Guild Wars 2

Hello guys!

This is my first post in the forum and I am new here. I just started playing GW2 a few days ago. I am currently lv 38 at the moment and one of my friend suggested me to look out for people selling boss kill/exp in dungeons for golds as it can quickly make me a few silvers and exp. So, I have bought a 3 of these solo boss kill for 1.30~1.40 G each making a marginal profit of a few silvers myself and gaining lots of exp. However, I do noticed that most of these solo runners are thief. I myself haven’t tried any other professions beside warrior (lv 38) and elementalist (lv 11) but I am interested to know whether thief is good at soloing dungeon or not.

I would be grateful if anyone can tell me whether thief excel at soloing dungeon. Thank you.

I don’t know sorry, but I can’t imagine it being much fun, would sound like work to me. I’d rather play the game how it was meant to be played personally.

penelopehannibal.8947:

I don’t know sorry, but I can’t imagine it being much fun, would sound like work to me. I’d rather play the game how it was meant to be played personally.

if you mean taking your time getting trough then i agree, if you mean rushing to get the dungeon done ASAP then no, that’s not how it’s meant to be played.

If you are talking about the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon then its because its easier for a thief to exploit and skip to the last boss. In AC i think only elementalists can solo it legit.

Its easier for thief to exploit because they have a spammable blink skill on shortbow #5, and depending of where you use the blink skill you can break into the map of the dungeon, allowing you to go straight to the final boss.

Casmurro.9046:

If you are talking about the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon then its because its easier for a thief to exploit and skip to the last boss. In AC i think only elementalists can solo it legit.

Its easier for thief to exploit because they have a spammable blink skill on shortbow #5, and depending of where you use the blink skill you can break into the map of the dungeon, allowing you to go straight to the final boss.

So, that’s the case. Now I get it. Thanks for the info.

Hopefully ANet come up with a fix, so solos are no longer possible.

FrostSpectre.4198:

Hopefully ANet come up with a fix, so solos are no longer possible.

You can’t be serious …

FrostSpectre.4198:

Hopefully ANet come up with a fix, so solos are no longer possible.

i actually hope they’re gonna make dungeons scale on party size so players can play it solo even if it’s only story mode.

FrostSpectre.4198:

Hopefully ANet come up with a fix, so solos are no longer possible.

I hope you mean exploited solos only.

Whenever you see a massive increase in sales of paths of a specific dungeon it usually means there’s something shady going on there.
The AC no-clipping skips are well documented and it’s sad that people even post videos of themselves doing it on youtube and are yet to be banned.
To answer your question: Thief is the most common exploited solo profession choice because of the ease with which they can no-clip themselves by using Infiltrator’s Arrow. In terms of legit solo runs warriors and elementalists are the most popular choices.

At least it’s better than it used to be.

For the most part they really fixed Infil Arrow. You used to be able to shoot the ceiling and just go flying into the next room, over doors, etc. I also remember in CoE thieves could shoot under the gaps in the doors to skip content, and even shoot through the glass near the golem room and bypass the whole thing lol.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets fixed, but I don’t know what to expect these days. ANet has proven to be pretty detached from reality and concentrates way too much on LS.

I’m thinking about this too. It’s not like it gives you any additional loot for doing it by yourself. Is there any advantage for this?

Lamuness.3570:

I’m thinking about this too. It’s not like it gives you any additional loot for doing it by yourself. Is there any advantage for this?

Well the advantage to running Arah solo is that you can sell it in LFG and make a lot of money.

For AC, I really don’t know, probably just the challenge of being able to do it solo.

Soloing dungeons is the funnest activity in this game for me personally. Every time you complete a new path it is a great feeling as they are always fairly challenging the first time, and take a good amount of strategy and improvisation to be successful (unless you just look up a guide on youtube).