Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Thieves only | Heal Alac Specter Kite PoV @pentalux00

Pentalux Log: https://dps.report/V4Wu-20241026-201912_void

Even though it looks like Thief has (almost) all the tools to deal with HTCM mechanics, there are quite a bunch of small annoyances, e.g. the limited AoE cleave, some jank with invisibility (DE reveals, DD dodge being a lead finisher, ..) which made us take way longer than anticipated to get this done. We played pretty the standard strat and just supplemented Thief skills whenever needed. Portal Specters were heavily focused on utility, so additional boonstrips, cleanse well, AoE CC, while Kiters and qDE combined sacrificed some utility skills for stealth and projectile block (Smoke Screen and Blinding Powder). However, the recent changes made it also much more enjoyable and easy to actually play: 10 man portals (instead of 5), Spear (some added 5 target cleave, even though not a lot of ppl where playing it), Staff 2 animation lock removed, Scepter 2 (more comfy for Kiters) and overall dps increase compared to a couple of months ago. Comparing some older to recent logs, it's a difference of 250k to 310k+ Kralk phase squad dps.

Squad:
(DD) Airen
(DD) Jokuc: youtu.be/glGwk0xFasU
(DD) Ver
(DE) Vuu
(qDE) Bear
(qDE) Sejter
(PortalSpecter) Minas: youtu.be/v6APdWcnOX8
(PortalSpecter) Silverhalf: youtu.be/5mUD9JuuEXo
(hSpecter) Firiel
(hSpecter) Pentalux

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=ZYv442mbzF0

updated 1 year ago

Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Thieves only | Heal Alac Specter Kite PoV

Pentalux 2024-10-27 | Log: https://dps.report/V4Wu-20241026-201912_void

Even though it looks like Thief has (almost) all the tools to deal with HTCM mechanics, there are quite a bunch of small annoyances, e.g. the limited AoE cleave, some jank with invisibility (DE reveals, DD dodge being a lead finisher, ..) which made us take way longer than anticipated to get this done. We played pretty the standard strat and just supplemented Thief skills whenever needed. Portal Specters were heavily focused on utility, so additional boonstrips, cleanse well, AoE CC, while Kiters and qDE combined sacrificed some utility skills for stealth and projectile block (Smoke Screen and Blinding Powder). However, the recent changes made it also much more enjoyable and easy to actually play: 10 man portals (instead of 5), Spear (some added 5 target cleave, even though not a lot of ppl where playing it), Staff 2 animation lock removed, Scepter 2 (more comfy for Kiters) and overall dps increase compared to a couple of months ago. Comparing some older to recent logs, it's a difference of 250k to 310k+ Kralk phase squad dps.

Squad:
(DD) Airen
(DD) Jokuc: youtu.be/glGwk0xFasU
(DD) Ver
(DE) Vuu
(qDE) Bear
(qDE) Sejter
(PortalSpecter) Minas: youtu.be/v6APdWcnOX8
(PortalSpecter) Silverhalf: youtu.be/5mUD9JuuEXo
(hSpecter) Firiel
(hSpecter) Pentalux

Music: youtube.com/watch?v=ZYv442mbzF0

Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Specter Kite (June 25 patch)

Pentalux 2025-09-14 | Another Gw2 HT CM Heal Specter Kite PoV. Now with access to aegis!
Note regarding F2: You could use it for boonstripping the boss. I was just too lazy to time it.
I still play with shortbow which is personal preference. You could also play pistol/pistol for more pushing power.

Log: https://dps.report/fJWb-20250913-193428_void

Music:
- Eagle Flight by Brendon Williams from Michram, Tyrian Music Nerd
- Witchcraft At Work - RPG TK Volume 3 from RPG Music Maker - Travis Savoie

Gw2 HT CM | VL Discord Condition Uptime Competition | HAM Kite PoV

Pentalux 2024-07-31 | The VL Discord has organized an HT CM competition on the occasion of its 1 year anniversary. The goal was to have the highest uptime of all 14 unique conditions (counting only dragon phases).
reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1d8tgdb/prepare_yourself_for_wing_8_celebrate_a_year_of

We proudly present 669/700 points
Log: https://dps.report/PjY5-20240707-203700_void

