Guild Wars 2

With 2x speed (~7,5 mins):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_b4Vnv8iY

Swapped Endure Pain to Frenzy and did it in 13,5 mins.

Well, color me impressed.

The hero the Pact needs, but doesnt deserve.

Oh no… Now that it’s shown to be possible, Anet will want to cater for the hardcore players, Lupicus will be buffed so no one but the most hardcore players can kill him.

Good job! /clap to u

Imagine how awesome would that fight look if you had Twilight equipped. Oh man… Anyway, good job!

Well, if someone can send me few precursors and few hundred ectos. Then I will do it with Frenzy.

Good job, haven’t checked the video yet but let me guess, guardian or warrior.

I see that you dodge roll the grubs before he actually applies it to you. Do you know if it’s possible to go the other way, dodge roll the grub as it spawns to prevent it from knocking you down? I’ve never bothered to try. Given the fact that you just ate the very last one that he always spawns and stunbreak’d out of it, I’m guessing not.

Also, you can just dodge roll out of the bubble? When I’ve tried that in the past, I usually ended up getting knocked back mid roll once I hit the edge. After trying it and failing a few times I just slapped some stability on and called it a day. Is there a particular trick to it or was I just derping hard as I rolled? I noticed you did fail one or two dodges where you got knocked back after what looks like starting your roll too far from the edge, and you just EP’d out. It’s really the only thing that annoys me in Lupicus and I usually just EP/Balanced Stance out when he targets me with it, but it’d be nice to not have to do that.

omgwtflolbbl.7142:

I see that you dodge roll the grubs before he actually applies it to you. Do you know if it’s possible to go the other way, dodge roll the grub as it spawns to prevent it from knocking you down? I’ve never bothered to try. Given the fact that you just ate the very last one that he always spawns and stunbreak’d out of it, I’m guessing not.

Also, you can just dodge roll out of the bubble? When I’ve tried that in the past, I usually ended up getting knocked back mid roll once I hit the edge. After trying it and failing a few times I just slapped some stability on and called it a day. Is there a particular trick to it or was I just derping hard as I rolled? I noticed you did fail one or two dodges where you got knocked back after what looks like starting your roll too far from the edge, and you just EP’d out. It’s really the only thing that annoys me in Lupicus and I usually just EP/Balanced Stance out when he targets me with it, but it’d be nice to not have to do that.

If he applies grub to you, you can’t dodge it, at least I haven’t been able to. Seems like stabi and invulnerable skills prevent getting kd. And last grub is unavoidable.

Dodging out of the bubble is possible but it requires good timing.

You can dodge grub knockdown but my internal clock is not that accurate.
Added video with 2x speed to make it faster.

haviz.1340:

Seems like stabi and invulnerable skills prevent getting kd.

Surely you jest. Stability shouldn’t prevent the grub from spawning as it trivializes p1 entirely.

Iehova.9518:

haviz.1340:

Seems like stabi and invulnerable skills prevent getting kd.

Surely you jest. Stability shouldn’t prevent the grub from spawning as it trivializes p1 entirely.

Em, okay. If you say so. I have no idea what’s wrong with you.

So he doesn’t seem to Shadowstep targets in melee range….interesting.

haviz.1340:

Em, okay. If you say so. I have no idea what’s wrong with you.

I have a severe affliction impeding my daily activity. It’s called Common Sense.

Iehova.9518:

haviz.1340:

Em, okay. If you say so. I have no idea what’s wrong with you.

I have a severe affliction impeding my daily activity. It’s called Common Sense.

kd = knocked down. He was saying stability prevents you from getting kd’ed when grubs spawn on you, which it does. Common sense must have eluded you.

KazNaka.4718:

kd = knocked down. He was saying stability prevents you from getting kd’ed when grubs spawn on you, which it does. Common sense must have eluded you.

I was under the impression grub spawn is directly tied to the knockdown.

So it would appear my [Brain] decided not to work for a while.

the jealousy and butthurt…it flows through me

Very well done sir.

