Guild Wars 2

How do you survive Phase 3? I always run out of blocks/evades and then life. I use Greatsword/Scepter+Focus for Phase 1+2.

The problem is that all this life drain stuff requires two dodges and the guard has a pretty bad access to vigor, single blocks are pretty useless.

Single blocks are not useless, aegis helps against his autoattack and his single target lifeleech a lot.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR7dlsAhehYdQwUIwPEHzDV9BSgAAfE7XVk/iUsFB-ThRBABXt/o8DPdDacQAA4JAQp6PmpEUUAPF-e

This is probably one of the easiest builds to solo lupi on. At least it always works for me.

Is there really no way around energy sigils?

Adrenalin.5719:

Is there really no way around energy sigils?

Energy sigil is a good safety net, without it, if you get 3-4 auto attack in row, it usually mean you’re dead. I tried with shield yesterday for fun, its really good now for solo XD you lose the damagr buy aegis/prot and thr bubble are pretty sweet, you can probably get right of the energy sigil if you take shield.

You can take energy sigils or vigor, with save yourselves you really shouldn’t need both. Shelter blocks all 4 ticks of his single target lifedrain, you can use it to both heal and prevent lots of damage.

Lifedrain is handled 3 ways (at least for me), double dodge, dodge + focus5, or Shelter. If you don’t have that stuff up a dodge + aegis will avoid 3 of the ticks, and you can survive the 4th, just heal up next time you have shelter up and use it for a block (on the rise is always good to run out, though I’ve adopted the dodge + GS leap out, I eat a tick of damage there usually though).

I use Mace+Torch/ Scepter+ Focus (Radiance/Honor/Virtue) in a bad pug where mostly I have to solo p3. The Mace adds an extra block since I have no energy sigil. Save yourself instead of Retreat for a wee bit better reflect damage.

If you want to avoid energy sigil altogether you can take focus + shield of the avenger and retreat and there’s basically no way you’ll die unless you don’t know his mechanics and use everything at the wrong time.

To be honest, you have very low UC uptime in a solo setting and especially with Lupicus since it gets stripped even if you use an attack to block with/reflect the projectiles… so if you’re looking to just get the job done then you can drop UC for MoC: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Master_of_Consecrations

Just remember that for dealing with locusts in phase 1, greatsword is for sure the best weapon for dealing with trash mobs in general and for large hitbox enemies, which Lupicus certainly is, scepter is the best DPS by a lot due to smite.

Ideally, scepter+torch and focus swap would be the optimal setup for Lupicus in a solo setting but the problem is you’d need to farm some pretty good swarm RNG in phase 1 because it’s a problem if they stay alive for when phase 2 begins, as you’re gonna wanna stand still in your WoR to reflect the frenzied blast.

Try this, this is just what I picked first glance. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVEQNAR7flsAhehYpQwQIQQEHxDVNAag61uBvwjmHjWcGB-ThRBABXtfo8jmFEwT3AAPBAKV/xMlgAA-e

If you need more to survive, then try changing a few other things one at a time, for example you could swap “Fear my Wrath” to Renewed Focus, you could drop the power signet for SotA, you could swap torch to focus, etc. You can do a ton of things. Just remember that each defensive asset you add on takes away from your offensive output, so the goal is to try to take what you need, nothing more.

P.S. I’m positive full berserker would not be best, but I put it there because that’s what mine has and I was just editing the build template off of my own guard’s. Having some assassin’s would mean better reflect damage and more crits from smite, so more DPS.

Yeah, I was doing him in phase 3 with sword/shield and scepter/focus aswell as for a short time (after a failed os) with gs+scepter/focus.

But this also basically means, if you attempt a max speed oneshot and fail to burst him thru phase 3, you are kinda in a bad spot (unless Lupi gets really low nevertheless).

Thanks for clearing this up!

wouldn’t mace make it impossible to die

With the sword you can make him drop a bubble and just sword 2 before the animation is finished. this way you prevent another auto attack, but just keep at it. you will get it eventually.

You can avoid using any dodges on his lift off life drain if you’re on GS. You can about face and use GS3 out of it but to do it with no dodges instead of just 1 takes some pretty specific timing and initial positioning and a weapon swap at the end of the leap.

Raven.3248:

With the sword you can make him drop a bubble and just sword 2 before the animation is finished. this way you prevent another auto attack, but just keep at it. you will get it eventually.

You can make him drop a bubble and walk back in allowing you to bring mace with it’s higher damage from symbolic avenger. No teleports needed.