Guild Wars 2

Have any of you done it legitimately? If so,

What class are you?
What type of build?

I can’t find a legitimate youtube video, and I’m working on being the first to achieve that. I have solo’d some towers before, but mostly based on pure luck as enemies didn’t do a thorough check, or using awesome thief stealth, and that makes me wonder, there has to be a people who have done this before. I know you people are out there who solo towers often! Teach me who you are and what you do!

Join a empty server and pick your tower and start practicing.

On SOR – Katja, Boss, Debs or Vareynas, Myself and Dye used to 4 man keeps. Our group would vary each night but it was generally a 4 man ninja group. We rarely WvW any more though. Don’t have any videos though. Troll rams were commonplace back in those days.

soloing a tower is near impossible, but not entirely, and just requires taking it slow when getting inside to kill the guards and boss.
Getting inside is another matter however, but can be done with a treb or cata, since a ram would be hard to defend from guards and build/use at the same time.
But if you are already inside because they didn’t find you, then totally possible to do it.

But I’d say if you can solo supply camp, you can solo tower (if the enemy is sleeping), and I might try it some night when I feel the enemy is sleeping.

But generally the rule of thumb is 4 people for a tower, since you need 4×10 supply for a ram.

I almost capped Durios single-handedly after trebbing the wall down from SM using my ranger. Kite the guards first before taking out the boss. Take really really long time to do it using ranger. But before I can kill the boss, enemy Zerg came….

soloing towers is rough, i did it once on orgewatch in EB with a guardian. It only worked because the tower lord didn’t melee me, and just used his slow firing gun. i was able to out-heal it, and dps him down.

other then that, you can duo towers easily if undefended.

Captured a tower with 2 people last night, could’ve probably done it solo because the tower champion is quite awful and kills himself on Wall of Reflection. The other person was knocked off because of the AoE attack so I chopped it down mainly by myself.

One of our ele’s has done it a few times, running supply for the ram being the frustrating part ^^.

Least we’ve taken a keep with was 2.

Check youtube there is quite a few videos of this being done. They often talk about their tactics/builds as well. I believe all professions can do this btw.

Don’t be shy @Doomdesire. Why solo only a tower?
Aim higher, solo SM.
PS: Consider watt you are doing in WWW, better consider watt you are doing in the game, possibly it’s better to save some space in your computer. Uninstall.

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Done with ranger as well as with my thief, both berserk (so full gc build). Mainly by hiding in a tower and the enemy didn’t search well, sometimes with a cata/ram, once with a golem 3 towers in a row (probably only 10 ppl per side online at that time tz..)

As Ranger:
Rampage at one – Longbow opening with barrage, switch to shortbow and kill the rest of the guards. As soon as there is only the champ left, you can almost go afk. Stand behind your pet and switch if almost dead – 2 tank pets (bears) and its more than easy even without any pet traits.

As thief:
Can be more difficult, but done it several times as well during night times. Sword/Pistol, Signet of Malice, Omnonberry food – Daggerstorm running in, pulling mobs together for pistol whip and simply heal up with it. Smoke screen if you get low.

If you didn’t got enough dmg you probably need to kite the guards out but they follow you rather long same as the champ does so imo its easiest to just kill all together with aoes.
Try to dodge the knockback if the champ, its good visible but not that much time to react. It might kill you if you was already low.
No idea about other classes, warrior and mages can for sure as well.
Sometimes the champ kinda bugs for like 20-30s and simply does nothing, no idea why or if its intended/possible to reproduce.

Keeps are possible as well but tbh i had only 1 chance so far on my ranger and messed it up at 30% hp left when killing the last respawning guard. In duo not a big deal to kill as long as the enemys doesn’t recognize, even SM would be possible with 2 ppl (messed this up as well at ~30% left.. 5-10 ppl came to stop us )

As an ele I’ve solo’d several Towers, I make use of the Earth elemental (lesser helps too but i’ve done it without).
I run half a tanky, half a burst build and it works for (D/D).

To get into it, I usually kill the guards without hitting the gate, put down a ram, I make sure to have the supply camp next to the tower before attacking tower and having supply. It would normally require you 3 runs to camp after killing guards to be able to build the ram, but on my third run the guards will have respawned and even 1 hit on it will require me to run from camp again, so usually I need to run to camp 4 times unless I have the carry extra supply buff, then just 2 runs are enough. It has happened once where I was fast enough to get the ram up just before the guards respawned.

After that it’s just killing scouts when they respawn (if you ignore the guards they’ll just use their skills and not even do normal attacks).

It has happened a few times that some guys would get inside but usually they’re stupid or too late and I would be able to get inside and kill them.

I don’t get it, what’s the point in solo a tower? I mean a supply camp sure it makes tactical sense, u can solo it rather quickly, but even then if you roll with a party you get the camp fast and move on to the next. same for a tower or keep for that matter. So why solo from a tactical standpoint?

There are several reasons though:
- you simple have only a few ppl on the map that are e.g. already defending your own tower/keep or have no clue about wvw running around dumb
- you didn’t got anything on that borderland and just want to try to cap anything (more people come as soon as they see that there are more than only supply runs)
- you just want to give it a try :p most people wouldn’t bother anyway
- pulling off some attackers from more important locations because they want to defend their tower

Have you ever in the lower tiers ? Especially the last tier in EU.

There are barely enough ppl to WvW. During the night you will maybe have 5-10 ppl. there are times when there is barely anyone online.

Not totally sure but this should be doable with mesmers’ illusions.

Doesn’t seem impossible for Guardians with high power high vit. The range guards spam blind and warrior guard stuns/immobilizes already so that’s pretty hard unless you deal a good amount of damage while having a good hp pool. GW/sword+shield or staff/scepter+focus and spirit weapons + hounds of balthazar to keep you alive and speed up the kill before your hp goes dangerously low.

Ilesyt.7084:

Have you ever in the lower tiers ? Especially the last tier in EU.

There are barely enough ppl to WvW. During the night you will maybe have 5-10 ppl. there are times when there is barely anyone online.

I’m in tier 2, so it’s definitely harder because people tend to interrupt, so when I do it, I gotta be fast, otherwise my chances are gone. Also, I can’t find a youtube video of someone doing it legitimately. It’s all jumping exploits or even hacks…

I have solo’d lots of towers. As long as the owners are not paying attention, I catapult my way in, then slowly fight the champion and guards. Anyone paying any attention can typically ruin your attempt.

I have gotten into the inner part of the bay as well, but was interrupted while trying to kill the guards. Do not think I would have been successful even without interruption.