Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about getting into dungeon soloing a bit, for the fun and challenge. I don’t know how serious I’m ever going to get, and I doubt I’m ever going to sell dungeon runs, but I wanted to try it out to test my abilities as a player.

I decided that my first target would be AC path 2. I figured that the spider queen was an attainable goal to start with, and then I wanted to see how far I could get after that. For this run, I used a warrior with full ascended Sentinel gear, Sword/Warhorn and Longbow. I’m aware that most solo players play zerker build, but I didn’t think i could handle that yet. Perhaps if I learn the mechanics of the fights well enough I can switch later on.

So here’s a breakdown of my first dungeon solo. It’s a disaster around every turn, but kitten if I didn’t have a good time doing it.

First elite breeder- piece of cake.

Spider queen: I’ve learned that the hardest part of this boss damage-wise is all the spider minions. Clearing the spider minions from the room killed me around 4 times. But once I cleared the spiders from the room, the spider queen went down with no problem. For the most part, I could heal through her damage, and I have my warhorn set up for condition removal to deal with the immobilize and poison.

Gravelings: this killed me once, and then I figured out how to handle them. This involved a lot of running around and jumping. I ran through and disabled the chains before I tried to fight them so I had more room for mobility.

Kohler: Man, this boss is hard alone. I was able to heal through most of his damage as long as I dodged the pull/spin attack, and I took him down to 66%. Then, the second wave of elites that he spawned- warrior and mesmer, took me down. The warrior never despawned after this, and I was unable to handle him with three elites at once.

Defend Detha: This was the hardest part of the dungeon, but also the most enjoyable. Killing the gravelings, using the chains, and protecting detha all by yourself is extremely difficult. I found that I relied on Detha’s 3 bombs to wipe out most of the gravelings, and I used a banner to pinpoint the exact location of the middle chain. I used Pin Down on the champion breeder at that location and then pulled the chain as many times as possible. I then had to pull it around and try to get it to use its minion summoning ability in that spot, because that freezes it in place for around 15 seconds, so I would run back and pull the chain some more. I had hounds of balthazar to attempt to distract the champion breeder long enough to take it down. I failed around 5 times, twice with the champion breeder at 20% HP remaining. It was at this point that I realized I needed Throw Bolas on top of Pin Down to keep it in there for that extra bit of damage. However, the next attempt bugged, and the champion breeder never came towards detha. I went to it, fought it, died, waypointed back, killed it. and then killed the other gravelings that were just standing there, and strangely enough, it cleared the event. This was a very strange bug, I have no idea how it happened.

Sadly, this was the end of my run. I had intended on attempting to charge the cannons by myself and inviting some guild members to clear the boss with me (which cannot be soloed), but Detha glitched at the end without starting the cannon event. I spent over an hour trying to fix the glitch, getting her killed, killing all the gravelings and oozes and everything, and it never spawned.

Overall, despite the disappointing ending, it was very fun, and a nice challenge in a game that I have done pretty much everything else already. I am definitely going to consider trying again, perhaps in a different, less glitchy dungeon.

Awesome! I still haven’t attempted to solo any of AC cause I personally hate it with a passion ;P

The hardest dungeon paths that I have solod so far were… SE P3, CM P1, and TA Fwd. I too play warrior (full berserker with scholar runes) so I can assure you that you will have one hell of a time trying to solo CM. Without reflects it is honestly just death after death after freaking death.

I suggest Arah. P4 cannot be solod without exploits, but P1 P2 and P3 are all doable by all classes. Between the three, P2 is definitely the hardest to solo if you aren’t a mesmer or guardian… JUST because of Alphard. You will not want to do this without being in berserker though. Brie was changed and if you aren’t in optimal DPS setup you won’t be able to kill him/her before the adds destroy the terminal.

You’ve given me curiosity with AC P2 and I think I may attempt it myself in the future. Thanks

E: Forgot to mention that it’s generally accepted that for Arah P1, omit the legendary tar boss as it’s not possible to spawn, let alone kill, solo. I usually do a solo run of it every day/night if I can be bothered to. You pay/ask friends or use the LFG to get helpers for it. Costs 3g in total (1g per person, 4 people needed for it).

Try SEp1.. it’s easier to solo.

