Guild Wars 2

I want to start getting into soloing and selling arah paths 2/3, and I’m trying to decide what classes to do it on which aren’t warriors or eles.

So how does ranger fare? Do rangers have anyway to solo the orb? (like with troll unugent/regen maybe?) Is GS swoop great for running past the instagib trash mobs? Is the standard zerk frost spotter build I deal for soloing or is condition workable?

Yes you can, but lupi is an exercise in frustration. Warriors have it so much easier with all their evades (ironically) and blocks.

There is a really old video on youtube of some ranger soloing lupi with mainhand axe. It looks a lot easier than melee, but it takes him like half an hour or something ridiculous.

The build is basically normal zerk, but for lupi you swap to offhand training on the axe, and there are a few other tweaks for content like that. But basically, yes, frost spirit and melee weapons, cat when you can, drake when you can’t.

It’s mostly not too bad, but lupi is infuriating.

Edit: Condi is probably totally doable as well.

Fluffball.8307:

Yes you can, but lupi is an exercise in frustration. Warriors have it so much easier with all their evades (ironically) and blocks.

There is a really old video on youtube of some ranger soloing lupi with mainhand axe. It looks a lot easier than melee, but it takes him like half an hour or something ridiculous.

The build is basically normal zerk, but for lupi you swap to offhand training on the axe, and there are a few other tweaks for content like that. But basically, yes, frost spirit and melee weapons, cat when you can, drake when you can’t.

It’s mostly not too bad, but lupi is infuriating.

Edit: Condi is probably totally doable as well.

Okay thanks! And are we able to heal through the orb in P3? And yeah the axe reflects would seem to be really nice for lupi. I’m thinking about which I class I want to solo with and I dont have a warrior or guardian so I’d rather work with what I have lol.

I’m not sure about the orbs. I haven’t heard of anyone doing it, but I haven’t looked either. It might be possible with some massive regen build or something? Natural healing, TU, regen, lightning reflexes, spirit of nature. Not sure, maybe check the dungeon forum or just give it a go.

Here is a video Turtle Dragon posted of his guildie doing P2, which is the only path I’ve tried solo.

http://youtu.be/AkM7qYbhuU4

Also about swoop, ya running past trash as a ranger is super easy. Especially if you aren’t in a hurry and want to wait for RaO to come off cooldown.

I’ll bet you that Condi Ranger will have an easier time than Berserker Ranger, just saying.

Mebe. Rangers have sort of kitteny condi options though, and the power weapons seem almost custom made for soloing with.

Edit: After thinking about it, I think condi would be a bad choice. GS and sword/axe/dagger are both almost purely power sets, and you need those evades and block. MH axe is basically a power weapon, since you don’t want to kill Lupi using only 1 skill to cause damage and need to be at point blank range to get the most out of it as a condi weapon. Torch is good, but provides zero utility solo. SB would only be causing poison because Lupi kills your pet almost instantly and you would have difficulty keeping any amount of bleeding on from behind. I think condi would be pretty time consuming.

Ranger condi lupicus kills are faster than direct damage as far as I’m aware. Belka has lower duration of burning so that possibly makes direct damage pull ahead for that fight, and alphard has extremely low condition uptime so it’s not even an option there. Brie, well you’re not going to be bursting her in the 90 seconds time limit like warriors can so you would have to kill the 3 waves. I would honesty experiment with both condition and direct damage, the results may surprise you.