Gw2 | Cerus CM | Double Wall | Heal Alacrity Scourge (Sword+Torch/Dagger+Warhorn)

We progressed this fight for quite a while before it was nerfed on 2024-06-25. This is our second kill since we do now try to get the Unbounded Optimism achievement - sadly I failed it at the 2nd Despair drop at roughly 40%.
I bring portal for various uses: to get us out of the Rage AoE (see 1:11, 2:57, 6:29, 7:36), to handle some double walls (see 4:45, 7:00), for Malice drops during an Empowered Despair line (see 5:30), and for Empowered Despair AoE placement past 10% (see 8:30).
I'm supposed to use Corrosive Poison Cloud to deal with the small orbs during Gluttony, however, I sometimes forgot; since the only real dps check is past 10% and we frequently have to slow down dps before 10% though, it was fine as I did use it properly past 10% (see 8:53). Slowing down dps is important as we want to phase the boss right after the Malices appear during the last double wall, as this way both sets of Malices despawn and we've got 2 Enraged Smash hits before having to deal with the next mechanic (see 8:20).
I help slow down Malices via Dagger#3 if possible (see 3:10, 3:28), however, that's only a tiny help and our Druid is responsible for the majority of immobilizes.
I bring Flesh Golem since it's important to break all breakbars ASAP due to the invisible stacking debuff, see wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Petr.... If people get boonstripped by the wall, I still have plenty of tools to get rid of Cerus' boons (Sword#3 both casts, Dagger#3, Serpent Siphon, F5).
When doing double wall, the 2nd wall can be jumped (see 4:35, 7:18), however, the timing is very tight.
In the final 10%, I could have used my heals / barriers better. However, we managed to get our downed players back up right before the 2nd Despair drop via the Druid's precast Glyph of the Stars and my very late cast Well of Blood (see 9:03). Right after, we lost both of our quickness Heralds and didn't cleave the 3 Malice adds, which resulted in Cerus gaining additional 15 stacks and is the cause for all of our remaining dps players to get downed in Cerus final Enraged Smash. Luckily, we still had enough conditions on the boss to kill him right there.
Log: dps.report/BVAT-20240703-2101...
Build: gw2skills.net/editor/?PSAFgEG7...
Disclaimer: I bring Sword for its mobility and boonstrips. Our Virtuosos are expected to use Focus#4 for Swiftness uptime, so I can drop Febe relic and use Mercy instead to get downed players back up more quickly and with more health.
0:00 100-80%
1:33 Split#1
1:58 80-50%
4:16 Split#2
4:38 50-10%
8:24 10-0%
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[@ArktikusYoutube]

First of all, good video :D
But second, the music is really unfitting and annoying imo.
I would prefer a voice over or just the voice of you (and your group) while fighting it.
It's nice that the things you do and chose to take with you are written in the description, but a voice over would be much more appealing than having to read through the description (but good that you included the timestamps for everything that makes it much easier).

[@Nanax3]

Thanks for the feedback!
I don't record our voice chat due to multiple reasons, one being that we don't even speak English. As for a voice over, my microphone quality really isn't great and I'm not sure how well this would be received. I did think about doing guides a while back, but at least for the older raids & strike content I feel like there are already enough sources out there. So, I never got around to it, and just keep uploading decent-ish PoVs with music (which I personally do like, to each their own) and some info the the description for people who want to know more.
Regarding a voice over for this specific video / fight, the strategy we're using is quite similar to earlier double wall strat kills but with some adjustments for our group; I'm not sure how much our symbols differ, and we do use 3 mesmer portals. I don't think our strat is pug friendly, but other strats out there are (such as UNIT). However, since we're going for some more kills as we want the Despair achievement, let's see if I decide differently. Really not sure though.

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@@Nanax3 Ah okay understandable. Thanks for the information :D