Guild Wars 2

Hello guys! After some months PUGing around, doing dungeons and stuff, I decided I wanted some new challenge, something that could be called dificult. So, a week ago me and a friend decided it was time to improve our playing skills, and solo the s**t out of those dungeons.

We tried some times, and, of course, failed hard, to solo Arah P2. The second thing we did (and now we realise, should have been the first) was watching some solo/duo videos on youtube. It sure helped a lot! Goku Kr is awesome, and we can now get to Lupicus without dying now!

The problem is, we’re still not good enough to solo the entire path (I’m using the plural, but we do one instance each), so I decided to come here and ask you guys for some tips!

First of all, judge my build! I`m running a berserker warrior 6\5\0\0\3 (II, IX, XI)(I, V)(VI), with GS, 2 Swords, 1 Wh, 1 Axe and 1 Longbow, exotic weapons and armor, but I`m not sure wich runes and sigils I should have. Right now I’m using 1 Bloodlust for each weapon set, and Sigils of Force filling the blanks, and Rubys on the armor (cause I couldn’t decide).
My consumables are Potent Potion of Undead Slaying, Candied Dragon Roll, Hylek poison and Harpy Feathers.

Now, for some obvious reasons, I’ll not just ask you guys to tell me how you solo. Instead, I’ll post here a video of Goku Kr soloing P2, and I’ll ask you guys questions about it.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3aJueapKE

1) On min 1:00, he starts the boss and run back to the bone wall. The wall then is destroyed and he runs back in. I understand you can do this to get out of combat without reseting the fight, but why do it when she’s full?
2) When the abom is about to turn red (as seen @6:30), she stomps the groun and knocks you down. Can you dodge this? Because I still can’t get that timing.
3) How can you tell the Lupicus is about to kick? the pre-animation is so subtle and quick, I always die there.
4) Kite swarms, or just stand and cleave?
5) Defend the panel from Elite, or just DPS the boss at the final?

Any other tips not related to my build or the questions would also be highly apreciated. Thanks for your time, guys! You’re all awesome

1. Running out and breaking the bone wall makes Belka not teleport during the fight which allows you to break down a specific barrel with cleave damage and find a confortable area to DPS her from.

2. Dodging the knockback you simply make it not knock you as farther away as it normally would, optimally you would want to interrupt the abomination’s transformation animation at the very end as it will make it not transform for a much longer period of time.

3. It kicks you with his left leg and lowers the right shoulder before it does, keep an eye on that shoulder and get used to the timing.

4. Stand and cleave when there’s up to 2 swarms, if you get 3 or 4 you better kite if you value your life.

5. Put down a few summon consumables to draw aggro from the mobs to buy you a few extra seconds as they spawn and try to DPS the boss down. As you’re rolling a warrior it shouldn’t be too much of a challenge unless you get really unlucky and have a lot of AoEs preventing you from melee’ing Brie.

Hope it helps.

Brazil’s made quite some videos about soloing Arah paths, one of which is this:

this can be quite helpful for soloing Lupicus

Thanks for the help guys!

As an Arah P2 solo noobie, I can only say the answers above are most accurate. One thing I’ll add:

2) You can use stability to ez mode through it. It can help you practice the interrupt without too much pressure. I did it with SYG! on guardian, but Balanced Stance should have a short enough cooldown (but don’t quote me on that).

It’s great to see people trying to do things that stretch their abilities. Good luck in your soloing, and may the swarm RNG be ever in your favor. =)

Almost forgot to mention – before I soloed, it really helped me immensely to run the paths in a duo to really learn the skips and such. I think that the Noob guild has people who are Arah mentors, or try to get in on the Saturday/Sunday Arah runs that Jiyn has taken over from Ivan. Extremely valuable knowledge from those!

Arah path 2 was definitely fun to solo in the past. I would not try to do it in one go though as the path is so long. Eventually you can simply breeze past the first few bosses.