Purple Miku- I hate Sure Shot Seamus even with a full party- i can’t imagine doing him alone X_x. I’ve been thinking about Arah, but I watched a video and saw just how much is required to solo some of the bosses, especially Lupicus, so I don’t think I’m ready for that yet.
If you do try AC p2, keep in mind that it’s buggy and you might not be able to complete it Dessa freezes, and you do need a party for the final boss.

Lord Kuru- I had been thinking about that path, and I just completed it!

Here’s how my Sorrow’s Embrace Path 1 solo went:

Gates/Golem: Breaking the gates was pretty easy. I kitten ed a couple of times and died, but other than that it went smoothly. The champ golem was a pain in the kitten with all the pulls and knockdowns though! That took forever. During that fight, when he was at about 30% health the server crashed, and I had to run back in. Luckily he only regened about 25% health before I aggroed him again.

Nokk: This fight was the biggest pain in the kitten ever. Getting stunned for 10 seconds every single time you miss the dodge is painfully slow, and the only thing I could figure out to do was range him from by the door. His health took forever to drain down, the fight took at least 20 minutes because I couldn’t get the hang of dodging the gravity bind. Eventually I did dodge it repeatedly and won the fight. Only one death, happened right away when I accidentally dodge rolled into the lava.

Three Golems: I was worried by this fight initially, but it turned out to be okay once I successfully pulled them individually. I died once on a bad pull, but then I fought the shield golem first, then the fire golem, then the poison one. I only died once on the poison golem, then I figured out how to dodge the attacks. I used a lot of vigor from my warhorn #5 plus the conversion of poison into more vigor. Went very smoothly.

Tazza: This is where things got hairy, but not from a difficulty standpoint. After four attempts I managed to pull her into the big room. God kitten does she have a lot of HP. I was whittling it down, after about 7-8 minutes I had her at 75%. Then I apparently moved her a little too far away because she decided to reset. Then I couldn’t get her out of the small room no matter what I did, she kept resetting. So i fought her in the room with the Troop Commander, and got them both to about 75% when I messed up and died. At this point I asked the friends/guild members I invited for the free rewards to help me finish her off and 2 helped me (a third died pretty quickly) so we trio-ed her down. I’m satisfied by this and consider this second solo a great success!

AtriustheGod.6785:

Purple Miku- I hate Sure Shot Seamus even with a full party- i can’t imagine doing him alone X_x. I’ve been thinking about Arah, but I watched a video and saw just how much is required to solo some of the bosses, especially Lupicus, so I don’t think I’m ready for that yet.
If you do try AC p2, keep in mind that it’s buggy and you might not be able to complete it Dessa freezes, and you do need a party for the final boss.

Lord Kuru- I had been thinking about that path, and I just completed it!

Here’s how my Sorrow’s Embrace Path 1 solo went:

Gates/Golem: Breaking the gates was pretty easy. I kitten ed a couple of times and died, but other than that it went smoothly. The champ golem was a pain in the kitten with all the pulls and knockdowns though! That took forever. During that fight, when he was at about 30% health the server crashed, and I had to run back in. Luckily he only regened about 25% health before I aggroed him again.

Nokk: This fight was the biggest pain in the kitten ever. Getting stunned for 10 seconds every single time you miss the dodge is painfully slow, and the only thing I could figure out to do was range him from by the door. His health took forever to drain down, the fight took at least 20 minutes because I couldn’t get the hang of dodging the gravity bind. Eventually I did dodge it repeatedly and won the fight. Only one death, happened right away when I accidentally dodge rolled into the lava.

Three Golems: I was worried by this fight initially, but it turned out to be okay once I successfully pulled them individually. I died once on a bad pull, but then I fought the shield golem first, then the fire golem, then the poison one. I only died once on the poison golem, then I figured out how to dodge the attacks. I used a lot of vigor from my warhorn #5 plus the conversion of poison into more vigor. Went very smoothly.

Tazza: This is where things got hairy, but not from a difficulty standpoint. After four attempts I managed to pull her into the big room. God kitten does she have a lot of HP. I was whittling it down, after about 7-8 minutes I had her at 75%. Then I apparently moved her a little too far away because she decided to reset. Then I couldn’t get her out of the small room no matter what I did, she kept resetting. So i fought her in the room with the Troop Commander, and got them both to about 75% when I messed up and died. At this point I asked the friends/guild members I invited for the free rewards to help me finish her off and 2 helped me (a third died pretty quickly) so we trio-ed her down. I’m satisfied by this and consider this second solo a great success!

Nice!