We were running a mix of Power and Condi Builds to maximize all Conditions but still have some Burst for the Champions later. Following some important changes to the Builds:
• Vindicator played with Jalis/Ventari for more Taunt/Stab (if needed)
• Reaper was responsible for Chill and hopefully doesn’t yeet off or getting chinned
• Our Condi Herald used Mallyx/Jalis together with a Shortbow for Slow/Taunt and Resistance in Zhaitan plus some F2 shenanigans for the Fear. Changed Relic to Nightmare for more Fear
• Condi Druid was there for our Immobilize and lot of other Conditions. Some special Pets to increase Fear/Confusion on Range
• Both Scourge were running Warhorn/Sword Offhand to increase Fear uptime.
• DPS Scourge was additionally running CPC for instant Weakness and Primordus Phase
• Chrono Portals swapped Disenchanter for Defender for even more Taunt
• Our HAM Kite played with Pistol/Pistol, Bomb Kit and Superconducting Signet to have easier time to apply Confusion. Changed Relic to Nightmare for more Fear
• On most of the Condi Builds we additionally played with the Superior Sigil of Mischief for more Blind
• Changes for greens and red placements in some Phases

Squad:
Venticator - Baste:
cDruid - see u:
cScourge - Björn: youtube.com/watch?v=6HRBDepKYdM
Reaper - Parnie: youtube.com/watch?v=T61u4GgUxCg&t=0s
pChrono - Fita:
pChrono - Pie:
pHerald - Mar:
cHerald - Anh:
Heal Scourge - Cath:
Heal HAM - Pentalux

Music:
C21 FX - Ancient Evil - Cody Still
C21 FX - Legacy - Cody Still
R. Armando Morabito - Invictus (feat. Uyanga)
Natanel Arnson - Starboard Victory
C21 FX - Surrounded - Christopher P. Bragg

Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Rangers only | Quick Untamed POV

Pentalux 2024-06-04 | 10 Rangers vs HT CM

Rangers have a pretty stacked toolkit and power creep has also shown its face in the meantime, most notably with how strong Maces are offensive and defensively. The plethora of available dps allowed us to run a few stance-share Soulbeasts (3 in total), who brought Dolyak and Bear Stance for additional Stability, damage reduction and condition cleanse. Druid also brings lots of boons and was also stealthing by blasting the Smoke field from the Smokescale pet. All used Ranger builds perform decent in HT CM already as well, so we didn't need to make a lot of adaptations. We of course missed Portals, but this simply meant more movement that cost some dps. It was honestly not really a challenge compared to previous stacking runs, because of how much the game and the tools you have available have advanced.

Log: https://dps.report/VB7g-20240602-151949_void

Squad:
(pSlb) Jokuc: youtube.com/watch?v=ZxaTyIcDFWE
(pSlb) Minas: youtu.be/kKeYlt0_ahU
(pSlb) Rickz
(pSlb) Silver
(pSlb) Wereft: youtube.com/watch?v=UjXsOc1EJgw&ab_channel=Wereft
(pSlb) Xan
(pqUnt) Bear: youtu.be/6qs5nYGOyzk
(pqUnt) Pentalux
(Druid) Airen: youtu.be/-nhVJNlBYmg
(Druid) Lottie: youtu.be/PbfVgxcuvtU

Reddit Post (some more infos): reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1d7hvu3/beating_harvest_temple_challenge_mode_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Music:
Vestron Vulture - Hair on Fire
Vestron Vulture - Motion Sickness
Vestron Vulture - Judas Effect
Twin Tribes - Fantasmas

Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Specter Kite (with comments)

Pentalux 2023-11-11 | Log: https://dps.report/kFxW-20230902-141732_void
Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PazAsqVlhySZrsNWLeqWnxfA-DSRYjhCCGJ6I/eKkWSgqjg0LBd/FEkQZP8WafzCqA-e
(you can also use Relic of Speed instead)

Well of Silence and Shadowstep can be exchanged and mixed with Signet of Agility and Shadow Portal to your personal likings.

For a more indepth look into how heal alac specter works, head over to Minas video: youtube.com/watch?v=oHN2Gg8oFys

Music:
Child of Light - Aurora's Theme: youtube.com/watch?v=vHS43DwGEu4

Timestamps:
00:17 Purification 1
00:49 Jormag
01:41 Primordus
02:55 Kralkatorrik
03:52 Purification 2
04:29 Mordremoth
05:30 Zhaitan
06:40 Purification 3
07:15 Soo-Won 1
08:23 Purification 4
08:49 Soo-Won 2

Gw2 Harvest Temple CM | Specter Kite

Pentalux 2023-09-03 | Log: https://dps.report/kFxW-20230902-141732_void
Build: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?PazAsqVlhySZrsNWLeqWnxfA-zRRYjhCCGJ6I/eKkWSgqjg0LBdPIhye4t0+mFUB-e
+ Relic of the Flock (you can also use Relic of Speed)

Well of Silence and Shadowstep can be exchanged and mixed with Signet of Agility and Shadow Portal to your personal likings.
Before the fight starts, put your personal target on an ally in your subgroup and make sure you have "take personal target" keybinded for an optimal Zhaitan.
You can boonstrip at the start of every dragon phase with F1. If you're not the main boonstrip you can use F1 off cd, otherwise you can (almost always) hold it until the boons appear.

