My FIRST Raid In Guild Wars 2 Was A Revelation

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Having completed Heart of Thorns and Living World Season 3, he was able to FINALLY fulfil the goal of project MMO and step into Guild Wars 2's first raid, and boy was it interesting.
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - The Rules
01:53 - Vale Guardians. Wing 1 Boss 1
03:40 - Gorseval. Wing 1 Boss 2
05:31 - Sabetha (Iron Maidens). Wing 1 Boss 3
10:29 - Slothazor. Wing 2 Boss 1
11:49 - Bandit Trio. Wing 2 Boss 2
15:28 - Matthias. Wing 2 Boss 3
17:54 - Escort/McLeod. Wing 3 Boss 1
19:22 - Keep Construct. Wing 3 Boss 2
21:15 - Twisted Castle Jumping Puzzle
22:56 - Xera. Wing 3 Boss 3
26:28 - Cairn the Indomitable. Wing 4 Boss 1
29:16 - Mursaat Overseer. Wing 4 Boss 2
31:08 - Samarog. Wing 4 Boss 3
34:18 - Deimos (Lich King). Wing 4 Boss 4
42:22 - Final Thoughts
44:34 - Outtakes/BTS
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[@Preachgaming]

Having completed Heart of Thorns and Living World Season 3, he was able to FINALLY fulfil the goal of project MMO and step into Guild Wars 2's first raid, and boy was it interesting. Have you tried raiding in Guild Wars 2, what did you think? Drop a comment, we'd love to know.

[@SpanishProgressive]

By the way, you don’t have to kill the add in the “Garbo” add fight, you can just CC him and leave, that’s how most people would do it! Feel like it’s not too big of a spoiler on an annoying fight. Also, you could try the raids in the challenge mode, instead of easy mode, since it seems like a lot of the “inexperienced” people are already playing meta builds.

[@shperax]

It's got a huge problem with dead content. Here's what I mean and a good example. Mount quest. In order to do a certain mount quest, you need to kill a specific Champion that requires at least 3-6 players. You can shout for help, you can queue up in LFG and you can, at times, sit there for hours and hours while no one cares to come help or also happens to be on that quest. With other parts of the game, like once you hit Heart of Thorns, you are completely reliant on finding a pack of other players to rotate through map events. Without that pack of players, the grind is unbearable for most players. I get the point of it's a MMO and meant to be played with others, but at the times when there is no one to play with, the game becomes impossible. If someone were to try and get through Heart of Thorns and everyone is playing End of Dragons, good luck on trying to get through that content. In most Heart of Thorns areas, you are lucky to see 1 or 2 other players just passing through to mop up challenges or mastery points. The entire problem is just getting worse as more expansions release and the majority of players move onto the new content. It leaves the old content barren wastelands, with newer players struggling to progress through old content. This is probably one of the bigger reasons the game bleeds player base so badly once the big crowd has finished new content. The game can't gain and retain new players.

[@Fiercesoulking]

I played all types of content in Gw2 but raids only the first boss and escort xD The reason why raids aren't popular in Gw2 is most of the players are causal but in addition to this class lock and dps check made it worse. Especially class lock is so bad in GW2 they never open up the supporters so all can do the needed boons instead they kept nerving unique boons into obliven. They had a phase after the start of PoE where at least for dps everyone found their spot . The last 18 months before EoD were nightmarish suddenly super grindy content, fractals and raids got cancelled and balance was so I couldn't play my Elementist in fractals cms anymore like so many other classes. Yes I quit (but still have to play EoD at some point)

[@Nr4747]

You should definitely check out the raid cinematics for wing 4, especially the end cinematic after defeating Deimos. It ties very well into Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 lore and is also very relevant to the Living World Season 3 and onwards.

[@dariocarrasco1728]

ok you changed the title screen why tho

[@sloqcephiroth]

22:49 Audio clues are a thing in this game "Watch your step. Something feels out of place here."

