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Then you realize you sacrifice a LOT of damage for a fraction of utilities an ele can cover. That moment when you face the Vet Earth Golems in Molten Fractal and know nothing can help but a long-ish duration blind.

/GoCryInACorner

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

btw Iris are you looking at dungeon mentors post ? Lots of students there asking for an inv, have you sent it?

I did, Quickie.

I think the lack of active defense in Engi makes me cringe. All I can do is dodge. The amount of blind is also very limited as well. I tried engi in fractals 50 and it is oh, so tough against trash mobs. I even shamelessly swap rifle out for pistol/shield and take took kits at the dredge fractal.

Thief-Guardian in Caudecus’ Manor is really great!

Dub.1273:

spoj.9672:

Well tree has two hitboxes so you do twice as much. But you cant crit. So its a bit of a random one.

Icebow, meteor shower and glyph of storms hitting each projectile.

Yea, pretty much that Goku’s rotation.

It’s a fun tool to test several build effectiveness. I’m gonna see how it fares in Fractals.

We also had about close 30k DPS on Champion Icebrood Wolf and the Golem boss with 3 eles (1 nomad guard, 1 mesmer), XD. So I’m not sure how to interpret this metrics.

Necro are good at holding point and in team fight. However, they are usually targeted and the first to die in deathmatch.

frifox.5283:

Personal experience, not a law:

2k ea / 10k dps – phiw casuals
4k ea / 20k dps – average “zerk” pugs
6k ea / 30k dps – good zerk pugs
8k ea / 40k dps – meta pugs
10k ea / 50k dps – meta guild runs
14k ea / 70k dps – elesploits

On what kind of subjects? I like to think my current group is pretty decent with 2 ele, 1 guard, 1 war and 1 wild card. I experimented it last night. Not mentioning about our full nomad healing guard who was surprisingly good at her job in keeping the group up 90%+ HP the whole fight, our group dps staggering between 14k to 30k. Also does dps scale with dungeon level? Maybe a stupid question. Because at 30k dps, bosses like Nightmare Tree, Gravelings and Vandal (CM p3) melt almost instantly.

Also noted that if the warrior swaps out for a necro and the two eles didn’t do a good burst rotation, DPS drops epicly to 14k :\

D;

4 of my alts wear ranger runes. For some reasons, i feel it’s harder to maintain higher than 90% HP on engi than on other classes. What did I do wrong?

So what is the standard scale for group DPS?

spoj.9672:

Drop bundle i believe. Its a little weird to get used to though.

It didn’t work for me. I tried both swapping kits and dropping bundles right after using the skills.

I tried the Alt version. It crashed my client.

You may want to watch this guy’s stream for reference: http://www.twitch.tv/noscoc

sirjosh.9561:

I’ve played over 100 hours now and I still haven’t decided on a class. Here are the things I’d like to see in a class because well I’m a fussy person.
—Easy to learn, hard to master
—Good in PVP roaming but not useless in solo PVE (I’ve tried warrior but in PVP I find it hard)
—Not with complicated traits, skills etc
—Full of fun to play
Thanks in advance!

Engineer. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/user/Wolfineer/videos

Don’t be discouraged.

Ele is fun and has the highest potential all of which you have described. This is an example of what a good ele can do: http://youtu.be/uVjlzgBSX5Q

I encourage you to join [Noob] and actively seek out a mentor. If no one takes you, I will.

Noob question: How to cancel the push back effect by EG?

Guang-math-detected. Turbo-mode engaged!

No, he’s in NA (Jade Quarry).

Speaking for [Noob], most people applied to join [Noob] are either too shy or too passive to reach out to the mentors themselves. So it is hard to believe when some one cries out that new players don’t receive help from veteran members. The way I see it, new players (or sub 80, whatever) feel entitled to get help without realizing they are getting in the way of others’ freedom to play :\

Speaking of dungeon contents, they weren’t too hard that you can’t play as sub 80. I remember back in the days when I leveled my alt engineer and warrior the hard way, it was challenging. I did TA, CM, SE, AC every days to level them up when they are around 50-60 (too poor to craft) and I had to learn the class and the encounter a lot more thoroughly than simply auto attack to win.

