Guild Wars 2

All the classes that could make it through that cave solo can still do it. The problem is there is no waypoint for the rest of the party. This actually encourages more path sellers, as average pugs and first time groups will have a very tough time making it through the cave with more than 3 members while people who just solo the path are not hindered in the least unless they die between the cave and the abom.

I will say this now probably makes path 2 the hardest in the game now for average groups as that pull is the fastest and least obviously telegraphed full party insta-down out of all dungeon bosses that I can think of. Also the lack of that way was pretty awful. I was in a group where I was the only one who could make the run without a thief so I did it before them and quickly get the wp. There was no wp so the rest went through using stealth however coming within ~900 range of the conglomeration of risen by that turret at the end was automatic insta-death without invulnerability even though we were no where near the spiders attacking it.

My sole problem is with the wind. There doesn’t seem to be any way to anticipate or avoid it so it is all luck on whether you make it. Does anyone have any solution for the wind or is it just RNG instant fail?

That actually makes good sense and seems fairly reasonable.

Oh, yes, best buff of the patch

Tachii.3506:

Alphard fight is pretty ridiculous. The scorpion wire move, if not dodged, will pull you and instantly deal 15-30k damage on the spot, before the AoE circle ever appears. And when the AoE circle do appear, it deal another 15-30k damage. I took about 40k dmg and was instantly dead within 2 seconds from that move.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or not. A scorpion wire move is primarily to pull you in, not instantly deal 15-30k damage. The fact that the AoE circle don’t even come up until after it downed you is quite ridiculous.

Hey Tachii, we killed her after you left, first try lol.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Wicked Rin.1972:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I know how you did it. And there’s really nothing to brag about with soloing path 2 because you can literally AFK all of the bosses and take no damage.

Don’t assume anything, I didn’t skip any of the bosses or use any safe spots to afk them. I still won’t say that this was an incredibly impressive achievement but the point still stands that eles can easily hold their own in Arah.

Do you mind if I see your solo video?

Part 1 of 3 because I am slow and didn’t much worry about time, and because I wanted to keep my first lupi solo in its own video. Other 2 parts can be found on my channel.

I love playing my ele simply because it is fun. 4 weapon sets > 2 at least from an interesting perspective.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

ArthurDent.9538:

GodAmongUs.9713:

The reason is that Arah for ele is a complete nightmare. I’m running zerk gear with a small additions of vitality and toughness here and there and when we skip in a dungeon my ele will surely die.

I suppose you might not like to know that I managed to solo all of path 2 today on an ele. We have lots of tools to do the skips and quite frankly it is much easier for us to do them then a necro.

I know how you did it. And there’s really nothing to brag about with soloing path 2 because you can literally AFK all of the bosses and take no damage.

Don’t assume anything, I didn’t skip any of the bosses or use any safe spots to afk them. I still won’t say that this was an incredibly impressive achievement but the point still stands that eles can easily hold their own in Arah.

GodAmongUs.9713:

The reason is that Arah for ele is a complete nightmare. I’m running zerk gear with a small additions of vitality and toughness here and there and when we skip in a dungeon my ele will surely die.

I suppose you might not like to know that I managed to solo all of path 2 today on an ele. We have lots of tools to do the skips and quite frankly it is much easier for us to do them then a necro.

With ascended armor coming out next week, once you complete your set you will be able to easily get an extra 30AR just from simple infusions making the 50 instability negligible. So just be patient

• Temple of Melandru – scales well to small teams. If the priest repeatedly turns everyone into lizards (why lizards?) and heals up, there might be problems. The defend part scales to small numbers and will not spawn champs if the criteria does not reach a certain amount of players.

Soloable even with healing phase if you use certain trick. Soloable easily without healing phase. His damage also doesn’t scale. Defense event is very easy even for alone player.
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Is the certain trick to use the diving goggles to get out of drake form? If so it no longer works last I tried. Same for using mystery tonics.

Just finished incinerator about 2 days ago. A very nice friend lent me about 120g, to finish everything else off though so I am now very far in debt lol. I am quite happy with it though and already a third of the way to being able to pay her back.

Instance owner can hop out to repair, just can’t change characters. Or did they change that too?

Viking Jorun.5413:

NevirSayDie.6235:

Balance is already better than it was at launch. Also, every single profession forum has constant qq about all their undeserved nerfs, not just the thief forum.

If you made a thread in each profession forum to rate the 8 professions from best to worst, every single profession would rate themselves on average between 5th and 7th.

Right now the warriors can all concur that they’re on top with necros. So…

And most other classes concur that the 8th spot is reserved for eles.

Paths 1-3 basically come down to can you spend enough time, and can you kill lupicus. If the answer to both of those is yes then you should be fine. With that being said, read up on lupicus before hand as he has a lot of tricks and there are strategies you can use against him as he has much more variety in attacks compared to every other boss in the game. Also don’t watch the 17 second lupy kill on youtube and think “I can do that”.
I am surprised how many people can sell arah paths for such high prices, it really isn’t that hard. And yes berserker builds thrive in there, basically all hardcore dungeon runners use zerker gear and some of them can even solo some of the paths with it.

