How long did it take most of you really good pros to be able to solo Lupi on a regular basis? I’ve practiced maybe 10-20 hours or so, and gotten close a good number of times (like 5% left on warr), but I still haven’t pulled it off (I suck). Tried so far on ele, warr, and guard. Probably will try mes next.
Anyway, did it take many attempts? How long do you think you guys practiced until you had it down pat?
I see, I don’t feel like I suck as much now. Any tips by the way? Especially for Guard Solos, I blow hard at that.
On my Warr I can reliably get phase one down really easily, and phase two isn’t necessarily hard but I kitten it up quite a bit. Phase three is pretty easy for the most part if I can survive the transition, I’ve gotten through most of it on most of my tries that made it that far.
Currently using Assassin’s gear to 100% crit and Disc/FGJ/Endure Pain, I’ll get rid of assassin’s weapons and swap EP for Fury Sig when I can pull it off more times than not. I don’t have sigil stacks because I’m going to down with my current skill so not really any point, but when I can, which classes should have perception or blood lust?
It took me about 15-20 hours to get my first solo kill, not sure how long exactly. The biggest tip I can give you is to study how the pros do it by watching their youtube videos. As a warrior I watched Wethospu, Strife, and Goku. This will help you learn how to react to every ability lupicus has.
Another thing would be to use more defensive utilities until you improve, and then switch them out for offensive utilities one by one. It’ll take longer finish each phase, but if you’re taking signet of stamina even if you make mistakes your endurance will refill very quickly. In phase 3 I recommend playing it safe by doing eviscerates after double dodging his life-steal to get your endurance back.
As you practice you’ll improve and become more confident. Then you’ll be able to play more offensively, but for now don’t be afraid to use defensive utilities and use burst to get your endurance back.
Spent 8 hours straight getting close a few times but never sealing the deal. Would have kept going but the repair costs literally ran me out of money (always investing, little liquid funds) so I had to take a break to run some other dungeons.
Watched other videos with specific tips rather than the general idea.
Spent another 4 hours the next day, got my first solo kill.
Have probably now spent around 250 hours just running arah (it is literally all I do in GW2) and still cannot do it 100%. There are just always going to be a few things that stop me/you from aceing the fight that are reasonably beyond your control.
I’ve tried on mes and guard as well and I think war has to best tools to defeat the rng aspects of the fight that usually kitten people up but that could just be because I have the most experience on war.
As a stubborn idiot I tried out the lupi solo in my first arah run, as I was challenged by someone but had spent my days in fractals before, using friends to get me to him I took him out in about 15 hours of practice in 5 hour sessions during the holidays, given, in knights gear. I think you can add another 2/3 to that and get the amount of time it took to solo consistently.
The mesmer solo after that took 4 tries with the silly GS/Scepter setup xD (crafted mesmer to 80, dont judge me).
If you have any questions, you can always ask me, I will answer them whenever I can.
Don’t want to sound kitteny or anything but I’ve had pugged Arah quite a bit so I was used to his mechanics and the party wiping quite a lot. One day when running with a guild group I decided to attempt it since some of the guildies were afk. I got him within 3 attempts with life-steal food and healing signet. I’ve become so used to his mechanics now that I can solo on my first attempt every single time. Of course I can’t get a speedrun kill like most others on this subforum but I can manage around 8-10 mins easily.
Another thing would be to use more defensive utilities until you improve, and then switch them out for offensive utilities one by one. It’ll take longer finish each phase, but if you’re taking signet of stamina even if you make mistakes your endurance will refill very quickly. In phase 3 I recommend playing it safe by doing eviscerates after double dodging his life-steal to get your endurance back.
I use Energy Sigil on OH sword so my endurance is never totally out except when I do really bad on phase 3, I’ll try the eviscerates as I do start running out of dodges in that phases, GS 3 and Sword 5 help keep me at 1 endurance at least pretty easily. I use Heal Sig instead of Surge for added DPS via Deep Strikes and to outlive the 3 bleeds if I really mess up and fail to dodge Lupi Swipe in phase 2, so it cuts into my DPS a lot if I pop my Burst skills, so I would rather avoid them.
I also want to avoid dipping into energy sig or doly sig or balanced stance, they hurt my DPS a lot which just prolongs the fight so I have a higher chance to mess up. Endure Pain is enough for me to go through transitions pretty well which is why I bother with it.
Still wondering about sigil stacking for him, I’d assume Blood Lust for warr and perception for mes/guard, not sure about ele, the other 4 classes I don’t really care too much about. Thief is the only other one I envision I’ll do a solo lupi with.
Another thing would be to use more defensive utilities until you improve, and then switch them out for offensive utilities one by one. It’ll take longer finish each phase, but if you’re taking signet of stamina even if you make mistakes your endurance will refill very quickly. In phase 3 I recommend playing it safe by doing eviscerates after double dodging his life-steal to get your endurance back.
I use Energy Sigil on OH sword so my endurance is never totally out except when I do really bad on phase 3, I’ll try the eviscerates as I do start running out of dodges in that phases, GS 3 and Sword 5 help keep me at 1 endurance at least pretty easily. I use Heal Sig instead of Surge for added DPS via Deep Strikes and to outlive the 3 bleeds if I really mess up and fail to dodge Lupi Swipe in phase 2, so it cuts into my DPS a lot if I pop my Burst skills, so I would rather avoid them.
I also want to avoid dipping into energy sig or doly sig or balanced stance, they hurt my DPS a lot which just prolongs the fight so I have a higher chance to mess up. Endure Pain is enough for me to go through transitions pretty well which is why I bother with it.
Still wondering about sigil stacking for him, I’d assume Blood Lust for warr and perception for mes/guard, not sure about ele, the other 4 classes I don’t really care too much about. Thief is the only other one I envision I’ll do a solo lupi with.
Well, I managed to pull it off (he did his barrage on me unexpectedly at the end and I won with vengeance, but meh), now I just need to practice enough to get it down pat. I think I’ll probably keep using the energy sigil for a while even though I sacrifice 10% axe/impale damage. The next challenge is no EP, which I don’t think will be too hard since I only use it in transitions pretty much.
Any tips for guard or mesmer?
Somewhat unrelated but would be nice to know, is there anyway to take out the berserker abomination on p2 with mes without taking days to do it? On that note, Brie is probably pretty similar, any tips for her on mes?
Well, I managed to pull it off (he did his barrage on me unexpectedly at the end and I won with vengeance, but meh), now I just need to practice enough to get it down pat. I think I’ll probably keep using the energy sigil for a while even though I sacrifice 10% axe/impale damage. The next challenge is no EP, which I don’t think will be too hard since I only use it in transitions pretty much.
Any tips for guard or mesmer?
Somewhat unrelated but would be nice to know, is there anyway to take out the berserker abomination on p2 with mes without taking days to do it? On that note, Brie is probably pretty similar, any tips for her on mes?
This is a nice coincidence, today ill be uploading a path 2 arah solo with a guide aspect, everything on those subjects is covered there just keep an eye on the channel ,should be there around the afternoon.
Very nice, there were things I hadn’t thought of, Far-Reaching Manipulations is an obvious one that passed my mind. I also tried getting duelists and swordsmen up behind him, I hadn’t thought to just put Duelist’s super far away. Lupi and the rest of the run shouldn’t be too difficult.
just keep an eye on the channel ,should be there around the afternoon.