Guild Wars 2

So me(an Ele) and a friend(Guard) tried to Duo Arah p2. We’ve never really done Solos or Duos like this before, but we wanted to just try and maybe get a bit of gold out of it when we get better.

We killed Belka no problem. The run to the Abomination gave my friend some problems, but we pulled through it. The abomination kept getting aggro’d when we tried to pull the Asura, but we managed to get enough rifles to kill him too.

Then we got to Lupi; We went the safe route(I went with PVT gear and changed to a slightly tankier spec) and we took forever to kill Lupi, but we finally did it on our third try.(I got stuck on Lupi when I once tried to solo P2) The one problem we had was that Lupi kept trying to Bubble us even if we went under him. Did we need to push him to the wall to prevent that?

Anyway, we pushed through to Alphard, which was a complete joke and we got to our biggest challenge on this run: Brie. Not only was the run to Brie a kittenallenging to my friend(I just spammed Obsidian Flesh + Mist Form), but once we got there, we were stumped. I could DPS Brie below 50% in time, but after that, we would have the terminal swarmed. We could hold everything back up until the Deadeyes came and murdered us. We tried both DPSing Brie down, but without the proper Runes, it seemed like we fell short on damage. Then we tried both defending the terminal, but we seemed to randomly exit our Godmode buff. In the end, we just wanted to finish, so we got some people to help us murder the boss so we could leave.

Could the kind community of the Dungeons section please give me every bit of info on Brie? We’d like to try to Duo again sometime and I’d personally like to Solo it at some point.

If you get her down to 50% you keep that buff as long as you’re near her. If you run too far away, you lose the buff. If you go back into range, you get it back. Apparently, said range is a bigger variant of the bubble Brie has around her and which you cannot enter normally.
If you deal enough damage to enemies on the way to the terminal, they will attack you and stand still; since you’re invincible, you can abuse that and just punch them into their faces until they’re dead. For Deadeyes and Technicians, you probably want stability.
Technicians have the tendency to start monster infighting with Risen, especially the grubs that come out of the Plague Abominations after they explode; try to make the most out of that fact.

I solo Brie before the terminal is destroyed with ease on my warrior, but I couldn’t quite do it with my ele. I think it might be possible to solo Brie with an ele if you can come up with a proper rotation and get off a churning earth or fire grab with very high might right before she hits 50%, but I have only tried once.

The key to soloing Brie is to do a very high damage single attack right before she’s about to hit 50% because it will dig deep in her HP and bring her down closer to 1/3. The damage nerfs that have taken place since april have really done a toll on the ease of this fight, as I was able to get a 1:08 my first time soloing Brie back before ferocity and now I find it semi-challenging to get a sub 1:20 solo.

For an ele, you want to be in full berserker strength runes with the traits 6 (V II XI) / 6 (VI X XII) / 6 (VI) / 0 / 0. You will ideally want to be using S/F + LH, but I have to try dagger mainhand to see if stacking vuln with burning speed + camera angled downward + lightning flash is better since this is such a brief encounter. I also am not sure if the 2nd LH will last long enough (probably not) so maybe just use scepter for pre-might stacking and use D/F?

Here’s the deal w/ Brie: You get her to 50% (your ele can do this the best), and swarms of mobs will come and try to kill the terminal. You can prevent this one of 2 ways: DPS her down before they kill the terminal (put on Berserker armor, stack might to 25 and perma fury w/ proper trait line and you’ll be fine), OR equip lots of stability and kill the mobs while still under the invuln buff and then kill brie at your leisure (you have to still bring her down to sub 50%).

Have fun next time!

I’ll tell you how to cheese it if you still can’t do the above. When she hits 50%, tell your guardian friend to die (down state) close to a safespot, away from her autoattacks. For you it should be easy since all you need to do is die (down state) and vapor form away. Now both of you should stay in down state until the mobs destroy the terminal and disappear. You guys won’t be teleported to the previous room and she won’t reset either. Now you can ress from the down state and interact with the terminal again to finish off the boss. If you want to sell the path, you can invite others after you ress. There should be a video on how to do this on youtube somewhere.

As for the other Abomination, only one of you needs to stack the guns. If both of you are close to the Asurans/Abombination, then he’ll aggro. Tell your friend to stay away until you stack the guns and the Abomination won’t aggro.

As for Lupicus, make sure you run to him (to avoid his bubble) with swiftness/blinks/teleports etc immediately in-between his attacks or just don’t go close to him whatsoever since he will bubble you if you run towards him.

If you are trying to defend the terminal from the risen mobs, here is what you would do:
http://youtu.be/-2SqH6T2o3o

It should be easier to manage with 2 people. As for randomly losing the Godmode buff, that happens if you step on the rocky terrain, so try to stay away from it.