Guild Wars 2

I’ve been doing some ac solo runs on my engineer and have gotten down near the 15 minute mark when RNG is in my favor. I’m looking to improve and would like any advice fellow soloists may have for me to make that time come down. For example, being able to take on more than 2 coffin spawns at a time or making the Lovers fight go quicker/smoother. The sub 7 minute run I don’t think is possible as engi but any improvement will be good

Speaking as a Thief here.

Multiple coffins (I myself never take more than 3) can be done with lots of blindness. I’m not sure how much blinds engineers can spam, but I think blindness is best here. (unless you can spike everything down fast enough, like the duo-ele record). If you get the spider spawn, try to reflect them. If you reflect their full attack, they should be dead.

I never take down the Lovers together. Are you familiar with the split method? Basically you just lure 1 boss into the hall passage, take the boulder off and lock the other boss out. This way its much easier to kill them, since you wont have to deal with their buffs, or 2 guys attacking you.
In my experience this is way faster than kiting them, since you can just full dps them instead of luring/hiding/range them.

You can speed up your skips with Harpy Feathers and Order of Whipsers Spy Kits, no need to blas your fields anymore.

I’m looking for improvement myself as well, mainly The Lovers. But I’m able to reach 12min on my Thief on good runs

those kitten spiders : (
elixir U is actually a decent idea vs them since the reflect is on the toolbelt so i could swap off and the spawn times give you enough warning to swap as needed. i think i’d have enough dps to blow away a group of 5 but the problem is the cc. don’t have a good source of stability to be able to get through a rotation before getting stunned/dazed/kicked assuming the damage itself could be survived.

As for the Lovers…
I have had luck (when i don’t mess up the big ole’ bomb, doh) with big ole’ bomb into rifle 4 and then dropping crate on vassar. they split enough to burn down relena while the turrets and npc’s hold vassar’s attention. the problem for me is vassar himself, he’s just a real kitten with confusion and retal all those grenade attacks typically end up killing myself. from the thief side of things, have you tried using scorpion wire for some long pull up the hall? i don’t know much about thief as far as how essential your utilities are, but you could probably accomplish something similar with scorpion wire + summon gang bang.

i have done something similar to what you are saying with the door but i’ve never had to shut the door, at max range doing the Nade Wobble™ vassar usually deaggros, but, that takes longer than the bomb method and doesn’t really solve the issue of vassar. i will still usually down at least once vs him (and then wp zerg for victory which is probably faster than just fighting/kiting but it feels lame).

i’ll try to get ahold of some of those kits but realistically if i would git gud the stealth skips should be as easy as smoke bomb→ heal turret detonate → shield blast. the skips are all so short that it would be a negligible time difference if i practiced.

thanks for the response and the time. helps to have a realistic goal.

Why don’t you just open coffins until he spawns and then run back to the entrance, which will result in only him (and sometimes a few spiders) being pulled.

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As for the Lovers…
from the thief side of things, have you tried using scorpion wire for some long pull up the hall? i don’t know much about thief as far as how essential your utilities are, but you could probably accomplish something similar with scorpion wire + summon gang bang.

I find it easier to shut the door so there is no way of escaping/coming in, as a thief this does not need much preparation since you can just shadowstep into the hall when standing on a plate. I always use Scorpion Wire for this trick, aggro both, let them come up to the hall, pull 1 in, shut the door. I save my Summon for the last boss (has more HP) to keep it speedy.

I remember seeing some video of a warrior killing them both at the same time with stability if i’m not mistaken. This does however require you to burn them in seconds.