Next challenge: beat him solo while he has 1 stack of Empowered!

I read “melee” and imminently thought “a warrior”.
Hate how this game favors 2 classes over everybody else.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Next challenge: beat him solo while he has 1 stack of Empowered!

You mean with 2 stacks?
Actually I was going to try switching Endure Pain to Frenzy and get it with 0 stacks, hopefully in 13 mins.

Halo.8976:

I read “melee” and imminently thought “a warrior”.
Hate how this game favors 2 classes over everybody else.

I thought this was a boss you can’t melee.
Anyways for me it makes sense that melee-classes melee.

Wethospu.6437:

I thought this was a boss you can’t melee.

I’m starting to thing, there isn’t one.
If you’re a necro/ele/engi and group have to choose between you and another warrior – the choice is obvious.

I just don’t have the words I’d like to use to articulate how stunningly impressed and in awe I am of this. kitten though, hats off to you sir!

To the Arenanet dev’s who will undoubtedly see the thread…. please please please for the love of all that is holy, don’t make this boss harder for the rest of us…

well, after wiping for 2 hours and not being able to down him, I must say this video is epic! But, I am just ticked off….. how do you manage to lower its health faster than a full group?

Does his autoattack don’t hit on melee range on phase 2? You didn’t seem to have dodged it at all.

Aenesthesia.1697:

well, after wiping for 2 hours and not being able to down him, I must say this video is epic! But, I am just ticked off….. how do you manage to lower its health faster than a full group?

Glass-cannon warrior

Nebilim.5127:

Does his autoattack don’t hit on melee range on phase 2? You didn’t seem to have dodged it at all.

Yes, it has a minimum range. Downside is he does 17k melee hits (slow) and AoE attack hits immediately.

I can actually see this being done with a mesmer, if you could be beefy enough and achieve enough regen somehow for those times where you do slip up and get tagged. The key points of this are the Signet of Stamina (endurance regen), the free short CD dodge on GS, and the 2 second block on shield.

Other than when he used the GS to get out of range of the p3 gigantic AoE, you could probably use Blurred Frenzy to substitute for it.

Vigor on crit would help in place of Signet of Stamina (requires that you crit, but when you do you’re regaining endurance twice as fast anyways) and frees up a utility slot.

His traits are mostly there to help him deal more damage and make the solo faster, so that’s not really much of an issue.

Scepter for Mesmer is basically the same as Mace for Warrior for all intents and purposes, as he seems to use it mainly for the block when he needs it. Same thing with an offhand Sword.

Mimic can be used rather than shield to block most of those projectiles in p2 where he uses the shield most, and blink can double up for use in p3 for both bubbles and getting out of that PBAoE. Mirror for heal, too, to pop when he’s doing his projectile AoEs.

Not sure if feedback is capable of reflecting Lupicus’s mass AoE, what with how big he is. Not really sure how the two interact.

It’d take longer, but I believe it’d be possible.

As for the weird Warrior hate vibe, I’m not really sure why you’d want to even melee with an Engi, since most engi builds other than maybe bomb centric or flamethrower centric ones would really want to other than perhaps the odd rifle sg skill.

By the way, I think an Engineer in melee could actually pull this off. Swiftness on kit, vigor on swiftness, shield for AoEs effect (though I think this may not work), toolkit (which actually is better than warrior shield, same blocking duration for much shorter CD), elixir s. Engineer might not have something equivalent to WW or Blurred Frenzy like the other two classes mentioned, but they have access to much more consistent vigor. Engineer has a 3 second block on a 20 second CD vs Warrior’s 30 second CD 3 second block, so Engineer actually has something better, and it can be swapped in as fast as you can press the buttons (though he does have Fast Hands, so that’s not that big of a deal anyways, though it’s still another plus). No WW equivalent hurts, but you also have access to 100% up time on vigor, which means you’ll be able to use regular dodges 33% more anyways than with Signet of Stamina, and you can trait the shield to have a 16 second CD instead. Killing Lupicus with a toolbox would be hilarious.