[@kyoschi4396]

😂 i laught so hard

[@ablair24]

Here's some additional context about raids. When raids were first introduced with HoT, they were HARD. The base game did not have raids, so there was no pre-established community for this content. There were some hard-core groups out there, but the majority of the player base didn't know what made groups strong. Squads were a new feature too, the idea of subgroups didn't exist, the knowledge of how strong boons were was starting to become mainstream, and the skill level to go from casual to raider was a big barrier for many. You can get through the entire base game without ever reading tooltips or understanding how boons work. Now all of a sudden these skills are mandatory, plus you need to know your character well enough to perform your role, plus you need to learn how to track multiple mechanics at once. For the majority of players, it was too much, so they didn't bother. Maybe they cleared 1-2 bosses, but the effort it took to train wasn't appealing to a lot of players. This killed the raiding community. Anet wanted to put out more raids because, well, that's what MMOs do and part of the playerbase wants them. The problem is it took so much development time and effort, that they couldn't work on other things simultaniously. This is why raid wings took so long to come out. Then when a raid does debut, no one plays it because the community is so small. It's hard to justify the developer resources needed for something 10% of the playerbase will play. They had different ideas on how to fix it, but finally with the latest expansion, EoD, they seemed to have settled on Strike missions, which can be developed alongside existing pieces of content. EoD is their first true outing in what strike missions can offer imo. Very excited to see how they continue developing them in the future!

[@fabianodorer4172]

also in the beginning ther where not many classes who cut give bones, just Chrono was vieble for alac and quicknes and warrier for might.

[@zsocash]

True words, to be honest even if Arenanet would release a perfectly balanced, totally perfect raid wing, the majority of players still would not be interested. The reason is simple, it was always like that ever since GW2 was released. In core game I was a dungeoneer and the case was the exact same. It is what it is and it will not change with Strike Missions for sure. Those who do Strikes are the same people doing raids honestly. 90% of the player base in GW2 are casuals, playing an hour a week, or playing daily but only in open world maps. Luckily for us more dedicated players, that remaining 10% of the playerbase is still decent enough in numbers to always have groups to play the hardest pve contents with.

[@goodshowmanythanks]

Still struggling to grasp what people who play this game actually *do*.

[@SttravagaNZza]

@@goodshowmanythanks They play the game. Other MMO feel like you have a string you follow. This is more like playing Minecraft, you login and do whatever you feel to.

[@DerAnanasbaum]

To be fair, the early raiding community was *very* exclusionary, especially in the pug department; and that didn't really get much better until a few years ago

[@GunnGuardian]

One major reason the Wing 1-4 are all over the place difficultly-wise is that DPS Power creep affected them differently. A big example is Slothazor and Matthias. Matthias got nerfed hard by better access to quickness and Alacrity but Slothazor has a lot of invulerable phases and non-dps mechanics so it's stayed much harder. They were much closer difficultly-wise at launch (some would say Matthias was harder) but now Matthias is a joke and Slothazor is a PuG Killer.

[@cel8888]

Matthias is still a pug killer ( unless you have an hscrg )

[@AzuraeJades]

Matthias is a joke until someone put his poison in the last fountain available by mistake. It doesn't mean it's not possible to win the fight, but that kind of dumb moves are comon in raids, unless you play only with very experienced people.

[@jakepepper5854]

that add transition was phenomenal

[@shadowhawx]

I just hopped in here to say this, lol

[@taganwilliamson34]

True art haha

[@Nr4747]

Deimos hardmode used to be ridiculously difficult before it got hit with its first set of nerfs because of tons of (sometimes) randomly overlapping mechanics - and almost all mechanics being extremely lethal on hardmode at the time. For example: Everybody had to dodge/distort every ground smash he does or they would instantly get thrown of the platform - which meant that you had to perfectly coordinate the dodge direction when the teleport circle appeared at the same time or someone would not get ported downstairs, which was an instant wipe.

[@Dreamfillah]

It's not exactly perfect, but it's interesting that the timeframe of raid wipe one-shot mechanics matches with Legion being out when Deimos was released, albeit before 7.2

[@stuartrobertson5062]

Sounds like Mythic Archimonde in HFC

[@HelloFellowMellowMarshmallow]

Haven’t done any raids but that sounded like a rooded up version of Boneskinner’s “walk left” that a lot of people still can’t get used to hahaha.

[@dylanwarwick4429]

@@HelloFellowMellowMarshmallow yes and no, rather, there's a mechanic that pugs LOVE to fail in deimos and it's a squad wiper.

[@lostsanityreturned]

@@HelloFellowMellowMarshmallow Fun fact, boneskinner has actual mechanics... people just ignore them with healing, damage mitigation boons, stab and dodges.

[@ThatGaudyFox]

Genuinely can't wait to see you do the Path of Fire Raids. The Path of Fire Raids are just so well-made and mechanically fluid that they blow the HoT Raids out of the water, and they're definitely a step up in difficulty.