Once you’ve got Nokk’s tells down, you can burn him down relatively quick in melee (stand where his vapor blade falls off the edge so there’s no return hit).

To get Tazza where you want her:

1. it’s easiest with a ranged weapon. fight her at range and stand where you want her to be.
2. when she teleports, it will be your position.

To get her into the big room:

1. first aggro her and get her to the top of the steps where she has line of sight into the big room (using the above method).
2. do the above method again to get her down the stairs and into the big room.
3. at this point you can melee her.

The key is to always have line of sight with her otherwise she may reset. Never dodge, evade, or walk through (or behind) her in the big room — that counts as losing line of sight, she will reset.

OR: you can fight her in the corner of her room: if you’re facing the room from the big room, this would be the far right corner. The camera can be awful because of the small space, but she never resets there. Just don’t let her greatsword 5 knock you into Kaeyi’s aggro range.

As for Sureshot Seamus: circle him the whole time in melee and he’ll never even hit you.

And for AC: perhaps try path 3.

Hey, this was how I solod Tezza. It may not be the most graceful of kills but it worked!

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3629052

Maybe this will help you.

Lord Kuru- Ah, that’s why she reset then. I was constantly running around her in circles and dodge rolling in a wide radius.

I’ll give Seamus a try and see if I can handle him. If not, at least he’s right in the beginning of the dungeon.

I’ve thought about AC P3 since I’ve already done Spider Queen and I know I can solo Rumblus, but how am I supposed to handle the essence collectors? I can’t imagine being able to take the burrows down quickly enough before they get out of control.

Purple Miku- Nice video, I like the technique. Watching this video also shows just how substantial the difference between a full Zerker build and a full Sentinel build really is. Overall your damage output is at least 500% more than mine, even after factoring in the fact that I can hit her more frequently because I heal through most of her attacks. My sword hits for a measly 200 damage per hit (plus bleeds, woohoo). The only saving grace is that it allows me to make mistakes (something I do frequently because I’m not really familiar with how bosses work differently when you’re the only available target). However, I can understand fully why people only ask for full zerker parties with speed runs in dungeons.

How necessary is Ascended gear for solo runs? My main warrior that attempted these runs is in full ascended weapons, trinkets, and armor, but when I get better (if I continue with this long enough) I have an Exotic geared zerker warrior that I use for party speed runs. If exotics is sufficient, I’ll probably eventually give her a try- but I don’t ever plan on getting a set of Ascendeds for her.

AtriustheGod.6785:

Lord Kuru- Ah, that’s why she reset then. I was constantly running around her in circles and dodge rolling in a wide radius.

I’ll give Seamus a try and see if I can handle him. If not, at least he’s right in the beginning of the dungeon.

I’ve thought about AC P3 since I’ve already done Spider Queen and I know I can solo Rumblus, but how am I supposed to handle the essence collectors? I can’t imagine being able to take the burrows down quickly enough before they get out of control.

Purple Miku- Nice video, I like the technique. Watching this video also shows just how substantial the difference between a full Zerker build and a full Sentinel build really is. Overall your damage output is at least 500% more than mine, even after factoring in the fact that I can hit her more frequently because I heal through most of her attacks. My sword hits for a measly 200 damage per hit (plus bleeds, woohoo). The only saving grace is that it allows me to make mistakes (something I do frequently because I’m not really familiar with how bosses work differently when you’re the only available target). However, I can understand fully why people only ask for full zerker parties with speed runs in dungeons.

How necessary is Ascended gear for solo runs? My main warrior that attempted these runs is in full ascended weapons, trinkets, and armor, but when I get better (if I continue with this long enough) I have an Exotic geared zerker warrior that I use for party speed runs. If exotics is sufficient, I’ll probably eventually give her a try- but I don’t ever plan on getting a set of Ascendeds for her.

For Tazza, you can circle, but the instant you step/evade into or past her model by accident, she resets. In any case, you can’t avoid any of her attacks by moving so you may as well just stand right in front of her.

For the essence collectors, you can actually kite the whole time without killing anything. Run around the burrows as they spawn to draw aggro — if any gravelings attack the collectors, hit them a few times and you’ll take their aggro. Never stop moving and you should be ok.

As for gear, I’d say start with what you’re comfortable with — it seems your current gear gives you lots of margin for error so that’ll help you learn the encounters and boss tells without too much frustration. As you get more comfortable with the encounters, swap in more and more zerker gear. Exotics are fine, but Ascended will make the tedious encounters faster (especially weapons and trinkets).

