Guild Wars 2

As an old returning player, I am on the fence about purchasing the expansions. One thing I found a lot of fun was attempting to solo instances/farm runs. Is this sort of gameplay still possible or has it been pruned from the game?

It’s easier to solo now than it ever has been.

Soloing dungeons is still possible, and even some raid encounters can be solo’ed, if you have the time and skill.

Fatalyz.7168:

Soloing dungeons is still possible, and even some raid encounters can be solo’ed, if you have the time and skill.

Which raid encounter for example?

Specifically, Cairn has been soloed. Was first done by a Druid (took about 4 hours). I think a Condi thief ended up doing it in about 30 minutes. I remember reading a thread on reddit where a Chrono had soloed VG to about 5% or so, then missed a distort on green, and failed. There are videos out there. Not trying to imply that they are easy.

And there are plenty of other Raid encounters that are done low-man. I’ve seen 3 man VG’s.

Ok, I misinterpreted “some raid encounters”. So there is exactly one raid encounter that was soloed. Thanks for the clarification.

One raid encounter being soloed is still one. The only other one that comes to mind as being remotely possible is VG (not having been done doesn’t mean that it can’t be done, just that it hasn’t), hence why I said “some”.

Other than those two, I am not aware of any others.

People have soloed all of the fractals that don’t have “gating by numbers” (and a few that do, sort of). There are also videos of people soloing various encounters of the challenge mode fractals.

it can be soloed, if it’s actually fun to do is completely different.