Guild Wars 2

Hi, I know this is a common topic and there’s plenty of threads on it, but after searching for a while I can’t find any that really answer what I want to know.

So i’m trying to get into soloing (and maybe duoing with a close friend sometimes) Arah so that I can sell the paths and make some bank. I’m having trouble deciding on which class to use tho, and would like some help on that. I know the most obvious choice is warrior but i’d be more interested in doing the solos on a thief or guard if possible.

So what I want to know is, which classes are able to solo which paths effectively. Particularly, is guard viable for soloing anything besides p2, and can thief solo all paths, or only war? I understand that its generally possible for almost any class to solo any of the paths, but i’m trying to make money so it if takes forever to solo with a class, or requires things like watchwork portal devices, then i’m not really interested.

Appreciate any help in advance, i’m sure a lot of these answers are out there but I just can’t seem to find them, or at least not the modern, up to date answers.

Paths 2 and 3 can be solo’d w/ warrior or guard. This holds true to all classes as far as I know. Solos of path 2 and path 3 with thief are done regularly. Path 1, you need to buy help w/ tar and Path 4 can be quite tricky solo. Much easier to duo path 4 and split the shinies.

Good luck!

Pick the class you WANT to play, all of them are capable in some form or another.

barring some exceptions.

In a Solo setting.

Arah 1: can be done all except Shoggoth, (the tar). it requires 4 people just to make him come out. outside of that the rest of the path is soloable.

Arah 3 and 4 have the orbs. That I am aware of, Warrior and Thief can do it solo. I have seen a Necromancer do it but that was a long time ago and many of the skill sets have changed a bit since. So i honestly cannot say if its possible or not. You can Always invest the 3 gold or so in a Watchwork portal device but that is up to you if you want to spend that kind of money.

Touching on Arah 4, Unless something has changed that i dont know about it is nigh on impossible to do Simmin Solo, barring a bug exploit. So you may want to seek help for that.

PIck a class you WANT to play and enjoy playing. go from there. In duo Setting you can accomplish everything in Arah barring of course Shoggoth.

Something to think about as well. If you are looking to make a fast buck, this is not a good way to do it. Selling Paths via LfG take a long time. unless you have a solid set of regular buyers. Regular buyers take time to establish. If you are just looking for a challenge and for some fun with a friend. Have at it, and you MIGHT, make a bit on the side.

none the less. Good luck!!

just go warrior. Thief is a pain and will make you want to rip your hair out.

yeah, just go warrior. I have only tried P1 and 2 so far, the times for both are very similar its usually about an hour for me till I am ready to sell. you also have to learn when is good times to list on the LFG, sometimes it might fill really fast and other times it will take a half hour to an hour to get a full group. As I do go a little slow, I’m trying to level a thief to see if I can maybe clear P1/2 faster—but overall I have to say it’s not too bad with warrior. One thing I will say, don’t go mesmer for P1.. I cleared till Crystalline Entities and gave up before I killed any because it was taking soo kittening long…

Thanks for all the replies, appreciate it! I’ve heard from a lot of people that its pretty good profit to sell runs like this, assuming you can manage the runs quickly. Does it really take so long to sell runs that its not worth the time investment?

Also, i’d prefer to run as thief over warrior if its feasible. Whats so painful about soloing on thief? From what I’ve researched thief seems to be almost as common as warrior for soloing. Is it just that they’re so squishy?

One last question. Where is guard in terms of viability for selling runs? I know I sometimes see guards selling the runs in LFG and I know videos exist of guards soloing, but is it very slow compared to warrior/thief or something? Asking cause I rarely see guard mentioned as opposed to those two.

EcoRI.9273:

just go warrior. Thief is a pain and will make you want to rip your hair out.

As a thief player, the only part that makes me want to rip out my hair is in phase 2, sometimes his aoe bugs and you get hit after the double dodge while directly under lupi. It only really sucks when you get instad that unfair manner.

I guess getting 1 shot by his phase 1 kicks is pretty annoying too…

Lupi’s phase 2 aoe attack is RNG for thief, if you time it perfectly there is a slim chance a random one will hit you, if it happens twice you are dead or if u get hit by 2.

yea, I’ve even been hit by one after when I dodge out, wait a half second, then withdraw back in. Doesn’t make sense

Rahvin.5289:

Does it really take so long to sell runs that its not worth the time investment?

tbh running it solo/duo might be faster than getting a pug. P1 might be the exception simply cause you have to post for help and wait like a half hour for them to run to tar boss, but my last two pugs for P2 have consistently taken over an hour to finish. and most of that was them getting carried on some bosses, like Lupi and Abomination (some couldnt make the run).

Thief can be really nice for running, but a warrior beats it for soloing Arah in pretty much every other way.

A lot of thieves do path 2. Belka and Abom with practice can be done the first time on thief. Stealth traited build with smoke screen has proven to be nice on thief for me with Belka and Abom is pure DPS. Abom is one of those bosses that are really easy once you learn the mechanics and can be highly annoy before doing so.

Lupi is extremely annoying to learn on path 2 as thief. If you miss one dodge or make one mistake then you have to continuously run back about 2 minutes from the waypoint. The run back to Lupi seriously takes the whole fun out of soloing Arah. You can die for a stupid reason too like 1 hit due to input delay or lag. Sometimes attacks aren’t done completely correctly by Lupi. If the waypoint was closer then Lupi would be more fun. I cannot stand the run back to Lupi though on path 2.

After that you still have two more bosses and a lot of running which should be doable after Lupi.