[@alexandrospapadopoulos4297]

I want his opinion on Dhuum, probably my favorite GW2 boss.

[@baronoke5432]

pepelaugh yet another escort mission

[@mrdorak]

I can't wait for them to spend hours trying wing 5, oh boy.

[@alexandrospapadopoulos4297]

Yeah I wasn't at the part where he said it took 7 hours for Deimos... Wing 5 will indeed be interesting!

[@Netster1]

Hi Preach, as someone who quit GW2 in 2019 having achieved almost everything in the game, I know I'm not really the target audience but I have enjoyed watching your journey SO much. Being able to relive that new player, new content, experience through you has been so entertaining and brought back so many good memories. I'm really looking forward to watching you -play through EoD as I've never played it myself and for the first time in four years I feel like I could be tempted to play GW2 again. A big thank you for the time and effort you're making to showcase this great game.

[@xHeigoux]

I'm pretty much the same. got 8k hours in gw 2 and completed every single pve achievement, inclusing hidden achievements and all collections. towards the end I was only really logging in to fullclear raids and occasionally do fractals although I was already full legendary and didn't need the gold. Had a great time with the game, but all things come to an end. And right now I'm having much more fun playing stuff like secret of mana and chrono trigger for the first time :) I don't know if I'll ever play anoother mmorpg in my life. I might try out ashes of creation when that comes out. I've also had an itch to play eve online for the last 15 years, but that would probably be a huge time investment.

[@TDQ_Gaming]

I'm fairly certain that escort quests are game designers White Whale. They wont feel complete until they create an escort quest that isn't universally hated.

[@timogul]

"I shall be the one to craft the Good Escort Quest!"

[@ikeaira8701]

imo if they just increased the NPC's speed 3x, Escort Quest wouldn't be as bad. Or at Least make the NPC's speed as fast as the Player Character(s)...

[@ASpaceOstrich]

I suspect Escort Quests are one of those things that, on paper, should be good, but for some reason just feel like shit in practice. I wonder if you replace the npc you're escorting with a payload you're pushing it changes things? Cause everyone hates escort quests but considerably less people hate payload escorts and they're basically the same thing when you break them down.

[@ikeaira8701]

@@ASpaceOstrich I feel people "like" payload escorts more is because generally they're faster. Hardly any time is wasted lollygagging around, waiting for the NPC to finish some bs animation that has them run off the path. Payloads, they're straight to the destination with some mobs that may slow ya down for half a second.

[@leonardceres9061]

this is great for you and your friends preach because you guys have ready-made groups to get together and figure this stuff out and have fun with it. Meanwhile, everyone else has to search and bag and scrounge around to cobble together a party and then the first one or two times the group wipes, while trying to figure out a strategy, people start getting butt hurt and leaving group and those that stay become belligerent jerks. Most of these games that are out today would be amazing. IF you had a great group of like-minded individuals with the maturity and tenacity, to have fun while figuring out the mechanics of a fight. But there in lies the rub.

[@W4lhalla]

As someone who raided in GW2 back then. Good to see people can still enjoy them. Also surprised to hear that raid participation from the get go was quite low. Remember Anet saying that it was much higher than they expected after they released them. There were quite a few problems with GW2 raiding. One was rooted in how how braindead most of the content was were you could beat most content just by pressing 1. And raids suddenly require an entire skillset that GW2 didn't even teach. But the one that killed the raiding community was on Anet itself. It was the infrequent releases, paired with atrocious raid marketing and classic Anet communication. Waiting time between third and fourth wing was like over 9 months, with no one in the community knowing if Anet would release another wing. And when the fourth wing was released, it turned out to be the easiest of them all... And the classic Anet combination kept going. PoF raids had infrequent releases with strange communications and plans for raids that changed every update ( For example, Anet had 2 raid teams for a while to make releases more frequent but it went to no where and releases were still infrequent ). And after the last PoF raid, there was no communication at all about the future of raiding from Anet. ( Until one small dev forum post revealed that they benched developing raiding for quite a while ). For the Raid bosses. Well there are some quite fun bosses out there. Slothasaur was THE boss were the devs were just having fun doing stuff. Surprised that you like Keep Construct, it was quite a disliked boss in the community, due to bugs, ugly telegraph overlap and rng deciding if you kill ghosts or if everyone gets bombs. Deimos was also a very fun and involved fight... if you weren't the hand kiter. You basically bring in a class whose only job was to not engage the boss and get touched by his hands over and over... The existence of this role is quite a big flaw since this turns a 10 man fight into a 9 man fight.