You have the right idea. Trust me I make mistakes all the time too and so does everyone else. The first time I ever solod Lupicus, for example, it was with for great justice, balanced stance, and signet of stamina because I didn’t trust myself. It felt wrong when I beat him and since then I have always used for great justice, signet of fury, and banner of discipline.

The reason I’m giving you this specific example of myself is because I want to make sure you know that you’ll truly learn how to do something if you put yourself in the position where you’re FORCED to time everything properly. It’s not always practical to do so, but sometimes it really helps for self-improvement if you do that.

Some bosses, however, like that freakin’ Bloody Victoria boss in CM P1 that I barely managed to skate by with shake it off, balanced stance AND dolyak signet… this does not apply to. xD

Lord Kuru.3685:

For Tazza, you can circle, but the instant you step/evade into or past her model by accident, she resets. In any case, you can’t avoid any of her attacks by moving so you may as well just stand right in front of her.

So just like, face-tank her without dodging? ^^
Would pulling her in a corner to dodge into, and lots of healing power with healing siggy (and other defensive utilities) be enough to stay alive?

Meryn.6875:

Lord Kuru.3685:

For Tazza, you can circle, but the instant you step/evade into or past her model by accident, she resets. In any case, you can’t avoid any of her attacks by moving so you may as well just stand right in front of her.

So just like, face-tank her without dodging? ^^
Would pulling her in a corner to dodge into, and lots of healing power with healing siggy (and other defensive utilities) be enough to stay alive?

Sorry, what I meant was that being in motion doesn’t help you in the fight because her main attacks can’t be avoided via motion (unlike Sureshot Seamus, for example): her greatsword #1 is an instant attack and greatsword #2 is guiding. Maybe you can avoid greatsword #5 by constantly circling her since she pauses for a very quick moment before initiating the attack, but I’ve found that being in motion near Tazza in the big room always risks accidentally moving into/past her and thus resetting her. Nothing is worse than a reset!!

If you’re not in the big room, putting her into the corner and dodging into her is optimal, but I hate the camera behavior when fighting in her room.

I aways dodge her greatsword #2 (mirror blade) as the clone is annoying and getting hit often means Tazza gets tons of might.

As for her greatsword #1, you can try putting weakness on her for these attacks — they’re each composed of 4 mini-attacks so even though weakness has an RNG component, you’ll likely get mitigation. I think with good application of weakness, you might be able to absorb all three of her attacks (she uses this three times per attack cycle — usually). I think at worst, you need to dodge one of them.

You should be able to do this in full zerkers.

I solo this on my necro semi-regularly: I tank one attack with Death Shroud and generally eat the other two in melee (the closer you are the less damage GS #1 does).

You solo SE regularly Kuru? Christ, I couldn’t imagine it. I had such an awful time trying to pull the 3 golems individually and LOSing Tezza near the top of the stairs, haha. Definitely a tough boss to solo. Might do it again someday to see if I can do it faster and with all DPS utils.

Purple Miku.7032:

You solo SE regularly Kuru? Christ, I couldn’t imagine it. I had such an awful time trying to pull the 3 golems individually and LOSing Tezza near the top of the stairs, haha. Definitely a tough boss to solo. Might do it again someday to see if I can do it faster and with all DPS utils.

I actually find it fun trying to tweak builds and skills (necro). Plus, the fact that only one boss is legendary helps A LOT — having to fight two legendaries in one path is just too tedious.

You’re right in that the least fun part is pulling the golems or Tazza, but once you’ve done it a few times, you know exactly where to place yourself for the pulls — and you can focus on the fights. I think SEp1 is much more fun solo than even with 2 people, where you can ignore almost all mechanics and still faceroll it.

By the way, a fun exercise is to fight all three golems at once with a guardian (I’ll bet mesmer works too)!

And if you do do SEp1 again, don’t forget to post it!

Twilight Arbor up was the first one I did (ele) and it was generally really easy so you should probably try that. Hardest part was honestly the single silver mob (and his champ bodyguard but he was just an hp sponge) right before the nightmare tree.

ArthurDent.9538:

Twilight Arbor up was the first one I did (ele) and it was generally really easy so you should probably try that. Hardest part was honestly the single silver mob (and his champ bodyguard but he was just an hp sponge) right before the nightmare tree.

