Guild Wars 2

With the recommended dungeon build I find that I have survivability issues when I’m trying to solo bosses, and especially in HoT.

Any tips? I’ve already tried changing my utility skills, its just a minor boost. I was thinking about changing out some gear for toughness, but it would cost a lot of damage.

Murderin.8269:

With the recommended dungeon build I find that I have survivability issues when I’m trying to solo bosses, and especially in HoT.

Any tips? I’ve already tried changing my utility skills, its just a minor boost. I was thinking about changing out some gear for toughness, but it would cost a lot of damage.

Why not group?

Just range it. Scepter with Zealous Scepter and Supreme Justice is actually the best solo build you can get assuming your target doesnt move 24/7.

Before the April 19th patch most of HP in HoT maps were soloable with DH, just poking at range with longbow and using something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJARTnsABlDhVdCeDB8DhlEiSe5j+s/aZDgEAbDeuyE-TxBXwAAU+9TlAmqQ0TdFV7P8QJ4IdBBAQAc0je0je0j2Nv5Rv5RPapAiYrF-e

That was my roaming build; notice that isn’t optimized for PvE, but still it just did well in HoT content except very few bosses (like 2-3 in the whole first three maps).

But after the patch a lot of damage from longbow is lost, and foes in HoT usually have tons of armor. In team play that armor doesn’t matter that much due groups stack 25 vul easily and bosses just melt, but playing alone I guess that burning guardian is now way better: passive damage that ignores enemy’s armor while you retain a lot more hp and armor. Otherwise just reroll :)

in the case of u running zeal/virtues/DH
which is standard raid/dungeon
in which case is not optimal for solo pve for reasons
1. Hot content require sustain if you plan to solo
2. You lack the necessary fury boon that group easily provides and thus your damage is inconsistent meaning it may take 6 hits or 15 hits depend on ur 54-60 ish crit chance

simply replace Zeal line for Valor and gain huge amount of sustain as well as personal fury

what you are trading for when u replace Zeal with Valor:
you lose 7% damage to burning enemies
you lose 10% damage to enemies withing a symbol
you lose chance to burn burning enemies with a symbol
you lose 5% damage and recharge with great-sword if you roll one

ya gain fury when you use meditation
ya gain heal when ya use meditation
ya gain smite conditions when ya use meditation which heals and remove condi and damages
ya gain 150 toughness

all in all not bad of a trade is ya plan to fight anything stronger than a silver mob
(also capable of quicker spike kill via smite condi + heal smite condi)
(me running this in pve is a direct result of being smoked by 2 veteran smokescales)

edit: changed “5__hits” into 6 hits because apperenlly “5” and “hits” with a single space in-between become kittens in this forum

Zantmar.5406:

in the case of u running zeal/virtues/DH
which is standard raid/dungeon
in which case is not optimal for solo pve for reasons
1. Hot content require sustain if you plan to solo
2. You lack the necessary fury boon that group easily provides and thus your damage is inconsistent meaning it may take 6 hits or 15 hits depend on ur 54-60 ish crit chance

simply replace Zeal line for Valor and gain huge amount of sustain as well as personal fury

what you are trading for when u replace Zeal with Valor:
you lose 7% damage to burning enemies
you lose 10% damage to enemies withing a symbol
you lose chance to burn burning enemies with a symbol
you lose 5% damage and recharge with great-sword if you roll one

ya gain fury when you use meditation
ya gain heal when ya use meditation
ya gain smite conditions when ya use meditation which heals and remove condi and damages
ya gain 150 toughness

all in all not bad of a trade is ya plan to fight anything stronger than a silver mob
(also capable of quicker spike kill via smite condi + heal smite condi)
(me running this in pve is a direct result of being smoked by 2 veteran smokescales)

edit: changed “5__hits” into 6 hits because apperenlly “5” and “hits” with a single space in-between become kittens in this forum

Is this the monk build? Using Monk’s Focus and using all meditations I found to have incredible sustain. It’s a selfish build, not for groups, but if you’re running around solo it’s definitely a good foundation to build on.