[@ginbim]

It's really so sad that despite the raids had initially multiple dev teams working parallel with an ambituos plan to release about six wings a year the actual inconsistent launch schedule and lack of communication of it left the fans being frustrated and understandably very disappointed. There was clearly an exciting potential in raids as a concept and especially their later designs were really promising but the constant restructuring and impactful layoffs of the time undoubtedly resulted something nobody wanted to happen and it was handled very poorly to say the least.

[@kellanjones5588]

I was a diehard GW1 fan when i was younger and played a bit of GW2 when it first came out. I love seeing a blind approach to this content. Great video guys!! Keep em coming

[@akoskustos6472]

Fun fact: as soon as you go into speedrunning these filler events and event based bosses like escort and twisted castle become one of the most interesting content. For escort you are basically playing on the edge the whole time and 1 wrong move or mistimed skill resets the fight. In twisted castle you bring classes with specific mobility skills to skip everything and move kinda out of bounds. During W2 bandit trio you also want to bring specific classes and prepare the next event with portals and jumping to places you basically should not be able. W5 also has this, but I do not want to spoil anything. And these have a lot more variaty and time saving potential than bosses.

[@kungsmurfen]

Any oilers?

[@VulpineDemon]

I'm going ot call Defile "Oil" now because apparently two games can't have different mechanic names.

[@TheFreestylecamel]

Can't wait to watch your adventures for the remaining raid wings. Really love you content!

[@Nope-lj5uc]

love it, going to be following your raid journey closely

[@Musicaddictly]

Preach, you playing GW2 is so rad to see. Watching your journey has been amazing, thanks for the awesome content. Cheers!

[@KotMatroskin]

Big yes on Xera making your heart jump into your throat. I raided for a couple years on and off, and this fight always made me sit on the edge of my seat. The music in it is just absolutely amazing. The dialogue that boss has and the voice delivery - awe striking. Such an amazing boss! Gives me goosebumps every single time. I remember trying to tank and learning the clock and the Krytan number notation and drawing diagrams on a piece of paper. :D Amazing boss! ++

[@srarts123]

As a note for bandit trio, if you break their defiance bar before they set up the mortars, you don't need to kill the add and can jump back immediately. This is probably something you know now but generally you have somebody with AoE cc skills that can handle it. The bosses themselves actually are kind of interesting as before you read them there are journals explaining their weaknesses which ties to the interactable objects around the arena. Burg is alergic to bees so the bee hives debuff him, Zane abuses the wargs so the wargs do high damage to him, and Nurella's oil barrel fumes are highly combustible so they burn her when you throw them on top of her. It's an annoying encounter for more veteran players as it is a lot of waiting for the mechanics to happen, but it is pretty well thought out Also I don't think the reason raids aren't done by probably 90% of the community and the move to strikes is because of that, but rather the raid community for a long time was extremely toxic. They would require 50+ kills on a boss just to join the group and on the other hand a large majority of players said "I want to the play the game my way, I don't want to have to learn a rotation and gear out a specific way" so it created a huge divide between the experienced and inexperienced players in the game. Many of those players even to today believe raids are extremely toxic while more LFGs don't require any kill proof at all anymore. The other reason for them to move to strikes, and anet has said this multiple times, is because they take less time to develop. The strikes in EoD are all rehashes of story fights made for a party of 10 and they can push out a single boss encounter instead of having to develop an overarching story and set of bosses to fit that story. I personally don't like the strikes nearly as much as the raid encounters because normal is really easy and the challenge motes just aren't fun imo.

[@sithpanda]

I really love what you did here. Blind raiding is fun, if you can do it. It sounds especially challenging without clues and some of the ridiculousness that ensued.. BUT, it also sounds like there were some hidden gems. I do feel the disappointment of how quickly the final, and hidden, phase went down. There was an initial burst of excitement of something new and then, it's dead? lol. GREAT VIDEO!

[@elementotv2893]

Thanks for trying out GW2 and giving it a fair chance. Loving the streams and videos

[@Trisander]

Preach these videos are honestly so fun to watch please keep them coming

[@aid4nski215]

I respectfully disagree, I like the sort of sidequests (shovel some artifacts, defeat bandits) that they do between bosses since they also give some more worldbuilding, and secrets related to the boss. And I really like how some in between boss quests are a chase scene, just shoveling through rubble, bandits and bees, because it gives a change of pace (than just dps-ing 1 singular big boss and doing mechanics) that I personally really like... (and also because i'd consider myself good at platforming jumping puzzles -3- )

[@fozz3498]

Loved the fact you are drinking a beer while explaining the twisted castle. Hilarious - you need one after completing it haha.