Gnat.9405:

I just want to love my necro

I love my necro a lot. She’s majestic. And to any who thinks necro doesn’t have good dps, I lol’d. Necro DPS up time is better than Ranger’s because of their ease to play. They also have some niche uses like Condition Transfer, which can almost two shots bosses like Turmaine (Caudecus’ Manor). It is definitely less played but there are room to explore and love.

Answer to your issues: Great players practice to become the best of their class.

If you watch the Twitch streaming of some very best players, you can learn about their rotations, reaction in different encounters. I suggest you watch the official GW2 twitch on Sunday, when the ESL Go4GW2 Cup is live. You may find some inspiration to tweak your play style.

dutchiez.7502:

The One Ring Mystic Forge recipe:

- The Precious
- Gift of Mastery
- Gift of Fortune
- Gift of He Who Shall Not Be Named

On-wield effect: Turns your character invisible*.

*while worn in the Thaumanova Reactor, turns your character visible

ROFL

Good job !

/15 cookies

It’s called “meta” because it’s the best for most people. Most builds there wasn’t invented by the site owner but copypastarino from other credited sources, usually well known players of the class.

KINGRPG.3492:

Please stop block waypoint while in the combat. Most player can’t play with 2-3 friends because it was difficult to enjoy the dungeon.

You want to let GW2 game is for all age-type or for only sandbox-hardcore players? If you are not aware, dungeons are abandoned now.

Please stop making Dungeon is a place for hardcore. You want a new player, but you did not give a fun. It was a bad marketing.

I’m sorry about your case. Your confusion about the dungeon mechanics must be great. But dungeons are not really abandoned. My casual social guild is still doing the easier ones on daily basis. So do my hardcore friends the harder ones. Maybe you should try to fix the problems with learning the encounters instead of resorting to waypoint-dead rush a boss? That was so 2012…

Scholar is essential for burst. Strength is good for sustained DPS. I have two sets of armors on my ele, an exotic set with Scholar runes for sub 80 dungeons or with coordinated group and an ascended set with Strength runes for fractal 50, low man Arah and bomb-mode Zerg wars. Please note that there is an attribute cap on dungeons lower than level 80 so exotic quality is equal to ascended quality.

If gold is an issue, just sell your strength runes. Scholar is sufficient on its own.

Xaluca.8215:

I just made a warrior after not playing for like a year, and i’m loving every second of it. Trying to aim for the legendary warrior build (PVE/WvW)

You mean like this guy? http://youtu.be/X685pWp1bKU

Pick any but do commit to it

Face Sploder.4079:

Coming back into GW2. I haven’t played seriously since just a bit after release, even though I praise the game regularly. I think one of the main problems for me was that I was never able to really click with a class.

I’m looking for a utility class, with some damage. I’m not a fan of tanks, and I play PvE much more regularly than PvP. I like having mobility and/or room to outplay or outsmart my opponents by using all the mechanics in the game, rather than just running up to something and auto-attacking it to death.

Thanks for the help! If you need me to provide any more detail or clarification, I can definitely do that.

If you like playing smart, pick mesmer. Also follow this guy and watch his solo videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/sanderinoa Here is my recent interview with him: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Final-Round-Best-of-2014-Fractals-Dungeons/4650602 I also like to ask that I was feeling lukewarm about mesmer until Sandy took me under his wings and showed me what it can do. It is a very cool class.

What do you mean about demand?

In PvP, no matter which Arenas you play (Unranked or Ranked), the server picks the match for you and people won’t risk getting dishonored to quit the match no matter which profession you play.

If you plan to get into a high ranking teams for tournament, it’s up to your skills and their preference. I have seen all sorts of team comps. Even if the meta is shifted to ele/engi stacking, there is still presence of both guardian and warrior.