I am willing to speculate that 95% of all people will say guardian. I also like thieves a lot as long as they are competent which normally isn’t a problem for 48’s.

Beldin.5498:

Jesseroo.8247:

I actually solo/duo’d him on my ranger. Took forever, but just took a lot of kiting and dodging and pet swaps. I started out by solo’ing him and laying cripple traps along with my shortbow, and then someone else joined me around the middle of his second phase. Probably one of the best times I’ve had in GW2.

But of course stupid timers, that prevent you from even trying that now, are soooo much more challenging <sigh>

Fire shaman still doesn’t have a timer. Also he really isn’t hard solo, I have done it the whole way. Just need to kite phase 1, make sure to dodge the axe throws in phase 2, and he just isn’t very dangerous in phase 3 at all.

Here here, all hail the dredge! protectors against the inexperienced casuals!

Wethospu.6437:

Xyonon.3987:

Anyone tried to solo the broodmother in orr? -.-’’ god that thing is even op if you are 2

I can try to do that (or any other boss). I just need to know their exact location because I rarely play open PvE.

There are several places to find them, 2 that need to be fought on land, 1 that can be fought on land or in the water and a few that can be fought in the water. They are much tougher on land but I have done them both ways. The locations on the 2 land ones are Crusted Shoals in malchors leap and Winterknell Shore in cursed shore.

I would like to request going after the krait hypnoss in mt. maelstrom in the mire sea near the vista. I am curious to see if you can get it.

I just soloed twilight arbor up on my ele yesterday, it took a long time but it is possible. Some paths aren’t possible though such as cof1 due to the requirements of multiple things being done at once
Also for open world champs, the only ones I can’t do are the krait hypnos’s in mt. maelstrom and timberline. I am not sure if anyone else has ever done them either (no vids on youtube except some for the witch in timberline but she has recieved major buffs since then) they are pretty insane.

On a somewhat different note, has anyone solo’d the champ krait hypnoss in mt. maelstrom? It summons adds extremely rapidly and some of them are vets with knockdowns plus a really powerful aoe condition attack. I am thinking an engi might have enough interrupts to break down defiant and interrupt the summon but I am still leveling one so haven’t tested it yet.

Nice work on Lyssa, I tried that once and after knocking off about 15% all of the seals got retaken so I just said kitten it and left. Probably would have taken me like 4 hours if the seals would need to be retaken that frequently and that is assuming she wouldn’t reset.
As for what I have done, every champ on http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_champions barring the krait hypnoss in mt. maelstrom, the krait witch in timberline, risen captain covington, up scaled event spawns and the ones that are always zerged (frozen maw, ulgoth, foulbear) and all of the legendaries. The list is far from complete but I have gotten a lot of the ones not on it.

Staff is probably the easiest weapon for surviving as long as you have group support. It is also the only way to potentially stay in one element the majority of the time with fire making it pretty easy to use (still need group support). Just the extra range lets you stay away from most damage entirely, and projectiles are easier to dodge since you can see them coming for more time.

^^
especially because evasive arcana looks awesome and I am a sucker for flash.

I honestly think they are seeing people use dd and think it is a viable set still, but honestly I just use dd now because it is the most fun set and I think a lot of people are the same way. Also mainly use evasive arcana because it looks awesome even with all the nerfs (water and earth are strong still though).

I just want in combat weapon swapping for scenarios where I change situations where one weapon is vastly inferior in one scenario and superior in the other and I can’t get out of combat in between. Take for example in wvw, staff gets murdered in 1v1 roaming so dd or sd is necessary when away from the zerg. However if you wish to join the zerg, staff is the best way to go with water fields and lots of aoe. Put the swap on like a 40 second timer or more so one can’t essentially get 8 weapon sets at once but don’t make us get out of combat every time situations change.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

There is a cave you can fight Wiley in, he isn’t there all the time but once I wandered in and he tried to kill me, so I killed him. One of the tougher champs to solo but still doable.

Same kind of things are happening on storm bluff isle, we just have to guess when to run back and hope we get to teq in time to abuse his full stunned state while not loosing the batteries.

To op, krait do actually make some large towers that come out of the water. Go to that large lake in mt. maelstom near where the golem event is and see.

I use all my weapons at least occasionally. If you had to go with just one I would say staff or s/f since some enemies just can’t be meleed reliably but learn all your weapons and use the right one at the right time to make things much easier.

Glad to see a positive post on these forums. A rare and beautiful sight it is.

I like to get an empty server with some friends just for some friendly 1v1 competition that is not constantly interrupted by other players. We like to see who can beat who and experiment with builds. Certainly don’t farm it and even if I do, why would anyone care? Regardless I also like that I can play with my ele and not feel like I could be doing better for my team with a fotm warrior or some shenanigans like that.