Fyonna wasn’t a pain in the kitten for you at all? She was by far the most difficult part of TA up imo.

Purple Miku.7032:

ArthurDent.9538:

Twilight Arbor up was the first one I did (ele) and it was generally really easy so you should probably try that. Hardest part was honestly the single silver mob (and his champ bodyguard but he was just an hp sponge) right before the nightmare tree.

Fyonna wasn’t a pain in the kitten for you at all? She was by far the most difficult part of TA up imo.

I have been able to solo the whole path on my thief, except for Fyonna…
When I was going for my first FULL solo up, I had to stop there after 10x dying when she transformed

This was how I managed to do it. http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3562896

To be honest it didn’t take that many attempts to kill her, it’s just that I hatched a few eggs and spent like 2 hours killing the kitten elites that were now in the way (kitten horrible idea, don’t do it!) . It’s SO hard to pull those elite spiders without Fyonna coming with.

The initial plan was to clear out some more area so I had room to work with because in all honesty it just wasn’t feasible to straight-up melee. Almost all of her attacks knocked me backwards, hit hard, and she’d spawn those mini spiders. Fire fields + arcing arrow was a decent way to take care of those.

As for her spider form that was a saving grace, if anything. The only time in which she WASN’T kicking my kitten was when she transformed lmao. I definitely need to try it again now that I can’t spam embers and pray to god they take aggro, but I must say this was an awfully tough boss to solo.

Meryn.6875:

Purple Miku.7032:

ArthurDent.9538:

Twilight Arbor up was the first one I did (ele) and it was generally really easy so you should probably try that. Hardest part was honestly the single silver mob (and his champ bodyguard but he was just an hp sponge) right before the nightmare tree.

Fyonna wasn’t a pain in the kitten for you at all? She was by far the most difficult part of TA up imo.

I have been able to solo the whole path on my thief, except for Fyonna…
When I was going for my first FULL solo up, I had to stop there after 10x dying when she transformed

I did have a bit of trouble with Fyonna, however once she started transforming it became easy mode so I am not sure why you would have trouble in that part. Ele focus is really nice though for Fyonna since all her attacks are projectiles though.

Thanks for all the advice guys. I’ve been mulling over what you’ve all said and I’m gonna probably try AC p3, then TA up, and possibly CM p3. Those seem like the most attainable in the near future. I’ll post my progress when I attempt one of them (probably not until tomorrow.) I’ll see about getting a video of all/part of one of the runs.

ArthurDent.9538:

I did have a bit of trouble with Fyonna, however once she started transforming it became easy mode so I am not sure why you would have trouble in that part. Ele focus is really nice though for Fyonna since all her attacks are projectiles though.

Because her attacks were taking like 30% of my health I am just pistolwhip spamming with Signet of Malice, but some attacks still got through, which killed me

AtriustheGod.6785:

Thanks for all the advice guys. I’ve been mulling over what you’ve all said and I’m gonna probably try AC p3, then TA up, and possibly CM p3. Those seem like the most attainable in the near future. I’ll post my progress when I attempt one of them (probably not until tomorrow.) I’ll see about getting a video of all/part of one of the runs.

CM p3 is easymode for a thief (video). Its possible on warrior too, but it makes even the skippings a lot more of a pain in the kitten .

( Did I mention you can afk the first boss after the adds are dead, and the last boss? )

So I tried AC p3 alone yesterday. The spider queen was again no problem, and I managed to get Kohler to kill the Troll, but I got stuck at the burrows. I tried my best to kite all the gravelings, but they never all seem to stay aggroed on me. A few break the group and head for the essence collectors, and gradually kill them. And if I don’t move around in a wide enough circle, the gravelings kill me. The best I got to was 50% charged and then I gave up and posted a LFG to help me finish the dungeon.

I also tried CM p3 and I have absolutely no idea how to kill Sure Shot Seamus. I got him to 90% at best by running around the building with some well aimed bow shots, but I couldn’t handle him or the adds.

AtriustheGod.6785:

So I tried AC p3 alone yesterday. The spider queen was again no problem, and I managed to get Kohler to kill the Troll, but I got stuck at the burrows. I tried my best to kite all the gravelings, but they never all seem to stay aggroed on me. A few break the group and head for the essence collectors, and gradually kill them. And if I don’t move around in a wide enough circle, the gravelings kill me. The best I got to was 50% charged and then I gave up and posted a LFG to help me finish the dungeon.