In PvE, you can play how you like there. For Epic World Bosses like Tequatl or Triple Wurms, a few specific things are asked, but nothing beyond reach. For dungeons, if you enter a wrong pug group, you’ll be kicked no matter which profession you play. It’s only the matters of knowing the encounters and how to play your class.

Hope it helps.

I’ll try to make it short.

For PVP: You don’t need level 80 characters to enjoy PvP. With reward tracks, you will have enough Tome of Knowledge to level all your characters to 80 in a short time. I suggest trying all four of them in PvP to thoroughly understand their mechanics first.

For WvW: If your home world is truly competitive and requires a presence of level 80 only, then it’s time to think of what play style you want to follow and what role you’d like to fill. Necro is the heavy artillery in Zerg v Zerg, highly valuable for coordinated groups. Engi is a good roaming class with safe options for Zerg v Zerg. Both thief and mesmer have good escape ability and high single target damage. Mesmer will be often asked to become a veil bot. IF it’s not for you then they don’t really contribute much besides picking up strays.

For PvE: A certain individual mesmer has made the class almost godlike in solo high end content. The mesmer brings utilities to the group but it is weak against multiple mob’s pressure. The thief brings blind, stealth and engi brings burst and vuln/might stacking. These three classes are good for their group support. Necro has good DPS, it was underrated not because of its DPS or lacks in support. Its support isn’t half as good as the other speciallized class. Speed run groups don’t pick necro for their speed runs. Average PUG watch speed run videos without a necro and think they are bad. BUT, don’t ever forget that PUG don’t even produce 10% the amount of supports used in speed run records! Necro also has this minion master build which really damages its reputation.

In the end, I suggest you browse through this site: metabattle.com, try all the builds first, then read the guide carefully as you build up your 80.

I have all 8 classes and I think I understand each of them well enough.

Lindbur.2537:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

We have the Oscars and the Emmys right?

So now we have the Mikeys and the Nemies?

Rofl, choose whichever you like)

Why? ; – ;

/15stacksofconfusion

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BORDY, LOREK, ZELYHN and BADARKA [rT]

[Best Speed Run Record] Twilight Arbor Aetherpath 15:48

1. What was your motivation to make this speed run record?
Lorek: Bordy’s incessant nagging, srsly
Badarka: +1 for that answer xD Was ust Bordy’s nagging
Bordy: Everyone told me Aetherpath is hard and takes two hours.

2. What were the challenges? What could have gone wrong?
Lorek: The RNG was the worst by far though, and trying to be consistent in such a long run with that many variables. The main culprits were Foreman Spur, Slick and Sparki, and the Ooze Puzzle, but the generators at the end had the potential to be headache fuel. Also the pull after Foreman where we actually screwed up a bit
Badarka: To be honest, I did Up, Forward and Aetherpath as records and the worst thing on all three are kitteng unskippable cutscenes.
Bordy: I think that the length of a dungeon was a challeng as if we did any mistake or got bad rng at the end we would need to restart everything. For once, sometimes banish didn’t hit Sparki into wall, fearing Foreman Spur was also tricky. Oh and generators are just so annoying and boring. I don’t even want to mention 2-minute long Caithe’s dialogue and unskippable cutscenes.

3. How did you come up with the strategy?
Bordy: I came up with most tactics when doing daily runs. Then we (the record team) practiced some new stuff and ideas changing the original strategy. As this dungeon is rather long, the record run is a result of a mix – we wanted to be sure some parts of it will go smooth but we were eager to choose more risky tactics in RNG based stuff just to get better time as everyone in [rT] would do.
Lorek: The strats were almost all Bordy’s.
Bordy: I think I did but Tmo had some great ideas, too.

4. What is your most proud achievement in this record?
Lorek: I guess getting every part just right when so many things could have gone wrong.
Bordy: I’m really proud of the Foreman Spur fight. RNG involved for that kind of pull is just too much sometimes. I think that spot was the best for Fiery Great Sword (FGS) back then.

