Guild Wars 2

Was just curious to see who, if anyone, still goes for fast lupi solo times. If anyone has any fast times and cares enough, please post here and maybe we can do a compilation of fast kills on different classes like the old days. I’ve seen a few on youtube floating around but I’m sure there are plenty that I haven’t seen. If there is no interest i guess just let the thread die.

Slightly off topic but I heard about your ~6:30 warrior solo with 56003 spamming eviscerates for endurance. It is a good idea.

Truth be told I kinda stopped caring around when ferocity came out. I think there will maybe be some renewed interest after next week’s patch but I don’t know how long it will last.

I did a faster one with 45203 with missile deflection actually. I got a tip from a friend and gonna try to do faster before the patch.

The last time I soloed Lupi was just for “fun” on various classes after they broke him. Haven’t done it since; best boss in the game being broken is too soulcrushing.

It’s still quite fun on warrior, you’ve tempted me to try it with missile deflection now! However I do feel the fight lost much of its appeal following the changes; autoattack aside the complete lack of pressure from his phase 3 attacks feels off and it’s almost beneficial to jump around like a madman trying to bait out his bubble. It used to be that you could sacrifice your defensive abilities (Stamina signet, riposte etc) and run the max DPS build, leading to some interesting moments. Now there’s less flexibility, and I feel shoehorned into running certain skill setups just to avoid the barrage of autoattacks.

Also I can’t for the life of me figure out how to reliably solo him with D/F elementalist anymore, does anyone have any advice here? (Not using energy sigils currently). Renewing stamina, magnetic wave and swirling winds are great, however earth CD makes using ring of earth tricky.

Earth auto attack

I did a semi serious one on thief just for reference (only recorded one kill) just to see a relative time difference, so obviously it’s pretty ugly compared to my other kills.

Auto attack bug http://www.twitch.tv/vitarain/c/6737384 (6:57)

for reference…
Pre autoattack bug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zj_O0qhfPY (5:28)
I think it’s still the fastest for thief.

Edit: while I’m at it I’m going to copy paste a notepad I made for myself so I could see all the changes in the lupi solo build

Before:

Deady arts notable traits
Minors:
10% damage on condi’d foes
Majors:
Sundering vuln (2.5% damage maintained from the trait I’d say)
5% dagger

Critical Strikes notable traits:
Minors:
5% crit above 90% hp
1 ini every 6 secs or so while attacking
10% damage above 6 ini (oftentimes does not affect Backstab unless paired with a Trickery steal, which we dont have. 8% damage increase I’d say)
Majors:
10s fury below 50% 30s icd
7% crit behind (only really affects Backstab)

Acrobatics notable traits:
Minors:
OP Feline Grace
Majors:
Might on dodge (3 might or so sustained)

After:

17% CND nerf
Is dagger training baseline??? wtf anet
Deadly Arts notable traits:
Minors:
10% damage on condi’d foes
Majors:
Mug or new Dagger training? Poison stacks intensity now. Very small either way, wont change much
Revealed Training (if mug is taken it can be used to proc RT for Backstab)
20% damage below 50%

Critical Strikes notable traits:
Minors:
5% crit above 90% hp
4s fury 10s icd below 50%
crit damage (ferocity) increase 10% to foes above 50%
Majors:
7% crit damage when you’re above 90% OR 7% crit chance from behind. Probably crit damage
Sundering vuln (~2.5% damage) OR 10% prec goes to ferocity (approx 200 ferocity on current scale, 13% crit damage).. def taking ferocity
2s fury 2s icd while under fury, gain 250 ferocity. perma fury almost, just need something to start it

Acrobatics notable traits:
Minor:
Feline graces 2s nerfed vigor on dodging an attack, 1s ICD
Un-nerf vigor trait
Major:
5s vigor on heal
Hard to catch breaks stun/refill endurance, could be nice to prevent losing stacks
1 ini on dodge attack, 3s ICD

New should be faster I think, if I can maintain endurance. Will seaweed salad still reign supreme? 100 power 70 prec? 100 prec 70 ferocity? Most of the new changes add a lot of ferocity, so crit chance becomes very important

Zui.9245:

The last time I soloed Lupi was just for “fun” on various classes after they broke him. Haven’t done it since; best boss in the game being broken is too soulcrushing.

How was it broken? Have not done Arah in months, and never solo Lupi so I am curious.

Pandeh.5248:

Zui.9245:

The last time I soloed Lupi was just for “fun” on various classes after they broke him. Haven’t done it since; best boss in the game being broken is too soulcrushing.

How was it broken? Have not done Arah in months, and never solo Lupi so I am curious.

The ranged autoattack from phase 2 and phase 3 now hits in melee.

And his bubble virtually always misses and now is totally a non-threat (in fact, triggering it is basically a “good” thing now because it means more time before he does something that might actually harm you), so all of the positional skill of not triggering the bubble in phase 3 is moot.

Zui.9245:

Pandeh.5248:

Zui.9245:

The last time I soloed Lupi was just for “fun” on various classes after they broke him. Haven’t done it since; best boss in the game being broken is too soulcrushing.

How was it broken? Have not done Arah in months, and never solo Lupi so I am curious.

The ranged autoattack from phase 2 and phase 3 now hits in melee.

And his bubble virtually always misses and now is totally a non-threat (in fact, triggering it is basically a “good” thing now because it means more time before he does something that might actually harm you), so all of the positional skill of not triggering the bubble in phase 3 is moot.

It still will accurately hit non-players for some reason, like rock elementals.

Also if you are max meleeing him the bubble will still hit you, and also if you are dodging forward into him while he is casting it then the bubble will be accurately placed.

So it is/can be a threat depending on what you use to evade his previous attack with. For example if you whirlwind through him to evade an autoattack and then quickly try to close the gap by approaching him and he decides to bubble, it will hit you.

It is really stupid either way.