[@andresrodriguez9841]

OMG the transition to the AD was marvelous hahah. GJ.

[@sinchill5424]

Woot, been waiting on this video. So excited to see how you handle wing 5 ;) rofl!

[@kyoschi4396]

7 h for deimos sooo…. 14 h for mr.death?

[@G8Thunder]

Can't wait for you to get to the strike missions! Also look forward to seeing your D2 videos; I don't play it a ton, but I think it's a really cool game.

[@Djynni]

As a GW2 AND WoW player I'm really enjoying your perspective.

[@jesseganzel2142]

Cant wait to see your D2 content! D2 raids are super different and youll enjoy them. No mandatory* trash between bosses in raids, just glorious visuals and some crazy jump puzzles. Love the GW2 content. I was super Hype when it came out but waffled on the lukewarm reception. Plus WoW at the time was my peak raiding, so i didnt pick it up. Seeing the content through you is awesome.

[@Nathdood]

yay been waiting for a new GW2 video! sick shirt btw \m/

[@michaeladamson1729]

Nice skill share. Good work.

[@joaomachado9105]

crazy awesome video :D

[@FanOfKOTOKO]

It's been a hot minute since I played but IIRC the first four wings runs somewhat parallel to near the end of Heart of Thorns and alongside Living World season 3, and ultimately concludes a story-line from GW1.

[@KuroSy]

Great video! Finding out about an encounter without knowledge is really fun! I just want to add a note. Prior 2022 the team comp was very strict in terms of what class you had to bring. We had a lot of "jails" but during the last years anet opened a lot more opportunities for supports and boon bringers. There's more freedom of playstile and thanks to easy mode and strikes i do feel like raids are being more tackled by the gw2 community lately! I hope anet will consider bringing back raids when the community gets more into them! I also feel like content creators like you may have a big impact on that as well! :3

[@AlbertHoltsclaw]

That skillshare transition. You sneaky bastard.

[@Xariann]

This is very informative, finally a video about endgame I can relate to as a WOW Player. It gives me an idea of whether I want to invest time into raiding.

[@kxmode]

13:52 That was a flawless segue into your sponsor. So smooth that I watched the whole thing because I was like "damn that was smooth."

[@cujoegaming5277]

Great to see your journey in GW2! I like raiding and strikes a lot here but am not so much a fan of fractals and the whole collection system. But luckily the MMO RPG market is imo better than ever and I just play the stuff I like and ignore all things I don't like in games these days and aimply play multiple games at a time. Have fun on your journey.

[@Orakio]

I'm excited to see your reactions to Wings 5 -7.

[@MrFerretsRevenge]

Great vid Preach

[@Tessa_Ru]

I am just, so delighted to hear about the escort quest and the labyrinth thing. Like I would HATE to actually have to do it, but it feels very on-brand with my experiences with the exploration 😂

[@CrimsonSun88]

You do get rewarded in Twisted Castle. I think a lot of the events involving mobs in-between fights give LI for Legendary Armor as well other goodies.

[@Jaydo]

Almost all of the biggest complaints are the things that get extremely easy or take zero time or effort once you understand the encounters over time. W3 Escort, and Twisted Castle both get super fast, super easy. Samarog subphase gets nuked by a push, a pull, and an immob. To put things into context my group does W1-4 in under two hours every week with a few CMs, and we're not reallyt *that* fast. I think one problem with blind raiding in this game is that it's typically done by players who still don't know the mechanics of the base game. To be fair, this can take a long time for people because the game does a terrible job of teaching you about anything.

[@jozzetv]

Also the bosses themselves are really fast encounters. The biggest issues about time, is switching between encounters (trash in between and how to get past it) and player downtime. Waiting for player to take a bio break, someone at the door, phone, getting a drink, switching the build, getting gear from another toon. All of this costs so much time. If you eliminate all that stuff you get a full clear of w1-7 (with some CMs or even all of them) in around 3h.