I also tried CM p3 and I have absolutely no idea how to kill Sure Shot Seamus. I got him to 90% at best by running around the building with some well aimed bow shots, but I couldn’t handle him or the adds.

If you can get 5% off his health he switches to using a shotgun and then you can just circle him in melee range. His skill windup is so long that you will be well out of his frontal cone before he fires. I suggest taking at least one stun breaker for him in case he decides to aim at a random direction.

Taku.6352:

AtriustheGod.6785:

So I tried AC p3 alone yesterday. The spider queen was again no problem, and I managed to get Kohler to kill the Troll, but I got stuck at the burrows. I tried my best to kite all the gravelings, but they never all seem to stay aggroed on me. A few break the group and head for the essence collectors, and gradually kill them. And if I don’t move around in a wide enough circle, the gravelings kill me. The best I got to was 50% charged and then I gave up and posted a LFG to help me finish the dungeon.

I also tried CM p3 and I have absolutely no idea how to kill Sure Shot Seamus. I got him to 90% at best by running around the building with some well aimed bow shots, but I couldn’t handle him or the adds.

If you can get 5% off his health he switches to using a shotgun and then you can just circle him in melee range. His skill windup is so long that you will be well out of his frontal cone before he fires. I suggest taking at least one stun breaker for him in case he decides to aim at a random direction.

This. For Seamus.

For AC, when gravelings attack the collectors, just give them a few hits and they’ll aggro on you (you may have to be in melee range) … also, if you regularly damage those that are following you they don’t de-aggro. Just run around in circles near the burrows so that you cleave the burrows as well.

AtriustheGod.6785:

I also tried CM p3 and I have absolutely no idea how to kill Sure Shot Seamus. I got him to 90% at best by running around the building with some well aimed bow shots, but I couldn’t handle him or the adds.

For Sure Shot Seamus, watch the video from my previous post.

For his adds, take as much block/reflect as possible, (1 wall of reflection [guard] or 1 daggerstorm [thief] and they will kill themselves without you having to do anything).
As for a warrior, stand behind a corner and try to run back&forth around that corner to obstruct them. I’m sure its hard, but once the adds are dead its childsplay

Im not sure if this can turn out great, but the new heal (heal for every damage) might get you from 5% health to 100% health in no-time thanks to the amount of hits you get.

Sorry for the necropost, but this is the original topic I started for my dungeon soloing endeavors. I took a break from dungeon soloing for a while to farm skins for the new patch, but now that that’s over I’m trying to get back into it.

Today I successfully soloed CM p3.

The last time I tried it, I was absolutely destroyed by Sure Shot Seamus and I gave up. Today I persevered. Getting down the ads was the hardest part of the fight, I ended up switching to zerker traits, going 4 stances and powering down one at a time during my invulnerability. This was messy, and took a lot of tries, but I got it done. Once the ads were down, Sure Shot went smoothly. I figured out that his attacks can be dodged very easily by continually circling around him, and I had Balanced Stance + Dolyak Signet to save me in case I messed up.

Wahlen wasn’t as difficult as I expected him to be. I died on him once before I figured out his pattern, but then I changed my spec back to regen banners, and I learned how to dodge the majority of his attacks, enough to heal through any of the mistakes I made.

Vallog was extremely easy, I used axe/warhorn and converted conditions to boons with my warhorn. This turned burning into aegis, which then blocked the next burning attempt. Between this and my vigor fortified dodges, I was able to heal more damage than I was ever taking. The riflemen before him were much more difficult than he was, and I had to use 4 stances and sweet revenge to take them down. (The first rifleman died as I did, unfortunately, and I had to run ALL the way back.)

I’ve noticed that this new patch greatly improves the quality of life of dungeon soloing. The ability to change traits on the fly, as well as free repairs (especially for a beginner like myself who dies frequently). Also, I finally started carrying additional weapons to swap between. I don’t know why I never did this in the past, it feels so good to have a weapon for each situation! I currently carry 2 Swords, Warhorn, Mace, Axe, Greatsword, and Longbow. I’m thinking of picking up a 2nd axe as well.

AtriustheGod.6785:

Sorry for the necropost, but this is the original topic I started for my dungeon soloing endeavors. I took a break from dungeon soloing for a while to farm skins for the new patch, but now that that’s over I’m trying to get back into it.

Today I successfully soloed CM p3.