5. Is it possible to have faster TAA records now without FGS?
Lorek: Yes, it is!
Bordy: Only if [rT] comes back.

6. Which parts of your strategy do you think can be applied to a casual fast run or even a pug run?
Bordy: All the trash pulls. Killing Sparki first.

How’s about the Ooze puzzle? Do you have a sure way to eliminate its fail?
Bordy: Yup. Kill the oozes, run to the end of the paths pulling all the elementals. Kill elementals there, new ooze should spawn already and you can easily guide them to the end. In the record, Tmo put Knight armor to get more toughness and just aggroes all of the elementals, blinding them. The rest defends the ooze as usual. Puzzle is not really hard. Our first RNG kitten was Slick and Sparki. We called them the f**ker and kitteng norn for reference. And that unskippable cutscene.

7. In your opinion, what make your TAA record stand out from the other records?
Bordy: In my PoV, I zoomed for Lorek’s charr boobs at Caithe’s dialogue. (Jokes aside) Well, this is one of the longest dungeons in game now for inexperienced teams, and it has various difficult fights. Bosses have unique skills and sometimes it was rather hard to use FGS effectively as in other dungeons
Lorek: It was pretty much uncharted territory back then.
Zelyhn: That depends on N**e!

What’s about it compared to the current Ice Bow meta?
Bordy: Isn’t it even easier now? No need to pull anything XD But the damage is lower so bosses have chance to actually use their skills.

8. What do you think are the most important aspects of a speed run record in general?
Bordy: Well, in TAA, use of guardian In general, take risks.
Lorek: Getting along with your team
Zelyhn: Patience, and the will to screw beep.
Bordy: And practice.
Lorek: And of course, perserverance.
Zelyhn: Being EU.
Bordy: And me constantly moaning that we should do TAA records.
Lorek: Oh Bordy, I grew to like TAA because of you :p

9. Bordy: Also I’d like to add that we did TAA as there was nothing to do. That was challenging. We did Arah to death it got boring and every other dungeon kitten or CM is kitten enough, so the only choice for record was TAA. Also all dungeons are over 2 years old. So TAA felt really fresh.
The only hope is that Anet will face the truth about open living whatever world s**ks and dungeons are the only content.

10. Are we confident that we’ll see a new TAA record soon?
Lorek: NOTHING OFF THE TABLE. Hue.

11. Any comments on [rT] epic fail in Arah p3?
Bordy: Wasn’t there
Zelyhn: Wasn’t really rT.

SESSHI

[Best Solo Player of The Year]

1. Can you tell us about yourself ? How did you become a solo player?
- I’m Sesshi, started playing games when I was around 12. I played GW1 as well but wasn’t really into it. Started playing GW2 from beta. I came back to the game a year ago or so, when I decided to play warrior and have seen people soloing stuff like Lupicus. I tried and got it under a day or so but it seems kinda boring. Then I did full paths, mostly Arah p3 solo and p4 duo. Then I decided to do a mossman solo. And that’s kinda how it started

2. So which class do you use to solo?
- Warrior mostly. But I did some on guardian as well.

3. What do you think have distinguished you from other talented solo players?
- I mostly try different stuff from others. Like certain fractal bosses that no one really does. My favorite boss to solo is Mai Trin. For few reasons, it’s the most solo friendly boss in the game, imo. When you can solo a boss faster than an organized group, it’s kinda funny Just because of the mechanics (like her shield buff) sometimes groups struggle for minutes to get the stacks off. Also what I like most about Mai Trin is max meleeing, which I didn’t really see others do much.

4. Which solo of yours do you find the most challenging? And why?
- I think fractal bosses are way more challenging to solo than dungeon ones. I only could name 2 with same level of difficulty: Svanirgandir and Huntsman. But yea, fractal bosses have higher damage and health as well. For example, if you could compare Mossman to Lupicus. At Lupi, you could just relax below his skirt (or whatever XD) while you don’t hit by projectiles. At Mossman, you kinda have to be on edge the entire fight.

