A million thanks! I was becoming downright depressed after spending hours looking for those keys. I gave up, and then found your awesome walk-thru. You provide excellent instructions, and walked me through it! Wowzers - love the Wizard's Tower - crafting tables and all! Woot!
Struggling with the BASTION OF STRENGTH? Remove all your condition equipment - the Torment seems to scale with your own Condition Damage and/or Duration which is why in this video I took barely any damage (was wearing a beserker set). I replayed the story episode and confirmed this is the case because its getting many people stuck. Thanks everyone below for figuring this out!
well this worked great. Stupid and also used an empty template to do this. I didn't know that would remove all my buffs and primers but at least it worked.
This Walkthrough is right on point in showing what needs to be done. For those playing using an 'Condition' build remove your gear before doing the Bastion of Strength part. For everyone else you don't have to remove your gear for that part of the quest.
i have found, that my scourge could not do the Strength key, but if i swapped to reaper i could do it without any issue. my scourge seemed to take significantly more damage per tick for seemingly no reason! try swapping build or gear, this may help you if you are struggling, or prep yourself with you Jackal mount barrier as others have suggested!
Yeah seems to be a strange interaction maybe, I had all beserker/diviner gear on and wasn't in any danger at all but others have mentioned they genuinely struggled to survive.
I did this on my fire ele, I'm condi AF so no idea what the issue was, I felt like this was like the toxic bacon HP with that I ate a Mango Pie and made it.
VERY helpful video THANK YOU. I didn't realize you can freaking *use mounts* in this mission! ANet has taken away anything helpful in past missions for so long, I didn't notice the buff preventing us from using mount wasn't there and waste WAY too long on this dumb mission lol
For the trial of strength, glad I didn't delete my old druid build and just equipped it. It healed me everytime close to full and never even dropping to half health the whole time. I was on my wvw build at first with some trailblazer stats for more survability, but never passing the test. It kinda reminds of one of hps in hot maps about the poison bacon. I didn't want to spend anything by buying food that could up my vit, so I switched out to druid and fixed it, and too lazy to switch my stats all across board. Other peeps have thrown out some good suggestions in the comments, but this is just how I passed it.
The strength key is horrible. I literally had to spawn a tradepost NPC inside the instance (luckily I had one in my inventory) and buy a bunch of vitality gear because even when running around to cut the amount of Torment damage down, I literally could not last more than 40 seconds with my 14k healthpool for the gear I had on. I had to jack my health up over 20k with gear before I could do it, and that was after wasting almost a HOUR trying to get that one key. Basically PSA, take vitality gear in there with you to swap to if you're on any profession with a small health pool, and possibly even medium size healthpools. I've bug reported it to Anet because it literally has the potential to story-block players on characters without enough health. It should have acted like the Toxic Bacon HP in Auric Basin, which is a set % of health dmg per tick, and not actual conditions that 1) those with less health are less equipped to survive, 2) do more damage if you're standing still and many newer players might not realise they need to run around like a headless chicken to reduce it.
Thanks for the guide. Absolutely shitty quest design, WAY too many optional objectives and text in a single quest that you cannot log off whilst doing it.
Apologies, I didn't mean to make it difficult to follow, just wanted to speed up the boring run backs. I appreciate the feedback though. Hope it was helpful anyways.
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A million thanks! I was becoming downright depressed after spending hours looking for those keys. I gave up, and then found your awesome walk-thru. You provide excellent instructions, and walked me through it! Wowzers - love the Wizard's Tower - crafting tables and all! Woot!
I've been having fun with Guild Wars 2, but this mission was an absolute disgrace. I would be ashamed if I was the one that made this mission.
i love the story but some instances are way too long
Yeah it was rather annoying and dull.
Struggling with the BASTION OF STRENGTH? Remove all your condition equipment - the Torment seems to scale with your own Condition Damage and/or Duration which is why in this video I took barely any damage (was wearing a beserker set). I replayed the story episode and confirmed this is the case because its getting many people stuck. Thanks everyone below for figuring this out!
well this worked great. Stupid and also used an empty template to do this. I didn't know that would remove all my buffs and primers but at least it worked.
Holy shit that made the difference. My Engineer/Grenade kit fool has 1800 condi damage and was blowing up.
Wow.... that explains why I had to preemptively drop condi cleanse wells at my feet to survive this when I did it lol
This is extremely well done and helped immensely. Thank you.
Quick and straight to the point, thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing. And so quickly too considering it just came out. This really helped.
Glad it was helpful! I wasted a bit of time when I got up to this so thought I'd share
The only useful guide on this quest. Thanks a lot for you work.
This Walkthrough is right on point in showing what needs to be done.
For those playing using an 'Condition' build remove your gear before doing the Bastion of Strength part. For everyone else you don't have to remove your gear for that part of the quest.
i have found, that my scourge could not do the Strength key, but if i swapped to reaper i could do it without any issue. my scourge seemed to take significantly more damage per tick for seemingly no reason! try swapping build or gear, this may help you if you are struggling, or prep yourself with you Jackal mount barrier as others have suggested!
Yeah seems to be a strange interaction maybe, I had all beserker/diviner gear on and wasn't in any danger at all but others have mentioned they genuinely struggled to survive.