Best to learn in more than one sitting as path 2 is a really long path to learn in one sitting as thief and you will probably lose your motivation.

The classes that can solo p3/p4 orbs are thief, mesmer, warrior, necro, norn. Ele perhaps but it might require med kits.

Where do you guys dance around the Magecrusher on warrior by the way? Been trying strating standing at the entrance side of the pedestal, but after 75% I have trouble keeping him around it. He really likes to whack me with an auto in the face each time I break LoS with him and it’s pretty tough to find a spot here that isn’t often covered with symbols, keeps line of sight and is in max melee range, since his autoattacks are kinda hard to dodge closeup. And dodging might have him break the LoS again. Add hands respawning here and I’m likely dead.

Always can range him to death, but that’s hella boring.

robertul.3679:

The classes that can solo p3/p4 orbs are thief, mesmer, warrior, necro, norn. Ele perhaps but it might require med kits.

You can do the first one with Ele and the second one to halfway without anything special. Maybe more if you bear rush? I am not too sure of that part though.

Do people usually sell P3? I noticed I was at 4/5 on the achievement (while paying for shards for my legendary), and I ‘think’ that’s the path I’m missing. Only have 4-5 more runs to get all my shards, so was holding out for a P3, but if no one ever sells those runs, I guess there’s no reason for me to wait, and I should just take a P1,2,4 run?

It’s sad to see dungeon solo’ing being looked at as just another way to turn a quick profit.
What happened to the pure enjoyment of challenging and pushing your skills to entirely different levels I wonder *sigh*

Veckna.9621:

It’s sad to see dungeon solo’ing being looked at as just another way to turn a quick profit.
What happened to the pure enjoyment of challenging and pushing your skills to entirely different levels I wonder sigh

I only get the enjoyment once, after that its really nothing special, I’ve figured out the AI and aggro pattern, no more challenge.

notebene.3190:

Do people usually sell P3? I noticed I was at 4/5 on the achievement (while paying for shards for my legendary), and I ‘think’ that’s the path I’m missing. Only have 4-5 more runs to get all my shards, so was holding out for a P3, but if no one ever sells those runs, I guess there’s no reason for me to wait, and I should just take a P1,2,4 run?

P3 selling definitely happens. Just keep an eye out.

Purple Miku.7032:

robertul.3679:

The classes that can solo p3/p4 orbs are thief, mesmer, warrior, necro, norn. Ele perhaps but it might require med kits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1yXl_ev-Q

A bit “cheating” with exec axe and human heal. You can also maybe(?) proc the “one with air” trait for quite the longer rush. Like engi toolbelt slick shoes.

You don’t have to use either the human heal or executioner’s axe.

maxinion.8396:

notebene.3190:

Do people usually sell P3? I noticed I was at 4/5 on the achievement (while paying for shards for my legendary), and I ‘think’ that’s the path I’m missing. Only have 4-5 more runs to get all my shards, so was holding out for a P3, but if no one ever sells those runs, I guess there’s no reason for me to wait, and I should just take a P1,2,4 run?

P3 selling definitely happens. Just keep an eye out.

Thanks.

Through process of elimination, it turns out I need one more run to get my 500 tokens, and I’ve narrowed down the path I haven’t done for the achievement to P4.

Does anyone ever sell P4 runs?

All the time.

notebene.3190:

maxinion.8396:

notebene.3190:

Do people usually sell P3? I noticed I was at 4/5 on the achievement (while paying for shards for my legendary), and I ‘think’ that’s the path I’m missing. Only have 4-5 more runs to get all my shards, so was holding out for a P3, but if no one ever sells those runs, I guess there’s no reason for me to wait, and I should just take a P1,2,4 run?

P3 selling definitely happens. Just keep an eye out.

Thanks.

Through process of elimination, it turns out I need one more run to get my 500 tokens, and I’ve narrowed down the path I haven’t done for the achievement to P4.

Does anyone ever sell P4 runs?

Yup. But since this is the hardest one, and the demand is highest (from people like you who want DM), the cost is higher— expect 15g or more.

maxinion.8396:

notebene.3190:

maxinion.8396:

notebene.3190:

Do people usually sell P3? I noticed I was at 4/5 on the achievement (while paying for shards for my legendary), and I ‘think’ that’s the path I’m missing. Only have 4-5 more runs to get all my shards, so was holding out for a P3, but if no one ever sells those runs, I guess there’s no reason for me to wait, and I should just take a P1,2,4 run?

P3 selling definitely happens. Just keep an eye out.

Thanks.

Through process of elimination, it turns out I need one more run to get my 500 tokens, and I’ve narrowed down the path I haven’t done for the achievement to P4.

Does anyone ever sell P4 runs?

Yup. But since this is the hardest one, and the demand is highest (from people like you who want DM), the cost is higher— expect 15g or more.

Thanks Max and Ivan!

Saw one earlier for 20g, which was a bit overwhelming, and then about a half hour later I saw one for 10g! All done.

I don’t have a clue how do people have the patience to sell that path.

Ended up giving those spots for free more than once. We were doing that mostly for fun back then so it didn’t hurt much, but I don’t think it’s profitable.

I’m surprised p4 is still selling for 15g. It was sometimes hard to fill at 15g even 6 months ago when I was selling it. I often sold for 12g just to get people in faster.

It’s very variable. Last time I trio’ed it we sold 4 slots for 15 gp in 5 minutes though, so good days definitely happen.

I sell it for 18g and have for months.

P4 is the worst profit/hr by far though because of the fact that there’s always soooo many other groups selling it at the same time and a lot of people sell for cheap as dirt prices.