What does it take to get a smooth Mossman solo?
- Most important thing there imo is reaction time. Since he has pretty fast and frequent attacks and when he’s in stealth you have to run around and side strafe to not get hit by hix axe throw. Unless you are going for a fast one, you intentionally get hit so he goes out of stealth.

Many comment that your solos are not only skillful but there is also a refinement.
- Yeah, I kinda go for a fun to watch video most of the time ^^

5. So which solo most represents you?
- The no UI Mossman solo. Its first 1-3 minutes, I’d say.

That one is incredible. Do you know by heart all the Cooldown?
- No, but only the weapon skills. In before you call me weirdo (xD) but I try to play by intuition. As something which people would call ‘a higher self’ (roughly translated), so I just kinda space out and let it do the job. I don’t really think of anything in the process. If that makes sense? :o

6. What is your point of view in RNG? Some would curse their RNG and not bother pursue a perfect solo
- Oh yea definitely xD But since I mostly went for a smooth-ish and interesting solo, it didn’t bother me much. It’s more interesting to me how one would encounter it.

7. Do you ever strive for a fastest record in a most difficult challenge?
- Yeah. I had that for my Mai Trin one, Archdiviner with Guardian, and now for the Moss one. I did a 9:15 yesterday but I’m going for a sub 8-minute next. It’s pretty cool and really different as well. ‘Cause like the first time I did Mossman, I was kinda scared of it. *Now I’m just scared of not getting it fast enough* ._.

8. So you have solo’d with both guard and warrior. Do you have plans for other classes as well?
- I don’t think so. I used to main thief before “Fractured”.

Why the preference?
- Warrior is just the best class XD I feel the most connected to it. The rotations and skills itself are very smooth. You could say that warrior is a really easy and boring class but I think there is more depth to it than people think. For example, I’m trying new rotations at the moment for Mossman that you wouldn’t even try to use in a normal situation.

9. Do you have any plans for future solos?
- Yeah I have a few ideas. No secret really xD Problem is I have really high ping at the moment so I can’t start stuff yet. But on the list is: sub 8-min Mossman, Bloomhunger, no UI Uncategorized (fractal) Champions, full Urban Battleground fractal, full Molten fractal (not the endboss one), naked no UI, no damage taken Mai Trin (pretty crazy but idk xD). Oh and Archdiviner fast kill on warrior. Maybe the last Archdiviner as well :p

10. Can you give one advice to solo beginners?
- Best advice I could give is record yourself like no matter what. Watching your back and you are gonna improve. I guarantee it. I still improve quite a lot if I just watch an attempt of mine back. It worked really well for me. Like you do mistakes and you don’t necessarily realize it in the heat of the moment. For starters, I recommend going out of Arah and doing other stuffs :d

SANDY

[Best Solo Player of The Year]

1. Can you please introduce yourself?
- Sure, my name is Sander, Sanderinoa ingame mostly, Im a solo player mostly, and currently in charge of [rT], and mostly play mesmer. (Oh wow, nice punctuation… It’ horrible, mostly XD)

2. To my knowledge there aren’t many mesmer solo player. Do you think it is an underrated profession?
- There aren’t many mesmer players at all, honestly. It definitely used to be (underrated) but Jerem is doing a good job bringing it back into the regular runs. Mesmer have a lot of potential, but require a lot of work from the player to be brought to its full potential.

3. I’d like to say you pretty much have no competion as a mesmer solo player.
- I’m pretty much representing it, and I like to think that I’m doing a good job XD

So what do you think have made you distinguished from other solo players?
- Without trying to sound conceited, I’ve always found that my biggest advatage coming from two fronts. Firstly, I’m extremely stubborn, which makes me determined and allows me to put up with long fights. Secondly, I always look to fully understand the encounters I try to solo to the smallest detail, to take advantage of small gaps in their defenses.

