Guild Wars 2

I ask because I am thinking of trying another class than my Mesmer. With it, using a great sword and staff it is pretty simple to solo the supply camp if you watch the action and use the bubble on archers.

What other classes solo the supply camp easily? All of them? Or can some not handle it?

My ranger can solo them pretty easily. Longbow/zerker gear.

I do it regularly with my necro

i can solo camps easy whit my d/d ele but whit my guardian (whit a tank build) its a lot harder.

I’ve played 6 classes in WvW, and all of them can solo supply camps fairly easily.

The two I haven’t played are Ranger and Necro, so see the two posts above me and you have all 8 classes.

probably depends more specifically on the build rather than the class.

My zerker Mesmer solo camp like a boss.
Rabid necro like a boss.
D/D ele like a boss.
RRranger like a boss.
Tanks guardian is a kinda hard since the damage sux but they hit you like a truck also the ranger npc spam blind like there is no tomorrow.

It’s quite easy with a zerker S/D Ele. Just bring AT LEAST one Elemental (2 is better) with you and it’s fine.
Target prioties and positioning are the basics of camp soloing, though: if you KNOW where you have to be in order to quickly kill what has to be killed, you’ll do fine with any class.

Condition thief can solo supply camps pretty easily.

Every class can solo a camp easily, just not every player can.

I solo on my guard .-.

knight armour/zerker trinket, 0/15/30/20/5, GS/hammer

why use tank builds?

how quick can you guys do it? can anyone solo a camp before the swords appear?

Even a solid DPS zerker will get swords on the target before the camp is done. This is why “every class” can solo a camp, but not every player. Don’t get these guys wrong, it’s not easy, and not every build can do it because you need to be fast.

The guards will start to respawn and eventually the bad guys will show up too.

While on my Ranger it is really easy to solo camps beacuse you have a tanky pet and you can go full zerker without any problem I’m wondering how you solo a supply camp with a zerker static discharge engineer. Has anyone done that and can give me tips? Or do you need a condition engineer + lots of kiting to solo the camp?

You’d need time to slow pull it probably. Once you kill the two scouts (seriously hate those guys), you can easily kite the melee guards

I use my Guardian to solo camps, have not even bothered trying it with my other classes. The easiest camp to solo is the northeast one. Pull everything except the super, drop a wall of reflection and call up the hounds of Balthazar and the rest of the mobs go down easily. Do not forget stability for the dolyaks! Once you learn from where and how to pull on each camp it is not difficult for a Guardian at all.

Edit: On the ne camp, I can usually have it capped just after the swords appear. Have yet to do it before.

IMO its really quite simple in terms of builds: Hybrids does it best. If you go all tank, its possible but it take so long to kill them. On my bunker Guardian I have been in the awkward situation of ever-spawning mobs. If you go all berserker, its also possible but allow for zero mistakes and is more of a hit or miss deal. Tanky builds with high damage win every time.

soloing full upgradet 82’ camps with more guards upgrade on my ranger. simply pull them all together behind a house and burn them down + drake pet for some ae dmg and pet survivability

Arpheus.6918:

While on my Ranger it is really easy to solo camps beacuse you have a tanky pet and you can go full zerker without any problem I’m wondering how you solo a supply camp with a zerker static discharge engineer. Has anyone done that and can give me tips? Or do you need a condition engineer + lots of kiting to solo the camp?

i do it in ptv or rabid armor + celestial trinket (on engi). my rampager set doesnt work so well… but then i try to kill all the npcs at once, drawing off 1-2 npcs makes it easy to kill but takes a lot longer.

not much kiting involved, i just drop supply crate when everything gathers and grenade spam. on a good pull i can have the npcs down by the time the x shows up. drawing off the scouts first means i dont need to use crate, but as i said it takes longer.

i havent really had many opportunities to cap 200 or 250 supply camps, but the few times i do i just die. id stick to pet classes for those.

Arpheus.6918:

While on my Ranger it is really easy to solo camps beacuse you have a tanky pet and you can go full zerker without any problem I’m wondering how you solo a supply camp with a zerker static discharge engineer. Has anyone done that and can give me tips? Or do you need a condition engineer + lots of kiting to solo the camp?

If you are running full zerk, you need to make sure you are only peeling off 2 guards at a time and have some defensive utilities prepared, like tool kit. You are basically completely ranged with 95% of engie weapons/kits, so you are going to be kiting, and I use grenades for the burst potential of barrage+SD.

If you are running just SD with rifle and no kits, you are very limited for defense in general and while good 1v1, supply camps are going to suck. Maybe you should allocate your WxP points for guard defense (or offense) so you can make that easier.

Standard camps sure… but what classes given average player skill have great difficulty with upgraded camps?

The only classes I feel comfortable taking camps with are ones with pets. I can usually kill one or two guards while the pets get killed, reset, rinse, repeat.

Thieves can do it one guard at a time, but it’s tedious

The problem comes when people decide to camp the lower camps, like that 1 kill is worth the 30min wait.

Archaeneoso.8461:

I ask because I am thinking of trying another class than my Mesmer. With it, using a great sword and staff it is pretty simple to solo the supply camp if you watch the action and use the bubble on archers.

What other classes solo the supply camp easily? All of them? Or can some not handle it?

In order, I would say condition rangers and necros, engis, eles, mesmers, thieves (as long as you dont get in over your head – good to open with dagger storm to take out the veteran scouts), warriors and guardians last.

Straegen.2938:

Standard camps sure… but what classes given average player skill have great difficulty with upgraded camps?

Thief… lowest health pool, low armor. One scout and a cabalist will give you an extremely hard time unless you kite properly with sb and switching with either sword or dagger and pistol offhand. This is for average player skill. A highly skilled thief can solo upgraded camps very easily – it’s a double edged class with two extremes.

The easiest imo is ranger and necro (both condition spec), they have high health pools and great survivability against npcs. NPCs in groups, condition is the best way to fight because you can do massive aoe dmg – while burst is only good for one target. So by the time you get one down and work your way to others, they can potentially respawn. Again this is for the average player and not a skilled any class that can hit multiple targets and do a lot of dmg.

I want to say just about any kind of Ranger can manage it fairly quickly and easily. It’s basically just solo PvE and Rangers in general are really good at that I find.

If I can get a good angle and pierce 3 or more targets, total cake walk.

Id like to see a thief solo a fully upgraded camp. Ive seen a few claim its possible, but video or didn’t happen.

I did it tonight. I cleared the northeast camp and was sitting there waiting for the cap to complete when the swords finally appeared! Not too shabby for a Guardian

sostronk.8167:

Id like to see a thief solo a fully upgraded camp. Ive seen a few claim its possible, but video or didn’t happen.

Anyone can do it with a slow pull.

I’d make a vid of my l33t camp flipping skillz but I can’t remember the last time I ran into a fully upgraded supply camp.