Good analysis. But you missed one vital thing, burst skills granting Endurance. It got much easier when I realized I have that little trait.

Very well played but I must say I sense a nerf upcoming for a certain class.

seniledelinquent.4095:

Very well played but I must say I sense a nerf upcoming for a certain class.

I know for sure it doesn’t start with a W ending with a R.

seniledelinquent.4095:

Very well played but I must say I sense a nerf upcoming for a certain class.

If all it took was the top 1% of the skilled players making a video like this to get a class nerfed then balance would fall apart in seconds. The fact is you can’t balanced on players like this as you will only hurt the majority. I bet this guy could solo lupicus on a variety of professions if you gave him time and incentive.

Hats off sir. Very impressive focus and precision.

Halo.8976:

I read “melee” and imminently thought “a warrior”.
Hate how this game favors 2 classes over everybody else.

I can solo Subject Alpha as a Thief if that helps? Wish I could make videos of it but alas.

seniledelinquent.4095:

Very well played but I must say I sense a nerf upcoming for a certain class.

Warriors won’t got nerfed just because someone was able to solo GL with one. All I see in this video is someone extremely skilled either the warrior class, and not because warriors are op.

To OP, congrats on an amazing feat!

I think I have already reported it (how to skip second Corrupted Light part) via in-game report. Though I can PM you info directly if that’s better way.

With the amount of bugs in Arah and the amount of time I’ve wasted on broken paths after spending 30min-1hr in them, I hope these terrain exploits don’t get fixed first.

Maybe because of the size of Arah, there are quite a few terrain exploits to speed up certain parts, which to me, makes up the hours I’ve wasted because of the sheer number of bugs that break npcs activating events.

Strifey.7215:

With the amount of bugs in Arah and the amount of time I’ve wasted on broken paths after spending 30min-1hr in them, I hope these terrain exploits don’t get fixed first.

Maybe because of the size of Arah, there are quite a few terrain exploits to speed up certain parts, which to me, makes up the hours I’ve wasted because of the sheer number of bugs that break npcs activating events.

Heh, completely understandable. Getting no credits for completing pretty long path 1 or bugged last boss in path 4 is really disheartening

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s just solid gameplay. Congrats on the feat!

Now if you wouldn’t mind explaining what exploits you did with the terrain to get there…

Assuming you already patched the one where you jump through the steps (which Ive never actually seen a warrior do come to it…)

There’s a wall you can climb up on the second light part. You can just straight hop up it and over into the main hallway before lupicus. It’s actually sometimes faster than the normal path if you hop up it quickly.

Grats OP, way to shush the people from the other topic who wanted to see your DM title.

Now if only all bosses in dungeons could be this fun. TBH, I feel this has little to do with OP’s choice of class and more to do with OP’s ability. That said, I think this is harder generally for classes that don’t have vigor.

kKagari.6804:

Grats OP, way to shush the people from the other topic who wanted to see your DM title.

Now if only all bosses in dungeons could be this fun. TBH, I feel this has little to do with OP’s choice of class and more to do with OP’s ability. That said, I think this is harder generally for classes that don’t have vigor.

and/or signet of stamina (gives endurance regen)

OP don’t necessary have jumped over the wall on second light, he might have had a party that left after completing that part :P
Really nice video tho, tried soloing with me Mesmer but did not do enough damage to even get him to second phase.
Good job!

Gratz
Tell me, his single bolt attack. Does it miss because he shoots it over you or something? It seems that way.

A dungeon showoff video that’s actually impressive. Kudos.

YES! You have no idea what big smile on my face I had when I saw that vid and my memory brought back all those QQers about dungeons in melee… “You can’t melee Lupicus”/“Go range” posters!

You sir are THE boss You shown them!

this looks doable as a power/prec/crit damage hipshot engineer. permaswift/permavigor and other obvious traits make lupi cake.

for once a video worth watch. good job

Great video, it’s too bad there isn’t a title or something =/

Well done Sir, that is an impressive video.