Just that? Do you grind RNG for a favorable condition for your solo?
- Not really, being a mesmer is about manipulation. I refuse to accept RNG as a reasonable excuse for failing something. If I grind on something, it’s because I’m messing up, not the encounter.

4. Which solo most represents your skills?
- Hmm… I would either go for the new thaumanova fractal solo, as I believe it to show a lot of trickery and good illusion use. Or my most recent Grawl Shaman solo. As this has always been the encounter I’ve had a monopoly on, being a very pressuring encounter, which involves a lot of calm play and intricate details.

5. Being a mesmer, what do you find the most challenging in your solos?
- Surprisingly, dealing with large groups is a pain in the a**. We shine in single target DPS, but large groups without projectile attacks are hard to manage. As the dps is so low, I need to find a good balance between survivability and keeping damage up.

And what are advantages over other classes?
- Mesmers have a ridiculous amount of unique class mechanics, to be fair. If you put some effort into it and build towards a single goal, you’ll get really great results. Survivability is one, with active defense. Reflection another, Stealth another, Speed even. Single target damage, crowd control… I would say condition damage but kitten , I never use that anyways.

Does it sound a bit like jack of all trades without any real advantage?
- Well no, the mesmer is jack of all trades which can specialize very well with some effort, allowing me to deal with a large amount of situations. Classes like the warrior have simple restrictions because of their simplicity, making them incapable of soloing certain contents.

6. Can you give me examples of your solos where being a mesmer is a necessity?
- There would be three encounters that come to mind. The Cliffside Fractal, at the arm seals, where I can manage to keep my damage up while holding the hammer and diverting aggro. The thaumanova fractal subject 6, where I can focus on two opponents at once very easily, allowing me to down the subject and the oozes around him. Lastly, the volcanic fractal again where being multiple people helps take down the bubble so much.

7. Do you solo using other classes?
- I have a thief that people make fun of. I solo with it occasionally.

Will that make you a future famous thief soloer?
- Unlikely, as I am simply too in love with the mesmer class. Thief is an amazing class as well, the way it handles combat is really energetic and exciting. Sadly, it is limited to the three concepts of Stealth, Damage and Shadowstepping, most of the time.

8. Can you disclose your plan on the future solo?
- I plan to solo guild bounties while rT is still not doing guild missions. Nicely abusing my position.

9. What is your one tip to the solo beginners?
- My one tip would be to stand still and think well about the encounter and your class before attempting any solos. Basically, soloing is working against the odds of the game, if you find a brick wall on your path, see if you can make a sledgehammer from something, or find a weak spot. Don’t walk away from it.

What do you think about learning the encounters from existing reference materials?
- Youtube videos and class guides are always a good source. But what I enjoy about the game is that there are lots of things which have not been uncovered yet. This is why I would always recommend going to the encounter yourself, or with a friend, and try everything you may think could result in something interesting. There is nothing like your own hands on experience.

GOKU

Note: Goku is a French player so his input wasn’t as elaborate as other English speaking finalists. It is by no means that he is lacking in terms of talent, passion and inspiration.

[Best Solo Player of The Year]

1. How did you become a solo player?
- I enjoyed solo in Guild Wars 1 very much, so I tried to reproduce my work in Guild Wars 2. I started with easy dungeons like Ascalon Catacomb and then I pursued it in Arah.

2. Did you study the encounters by yourself? Have you every looked up for the existing guides for things like optimal builds and equipments as well?
- I was inspired by Wethospu for my first solo AC p1 but except his (solo) I have always learned everything by myself. Same for my equipments and builds, I did many tests to have the best build as possible. So, nope, I think I’ve never watched a single guide. (Anyways, my English was so bad at the beginning so they weren’t really helpful to me ^^)

3. Which classes do you use to solo mostly?
- My warrior. But I start to play my elementalist more frequently.

4. What do you think make your solo stand out from the rest?
- I think it’s how quickly I finish my dungeon run. To me, it is not important which dungeons to do. It is the speed and efficiency.
So what do you value the most in your solo? Impossible challenge, unconventional tactics or flawless execution?
- I would say unconventional tactics and (emphasized) flawless execution.

