Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow players,

Dungeon rewards were nerfed just like a month after i started playing this game, so I really didn’t have a chance to play dungeons correctly. I now really want to farm AC to get monk runes because I want to gear my druid with them. I don’t want to bother other players to carry me through AC so I thought maybe i can do it myself. I have a max specialization Reaper and druid with full exotic power(zerker) and condi(viper) gear. Which path should i farm with my which one of my characters? How long would i need? Is it even possible to do so now or are there any other easier ways to obtain the tokens to get monk runes?

You just need to watch a video of an AC run then just pug it. Dungeons in this games are all about stacking in a corner to kill mobs then running past another bunch of mobs then stacking in a safespot to kill the boss.
If you go with a lvl 80 character and pug with other lvl 80s you wont have any problem. It gets problematic if you pug with a bunch of low lvl f2p players that dont speak english or refuse to use chat.

Casmurro.9046:

You just need to watch a video of an AC run then just pug it. Dungeons in this games are all about stacking in a corner to kill mobs then running past another bunch of mobs then stacking in a safespot to kill the boss.
If you go with a lvl 80 character and pug with other lvl 80s you wont have any problem. It gets problematic if you pug with a bunch of low lvl f2p players that dont speak english or refuse to use chat.

but after the dungeon nerfs i barely see anyone doing dungeons at all. its hard to find a pug and I dont want to be heavy weight and upset the group when i actually find one

Nah, dont worry about it. But yes, nowadays it takes a bit longer to find a group, and a lot longer if you play in odd hours. In dungeons you just need to know how to tag along with the group, you’re overthinking it.
Because of the lack of people to play dungeons with, if you just show off on a lvl 80 you will be helping the group a lot, since that now dungeon runners dont have much choice on who to pick.

Casmurro.9046:

You just need to watch a video of an AC run then just pug it. Dungeons in this games are all about stacking in a corner to kill mobs then running past another bunch of mobs then stacking in a safespot to kill the boss.

Where exactly in AC do you savespot bosses?
The only boss I’ve ever seen savespotted was Colossus Rumblus, and that’s just because of kittenty Grast AI (and l2p issues)

And regarding OP, power reaper would be your best pick since the 2 easiest paths to solo (p1/p3) both have burrows that can’t be damaged with conditions.
If you actually plan on soloing dungeons more you might want to think about making an elementalist/warrior, or even a thief.
But honestly, you should just join a pug since after HoT you will pretty much only get first timers that will probably do worse than you

If PvP is your thing, you can also earn the tokens with the AC rewards track. I started playing PvP last season to get the AC tokens to craft Twilight, and despite an ego-bruising start, I ended up quite enjoying it. The new PvP season has encouraged a lot of inexperienced PvP players to try it out, so now that I’m familiar with it, I found the lower tiers are quite easy to advance (I play condi reaper and honed my skills taking on DS eles, so I’m in a good spot in the current meta, which will probably change next season)

one thing about reaper and AC,

they lack the DpS to be able to get the burrows down In path 1.

Path 3 I am not sure about. I will need to go back and see.

but generally speaking, your best bet is to either get an Ele, or a Warrior, for soling the path. Find a group. or do PvP.

Its terrible i know, but such as it is.

Start to pug path 3. It is the easiest path till the end. Colossus Rumblus (the last boss) could be a little annoying for newer players but when Grast (one of the npcs) is with you, you can faceroll kill the boss in a corner. With proper groups you will later on just run to him and kill him on the spot.
Path 1 is the second easiest path, again only one hurdle: A burrow event during the middle of the run. New players don’t get the exact spots and the order of appearing burrows so it could be a bit frustrating. After finishing this event, the rest is faceroll again, even the last boss.
Path 2 is a bit harder and I won’t recommend to pug it with newer players if you are also not experienced. There are people in this game who are too stupid to understand some mechanics in this path and then it will become a mess in there.

Vinceman.4572:

Start to pug path 3. It is the easiest path till the end. Colossus Rumblus (the last boss) could be a little annoying for newer players but when Grast (one of the npcs) is with you, you can faceroll kill the boss in a corner. With proper groups you will later on just run to him and kill him on the spot.
Path 1 is the second easiest path, again only one hurdle: A burrow event during the middle of the run. New players don’t get the exact spots and the order of appearing burrows so it could be a bit frustrating. After finishing this event, the rest is faceroll again, even the last boss.
Path 2 is a bit harder and I won’t recommend to pug it with newer players if you are also not experienced. There are people in this game who are too stupid to understand some mechanics in this path and then it will become a mess in there.

