Guild Wars 2

SkyChef.5432:

Congratulation. I thought Dub would do that before anyone but obviously you beat him to the punch.

He was close and without some serious bad luck he probably would have been first

randomfightfan.4091:

Great job! Very surprised you went with axe main hand in both but it makes sense with the off hands being as good as they are. Sword wouldn’t have been a good choice either for obvious reasons. I just wish thief dagger storm reflected as well as your axe 5.

Why didn’t you use your pets though. I’m sure a lot of rangers would like to know.

I tried to use them in phase 1, but they barely survived 2 seconds between lupis kicks and all the locusts. In phase 2 his aoe and punches would probably also get them every time. In Phase 3 they might cause bubbles by moving too much and even more important: lupi would regain health by using his life leech attacks on pets. So i just don’t see how pets could be useful in this solo.

Regarding weapons, i assure you that axe wasn’t my first choice. I would have liked to use sword/axe + greatsword, but i couldn’t use sword for obvious reasons and greatsword got me killed multiple times, because the built-in evade interferes with dodging.

haviz.1340:

TundraQualle.8204:

Congratulations!

Sadly, your pet was 99% of the fight dead meat

Pet can’t be alive because it would make his dps negative basically.

In addition to acting as medkit for lupi, it might also cause some bubbles

Sanderinoa.8065:

ArashiKai.2496:

wow. nice job! also, extremely lucky of you to not get trapped at all

This bugged me too, but I can confirm that during his tries he has been trapped plenty and was able to get out 80% of the time.(I was stuck hosting the dungeon for hours!)

I must admit that i used the “don’t move and lupi doesn’t use his bubble” trick (got that one from Dub), which makes this fight quite a bit easier.
Both of the Rangers stability skills have 1 second activation time, so you would have to take at least 1 hit each time and the cooldowns are quite long, so i pretty much had to use that trick (unlike warrior).

With this all solos are finally done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpINwYbiYi8

Ranger really has some nice skills and traits for lupi, so it wasn’t too difficult.
It’s just a bit annoying that i couldn’t use melee weapons, because both of them interfere with dodging.