[@Azsharah]

You guys better prepare, cuz wing 5 is like nothing you’ve ever had before in gw2. Wings 1-4 are actually tied thematically into a gw1 story arc, and was made specifically for it (this is why you guys did not understand a single thing about the story). Wing 5 is a bit similar, meaning gw1 players will know what the wing is about, and wings 6 and 7 are tied to path of fire expansion. Can’t wait to see how you guys will progress in w5! GL and GJ with project MMO so far!

[@nicolefrench2968]

Each game should be relatively self-contained from a lore perspective with adequate resources available to get a general understanding of the needed lore for following a story. I’ve always felt like I was missing out on Lore in GW2. It’s for reasons like this.

[@RedNuii]

@@nicolefrench2968 they explain everything you need to know about gw1 in gw2 through cinematic recaps and lore books

[@nicolefrench2968]

@@RedNuii Can’t definitively disagree. But if they are present, I was never guided towards them. I actually don’t think I’ve seen a single lore book… I’ve seen a few pages, engravings, or tablets that maybe have a paragraph written that I have no context for so most of the information goes over my head. Maybe other people can connect paragraph 1 about some random person read at level 20 in Brisbon Wilds with paragraph 2 read in Ore a month later in your journey about the same person. I usually dont make the connection. The extent of what I remember is usually, “that name sounds familiar.”

[@SoFishtry]

@@nicolefrench2968 GW2 literally shits lore books. If you've never seen one, there's no saving you lmao

[@RedNuii]

@@nicolefrench2968 No flame, but realistically gw2 doesnt guide you to anything. But all through the story it shits out lore books as the other comment said. But I still respect your opinion. :)

[@yeti25934]

I'd love to see a revisit of the raid wings with experienced raiders once you're done with your tour of the game, I wonder if/how your opinion would change if you were privy to the strats used by experienced raiders nowadays

[@LilyNaikiir]

also, a quick tip regarding the people of the raid group who didn't get the deimos kill: if they are the ones to open the instance, it'll open up at deimos and you can help them get the kill (which should be quick since you now know what to do)

[@TheRedGauntlet]

You will have a wild time with the final boss of Wing 5

[@JosephSaintClair]

As a previous hardcore wow raider (upto bfa)and a long time gw2 player. You hit the nail on the head. Looking forward to you getting through pof stuff. I think I know what your reaction will be like. Either way. Looking forward to you clearing wing 5. Also looking forward to giggling a bit with your experience with IBS strikes then seeing you do eod strikes. Note: worth doing also doing some of the eod world events for filler!!!

[@zakuraayame5091]

haven't watched for a while, but when he said 'here we have a floor' ... I finished up with 'now we have to inspect it!'

[@SApcGUY]

been waiting for this video to drop for weeks!

[@Alkhaldi92]

I have around 3k LI and 250 KP on almost every boss, it is always fun to see new players joining raids for the first time. Heck, I don't have static and I always clear my weekly raids with pugs/lfg and sometimes I even clear them in a TRAINING run, even though it takes twice the time for a normal clear, however, when we finally clear the whole wing it just feels amazing :) I truly hope one day that Anet focuses on raids more often, maybe make it more easier for the casual players to join raids. I really don't want this part of the game to die =(

[@Scrydragon]

Slothazor appears to be almost identical to one of the fights in Highmaul in WoD -- Brackenspore. With Brackenspore, you had to use the flamethrowers to clear the creeping moss off the ground.

[@zooleebest]

I was fortunate to be able to witness most of this because his stream start before i went home from work. The heartbreak on those first 2 hours of deimos. XD

[@_bits_and_bytes]

Really happy to hear Preach is continuing to play GW2

[@kingvonderwelt5090]

Man that final deimos phase really is way too short. He looks freaking epic there!

[@daze4135]

Nah, if they made the fight longer, you'd quickly run out of playable area as more oils and hands still spawn. It's better to think that at 10% Deimos is effectively dead and the last phase is just for spectacle

[@fynale2049]

@@daze4135 *defiles*

[@daze4135]

@@fynale2049 **OILERS**

[@Xbob42]

@@daze4135 ...they could just spawn less of them, or none at all. There's no reason they have to keep spawning, lol.

[@daze4135]

@@Xbob42 then what would be the point of a no-mechanics epic 3rd phase?

[@ginbim]

OILERS! And your mount is not a panda. :D And one more thing: YeahBoi!

[@RedNuii]

Don’t forget MIGHT = RIGHT

[@porcin3proph3t4]

rgw issue with your sabatha theory is how long it takes to develop raid encounters. Its highly unlikely they could cop that out and develop it that quick. Possible? maybe

[@jrdougan]

I could imagine different game devs doing it that fast. But not Anet, not then.