For a more indepth look into how heal alac specter works, head over to Minas video: youtube.com/watch?v=oHN2Gg8oFys

Music:
Child of Light - Aurora's Theme: youtube.com/watch?v=vHS43DwGEu4

Timestamps:
00:00 Purification 1
00:32 Jormag
01:23 Primordus
02:36 Kralkatorrik
03:34 Purification 2
04:12 Mordremoth
05:14 Zhaitan
06:22 Purification 3
06:57 Soo-Won 1
08:05 Purification 4
08:32 Soo-Won 2

Harvest Temple CM | Warriors Only | How to not play Bladesworn PoV (also greens)

Pentalux 2023-06-10 | Log: https://dps.report/mHP1-20230609-212439_void

For this run we stacked Warriors and used every Elite as well as Core specialization. Bladesworn and Berserker for DPS, Spellbreaker for the Boonstrip, and a core Warrior + Bladesworn as Heal Quickness Kites. Warrior generally has access to a lot of tools to handle the various mechanics of HT CM and even without Alac and all of the other utility in normal runs (Portals, Invis, ..), the damage was still more than enough to beat it.

More details can be found in the accompanied Reddit post:
reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/146bxx2/beating_harvest_temple_challenge_mode_with

Squad
Power Berserker Asterius youtu.be/nT_FtPpur0M
Power Bladesworn Airen youtu.be/GGzF1Dr9Q2c
Power Bladesworn Blast youtu.be/7f1_xEwxCTA
Power Bladesworn Noisi youtu.be/GM_4H8KNWXc
Power Bladesworn Penta youtu.be/gflOKzXwpHI
Power Bladesworn Rickz
Power Bladesworn Silver
Power Spellbreaker Minas youtu.be/bqrk8Bowm54
Heal Quickness Bladesworn Bear youtu.be/ptMORSHQGmo
Heal Quickness Core Warrior Lottie youtu.be/OrjDhgRQxGs

Death Compilation by Lottie
youtu.be/pZANbNFIHII

Music
Vampirevania - Jeremiah Kane
She only exists in screens - Deadlife
The Rebel Path - Cyberpunk 2077 OST

Harvest Temple CM | Necromancers only | Scourge POV

Pentalux 2023-05-21 | Log: https://dps.report/GcFs-NECRO_STACK_BABYYYY_void

Playing scourge on ht cm is a bit sad. The damage is basically not existent (even if you would execute an optimized rotation) and lifeforce was short as well (no signet of undeath =( )

For this run we stacked Necromancer and used every Elite specialisation as part of our strategy. Necro overall does not have good Protection uptime and ranged healing capabilities, which was scary on some parts.
However, thanks to Reaper shroud and especially the additional damage reduction from Reaper shroud 3, we were able to mitigate a lot of incoming damage. The Might output is also relatively low in general on Necro, at least when it comes to party wide Might, but since Reaper has a lot of self-Might, this also was not a big deal.
Since we did not have any Invisibility, we had to play all of the Add/Champion phases without it and hence adapted our moving/stacking patterns in some places to better control how enemies move.
Overall this was challenge was on the shorter end of time: We wiped 72 times over 3 sessions.

More details can be found in the accompanied Reddit post: reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13np399/beating_harvest_temple_challenge_mode_with

Squad (PoVs):
Power Reaper Airen: youtu.be/erC2A0qFQ2I
Power Reaper Duse: youtu.be/4ESArfm1zH4
Power Reaper Fita:
Power Reaper Jokuc: youtu.be/DFaDx72f7Qo
Power Reaper Minas: youtu.be/1Y_4Z3PUqrI
Power Reaper Subli: youtu.be/EVP_R1EFwYs
Twisted Medicine Condition Harbinger Silver:
Condition Scourge Pentalux: you're already here
Heal Quickness Harbinger Bear: youtu.be/eh0Nm35BQmw
Heal Quickness Harbinger Lottie: youtu.be/lk-AbriB0IM
Death Compilation: youtu.be/eXq5qvmz0Fk

Music:
Furi OST: Danger - 8.02
Furi OST : Danger - 19.07
Furi OST: Carpenter Brut - Enraged

Harvest Temple CM | Guardians only | Greenbender POV

Pentalux 2023-04-23 | Log: https://dps.report/rc7g-20230421-200113_void

Please don't look at my rotation, ty.
This run was something special, not only because we stacked one class, but also we stacked one race! Everyone who did not have one, had to create a Norn Guardian for this challenge, because we needed the Snow Leopard Elite Transformation for Invisibility.
Our strategy was relatively straight forward, 2x Healbenders did the usual kiting job, with the only exception that in some phases we split them apart on each side, such that the quickness Firebrands could Merciful Intervention on top of them for the Greens. For boonstrips, we used Nullification Sigils on the Kites and on some second weapon sets. For the Orbs we used Shield of the Avenger, Firebrands F3-3 Bubble and Shield 5, to block the projectiles.

