Guild Wars 2

Did my craziest ever solo stunt tonight. I didn’t expect to actually get it done, but I completely solod a full level 50 run FotM. I don’t know if anyone has done this yet but I probably won’t ever do it again because the chances of getting the fractals that I did are so low it’s insane.

It took me about 5 hours overall, and the raw footage is here:
http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4277337

I had this:

Underwater Ruins
Ascalonian City
Aetherblade Retreat
Jade Maw

Like, holy mother of RNG…? I’m not even as happy about not getting dredge as I am not getting harpy fractal, holy crap. I was expecting Mai Trin and was looking forward to finally getting a chance to attempt a level 50 solo of her (did a sloppy 49 mai trin solo a while ago) but it felt pretty relieving to get something I knew I’d be able to do in a reasonable amount of time after all of that effort.

The absolute toughest 2 parts of the full run were…
1) Krait at the start in Underwater Ruins. O-M-F-G it was awful. Could barely clear 1 of them at a time, took me I think 2 repairs.
2) Most challenging of all, the final encounter in Aetherblade Retreat. I’m actually pretty proud of myself for it, but I’m sure there are people who can do a less sloppy job than mine.

I took it upon myself to highlight the Aetherblade boss fight itself, which was just under 10 minutes. http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4277500

P.S. I did not have any help other than my friend joining instance while I char selected to go repair armor (placeholding for me so I wouldn’t have to lose instance). I gave him the daily at the end, along with 3 other guildmates of mine. We all got kitten loot as always. Ty Arenanet, #1 Loot system.

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P.S. If you want to see, Goku Destroys U and I have been trying to go for a sub-40 Arah P4 duo record. This was our best attempt so far, a ~46 minute one. He doesn’t want to upload until we reach our goal :P but I will highlight mine because it was a smooth run: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4277372

We WILL get it, it just is really hard to have everything go just right in one run

The simin kill was astonishingly fast… 3:04 duo warr/warr: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4277387

Hope you enjoy, and that I won’t see you all in Linksville anytime soon. Pls no.

absolutely insane. crazy that the first encounter was amongst the hardest!

Those krait really were horrible… I wasn’t making any progress at the very very start, but started to get a pattern going. Spam a few attacks with harpoon gun, then yolo spear tsunami with endure pain + balanced stance and hope you activate defiant stance in time before your hp tanks from full to 0.

Miku y u do dis? now I feel bad

Your turn, Sandy!

Solo dredge sandy, that’ll show him.

Aint NOBODY got time fo that

Sandy there is no undermining of your achievements! You managed to solo swampland AND cliffside. I really don’t know if I’d be able to do cliffside… I can’t imagine how I’d be able to.

This is amazing. Wth. Haha.

Miku, if you have enough boredom to do this, you’re actually better off calculating bitcoins with just paper. That even yields you money.

I can’t say what I’m more. Impressed by the achievement or impressed by the crazyness it must have taken to even think of this.

Thank you Lilith and hendo, and I had a lot of fun doing it aside from the Krait at the start of underwater tbh. Those were just not fun… ;_;

Nice job Miku. Special thanks to Nova for daily reviver at end.

Would like to try all of those solo at some point, but never want spam them till I get that nice rng for all of them at one. Nice!
Ascalon could have been swapped for Snowblind, or molten (would be a real pain) and maybe harpies if Tom can be solo’d. With Aetherblade being the only one possible for the third fractal, that is at best 16% chance for getting a soloable combo after rolling water depending on whether uncategorized is soloable and whether molten would be worth doing (those initial vets hurt much worse than water I suspect). If neither is feasible then that goes down to 8%.
In conclusion you are lucky but still good.

Oh I know, I made a big deal about my RNG luck in the beginning of the post. I refuse to even do harpy fractal in groups, let alone solo. I absolutely refuse to do it.

Nice!

Good job on that!

This is impressive!

Awesome job, Miku!

Now Sandy, go and blow him out of the water (pun intended).

This is very impressive! Hope I will be able to solo a veteran one day QQ

Soloing 50 is worthy of a precursor. If you solo’d harpy you deserve a legendary. Old Tom alone would cause you no end of trouble not to mention the 4 at the top.

Well done indeed

Azrael.4960:

Soloing 50 is worthy of a precursor. If you solo’d harpy you deserve a legendary. Old Tom alone would cause you no end of trouble not to mention the 4 at the top.

Well done indeed

I agree as a warrior Old Tom might be a pain (if you don’t go inside it or don’t use LB to hit it from the floor below), but as a mesmer it’s quite easy I think.