[@ginbim]

@@jrdougan when W1-3 was in production there were three dedicated raid dev teams working parallel on 3 wings at once. Then they even announced in an Anet live stream that they would make about six wings a year with the resources they got. But then the whole dev team had to go through a major restructuring and apparently the raid dev resources were seriously cut to do other works. Before that the three teams were capable of producing three boss encounters in less than two months.

[@NeoTV01]

I would have loved to have a timestamp of your raidprogress, to tell how much time u needed to defeat each wing, i remember when i got starteted in raiding that it took 2-3 raiddays to get VG down. And i'd love to see how its know with the powercreep or raidteam class changes

[@NPDStudio]

Loving the KZbin vids! ❤ Curious if there will be an FF6 or FF10 video or if the whole studio flood thing ruined that plan?

[@alexandreduarte4448]

I hope he also looks at the high level fractals. T4 (and CM) shattered observatory might be my favorite fight in the whole game

[@Yaeshi]

bravo Mike, that AD plug was on point xD

[@THEBLUENINJASHEN]

was waiting for that video for weeks 😊

[@tamermaher6387]

I like the work you put in preach you are da man.

[@batfirst]

Can't wait for the Destiny 2 serie, the way you're approaching raiding is interesting and refreshing to watch

[@gtarman8d]

Preach, couldn't have picked a better boss to put a skill share add into! Top notch

[@Kagihime96]

super looking forward to you trying challenge mode in strikes hehehe.

[@jaymzOG]

The outtakes at the end lol. Gotta make the best out of not having the office.

[@x_rhi_x2772]

Cant wait to see you do w5-7!

[@BM03]

Holy shit that Deimos boss's second phase looks like you're fighting the antichrist in the final expansion ever. What a sick design and music. The quick death was anticlimactic but, that aside. Damn.

[@deadz0ne42]

Interested to see your take on the Path of Fire raids. They are without a doubt a step up from the Heart of Thorns raids.

[@GarredHATES]

some of the worst things you can put in a video game are, Underwater areas, Unnecessary Stealth segments and escort missions!

[@kimaclaret]

I'm about 8 minutes in, and I'm already enjoying the differences in this video direction.

[@KotMatroskin]

Cant wait for you to do wings 5,6,7!

[@MrNickcrush]

I think it is a great idea to take on raids like this.

[@theaveragecasual9971]

1st boss of raid wing 2 almost like WoD boss in first tier where you gotta pick up the flame thrower and clear poison patches for your team. Reminded me of that

[@LLPTV]

You actually get a legendary insight for doing the twisted castle so it kinda is a boss.

[@LegeFles]

That's a recent change.

[@KokkeOP]

exactly. the amount of ignorance I see on these reviews about GW2 is amazing hahaha he don't even kow what's going on and jump to conlusion rapidly. lmao.

[@LegeFles]

@@KokkeOP the irony. You dont know the whole point of these videos is that he's playing the game 'blind' on purpose, which he has mentioned multiple times.

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

ooh, condition damage. Back in the "heyday" Triple trouble was practically the hardest content. Not only due to the decap and kill timers but the husks that where only vulnerable to condition damage but also that any additional player that hit it would add to it's HP and you usually only had 2 players on each of the 3 locations dealing with 3 husks on a regular interval and that the husk would move towards the highest density of players.

[@jl-nz7gh]

Best ad plug ever

[@itssquirtyberty9276]

Hey mate, Your taps dripping.

[@matsug5704]

Samarog and Deimos are my favorite raid bosses, love the mechanics and the creature design :D

[@The_Conundrum_Crew]

I never done a raid before. For some reason I feel more comfortable transitioning to the massive multiplayer versus multiplayer modes instead of doing the raids in games. GW2 and ESO it's what I ended up doing. I don't know why raids don't interest me. I enjoy watching people streaming them though.

[@nvalidwerdz1078]

Preach has de-aged like ten years since he started playing MMOs, holy shit. Keep up whatever you're doing Mike, looking sharp.

