Guild Wars 2

specifically when soloing Arah P1, which i thought I’d try it on my mesmer. the thing is I suck at mesmer and know absolutely nothing. with a lot of difficulty I managed to get to the crystalline entities, but I can’t kite them for kitten and literally do like 0 dmg even when i do. I’m using a typical 6/6/0/0/2 build and I tried with sword/focus and sword/sword but it was hard to run and my illusions did 0 dmg. then i tried GS and staff and doing a little bit more dmg but still very very slow. any tips?

my skills mirror images, blink, and signet of inspration.

Well, for kiting, staff is likely your best option for Phase Retreat. It does have a lower damage output, though iWarlock can do a lot of damage. Most of the damage of this weapon is based around conditions. Don’t knock the clones either, if they survive, their Winds of Chaos can stack a hefty amount of bleeding/burning damage.

The entities will probably be pretty hard because there are so many and you may not be able to end up with just one of them at a time. Have you tried using greatsword + staff? You can pop a couple of berserkers and kite around with staff using Chaos Storm and Phase Retreat (and the “bunker dance,” running in a circle). That may work. No guarantees. I’ve never tried to (nor wanted to) solo Arah P1.

Good luck!

ignoring the above post since he has no experience in the situation you’re talking about -

you need swiftness to effectively kite the entities. that means either just using temporal curtain or dumping your centaur set on for perma-swiftness and then gradually killing the mobs with sword cleave; since you have no phantasm DPS it’ll take a while.

I’m a she, thank you, and you shouldn’t speak so rudely of a guildmate. Soloing a dungeon is pointless to me when I can finish it that much faster with a team, but I do have quite a lot of dungeon experience. I highly doubt perma swiftness is necessary if you have skill set (playing skill) to get around that issue.

Yeah, those mobs are an enormous pain because somebody forgot to figure out how to make phantasms work on them. You’re just going to have to take it slowly and carefully. Something that I’ve never tried but might be worthwhile is actually traiting into more of a shatter build, as that allows you to do some significant burst damage. So just go into the light, do some cleave, do a shatter burst, then run back out to heal up and repeat until they die.

No matter how you do it, it’s going to take some time, no way around that.