Yeah I did it 2 days ago actually, just gotta hoard a kitten ton of crystals and avoid the pull when refilling batteries. The final boss is a horrible pain with non working wardens, maybe a guard could do it.

don’t want to come back there for a while, nor plan to bite any leech offer from Sandy.

In all seriousness, I doubt a guard can handle the Baron when the golems are up all at once.

Iris Ng.9845:

don’t want to come back there for a while, nor plan to bite any leech offer from Sandy.

In all seriousness, I doubt a guard can handle the Baron when the golems are up all at once.

Ill just give you an offer you can’t refuse

She can never refuse my offers.

I know that I would not be able to solo the last boss in harpy as a warrior. Old Tom I probably could but the last time I tried soloing harpy fractal I died when both ettin and flame legion shaman were <10% hp… so FORGET THAT.

One of the fractals that I’m curious of how well I’d be able to do is cliffside. I feel like the arm seals would be excruciatingly difficult to do, but last boss I kind of have a strategy already from when I’m the only one that doesn’t wipe in pug runs xD

To prevent him from instantly pointing at you to send you to the cage, just go behind one of the pillars/beacons and LOS him. He generally will always either hammer swing or do that projectile attack that pulls you in. So, that’s on my to-do list. ^^

Wow, good job Miku!

laharl.8435:

Wow, good job Miku!

Welcome back, teach!

This guy is seriously bored

Indeed, I am.

Give me reasons to play, Arenanet!

PvP is the worst that I’ve ever seen on any game online, including pay-to-win ones. Lore/story-telling is also laughable and even Runescape over a decade ago did a superior job at that aspect. The two main bragging rights of GW2 aside from the lack of a subscription model are the awesome PvE and graphics.

If there are loads of people out there soloing the supposed endgame content provided to us (even with no armor, and many friends of mine are doing it with laughable condition builds for kicks!) in a desperate attempt to find challenge in the game…

ISSUES. We haz them.

What this game needs is an open editor, like Skyrim.

Darox.8069:

What this game needs is an open editor, like Skyrim.

Or a dedicated dungeon content team who would put out a new dungeon with 3 paths every 6 months or so.

While I would love new dungeon paths, I think they should work on redesigning some of the current embarrassingly pathetic encounters (examples: Melandru on Arah P4, Mage crusher of Arah P3) along with fixing the plethora of ways to bug out bosses/exploit with maphacks first and foremost. To me, those should be higher priority.

Also, hire me to waste my days checking instances to see if people skipped Lupicus. BANHAMMER TIME!

Please.

Tree.3916:

Darox.8069:

What this game needs is an open editor, like Skyrim.

Or a dedicated dungeon content team who would put out a new dungeon with 3 paths every 6 months or so.

They would need to get paid for that. Also they would need to plan for it. But most unlikely they would need to want it!

I think there are plenty of dedicated modders out there who would jump on the opportunity to show their talent by creating community dungeons. The only problem would be balancing loot tables, and lore.

Loot distribution is pretty horrible on this game in my opinion, but I think storytelling would be SO much improved by having more actual cutscenes instead of the cheesy watercolor background with two characters side-to-side.

I’ve said it plenty of times before and I’ll say it again; I feel like I’m being lectured, rather than engaging in a story, unless I have an actual cutscene to watch.

May I ask what kind of self-destructing impulse led you to doing this…. piece of art?
It’s true that genius and madness come together, in this case.

I had all four Arah paths done and still felt like playing GW2, but as an american night owl that plays on EU servers, pugging wasn’t a viable option at that hour. I also really don’t find non-Arah dungeons very much fun and my patience for them doesn’t last too long so I didn’t know what else to do. Felt like entertaining the stream by seeing how far I could go in FotM 50 solo before ragequitting, and it just went very well I guess o.O

Is this only possible as warrior or possible for any class? Er I should add, is it possible to solo lower fractals as any class as well?

Jeez I’m not a fan of dubstep but I’ve been listening to this footage the past 3 hours lol

It’s very possible with other classes, it just so happens that warrior is a very powerful class to play with in solo settings by comparison with others. Mesmer, for example, is capable of doing probably more than warriors but a large number of encounters they won’t be able to do nearly as effectively. So, while warriors will have the advantage in a lot of situations, there’s some encounters that they actually cannot do.

In short, it depends primarily on what you play best with. For me, that is warrior… though I only play warrior/ele.

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This is the sickest, most deranged, and utterly fabulous thing I’ve ever seen. If I wore a hat, I’d take it off to you.

P.S- Has anyone seen my hat?

Thank you ^^ but I really did get lucky with the fractals. I still wish I would have gotten a chance to finally get my lvl 50 mai trin solo.

I offered pugs 3g ea to let me solo it the last time I had the chance, but they refused