » Well of Recall (9,5s Alacrity) » Mimic » Well of Recall (9,5s Alacrity) » Well of Recall (9,5s Alacrity) » Time Warp (12s Quickness)

Well of Recall can be cast again before the Alacrity effect is gone so, we reach 38 seconds of Alacrity and 24 seconds of Quickness every 60/70 seconds circa.

If someone want i can try to test that with dummies at Lion's Arch. I'll try that with this build bit.ly/1PA7Hsi

[Rugiviet]

dulfy.net/2015/11/20/gw2-vale-guardian-raid-boss-guide/