What we have with healing power is a conundrum due to arena nets desire to eliminate the “holy trinity”. They don’t want 1 or 2 players to be able to do all of the healing for the whole group and as a result, they simply gave everyone access to lots of healing. The problem is now that in order to not allow unkillable players in pvp they opted to reduce the scaling of healing power instead of the base heal taking healing power from being over powered to borderline useless.
I would propose that that all base heals are nerfed extremely hard and healing power given much more scaling to make high level heals yield about the same as they do now. This leaves the problem of dedicated group healers being viable such as elementalist starting to bring back the trinity. One solution to prevent this would be to have when a group member receives healing from another player they will get healing based off of their own healing power so if they want a teammate to give them a substantial heal they need to invest in healing power themselves. Or better yet make the heal amount be based off of the average healing power of giver and recipient meaning if only one member invests, it is still a decent heal but if both invest, it becomes quite substantial.

Here is another random exception

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_Aria_Venom_slay_Draithor_the_Drill

the Aria can solo the champ boss easily making a group event not even require anyone.

Yes most people are aware of the balthazar chain’s problems. What I would like to see is both a nerf and a buff simultaneously. The veteran risen subjugators are completely ridiculous with their wells having no obviously interuptable animation combined with health comparable to some champions. However all of the other risen are really weak which makes it a case of finding a needle in the hay stack. The subjugators need to go while more of the other risen need to be upgraded to manageable types of vets.

I know this is an old thread but getting the same problem still on stormbluff isle right now.

Sbi has gotten him 3 times in a row now, don’t know how many total but obviously more than 1

All I know is the ele is really bad underwater (or at least I am). I come in against a an enemy at half health and use whirlpool as that seems to be the only way to do much damage, manage to down him, then proceed to be killed by him in the downed state as I fail to finish him since he just swims away from finishers. Eventually he downs me and kills me in my downed state. This may definitly be a l2p issue but just throwing it out there. For the record I kill most people on land as long as I am not out numbered so I am not a terrible player overall.

Ones like fire elemental, covington, and golem do alot more damage so it wasn’t just a health increase and a timer.

Agreed, all three blood witches that I know about are exceptionally hard, but I don’t think they are quite as tough as other top difficulty champs.

Ayochak.8293:

From my few tries I don’t think I can do karka champion.

I fail to kill Risen Baron (Noble model)

My most challenging fight is the Risen Knight in Malchor’s Leap.

My favorite trivial kill is the Risen Abomination.
It’s a very easy fight when you know it, and near impossible if you don’t.
Sometimes I let other players interfere and ruin my fight without saying anything, then, often, I watch them die.

1)Have you tried the Krait Hypnos’s in Mt. Maelstrom and Spark Fly Fen I have found them much worse then the Karka wondering how you would compare them for top spot? They are out of the way so people don’t know about them for the most part.
2)Baron isn’t too bad but not super easy either you can get him
3)I am surprised by your trouble with the knight I see it as an easier broodmother with smaller radius of charge, no knock down, and no adds but to each there own.
4)lol at watching the frenzy build on those abominations.

Penguin.5197:

The one I was never able to solo was the champ megalodon near fort trinity. That guy is as tough as they come.

Agree, got the one in cursed shore by abusing its inability to go into shallow water but that won’t work by fort trinity, might be top of the list for that one in particular.

Actually some of the champ risen are pretty easy, the gladiator on cursed shore comes to mind as well as the putrifier if you know when to dodge and the giant can be kited in a circle easily but there are a lot that are definitely tough.

I have been trying to see how many champs in this game I can solo and have found the difficulty range for various champs to be massive. I would like to compile a list of what I and other people find to be the toughest champs in the game to kill either solo or as a small group (zergs make everything easy).

Here are some that gave me the most trouble so far in order of descending difficulty feel free to discuss any that you found that gave you a lot of trouble and how they compare with my initial list. I would like to stick to open world so no dungeons, fractals, etc.

Krait Hypnos: spams adds extremely fast and inflicts massive condition damage instantly with aoe by far the most dangerous enemy I have found so far in this game.

Karka: lots of dangerous attacks and exceptionally high health with habit of resetting randomly mid fight

Eye of Zhaitan(not the meta event one): beam and spin do alot of damage with the beam staying locked on you even if you dodge

Risen Drake Broodmother(only dangerous on land): The charge has a much larger radius than one would suspect and seems to hit mid dodge quite often

Reef Rider: only tried this one once and I could barely scratch it might deserve a higher spot, only found at the end of a fairly challenging jumping puzzle which makes it even more annoying

why would you do such a thing D;

My problem is that it requires all three borderlands to be complete even though they are all exactly the same. Either please make them different or at least only have to get the points once and then have them for all 3 maps.

sirsquishy.8531:

No, champs are not that hard.
How about AP based on Champs that you kill either Solo or with a group of 5 or less (no zerging). or even BOTH!

I have been trying to solo every champ in the game as a personal goal, and it is a lot of fun (if a bit hopeless). However I can be annoyed when people show up at the last minute and ruin the genuine solo fight. I acknowledge that they were just trying to help and could not possibly know of my goal so I don’t say anything or get mad at them. I fear though that if there was incentive for others to do the same, some people could get exceptionally angry and vocal in map chats for such innocent infractions. Plus discouraging team work goes against the core value of this whole game.

Agreed I like this idea, it is annoying vendoring the highest tiered rings in the game.