Not everyone is stupid, some just don’t speak english.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Not everyone is stupid, some just don’t speak english.

Yes, some. But the majority of players is just stupid.

To reiterate what was said above, I would recommend playing pvp at least a little bit for extra tokens. The dailies are extremely easy to complete and doing those every day should save you at least a few AC paths, and also get you a bit of loot on the side.

spent a bit in AC on reaper.

they simply do not have the DpS to be able to do the burrow events.

this is just sad…

someone having to ask on help to SOLO the dungeon because he can’t find people anymore doing it…
:(

anet please reduce the dungeon reward buff to -40% of the previous rewards
(instead of 66%) and in addition to that give us some new rewards at the token merchants that require a lot of tokens:
- Endless slaying potions (1000 tokens?)
- Endless Tonics (1000 tokens?)
- Dungeon specific backpiece skins (1500 tokens?)
- Title: I like wasting stuff (15.000 tokens…. maybe more)

If you play on EU, then add me and send me a mail ingame. I am more then willing to show you around

Sigfodr.9576
chars: Bonus Pater, Ran Blodughadda

Sigfodr.9576:

If you play on EU, then add me and send me a mail ingame. I am more then willing to show you around

Sigfodr.9576
chars: Bonus Pater, Ran Blodughadda

Thanks a lot but unfortunately im in NA

Well AC is -very- easily duo-able…

some small hints:

• Asc WEAPON…( stats and values rest will be scaled back to 35…)
  With night dungeon set:
• Sigil of Night (+10% in AC) 2gold30s (also useable in CoF/TA/SE/CoE)
  and
• Sigil of Ghost Slaying (+10% dmg vs everything in AC) 2s50c or
• Sigil of Force (+5% ANYWHERE) 11gold 50s

(If you’re artificer:)

• Extended Potions of Ghost Slaying… (+10% dmg vs everything in AC , -10% dmg. received..) (Recipe 400 tokens) -CHARACTER BOUND!!!!

FOR 33.1% added DMG…

Get runes of the druid, really :/

Keep checking LFG!!!! I was able to find quite a few groups running AC still!

Until then you will be perfectly fine running Druid runes. Just make sure you’re running a glyph heavy build.

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Well AC is -very- easily duo-able…

some small hints:

• Asc WEAPON…( stats and values rest will be scaled back to 35…)
  With night dungeon set:
• Sigil of Night (+10% in AC) 2gold30s (also useable in CoF/TA/SE/CoE)
  and
• Sigil of Ghost Slaying (+10% dmg vs everything in AC) 2s50c or
• Sigil of Force (+5% ANYWHERE) 11gold 50s

(If you’re artificer:)

• Extended Potions of Ghost Slaying… (+10% dmg vs everything in AC , -10% dmg. received..) (Recipe 400 tokens) -CHARACTER BOUND!!!!

FOR 33.1% added DMG…

Ghost slaying isn’t that useful in AC explorable. Only “ghost” you encounter are: Kholer, Graveling Hatchling[s], Spider Hatchling and P2 end trap ghosts.
Rest are Gravelings, humans, oozes, trolls

Ryorco Marm.9580:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Well AC is -very- easily duo-able…

some small hints:

• Asc WEAPON…( stats and values rest will be scaled back to 35…)
  With night dungeon set:
• Sigil of Night (+10% in AC) 2gold30s (also useable in CoF/TA/SE/CoE)
  and
• Sigil of Ghost Slaying (+10% dmg vs everything in AC) 2s50c or
• Sigil of Force (+5% ANYWHERE) 11gold 50s

(If you’re artificer:)

• Extended Potions of Ghost Slaying… (+10% dmg vs everything in AC , -10% dmg. received..) (Recipe 400 tokens) -CHARACTER BOUND!!!!

FOR 33.1% 26.5 % added DMG…

Ghost slaying isn’t that useful in AC explorable. Only “ghost” you encounter are: Kholer, Graveling Hatchling[s], Spider Hatchling and P2 end trap ghosts.
Rest are Gravelings, humans, oozes, trolls

I corrected it it’s now 11 gold more expensive though and Kohler is my main problem, rst is doable pretty easy , then again you can skip Kohler while solo..