Guild Wars 2

This has been on my mind long before I started my own Mesmer. Don’t know if anyone tried this or if it’s jus impossible but theoretically can’t a Mesmer or Mesmer team or maybe a thief with Mesmer, set a portal entre and then cloak and bypass a bunch of normal mobs that u don’t rly need to kill and once ur safe, set up the second portal to bring the rest of the party?

Is it possible to just bypass mobs and only kill bosses u need to? Depends on dungeon of course.

It’s easly possible. I’m always doing it in guild runs to pass useless trash.

It’s hardly cheating. Imagine you did this, skipped two rooms of enemies… and then one of you dies. Now what?

^ good point. LOL

make a full team of mesmers/thieves to cloak/stealth through it all LOL XD

you don’t even need thief…
mesmer has veil that makes you invisible for 3sec when you run thru it.
couple it with blink and portal and viola!
a trash mob skipping class.
also, did i mention you can use temporal curtain and veil together to get stealth+speed buff?

Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that portal/blink have no PvE uses. Or that they are “Cheating” in PvE. I don’t think that’s the case. Sure you can get some friends to skip a large part of a jumping puzzle with a portal or two but that means /you/ still had to do it. And it’s really helpful on certain bosses. Like the one in CoF that makes you run up to him with burning rocks in order to get rid of his invulnerability. Portal inside Logan’s bubble, lay the other portal in front of him… So nice. Sooooo nice.

xD i know u dont need thief but i mean they can stealth themselves across if u still wanted other classes in ur run XP

we have decoy, viel, and mass invisibility and darn jumping puzzles are much better with portals xD

i haven’t been in an arah group that didn’t bypass mobs by using group stealth, swiftness, and/or portals. without it, arah runs can take roughly 25-45 minutes longer depending on the group, and the arah paths are already quite lengthy with the bypass methods: 1.2-2.5 hours in most cases.

the worst situation regarding arah: if the person who seeds the instance quits the group due to time constraints or lack of progress (usually stuck at lupi for pugs), it kicks everyone and resets the instance, so all of your progress is lost… all that time and effort wasted because 1 person decides to give up, and you can’t simply find a replacement and continue the dungeon due to this annoying oversight. I know the dungeon system isn’t perfect, and they have a lot to work on, but this is something that should be high on their priority list.

I’m not quite sure where the Thief comes in, though. With 30 Chaos, I out-stealth a Thief in most situations anyhow.

In Citadel of Flames path 1, the part where you have to light up 3 braziers after carrying an orb through rolling boulders, just equip blink and portal (and 20% manipulation range if you can), portal near the boulders, blink across, portal near the braziers.

Voila, you just saved your team the humilliation of running naked through the boulders