Guild Wars 2

Anyone complete a T4 trial solo with Mesmer?

I’m going to work at it tonight if time permits. I spent last night on guardian without success — but I was mostly running duo with a warrior (and the up-scaling is suppose to be horrendous). My Guardian didn’t feel like he was killing fast enough and I’m not really in the mood to switch from knights gear to zerks (which seems to be the popular consensus on guard).

I was leaning towards GS with a power heavy build and sharper images. The GS clones are bleed machines with high crit and will chase the plunders. Mobs tend to ignore the clones anyway so they might live to keep the bleeds up on the plunders. Throw in some stealth and maybe PU for stealth boons and I can see some possible success.

No clue until I try it — looking to see if anyone has had success with Mesmer and if so how. That would save me some time.

Bumbler.7581:

I recall this same video, and using it to help me, but now cannot find it. However, to the OP, do note that (and I have not yet tried) there was a ‘fix’ to the trials and it is now more difficult, and some videos will no longer be accurate (such as the Dulfy one). I did it pre-patch, so I can’t say anything, but below is a video I found of a mesmer doing it post-patch.

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uf5Dkz_OSc”

I uploaded that video. I posted it on reddit with some additional information, which I’ll copy here for easier access.

Mesmer POV

Had a smooth run, other than getting downed at one point, which could have been easily avoided -.-

Weapon: Greatsword. You might want to use Sword/Focus as a secondary set but I don’t recommend it. Switching will force you to fight 10 seconds in melee, and that puts you at more risk of getting killed.
Killing Plunderers: Illusionary Berserker + Mirror Blade (2 skill) + Mind Wrack should be enough. A couple of autoattacks will finish them off if they survive. Use Illusionary Wave (5 skill) when they are returning to give yourself time to kill them.
Gear: Almost full Berserker. Only back piece isn’t. Ruby Orbs on armor. The weapon sigil I had was completely useless for this. Can also use consumables to make life easier.
Skills: Blink for mobility.
Decoy and Mass Invisibility for stealth.
Signet of Illusions is not really required. I just use it in case I needed to recharge shatter skills. Can take Veil or anything else instead.
Traits: 30/20/0/20/0
More details at end of video.
Luck: This was my fourth attempt. In two of the previous ones, I got within 30 seconds of succeeding and died. In the other one, two veterans spawned close to the mortar when the first far side plunderer spawns and got 15 stacks of bleed with no condition removal. So yes you do have to get a bit lucky with enemy spawn points.

Yes I have done this with my Mesmer with pretty much the build you are planning on using. I think that the key to success soloing this is to stay far enough back from the plunderer spawn site to not aggro any of the other atherblades and to kill the vet engineers as they spawn next to where you are standing ( the big rock right behind the spawn site works great) but you don’t have to kill the vet engineer that spawns on the other side. I just left him alone and he didn’t bother with me.

I remember a video on dulfy but i cant say for sure if it was t4.
That said, i only tried it a couple of times (well three, i can run t4 but i never tried it) and PU helped me a lot.

I went easy mode and sniped them with kill shot on my warrior. I still learned some random stuff that can help though.
If you want to lose aggro, go for a quick swim. Those aether blades really don’t want to get wet.
Stay near the mortars but kill the vets before the mortars because the vets will grenade you if they don’t have their mortars.
The left and middle sides are the easiest to take care of. The right side was the only problematic one. Bleed the right ones and try to nuke them a bit but DO NOT chase. The bleed is important for keeping them in combat so they don’t regen. When they are running back, you should be able to finish them off. Also, on the right side, there are rocks you should stand on to minimize aggro.
30/30/0/0/10 with the daze mantra and signet of domination traited should be enough to snipe them fast enough.
If you still need help, whisper me later tonight, I helped a guildy in a 2 man and it’s still easy then.

Yes, T3 and T4 are manageable as long as you take daze/stun. I can corroborate Duck’s advice. Go full zerker gear and mantra nuker 30/30/0/0/10, take harmonious mantras for 3x daze and GS-Sw/P. GS for long range and Magic Bullet is very good too for an extra stun, but the bounce sometimes aggros unintentionally so be careful with range. Basically, Magic Bullet, Duelist – if still alive, BF. I played this exact way solo a few days ago and didn’t have too much trouble.

Blink is almost essential, and mantra condi-cleanse helps a ton to get rid of chill/cripple if you do aggro the vets. The 3x mantra heal also helps if you’re full zerker.

One thing I found, if you’re still in the game with 1 minute or less left, usually you’ll also be down to 1,000 or 500. At that point, just follow the plunderers to kill, evading everything else to the best of your ability.

what is T4 trial?

I have completed all the trial solo multiple times. The reason I say multiple times is because for some reason the achievement will not complete for me. I have gone in and re-run 1-4 in order again but still no completion. I opened a bug report.

Are you sure you are doing it for the same person tier 1, 2, 3, 4? That sucks though.

@ Helios, the politics update added an instance that pits you against waves of aether blades. You can bring 5 people but it scales much better with 1-3. You need to kill plunderers who are trying to take your treasure. At low lvls you can kill the adds but at higher lvls of difficulty (3-4) you need to avoid them.

Go to the labrinthine cliffs and near the top to access the challenge. You can support evon or kiel but the challenge stays the same.

Levitas.1953:

I remember a video on dulfy but i cant say for sure if it was t4.
That said, i only tried it a couple of times (well three, i can run t4 but i never tried it) and PU helped me a lot.

I recall this same video, and using it to help me, but now cannot find it. However, to the OP, do note that (and I have not yet tried) there was a ‘fix’ to the trials and it is now more difficult, and some videos will no longer be accurate (such as the Dulfy one). I did it pre-patch, so I can’t say anything, but below is a video I found of a mesmer doing it post-patch.

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uf5Dkz_OSc”

Yeah, I have completed Gnash but it is Kiel that is bugged or something. I tried 1-4 again the other day for Kiel but it still did not complete.

I found this which is close to what I have planned:

It says T4 but it looks similar to what I experienced in T3 on my guard. The triple-monitor setup makes it hard to read the event text in the center display.

No build details but he definitely has traited focus for reflect so 20 in vit line. No dodge clones that I could see so maybe no sharper images. Definitely no PU. Maybe a GS phantasm build?

I used Esplen’s build.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/cutthroat/Candidate-Trials-T4/first#post2475022

I haven’t tried it since the ‘patch’ though.

@ Serendipity: Nice vid — I notice the spawns were not the same as what I saw last night (sunday post patch) which is 3 on the left followed immediately by one on the right. Not sure if that’s a random thing or not.

Zerk gear?

From what I noticed in my attempts, the first right side plunderer always spawns when the timer is around 5:30, and the first middle plunderer spawns at around 3:00. I don’t know if that’s always the case or if they just follow a pattern as you mentioned. For sure, the position in which the other veterans spawn is a bit random.

Yes I had Berserker gear, although it might be possible to do using other gear with potion of outlaw slaying and food.