Guild Wars 2

1) For Phase 1, using any Phantasm other then the I.Warlock or I.Duelist or any Clone that goes into melee (Scepter included) is ill advised. The Lupicus can generate Grubs off your Illusions, and if they are in melee range … well outta luck.
(For any other Pet Class, this includes you too as well.)
Essentially, found it best to go with Sword + Pistol and spawning 3x I.Duelists on Lupicus, then meleeing Grubs & Swarms with the sword. Trait the 15 Inspiration for Regeneration is nice too for all. Just keep an eye on them, and call target if any grubs spawn on them.

2) For Phase 2, I have no bloody clue what to do. Lack of HASTE or speed boosts means I can’t get out of the AoE circles fast enough, NOR get back to the fight after Waypointing fast either. Blinks helps a lot, but its not enough by itself.
G.Sword seems like the best weapon for this phase, even if I’ll miss Phase Retreat and Chaos Storm’s Aegis.

Anyone got a clue what helps on Phase 2 for Lupicus as a Mesmer?

I don’t normally use a staff but I decided to use it for this fight mainly because I need the conditions on the boss so the damage is being done while I can focus on avoiding the AOE.

The staff has the backward leap, You have your two dodges + blink. These things combined I found is generally enough. If not and you find yourself low in health you can always (carefully) go out of aggro to quickly regen. Of course someone should always be near/on the boss to prevent reset.

Also chaos storm can give you speed boosts, temporal curtain. Signet of inspiration for possibility of random speed boost. Traits where the more illusions you have up the faster you move etc.

Also going glass cannon is ill advised for Mesmers in general in dungeons. Should at least have some vitality or toughness so you can take some hits.

I wouldn’t recommend using the greatsword mainly because the cripple doesn’t work on the boss + nobody is in melee range to receive the might buff and the knockback also has no use. So that’s three of the weapons abilities that have lost their effectiveness/have no use.

I’ve only done the fight once (successfully) and not done it since so there might be some additional things you can use.

Cleared all four Arah routes, if you need advice on any other fights. For this fight I typically run:

25 Dueling I, X
25 Inspiration I, VIII
20 Illusions V, X

Sword/Focus + Greatsword

Mirror + Signet of Inspiration + Blink + X + Timewarp

X can be either Mimic or Illusion of Life.

Phase 1: Stand back and plink away at him with your greatsword. You can use clones and phantasms, you just have to be sure to shatter them. Use mirror blade/mind stab/zerker/blurred frenzy on any locusts/grubs that get near, as necessary. Soon as you see the words ‘Invulnerable’ pop up on Lupicus, SCATTER. Very straightforward phase.

Phase 2: AoE/shadowstep nightmare. Focus on surviving and spam clones everywhere to absorb hits. The occasional aegis/swiftness from inspiration will save your life. If you’re in truly dire straits, stand inside/behind your own temporal curtain. It will reflect any of his autoattacks sent against you (but not anything sent by the AoE). You can chain this with Mirror and Mimic to further block his ranged attacks and extend survivability.

On the AoE itself, I find the best trick is to run. Just straight up 180-degree turn get the frell out of dodge. Double dodge away – blink if needed. You need to outrange the attack completely. Why? Because after the initial volley of red-circled AoE, he sends a second volley that has no circles. If you can’t make it out in time, either due to blink being on CD (I usually save it as a stunbreaker for a shadow step that hits me) or having no energy, just swap to sword and ride it out with Blurred Frenzy and Distortion. If you’re in totally dire straits with regards to HP, just run to the other side of the arena and shatter your clones – you’ll eventually leave combat and regenerate to full. Do not do this if it is only you and one other person fighting GL, as he sometimes resets when he has less than two targets.

When he’s not AoEing, you can semi-safely resurrect allies. The bubble produced by Medic’s Feedback will reflect his ranged attacks, as will a well-placed Temporal Curtain. As a last-ditch thing you can use Illusion of Life to get up someone that’s about to be downed; just be sure to communicate to them beforehand that it’s not permanent, and they should just run to some obscure corner to die again and bandage themselves safely.

Phase 3: Super easy compared to the early ones due to no more AoE rain. Continue crapping clones; he’ll whiff bubbles/life siphons/autoattacks on them. If you get trapped in a bubble, blink out. If it’s on CD, use Blurred Frenzy/Distortion to tank it. He will sometimes do a ‘puke’ attack a bit after a life siphon, in a large AoE circle in front of him. You can drop Temporal Curtain to reflect some of the projectiles back at him for mega damage.

Sorry for the wordiness, but I hope it helped. You -can- perfect his Phase 2; I was once in an awful pug with a friend, and that friend and I ended up two-manning the entire phase, primarily because the pubs literally couldn’t last more than 10 seconds.

No need for being sorry about the wordiness. I needed the info, from both posts above.

1) Signet of Inspiration is one I completely forgot about having not slotted it in a while. I shall definitely remember to slot that from now on.

2) G.Sword or Staff works, apparently. Both of which I’m fine with, using a mix of Rampager’s Armor and Berserker’s Jewelery + some Vitality thrown in on a 0/20/0/20/30 build. So I’ll try using the Staff for Phase 2 next time.

Further, ARGH! Furienify some of your suggestions are things I should KNOW to be doing, and forgot in the heat of that fight. Specifically switching to the Sword (Phase 1 Weapon) using Blurred Frenzy to ride out his AoE in Phase 2 if out of Energy and Blink. I can’t believe that slipped my mind after using it for solely damage in PvE.

Staff would definitely be better for survivability. I forgot to add you can still use ranged phantasms, so long as your group is coordinated to clump on the person with the shortest ranged attack distance. If they’re not on the ball with grubs in the event one -does- pop on a phantasm, you’ll need to reserve Distortion to shatter them, as F1-F3 may end in them being unable to cross the distance to GL before their grubs come out.

I run around with a 20/20/0/25/5 build for everything and use GS and Sword/Sword.

For Lupicus I swap my traits slightly and gnab Inspiration III shatters grant vigor and I feedback on rezzing for phase 2.

In Phase 1, group up and bubble, when you see the grub pop up (or the green stuff indicating who it is on), use 4 and 2, then shatter and you won’t have grub problems. Use 3 to help on grub/locusts but it seems to be best if others focus grub.

Phase 2, scatter, spam clones. To evade the aoes of doom, just dont backpedal, turn around and run instantly, you should already be nearly max range to buy time. If you can’t get out of one, dodge, if dodge is down, blink, if blink is down,distortion, if you have no clones, weapon swap 2 or 4. Feedback bubble on rez is nice and helpful here.

Phase 3, swap to sword/sword and go hit the boss, you can tank just fine with 2 and 4 and just blink out when he does hiis big aoe.

Basically, make sure you are always using your distortions and invluns as a mesmer, I run full zerkers and die pretty rarely.