The last time I tried it, I was absolutely destroyed by Sure Shot Seamus and I gave up. Today I persevered. Getting down the ads was the hardest part of the fight, I ended up switching to zerker traits, going 4 stances and powering down one at a time during my invulnerability. This was messy, and took a lot of tries, but I got it done. Once the ads were down, Sure Shot went smoothly. I figured out that his attacks can be dodged very easily by continually circling around him, and I had Balanced Stance + Dolyak Signet to save me in case I messed up.

Wahlen wasn’t as difficult as I expected him to be. I died on him once before I figured out his pattern, but then I changed my spec back to regen banners, and I learned how to dodge the majority of his attacks, enough to heal through any of the mistakes I made.

Vallog was extremely easy, I used axe/warhorn and converted conditions to boons with my warhorn. This turned burning into aegis, which then blocked the next burning attempt. Between this and my vigor fortified dodges, I was able to heal more damage than I was ever taking. The riflemen before him were much more difficult than he was, and I had to use 4 stances and sweet revenge to take them down. (The first rifleman died as I did, unfortunately, and I had to run ALL the way back.)

I’ve noticed that this new patch greatly improves the quality of life of dungeon soloing. The ability to change traits on the fly, as well as free repairs (especially for a beginner like myself who dies frequently). Also, I finally started carrying additional weapons to swap between. I don’t know why I never did this in the past, it feels so good to have a weapon for each situation! I currently carry 2 Swords, Warhorn, Mace, Axe, Greatsword, and Longbow. I’m thinking of picking up a 2nd axe as well.

Out of curiosity how long did it take you to finish the path?

About 3 hours, but that’s including a few breaks I took in between. I didn’t keep track of how much time I was afk, but I’d say ballpark 30-45 minutes so the total run took me 2-2.5 hours.

may help out a bit https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8loznS38Xg8

10 min ac p1

crap i dont know why i thought you were an ele.

Nice job! What dungeon’s next? Or you want to work on better times?

I think I’m more interested in completing multiple different dungeons for now rather than repeating one I’ve completed and doing it faster. Right now the part I’m enjoying the most about this is the newness of the experience- I’ve done these dungeons so many times with a group that it’s gotten to the point where I’m just going through the motions to get the reward. When you don’t have a party to fall back on all of a sudden EVERYTHING you do matters. The bosses’ patterns are crucial, and figuring out how to avoid every attack is a challenge and you have to really be paying attention and invested in every move you make. It’s fresh and exciting and I’m really enjoying it, and I want more.

So far I’ve completed 2 and 1/2 dungeon paths by myself:
AC path 2 up to when Detha glitches
Sorrow’s Embrace p1
Caudecus Manor p3

I’m interested in seeing what else I can accomplish.

What dungeons are physically possible to solo without exploits? I know there’s a few that absolutely require additional people, such as CoF 1, 3 and Arah 1. That might help me decide what’s next- right now I’m thinking TA up might be my next target.

Oh, and I watched that video DonQuack and I’m very impressed by the talent- but I am nowhere near that level. My dungeon solos are a disaster of mistakes and deaths

AtriustheGod.6785:

AC path 2 up to when Detha glitches

How did you do the traps with the champion breeder alone? was it easy, i’ve never tried

joey the creator.3587:

How did you do the traps with the champion breeder alone? was it easy, i’ve never tried

This was extremely entertaining and challenging actually. The trick is to let Detha handle the trash mobs with her bombs (she gets three) and to use the middle spikes to kill the champion breeder. I rooted the champ breeder with Pin Down, and also triggered its baby spawning ability while it was standing where the spikes are, and then repeatedly pulled the spikes. I also used Hounds of Balthazar to keep it distracted.

Sadly, I wasn’t legitimately successful. I managed to bring the champion breeder down to 10% HP left when I failed on my best attempt. After around 6 or 7 attempts the champion breeder glitched and didn’t disappear when I wiped that time. When I came back, I cleared so I could try again, and Detha was like “All right, we did it!”

I realized later that Throw Bolas was what I was missing to get that last bit of damage down. I’m definitely going to attempt to beat this legimate. But AC p2 is such a mess right now with bugs I want to wait until it’s fixed so I can beat the whole dungeon.

Oh nice and there is an easy way to prevent detha from bugging. Just run far into the room and make sure she is out of combat before entering the orange circle indicated on the mini map

I’ll definitely give that a try, thanks!