Squad (PoV):
Power Willbender BlastFM:
Power Willbender Skippy:
Power Willbender Trib Dagnar:
Power Willbender Pentalux: You're already here.
Power Willbender Jokuc:
Power Willbender Minas: youtube.com/watch?v=ABTni1GWvsQ
Power Quickness Firebrand Bear:
Power Quickness Firebrand Silver:
Heal Alac Willbender Lottie: (death compilation only) youtu.be/gL46tQeoSUg
Heal Alac Willbender Gzarig: youtube.com/watch?v=3GJ-jg_JEok

Music:
GW2 OST Knight of Embers
GW2 OST Battle of the Vanguard
GW2 OST Here be Dragons
GW2 OST The Saga of the Norn

Harvest Temple CM | Revenants only | Herald Stripper POV

Pentalux 2023-03-12 | Gw2 HT CM Revenants only. Log: https://dps.report/7KKz-20230311-141119_void

I was responsible for boon stripping the boss and some champs.

A few strategic issues made this run interesting in particular. We don't have portals, Revenant generally does not have far-range blinks and maybe most importantly, there is no way in the general Revenant skillset to stealth. The first two points can simply be adapted for by moving early enough for mechanics, but no stealth required some finetuning. A substantial portion of the progress was spent figuring out how we can sort of consistently handle all of the adds during the intermissions. Eventually combining specific positioning and Superspeed was enough to get the adds and most importantly the Giants close enough together to deal with them. For the Champions in the last phase we decided to transition directly on the Goliath, thereby killing it immediately and kiting the Obliterator as good as possible away the whole time. Other notable issues were that Revenant is generally quite bad for pushing Orbs, except for Kalla/Shortbow on Renegade. That is why we decided to bring a Power Renegade, which would have otherwise been just another Vindicator. The pushing power from Kalla is also used on one of the Kites for consistent fast pushing. To boonstrip the boss, we decided to use a dedicated Power Herald that strips with the Shiro F2 active. The cooldown and rotation lines somewhat up with the 20 seconds timer of the boons. For backups and some more stripping (e.g. adds) we also had Mallyx on both Kites. Overall, it was very fun to combine all the different tools/Legends that Revenant has available to tackle all of the mechanics HT CM throws at you.
Thanks to Kartky, Spinerek and Wereft for backups.

Squad (PoVs):
(pVindi) BlastFM: youtu.be/VDR15slaieY
(pVindi) Duse: youtu.be/oFavKmteeiA
(pVindi) Nathair:
(pVindi) Teh Azian:
(pRen) Asterius: youtu.be/EW2zVc9d_Ms
(pHerald) Pentalux: youtu.be/OVRDor_PF9Y
(qHerald) Bear:
(qHerald) Jokuc: youtu.be/QfdrUUhFmEg
(aRen) Lottie: youtu.be/uM2kwbrh3BA
(aRen) Minas: youtu.be/Cwk-wCy-9TI

Music:
Gw2 OST - The Great Wall Has Fallen
Gw2 OST - The Vigil Goes To War
Gw2 OST - The Seraph
Gw2 OST - Overture

Harvest Temple CM | Core classes only | Heal Revenant Kiter POV

Pentalux 2023-01-23 | Kill run with core classes only. One pure healer with Stab on Revenant. Alac Ranger as second Kite. Portal Mesmer are pretty much substituting everything Virt is usually doing. The DPS Alac Ranger and one DPS Engineer did close Greens. Warriors were staying on the boss since they don't have good ranged dps.

Log: https://dps.report/GYX1-20230122-171908_void

Squad (PoVs):
DPS Engineer (Green): Asterius youtu.be/QFYGcHGK1OM
DPS Engineer: Bear
DPS Engineer: Minas (with outtakes) youtu.be/cpk8y5Ba6fI
Quick Warrior: Silver
Quick Warrior: Duse youtu.be/RGIbN7Q9imc
Portal Mesmer: Airen youtu.be/WzipnoTsy8M
Portal Mesmer: Skippy
DPS Alac Ranger: Lottie youtu.be/h2FiMTetqH0
Kite Alac Ranger: Mimi youtu.be/jZ4I9oleICg
Heal Kite Revenant: Pentalux youtu.be/1D6nSWm5Z5k

Music: Great Pagan Epoch by elias weber