5. Which solo most represents you as the solo player?
- Probably my solo Arah p2 in 23 minutes. Arah p2 is my favorite path in the game so it’s why I wanted to have the fastest solo run of this dungeon. Thanks to Luca, I had to put a lot of effort to to improve my record. (Luca beat my 27-min and then 26-min, 25-min, to all of which I replied with my 23-min).
Dub has mentioned that you often get trolled by a 1- minute less record, how do you feel when beaten like that?
- Trolled by 1 sec. I was rather happy because it created a kind of competition between us and competition is really rare in this game.

6. What is your most proud achievement?
- My first world record on Lupicus solo a year ago (4:48). I started solo Lupi when many people already did it in 5-6 minutes and my personal best was only in 8-9 minutes by then. It took me 2 months to nail that down.

7. Speaking of fastest, your current elementalist Lupi solo is so incredible with godblessed RNG. What is your opinion about controlling RNG in this game?
- I knew that a sub 2-min was entirely possible and I worked hard to make it. I think GW2 is based on RNG. It is very annoying sometimes but we must deal with it, especially with solo.
So you believe in grinding for RNG?
- Of course ^^

8. Do you have any plans for the future solo?
- I’ll probably try to get a good time for Mossman and Bloomhunger, but I’m also looking for inspiration at the moment ^^

9. How did you end up in Snow Crows [SC]? How do you feel about speed run in group versus solo records?
- SC isn’t like Kr because I still have troubles speaking English but people there are very sympathetic and nice. I’m glad they left me a spot in the speed run records. My only goal in GW2 is to do Solo and Speed run records. I have fun doing these. Of course, self innovation is fundamental but the strategy is the most important part.

10. If you have to give ONE advice to the solo beginners, what will it be?
- I think the best to do is to learn with the video of solo players. It isn’t my style but you can learn the unwinding of the run, the strategy and the rotation of skills.

PURPLE MIKU

[Best Solo Player of The Year]

1. Can you introduce yourself?
- I’m purpleishawt, playing on both ele and warrior. My ele here Ruby Miku, my warrior Purple Miku. I’ve streamed for roughly a year now. I started out being kind of a noob; I knew how to do the basic pug tactics and was competent enought to get by in any groups. But that wasn’t satisfying for me ever. After I began streaming, I didn’t try to attract viewers at all. It just sort of happened on its own. I was encouraged frequently to keep doing what I was doing and it pushed me to soloing. Especially after seeing really cool videos of it, like goku’s, I wanted that for myself. Seeing how much potential someone could have in the combat on this game made me want to try harder.

2. Did anyone show or guide you how to do a certain solo?
- Well, not really. I’ve had small/minor tips though. I remember struggling with when to whirwind to Lupi kick, somebody told me to change ground targeting in options which helped a lot. But for most part, I’ve learned through trial and error, or from watching other people do something and trying to do better myself.

3. Were you a soloer before or after joining [rT]?
- Oh long before. It was a great decision. I love it. I fit in quite well. Some of the most skilled players in the game are in [rT]. I remember when I first joined, I felt slightly inadequate to be around some famous players, but that eased up pretty quickly.

4. Which solo do you feel the most proud of?
- While I do remember feeling super satisfied with my first time ever soloing Lupicus, there was my first time full fotm 50 solo, and the Arah p4 solo. One of my best highlight was the last encounter on Cliffside level 30 with warrior. It’s hard to answer this question because I’ve done so many to pick from. But at the same time, I feel like they are mostly work in progress, because I know I can do better. So in a way, I don’t feel satisfied with any of them. That’s partly what drives me to keep going, I guess.

