Escort

Requires: Mesmer with Portal Entre and following masteries: Bouncing Mushroom, Forsaken Thicket Waters and Ley-Line Gliding
OR Multiple Players with Bouncing Mushroom, Forsaken Thicket Waters, and Ley-Line Gliding masteries

Almost every group relies on a Mesmer with Portal Entre. However, sending a DPS and a Support duo with access to , damage, and sustain can also work.

Escort has many one-shots that mobs can knock players into, so this encounter benefits from classes with shared . Additionally, , , and can help keep the adds from reaching and killing Glenna.

Scholar Glenna

In this fight players must bring Glenna to the end of a path, capturing towers along the route. At the end of the path, players must kill a miniboss.

Scholar Glenna is a friendly raid NPC that joins players in each raid wing. During this encounter, players are tasked with escorting Glenna to the castle. In turn, Scholar Glenna will summon Ley Lines for players along the route.

Additionally, Glenna will have 15 stacks of Surveilled. She will quickly lose these if no players are within 1,000 range of her. If she reaches 0 stacks she will die, wiping the group. The player assigned to Glenna protection should stick near her at all times to ensure she does not die to Surveilled. Often a Druid is assigned to babysit Glenna as they can heal any chip damage she takes as well as use one of their many multitarget skills to prevent mobs from approaching her.

When players enter Wing 3, they will see a path leading towards a bridge. Upon approaching the bridge White Mantle mobs will close a gate and drop the bridge, preventing players from advancing. The squad can then talk to Scholar Glenna to start the encounter.

The player handling Glenna should bring her to a white circle near the bridge. Here, Glenna will summon a Ley Line that players can use to glide across the gap. Interacting with a bridge mechanism will allow Glenna to join the squad. When Glenna approaches the gate she will plant a bomb, allowing players to advance to Escort.

Towers

Once the player has left the cave they can access a bouncing mushroom to the first tower. Towers are captured if there are more players within the capture circle than there are enemy mobs. Three strategies exist:

1. Killing the mobs until there are more players than enemies
2. Porting the squad into the tower
3. Pushing the mobs out of the capture circle (a.k.a. “Solo Cap” or “Solo Tower”)

In general, as the mobs have tons of stuns and fears, players avoid the first strategy. However, if players choose to use this strategy they should leave one enemy on the tower as killing all enemies will cause them to respawn.

Most groups rely on the second strategy, making Mesmer the popular tower pick. Mesmers can portal the squad into the tower to outnumber the enemies. Players do not need to be visible to capture the tower, so by using Mass Invisibility the squad can avoid enemy aggro and quickly and safely capture the tower. If taking this approach players should be careful to avoid attacking the mobs as this breaks the invisibility.

For a more in-depth guide about Tower Chrono, see the bottom of the guide.

Heal Boon Chronomancer

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Defensive Support

Select difficulty

Rifle
Scepter & Shield

From here, the Mesmer can either use the cannon on the tower to help the stack or wait anywhere safe for Glenna to summon the next Ley Line, allowing them to glide to the next Tower and repeat the process.

The third strategy can be unreliable but can be tried at each tower without penalty. The tower geometry is such that the capture circle isn’t perfectly aligned with the tower itself. Pushing all of the mobs against the edge of the tower, in direction of the next Ley Line spawn, can push them out of the tower enough for one player to solo capture the tower.

Wargs

McLeod

Once the final tower is capped, players will fight McLeod the Silent. Glenna should be left on the stairs right under the final platform, as she will not die from abandonment and the Wargs won’t easily reach her. Unlike other raid encounters, players can revive fully dead allies at this point, though reviving is extremely slow. If the tower Mesmer is running a very safe low DPS and low utility build, they can glide around the route reviving any dead players.

McLeod and the 2 copies will teleport to the furthest player within 5,000 range. Players should stack as close as possible to McLeod and stay between both of the copies during these phases to avoid issues with the teleports.

Once the boss is dead, Glenna should be called to a final white circle by the door, where she will bomb the door and complete escort.

Tower Chrono

When solo capping, Continuum Split can be used to double Illusionary Wave for extra leeway.

Illusionary Wave (Greatsword 5) only pushes 5 targets, so enemy Necromancer minions can make the skill miss one of the enemies. Additionally, the tower capture circle can be confusing – tower Mesmers should always have Portal Entre on their bar in case this goes wrong.

Tower solo cap

1. Shatter before gliding for
2. Mantra of Recovery
3. Into the Void near the center
4. Weapon Swap
5. Illusionary Wave to push mobs outside circle

Decoy can be used before bouncing up to the first tower to avoid mob aggro. If you’re nervous about solo capping this first tower can be great practice!

If you fail to capture the tower solo you can instead port your group up.

Portal up

1. Drop Portal Entre on Tower
2. Glide to group
3. Clear mobs on the ground
4. Mass Invisibility
5. Mimic Portal Exeunt
6. Capture tower