Guild Wars 2

What are the easiest dungeons to complete solo or with a partner?

I want to experience and enjoy the content and adventure of a dungeon. My first three dungeon runs with a group of five (all very friendly and nice guildies) were all about speed runs and boss stacking; a huge disappointment despite the great fast loot.

As luck will have it my two 80 characters are a Necro minion master and a Thief P/P, which i have read are the worst to bring to dungeons.

So any dungeons i can try to complete with those classes and average-poor playing skill?

Just do dungeons with an LFG of “killing all mobs, not stacking. Play how you want. All welcome”. And you will get people who are terrible. Then you will learn why we stack lol. Also not many dungeons are soloable because of many require another person or 5(cof 1). A for sure solo is Arah P2. You will have hours of fun learning that one.

So you say you are average poor playing skill and you wanna solo ? I don’t get it . It’s like saying you don’t know how to use a gun but wanna participate in a war.

If you don’t like stacking , I suggest you make your own group and say no stacking . Soloing dungeons is very hard with a minion necro or a P\P thief . It will take you 3 days I think ….

Because my skills are not that great is why i want to practice dungeons solo or with my partner, and not ruin the rest of the group’s experience. I can kill many champions solo on pve and its fun, so im not that bad.

Thanks for the Arah P2 suggestion ill try that even if it takes me 3 days. Do i need to do Arah P1 first or something?

redkat.1892:

Because my skills are not that great is why i want to practice dungeons solo or with my partner, and not ruin the rest of the group’s experience. I can kill many champions solo on pve and its fun, so im not that bad.

Thanks for the Arah P2 suggestion ill try that even if it takes me 3 days. Do i need to do Arah P1 first or something?

You need 4 people in Arah p1 at a certain point. And no, you don’t have to do them in any particular order.

You could try AC path 3, but you’ll have a tough time at the burrows unless your buddy is an ele, even then it’ll still be tough. Maybe a low level Snowblind fractal. Besides p2, Arah p3 is pretty easy duo until the end.

If you’re not experienced in dungeons I think you’ll have a rude awakening as to how unforgiving they can be. The videos make it look easy because we have over a year of built up tactics and experience, and they are very easy with proven tactics and builds. Coming in brand new and trying to solo/duo, while admiral, is going to be either a very time consuming endeavor, or a quick fail learning experience. Good luck sir!

Thanks for the recommendations. I was rudely awakened already even with a group of five when i saw all people did was stack and skip mobs.

You can totally get groups to do runs which clear rooms rather than skip. Its still practiced and someone should be calling out targets to focus but its makes the dungeons more fun in my opinion. Many guildies agree and we do it all the time. Redkat, look us up on Tarnished Coast.

I like how you openly acknowledge that your builds are trash and instead of changing so you can contribute to a team, you would rather exclude yourself so you can continue being trash. If only the rest of the PuG community had this mentality.
There are paths that are definitely solo able, but without an intimate knowledge of the path and your own profession you are going to find any attempt in this manner nigh impossible. Run with a team, contribute to the team, when you’re comfortable with all the mechanics, then you can step it up to solo/duo, and even then you’ll find that you’ll have to change things up a lot to allow for the lack of support and damage, something which you just can’t do without that certain level of path and class understanding.
Edit: Wow that came off really strong, I’m such a grumpy kitten first thing in the morning.
Moral of the story is this game is all prior knowledge, a team of 5 appropriately geared players can take longer than someone playing solo if they don’t know what they’re doing (just look at any Arah stream and compare how PuG’s fight Lupi to the solo records.)

redkat.1892:

What are the easiest dungeons to complete solo or with a partner?

I want to experience and enjoy the content and adventure of a dungeon. My first three dungeon runs with a group of five (all very friendly and nice guildies) were all about speed runs and boss stacking; a huge disappointment despite the great fast loot.

As luck will have it my two 80 characters are a Necro minion master and a Thief P/P, which i have read are the worst to bring to dungeons.