5. What makes you distinguished from other solo players?
- I think for me in particular is the fact that so much of what I do, I streamed it live. 99% of what you’ll find on youtube will be just highlighted recordings of the very best attempts out of many cookie cutter videos. While I do some of those myself, I think my live stream show the progress towards the goals instead of just the outcome. I think that’s helpful and entertaining for many. Aside from that, I’d say just determination and a lot of patience. Being dedicated to a goal and forcing myself to do something that I haven’t done before just so that I could tell myself and others that I can do it.

6. You started out as a warrior, now an elementalist. How do you feel about the transition?
- I still play warrior mostly. The way I feel about it is it’s just got the most comfortable combat skills to play with for soloing tough encounters. It does lack the necessary utility to do a lot of things like reflects, crowd control, teleports, etc. But when it comes to to direct hand-to-hand combat where you just need to go facefirst into an encounter, it’s ideal. It’s also extremely mobile. The unfortunate consequence is that most people have been under the illusion that it deals crazy damage. After many unjustifiable nerfs during the past year, its damage is pretty terrible compared to ele. It was always a lot worse, but now it’s just… ugh. Ele is quite painful to solo with at times, especially in any encounter that involves a lot of 1-shot RNG mechanics. But in anything that’s relatively easy and doesn’t require tons of kiting, ele is god.

7. Do you have a word on which solo you are working on?
- One that I’m keeping secret because I want to be the first to do it But a few that I want right now: a 22 minute or under Arah p3 solo (war), a warrior Lupicus solo that’s close to or around 4:30 (ofc, berserker; ’cause screw condition builds). Maybe a sub 10 Mossman solo and possibly a 4:30 or under Bloomhunger solo (level 50). I want to solo the last encounter in Cliffside on level 50 still.

8. Any other profession do you want to try in the future?
- I’ve been asked that a lot. I leveled a thief up to like… 16 or so, but stopped caring pretty quickly. For guardian, absolutely nothing has ever appealed to me with that class aside from Sesshi’s new videos. Ranger/necro, absolutely not. They look pretty dreadful to solo with. Engineer, I’ve kinda been tempted to make one as an excuse to make the Predator legendary… and ‘cause of goating, but to play with it, meh. I’m all about full offense, maximum deepz and yoloing (warrior).

9. If you have to give ONE advice to the solo beginners, what will it be?
- Make sure you’re constantly learning while you play. And to elaborate, when you die/fail at something or do poorly, you need to know WHY it happened. Was it RNG? Did you lag? What caused _ to happen?

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Once I was given a Giant Eye, then a Charged Core, a couple of Rares, an unidentified rare green dye and a Lesser Vision Crystal. These are all valuable things I’ve got.

Minigrump.4961:

so somebody sent me this beauty of a mail just now. seems incredibly legit.

Did you report it?

Rising Dusk.2408:

It’s only worth it at certain points in certain dungeons where it is very easy to stack the 25 stacks. For instance, in TA Forward, there’s a section with Nightmare Puppies (25+ of them) that you can immediately get the full boost from. In that case you should swap to a BL weapon, stack, and use it until you win the path or get downed. This also happens in some other paths where it’s easy to stack.

Otherwise, don’t use Bloodlust because it’s too hard to build up and maintain for it to be worth it.

CM p2.

“Need level 80 TO CARRY” Join in to see 3 of sub40. The game is real!

Wethospu.6437:

To make this thing more realistic and more annoying, I think you should need to run the story mode again after one explorable run.

Also add the engaging “contested” system to every dungeon. This was removed from the Ruined City of Arah dungeon which I think is a bug so it affects gem sales negatively.

If metrics still show that people are having fun then I suggest kicking people out of the dungeon if the entrance gets contested and also do this randomly to keep things exciting and fresh.

O.O

New Fashion, sadly. I love customizing my characters. Every time I came back after a break, it was all because of something pretty has caught my eyes.