Guild Wars 2

I’m recently back and looking for a build I can solo roam around with in WvW to flip camps. (not fond of the zerg meta). Any help?

going deep in the guard killer / guard defense lines is far more important than the utilities or gear you use

bring aoes, learn aggro ranges, abuse line of sight. just dont bring untraited pistols, elixir gun autos, or flamethrower 1 and expect to survive while you do bad or single target damage.

you can use almost any gear — zerker, soldier, dire, celestial, rabid, rampager, whatever.

personally i run grenades and a knight/cavalier mix, which means a base 30/0/0/10/10 with 20 free points. (grenadier, speedy kits + vigor)

Well before the WvW trait lines for guard killer and defense I was solo flipping camps with a P/P HgH build. It should be even easier now that Dire gear is available.

Now I would probably use P/S, HgH, Perplexity Runes, Dire Gear.
Elixir H, B, Tool Kit and Rocket Boots.

Tactics are also key. Approach the camp in a way that you only get 2 guards and the Claimer at most. The blinds that the veteran scouts hit you with are a pain so prioritize them first.

You don’t need any special kind of build to solo a camp, it’s incredibly easy on virtually every profession (minus, perhaps due to how long it will take, Ranger).

South camp you just pull all of the mobs behind the house on the right as you’re approaching and bomb kit / grenade kit everything.

SE camp stack them behind the little hut.

NE camp pull them from behind the rock then hop onto the rock and kill.

NW stack behind a pillar.

SW stack behind the house on the left as you’re approaching.

LoS is far more important than builds/traits.

I just love bombs so my style is a lot like the post above me, LoS all the range until they stack into a ball and AoE down. Just watch the claimer KD is a death sentence.

insanemaniac.2456:

going deep in the guard killer / guard defense lines is far more important than the utilities or gear you use

Actually no. Guard Killer only speeds it up a bit (only noticeable when you go for raw damage) and you shouldn’t bother soloing camps if you can’t survive without it, retaliation also doesn’t increase your killspeed significantly. Much more important is the ability to dish out AoE damage, so you’ll probably perform best with bombs or nades.

Tyaen.5148:

Tactics are also key. Approach the camp in a way that you only get 2 guards and the Claimer at most. The blinds that the veteran scouts hit you with are a pain so prioritize them first.

I guess if you lack AoE you can do that, but seriously, just equip nades/bombs, pull the guards together and kill everything at once. 30/0/0/10/10, like maniac posted, is a solid base, you can even move some points away from explosives if you use bombs. Pulling particular guards is a waste of time and increases the chance of defenders arriving in time. Full upgraded camps are an exception of course, since you have to deal with much more damage and cc while hitting the AoE cap.

As already said flipping a camp isnt really an issue. You can kill all guards of a non upgraded camp easily in 30-60 seconds with every profession if you group them up by moving behind objects. On the engi i just pop bombs and throw the grenades till everythings dead.
Only thing that wasnt meantioned till now and what i do is to step behind an object and then after all guards piled up i move a little behind. Like that you dont get caught in the scouts blind fields while you still hit everything.

Build wise i use rabid gear with 10/20/20/10/10 which is more defensive as many other engis run as it seems. Furthermore i have elixir gun, bomb and tool kit (only changing for camps) equipped. But on the engi its more the skill cap than your traitings that will get you killed or keep you alive.