[@lashonawaldmeister1111]

I think GW2 has a very difficult relationship with difficulty. I believe a large portion of the GW2 playerbase is extremely casual, which is fine, but I remember a decent amount of people being upset about the HoT raids, because they had story, and it tied in with the overall story of the game a little bit, so people were upset when they couldn't experience it, yet weren't willing to "get good" to beat the raids. To this day this still reflects in some of the decisions, especially around strikes, which have a story encounter for 1 person, then the strike version of it for 10 ppl (being very easy), and then the challenge mode, which is for the people that actually want an engaging encounter. GW2 always has to account for such a massively wide gap between the average casual player and the top players, that a lot of encounters can end up being trivial for experienced raiders, while still being unbeatable for a large portion of the community...

[@NicoHannes]

10/10 more videos from the pub .

[@jeremydelacoudre7856]

escort is good for player who don't raid, its a "raid" but very simple

[@Kiwicrack]

That segue for the ad read - crisp, BiS. giving Bellular a run for his money.

[@dezm1]

I’ve heard your opinion about boons a few times on stream and with teapot. It’s interesting how strong your opinion is on boons being a bad thing in their implementation. What is your view on the ideal implementation of group comps? Make 8 dps with 2 healers but all the dps has a lower dps potential?

[@ancientspark375]

My interpretation of his response is that it's just a numerical problem, not a group composition problem. Too much power is centered in the boons, so it's confusing to do it as a new player, too mandatory to have all the required boons so there's no flexibility or casualness, and too micromanagey to make sure you have buffs at all times. He might make it clearer somewhere else though.

[@jozzetv]

One of the solutions could be to make boons more of a nice little boost on top, instead of them having a 3x effect on you. That would make it a lot easier in general for groups, but i think the hardcore scene might get bored of it... no interaction with other players, no boon coordination required, since it's not worth to bring these boons, if they have such a low impact. Another solution could be, to make boons have way less duration and adjust the bosses so, that you could do some interesting interaction with skipping phases or special mechanics that need specific boons, to make the fight easier. Hardcore players could time specific boons for specific portions of the fight and micromanage those burst windows, to make it more engaging. Another solution could be to make every build self sufficient. You are responsible for your own boons, and having them in your build is better then selecting for pure dps stats. You could then specialize a lot with builds depending on the encounter, what boons are needed and so on. This would also make it a lot more difficult to figure out, what build is the optimal play and then create a lot of build swapping. With the current way of build templates this would be a pain in the ass. There are probably a few other solutions... but you either make the player themselves more responsible for their own boons, or you make the boons less meaningful. Maybe someone else has another idea.

[@dollarbr]

The swap to skillshare sponsor was so damn funny that you got me to subscribe to your channel xD

[@draconidmike]

love all the fair comments, good work and get going

[@MisforMature]

Seeing the house of a KZbinr always makes me feel way, way better about my own lmao

[@goodshowmanythanks]

that kitchen windowsill tho

[@KonradGM]

i can't wait for preach to try and craft a legendary

[@rkbkirin5975]

My time is much too limited to do raiding - the only reason I can play GW2 at all is because so much of the content is streamline and concise. It's wonderful to find an MMO where you don't have to constantly commit solid blocks of time and adjust your schedule around a video game. Also when I do manage to play for a longer period (once a week at best) it is with a very tight-knit group of friends and we really do not want to have to deal with a larger group of strangers, even if they are polite and helpful. GW2 is our own experience and we're happy with it that way. Plus when I do manage to have a longer block of play time, I really prefer to do WvW over any of the other game modes. For people with the excess time and willingness to join raiding guilds, that's great they can manage it, but I'm very glad GW2 offers enough diverse content that other playstyles can be accommodated.

[@nielsjensen4185]

In the fort fight, there's a bomb platform you can use to get out to the mortar man when he spawns. The mortar handler is supposed to go back and forth from the fort that way.

[@neijan2932]

Also, no killing needed. CC them and return to group.

[@qSilenceOne]

that worm fight you love so much come to think of it its also in wow "Highmaul" its the fight with the spore shooters and you have the boss "walker of the deep"

[@jaydenjezowski4339]

Go back and open the chest at the end of Twisted Castle! There is loot there!

[@thelittlethingsinlife4334]

strikes are really nice and easy, a good way to get people interested in raids. But the EoD strike challenge modes is what hardcore players love, took me weeks to clear all of them

[@GenXHBReacts]

"3....2....I'm drunk now...." That got me lol

[@Muten1988]

Very interesting opinions from somebody who will only do the fights once and never come back. Makes perfect sense, you out level raids in WoW, and a sooth dificulty progression for each encounter is important, since the content have a expiration date.

[@bekir51500]

That ad transition was smooth asf haha