Guild Wars 2

I am new to Arah, and I’ve seen people on this forum refer to “the old days when everyone wiped on Lupicus before the guardian tricks”. I have no idea what that is about. Some people say berserker melee with frenzy and just burn him down. Some say range is best for Phase 2. Any advice about this boss would be appreciated.

The Guardian trick everybody is talking about is the following:
Equip Wall of Reflection and use the Consecrated Ground trait. Now push Lupi into the wall, and just DPS through phase 1. During his first transition phase use stability and then just place a wall ON TOP of the wall that you just pushed him into. When he does his AoE attack in phase 2 you will reflect all the projectiles and usually burn him from xx% to zero. It also works with temporal curtain or feedback.

For anything else I suggest Brazil’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZS4QIdid4&list=UUXb625IE1vjylfTRW3-B6Lg

Guardian in all its cheesy glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZp-CqJyGXc&list=UUHYN7WPNOROPyFjT86oOJrQ

First, Brazil’s guide is a must watch for Lupi done correctly

In depth guide on every part.

But, to answer your questions more specifically,

Guardians have Wall of Reflection, with Consecrated grounds trait you can free target place it. With that you can push Lupi to the wall and in phase 2 when he does that barrage of AEs all over the place you can put the Wall of Reflection on the wall at the top, this will cause it to reflect every AE he sends out which is enough to basically instantly kill him, or be very close. It’s a very lame mechanic, it’s not really cheating, but at the same time it’s the same spirit as cheating, it’s a loop whole in mechanics that is very disappointing that so many people have decided to use rather than really learn how to fight this great boss.

Phase 2, you want to melee. Only phase 1 can you safely range as he doesn’t have any special “range only” attacks. In Phase 2 he has a shadowstep to range targets which screws up anyone trying to melee, so get up in there and learn the mechanics, the video above will show you what I mean. Phase 3 is also a melee only, this one is more crucial as he has a “bubble” attack which hits very hard and you need stability/teleports to get out, which some people may not have on their bar as they don’t anticipate having to deal with it because it can be avoided if you play well. That bubble though likes to hit if you move around too much, but get too close to lupi and he runs away and yeah can be a pain, takes some learning to find the right spot (about one body length away from his red circle).

Good Luck, I love this boss so much, still don’t have my solo but I feel I can at this point and I need to go in at some point and get it

Wow, so that’s it. Thanks so much.

Jerus.4350:

First, Brazil’s guide is a must watch for Lupi done correctly

Mhm, that explains a lot.

Dub.1273:

Jerus.4350:

First, Brazil’s guide is a must watch for Lupi done correctly

Mhm, that explains a lot.

:D We all know who has the fastest videos but I haven’t seen a video that teaches people as well as that one yet. That’s what I meant, Must watch for new players to learn how Lupi works.

It’s a super lame ultra cheesy way to kill it. It’s pathetic that they copy the videos without even understanding how it works.

It’s pretty funny. 4 pugs stay back, guardian yells in map chat “WAIT LET ME PUSH TO WALL”, pewpew with scepter and random dodges and blocks cause kicks are hard to read then everybody joins in on the fun!.
Thank god paralyzation still works.