Guild Wars 2

Hello

I´ve made a little video for everyone who has a diffcult time with the sanctum sprint.
I hope it helps someone

Notice: This is not about the fastest way I just wanted to give some advice for a more successful run.

I’m sure many will appreciate your video. You didn’t even use the fakes as much as you could have. More or less get aspect master 1st then get to the fakes first and that pretty much does it. I looked at your mini map and you really didn’t even need to use the shortcut. I’m not a fan of that maneuver anyway. I don’t think you will get much response from the “pro” racers around here because your video more or less confirms that the race is won in the first 30 seconds or so.

I was thinking of making one myself so I’m glad you beat me to it to save me some time.

Oh and I liked the music.

Yeah, the race is won or lost by the first waterfall.

My tactic is to hit every power up (Grounded or Aspect Master) at the beginning of the race. Even if it costs me a few places at the start. If I can get 3 Aspect Master buffs before the first waterfall, I’ve won. End of story.

After that first waterfall, if you’re in the lead, it’s nearly impossible to lose the lead unless you miss a jump or fall off of something. Every attack item you get will be a bomb. You simply keep putting them on every choke point you come across. The opening leading to the first set of cliffs. Right in front of the swinging doorway. In the middle of the platform with the narrow rails. The 3rd and last lightning platform. And so on. You get SO many bombs that the people behind you can’t dodge or ground them all. Without using the shortcut at the end, I can waltz across the finish line with no competition.

So to summarize:
Get 3 Aspect Masters before the first waterfall
Bomb every choke point you come to
You win

Silke.8639:

Yeah, the race is won or lost by the first waterfall.

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So to summarize:
Get 3 Aspect Masters before the first waterfall
Bomb every choke point you come to
You win

Actually, you only need the first and third steps. You can also just get the defensive powerups, which will almost always be grounded and keep it up to stop anybody from even trying to mess with you.

You’ll win, but people won’t think your being a juvenile cat in the process.

True, and depending on the group a lot of times I’ll forego bombing everything in the race. But while learning the race, I had enough #1 racers use the tactic against me that I started using it against them. Since I got the achievement, I don’t use the bombs nearly as often but if you’re still trying for the win 1st place achievement, I highly recommend doing so until you get the win.

An alternative strategy in teams where everyone races from the start is to fall back to 12 before first waterfall and get the double Light Travel. Go over the jump bridge and the first cliff to the 2nd checkpoint and use Light travel, then as you reach the series of lightning jumps, use Light travel again.
Provided everyone races, you don’t need to fall far behind to go to 12th and using the double light travel you can easily go from 12th to 1st over these couple of checkpoints.
This does work for getting ahead even when others get the 3 aspect masters, as long as you can jog along at the start. If you have to stop up and wait in order to fall behind, it won’t work. Also for some reason you don’t get the double light travel 100%, but even 1 light travel is often enough. (after first lightning jump the box on the right is almost always a light travel if you’re last place in the race)

It’s necessary to be among the 3 last to get the double light travel though, so in some teams with a wide spread of team speeds (some very fast and a lot of slower racers) this strategy won’t work, since you need to get the double light travel fast before the lead sprinter clears the checkpoints you’d light travel to.

Never been a fan of the fake crystals though. I usually won’t drop them because they annoy me, so I assume they may annoy other racers too (and really, if you’re in the lead, you don’t really need these at all)