Concdi builds are a no go. any other build is super ez@@WilstormGaming
I did this on my fire ele, I'm condi AF so no idea what the issue was, I felt like this was like the toxic bacon HP with that I ate a Mango Pie and made it.
Extremely helpful and easy to follow. Thanks
great walkthrough.. thanks so much
Thank you. Appreciate the help.
VERY helpful video THANK YOU. I didn't realize you can freaking *use mounts* in this mission! ANet has taken away anything helpful in past missions for so long, I didn't notice the buff preventing us from using mount wasn't there and waste WAY too long on this dumb mission lol
Im glad Im playing my main Dragonhunter with Dragons gear.
I h8 this stuff more than anything ty for helping me bud
nice :D quick and efficient, got it done easily thanks ^^
Helped a lot. Thank you.
THANK YOU!
Thank you!
Thank you!! I was so confused 😢
Glad it helped!
Thanks a lot Bro !
Thank you SO much for the video. Subbed.
Lifesaver thank you
For the trial of strength, glad I didn't delete my old druid build and just equipped it. It healed me everytime close to full and never even dropping to half health the whole time. I was on my wvw build at first with some trailblazer stats for more survability, but never passing the test. It kinda reminds of one of hps in hot maps about the poison bacon. I didn't want to spend anything by buying food that could up my vit, so I switched out to druid and fixed it, and too lazy to switch my stats all across board. Other peeps have thrown out some good suggestions in the comments, but this is just how I passed it.
Thanks! Was stuck on this stupid quest.
Very Helpful thank you
I couldn't find the book for bastion of Knowledge, such a pain. Thanks.
so clean 10/10
thank you soo much !!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much 🤩
Ty you just prevented me from uninstalling lol.
great help, thanks
for those who cant take it make sure your walking around cause torment does less damage the more you move.
muchas gracias no sabia que hacer :D
Thanks!
thank you
Thanks 🎉
thank you :)
ty so much
helped much tywm
This is the kind of stuff that makes people hate story.
Another tip is to increase your vitality with your armor or legendary jewelry
The strength key is horrible. I literally had to spawn a tradepost NPC inside the instance (luckily I had one in my inventory) and buy a bunch of vitality gear because even when running around to cut the amount of Torment damage down, I literally could not last more than 40 seconds with my 14k healthpool for the gear I had on. I had to jack my health up over 20k with gear before I could do it, and that was after wasting almost a HOUR trying to get that one key.
Basically PSA, take vitality gear in there with you to swap to if you're on any profession with a small health pool, and possibly even medium size healthpools. I've bug reported it to Anet because it literally has the potential to story-block players on characters without enough health. It should have acted like the Toxic Bacon HP in Auric Basin, which is a set % of health dmg per tick, and not actual conditions that 1) those with less health are less equipped to survive, 2) do more damage if you're standing still and many newer players might not realise they need to run around like a headless chicken to reduce it.
I think there is defintely some kind of bug because the strength key didn't bother me at all - wasn't even close to dying at any stage
@@WilstormGaming It apparently scales off your condition duration stats
@@Yoshi6851Thanks for the information, I used an edible that reduced condition duration and it worked (I used the jackal as well)
@@Yoshi6851 great intel
You had condi gear on I assume. You can unequip everything and it'll work. You won't need to buy any new gear :)
Thank you u save my life 😅😂
Did it myself…twice…game crashed after picking up the 6th piece 😵💫🙈
Extremely helpful guide though!
tip: use jackal 1 skill and buy sweet bean bun before entering the instance
damn phase
Book isn't there in my game... :(
Hmm I did it twice and it was in the same spot each time - Look around more generally and then maybe submit bug report if you haven't found it.
@@WilstormGaming I ended up submitting a bug report. When I reset the instance, it was there. But it was broken at first.
Strength rune needs to be bugfixed
Cant do it as Thief, even with Jackal shield.
Tried all specs, tried using Wells before I start, nothing works
Did it as a mechanist, I used jackal + Condition duration reduction edible and it worked.
Nice. I just got a set of Shaman's gear and never even dropped below 90%@@Adreqi
How come the agony doesnt kill you..
For Bastion of Strength? Use the Skill 1 to heal yourself
@@WilstormGaming i did but the damage i took was too much, i preped myself with jackal skill 1 so i was able to complete it
Nice solve!
@@4d4l11 had to change my gear to Marauder +something else the would give more HP
I was dying with 16k HP
my scourge cant do it too
watch in .5 speed
best video ever, thank you! didn't like this one. Might just me be.
this expansion has the most miserable story quests ever lmao
Thanks for the guide. Absolutely shitty quest design, WAY too many optional objectives and text in a single quest that you cannot log off whilst doing it.
One of the worst quests made so far.
This video is so sped up that I find it useless as a tutorial.
Why put a video at increased speed and make it impossible to follow along with without having to slow it down back to normal speed...
Apologies, I didn't mean to make it difficult to follow, just wanted to speed up the boring run backs. I appreciate the feedback though. Hope it was helpful anyways.
well... You don't have to follow step by step. Just get the idea where is it and go there
That's kinda how I intended it, but still a good point gotta cater for everyone.