Guild Wars 2

I have a level 80 mesmer that has 99% of the world map. The only things she is missing are 4 skill points (near Noose Road, Winterknell Isle, Graven Cay and Catherdral of Silence) and the Narthex POI and WP in Cursed Shores. My sister, with her level 80 Elementist, and I have gotten most of the CS. She is reluctant to go unless we get others to joins us, so I have solo’ed some of it but I am having problems with these last things.

Any advice for my mesmer would be appreciated. Also I find the statues of Melandru with their brambles to be a pain. Any advice on how to handle them?

Skillpoints: Noose Road: This one you actually need assistance. often this can be found to just wait near it till someone else comes around. offer them a deal. He agroes them chap while you commune and then you agroes the champ so he can commune. It is possible to get a lot off clones to get the agro for you but its very tricky.

Winterknel Isle aka labyrinth. Work you way through the labyrinth, kill all foes on the way and take your time finding the right route. Make sure you dont rush and at the skillpoint you got it cleaned before getting the vet out.

Grave Cay: both sp’s there are commune if I remember right. No special mobs, you jsut have to clean.

Skillpoints with statues like meladru, the skillpoint in cathedral of silence and poi and wp at the narthex.

These area’s are a no go area solo unless the pact controls them. You can use external sites to see wich servers control that so called ‘temples’ and gues to those servers. The Nartex is also called the gates of Arah.

One good site is gw2bear.com

You may want to guest on another server with higher population. Also the LFG tool may be helpful in finding other to run with you.

Everything Mercury said sounds good, although a minor thing is that the first skill point (noose road), can be solo’d (the one with the champ noble roaming). Due to the path it takes, you can avoid aggro with it, killing all the other mobs nearby, then communing. There’s a little alcove area to the right of the skill point (right when you’re going up the steps, looking at the wall) that you can use to hide. Enemies won’t aggro on the other side, unless they already saw you.

Mercury:
“Skillpoints: …

Winterknel Isle aka labyrinth. Work you way through the labyrinth, kill all foes on the way and take your time finding the right route. Make sure you dont rush and at the skillpoint you got it cleaned before getting the vet out.

Grave Cay: both sp’s there are commune if I remember right. No special mobs, you jsut have to clean.

Skillpoints with statues like meladru, the skillpoint in cathedral of silence and poi and wp at the narthex.

These area’s are a no go area solo unless the pact controls them. You can use external sites to see wich servers control that so called ‘temples’ and gues to those servers. The Nartex is also called the gates of Arah.

One good site is gw2bear.com"

Thanks for the info. I’m pretty sure I can solo Winterknell. I almost made it last attempt. I stupidly activated the guard thingy before I had killed the veteran. Even then I almost killed the guard so will try that one again.

The grave Cay one had brambles that my sister and I died from, haven’t tried to solo that one yet.

When my sister and I tried the Narthex every statue was active (or contested). This past weekend we noticed that some of the statues were inactive or uncontested. How do the statues get inactivated. On our attempt she died in the middle of the promenade and although I got into the Narthex it was not close enough to get the POI and the WP. If I had gotten it I was going to use begin portal then TP then end portal for her to make it. Not sure if portals persist through a TP or not so it might not have worked anyway.

Thanks again.

Mel thanks. I have not tried to guest or LFG. Will maybe try this weekend when there are more people on.

M Starfish. I did try that strategy and almost made it the last time. I killed off the servants one by one then snuck up along the right (south) side. I waited until the champion started their patrol down the stairs. I came out of the congested mess of coral, bushes and rocks and engaged the jester. Unfortunately the champion returned before I could finish off the jester so died once again. Also died several times in that mess along the side when the champion detected me lurking there. I guess I’m not that sneaky. I may talk my sister into partnering with me on this one.

The statues get inactive if the pact control that gods temple (can be in a different map). So if a statue of balthasar is active, you can check the website I mentioned and guest to a server that has the temple of balthasar open. On that server all balthasar statues in the Orr maps will be uncontested as well.

What server are you on? Ill be willing to help you out.

I’m on Emery Bay. My sister and I will be on tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night (EST, which is GMT -5). Any help would be appreciated. If that doesn’t work we will be on this weekend also.

Emery bay? Oh sweet one of my sisters is on that server and I can geust over. Ill let my sis know tonite and Ill see you after work tomorrow ^-^

A much easier way to grab the SP at Noose Road is with Stealth.
If you can find a thief.
Blinding Powder → run in → Shadow Refuge on top then commune. Veil + Mass Invisibility might also work but I am not sure how that stacks together. If not using Mass Invisibility then drop Time Warp on top of the SP for faster commune.

Alternatively, grab http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ash_Legion_Spy_Kit , use Veil then run in and use the kit at the SP

Your sister could probably use Obsidian Flesh(earth, focus #5) to grab the SP at Graven Cay, might need Mist Form as well and possibly Lightning Flash.

The Melandru event chain is currently broken on a couple of servers.

I know time zones are annoying, me and my sister will be on in around 8h. Ill send you a whisper & in game email when Im on

Sararfull,
My sister and I got help from another player and their friend this afternoon and got 100% of Cursed Shores. We ended up guesting to Tarnished Coast for the Graven Cay skill point. Just got my last POI – Chantry of Secrets- and now have 100% of map. My sister will probably not be online this evening at midnight (our time) but if I am I’ll look out for you. I am also interested in trying fractals and/or dungeons for the first time.

Please just call me sarah,
Its good that you two got the help you needed

Its funny you say fractals, Im atm helping anyone out who wanta help with it so keep in touch ^^

This is such a happy thread!!! I love seeing this kind of stuff.