So any dungeons i can try to complete with those classes and average-poor playing skill?

If you want to get better you can duo Lupicus with me.

I know you explicitly asked ‘What are the easiest dungeons to complete solo or with a partner?’ but later you also said ‘Because my skills are not that great is why i want to practice …’. So:

I suggest that you practice Arah path 2. Even if you don’t make it very far, it’s still good practice.

If you need some hints, there are now a lot of good videos of soloing arah. I think the original was by Wethospu (I may be wrong – others may have posted solo runs earlier than him):

Also check this thread for more vids with fx thief or necro:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Compilation-of-Lupicus-Speedclears

Doing dungeons solo means a lot of skipping and this is something you don’t like doing.

Imo play more with pugs. Don’t worry, there should still be plenty of them who don’t los mobs or wipe doing that. You can also, as someone suggested, start your own- "no los, no skipping group"- try it, imo you will find people (some will probably not read description but it’s a different matter xD).

And build at least 1 of your characters according to meta- you will be more useful, you will have easier time and maybe you will like it ( soloing is done on zerker gear, traited for damage otherwise it takes too long to beat anything).

Try SEp1 for soloing/duoing. It’s a good starter dungeon because all of the bosses are satisfied to be at range and thus don’t move. Plus, it has only one legendary boss, which makes it less tedious. It’s actually a really fun dungeon when played solo/duo; with 5 people, it’s a bit too faceroll.

If you insist on playing minion master + P/P thief, the dungeon may take some time to finish — but try it anyway. The second boss (Nokk) and the three golems before Tazza are going to be really kitten your minions — the golems will pretty much instantly kill all your minions.

Given that nearly every day there is a new thread about how stacking and skipping is the end of all things holy, there are more people out there who want to experience dungeons the way you do. And of course they are thinking, just like you, that they are the only ones who want to run dungeons without skipping. If the only reason you want to solo is you’re afraid to be a burden to others, then my advice would be try making a lfg post or asking in guild for a no-skip run. Soloing usually involves a lot more skipping then a normal run, unless you like 8 hour runs.

Try AC story, that is an easy one but will give you an idea of how different things are when alone compared to a party – even a low level party. It was a good and much needed reality check for me at least. If you are still into soloing after that, then try any of the above suggestions (except Arah 2, because that requires skipping)

I want to solo and kill everything meaning no skipping, and I mean everything by myself to test a theory about loot tables and how they are set for instanced content to see if trash mobs are worth killing do to reports of precursors and good loot hidden away on dungeon foes. I have a fully geared ele in exotics and ascended. I do not care how long it takes me to complete it as I have all the time in the world.

If there are people that still do full clears with a full team I’d appreciate that too as I just need to kill everything and record the drops that I get every run of each path if possible (I just will be mashing Print screen).

There is a reason as to why the mobs are skipped, Yumiko Ishida.

Your theory, not matter how appealing it may seem, will just end up in a failure when tested out.

The number of mobs located in dungeons, bar for specific places, is vastly inferior to what can be spawned in open world events, given a little bit of scaling. The drop rates have also been researched on the wiki.

While you may want to update the wiki with your research, it has already been determined. If you want to know what you should clear for loot, just check the numbers.

Also you mentioned precursors. The drop rate is abyssmal. Don’t dream.

Mother of necros. kitten .

Lindbur.2537:

Mother of necros. kitten .

Yep, the guy is good. I remember him from anti zerker threads back in general discussion.

Start to solo/duo with AC and CM Story , i’ve done it on every class in any possible ways. Including Necro Minions Master and even a Ranger Axe/Axe – Sword-Torch ( No bearbow ) Thief Dual P/P is doable just be sure to include Pistol Mastery , Ankle shot and Ricochet traits in your build. Practice a lot Good luck

OP, is long gone, this thread is over a year old, Flats.

Not sure why Yumiko decided to necro it.