So I finally managed to solo arah p2 lupi as a mesmer and something I always wanted to know:
Is there a way for a mesmer to solo Brie in a single phase-shift cycle? While other classes can accomplish this with relative ease, mesmer phantasm afaik are pretty useless for this fight.
Check out wethospu arah p2 solo. It basically just needs prepping by pulling inquests for their rifles and pulling the abomination to the area near the crashed (chopper) to avoid aggroing additional inquests.
The block is pretty useful for attacks like p1 kicks, though most of lupi attacks register multiple hits.
Veterans use 3 mantras to capitalize on Empowering Mantras for speedkills. But I was also wondering about using Mantra of Recovery in place of Ether Feast as well.
Yea path 2 is probably the best (but I still don’t know how to glitch abomination though). But sometimes I also do p3 as a mesmer.
Offhand sword might be a better choice since lupi might move more erratically with duelist. Personally I only made it to 20% atm and still training for it (working on my reflexes on phase 3 rapid fire). Other veterans probably have better advise though.
Interestingly enough, those “oldies” are the ones that actually do mention that they are absent from whatever period and ask for any recent changes. No problem with them. Similarly when I came back from my 4month hiatus, I told my party about it and they were also alright with it.
If its any consolation, at least s/he replied you. Some will just say “hi” and when I ask “Is anyone new to this path?”, I get crickets. Up until there needs to be some individual coordination efforts and they just stare blankly at each other.
No I don’t think so. Anet has always been tight-lipped or vague on disclosing drop-rate data. Most existing information is gotten through sampling on the players’ end. Only general things are known for certain like level where rings start to drop etc.
There are different interpretations of “baddies” here. The one that I agree with is those who give up easily, refuse to learn and do not improve. So I treat being “good” as being opposite of “baddies”.
AC1 – It will be up for Queen, Burrows, and perhaps intermittently during final boss (I’m unsure if tagging an add that runs into a flame circle procs it, otherwise not) [2/3 combat events]
AC2 – It will be up for Queen, defending Detha at pillars, but not for end boss [2/3 combat events]
AC3 – Queen, Burrows, more Burrows, but not end boss [3/4 combat events]
CoF1 – It will be up for Slave Driver, anything after the first Acolyte in Acolyte room, and at totems, but perhaps only Effigy for a short time [3/4 combat events]
CoF2 – Devourers, Burrows, and the two rooms atop the ramp, as well as defending Magg and final boss [6/6 combat events]
CoF3 – Active while clearing torches, trash leading to first champ, and the defend event; likely not maintainable for champ drake and end boss [3/5 combat events]
HotW1 – Opening trash, turrets, maybe Troll, plus the trash and boss after the troll will be permanent uptime, but you will lose it at Ginva [3/5 combat events]
SE1 – Should be active on first two bosses, 66% uptime on Golem trio, down on last boss [call it 3/4 combat events]
SE3 – First boss, Zadorojny after you kill one of his many escorts, and Destroyer if he spawns an add pretty early to keep uptime from killing Zadorojny [3/4 combat events]
Meh typing this on a cellphone is a joke. I’d keep going but I don’t care so much. Yeah, it’s situational. But as you can see it’s still got a pretty good (minimum 50% combat events) uptime if you’re not RPing walking inbetween mobs killed with Cleric gear.
It was not about it being economical or otherwise. It was purely in reply to the query by colesy.
Does it have an ICD? Going to the second boss of HOTW p1 after killing all of the weak trash with like 5,500 power sounds crazy good.
Situational in terms of killing large amounts of weak trash before bosses. Situation specifically on the power buff. Purely that. Btw, I have never RP-walked in GW2. In fact, I did not even bother to find out what the walk key is. (nor am I interested to find out)
Considering the power buff lasts for 30s, it is pretty situational.
Do you perhaps run Clerics and RP walk from mob to mob?
And regardless of the subtraction of 200 power, it’s still an additional 10 crit damage, which for 80 copper, is cheaper than, and will benefit progression more than… magic find food.
I stated it was situational. Meaning situations where you can find bosses with a load of weak mobs before it so as to capitalize on the power buff.
The thing about Malrona is about letting her poison you for added dmg. Deliberate poison and feedback decreases her hp by 30%-40% in a single move, and this is in additional to the party’s normal dps effort.
Actually, as an ele myself there’s a clear difference between what PuGs perceives as a ‘smooth’ run and my own perception of a smooth run. And that goes for every dungeon.
Paths like CoE p1 are incredibly fast if you full zerker, but if you’re caught as the only zerker in group you end up faceplanting while the presence of pvt/cleric guardians does nothing to keep you up.
If they are supporting so well why am I getting downed? People want to gear check to prevent situations like these where they themselves have to ragequit or themselves switch to tankier gear themselves and be forced to endure a long run.
Zerkers in PuGs = either everyone has to do it, or none.
Havent done much CoE but Is this specific to CoE? i generally don’t expect PuGs to do tasks like help clear conditions or apply buff at appropriate situations. If they do is a bonus but I will always prefer to depend on myself.
I pug Arah 123 (well half of Arah p1) on a daily basis and point 1-3 dont even come into play much. Think pugging on a consistent basis gave me quite a bit of tolerance… or maybe I just have low standards. Utilites/Skills-wise, I have given up on suggesting pugs. Most of the time the “I play how I want” is extremely strong and I only sound out when a ranger is doing knockback excessively or that a warrior is using 5signets and having a hard time skipping trash. However, if I encountered really bad players, there is always a block list.
I pretty much gave up pugging Arah p1 fully. I just do my thing and invite 4 others when I hit Tar Elemental. They can run on their own if they want. Or take my portal I dont care.
I only soloed the path on my mesmer before so I dunno what I am about to say will be much help.
On her sylvari form, get as much projectile reflects as you can (Elixir U toolbelt, Shield skills). Maybe can try chilling with nades. On her spider form, I will dodge her lunges and pop toolkit 4 if i run out of endurance.
Edit: Have you tried LoS’ing her back and forth around the corner of the tunnel entrance? I havent personally tried it before but you might be able to stall her while your cds recharge.
Add me. I’m a mesmer and would love to melee Lupi. I’m trying to talk my current guild into doing it but they are all in wvw.
PS I’ve never meleed him but really want to try.
You can always try meleeing lupi in p2 and p3. You might have to play tag with lupi abit while he chases down your ranged allies but you dont really have to be in a specific group to do that.
To melee in p1 is admittedly trickier when your party members can’t dodge grubs. If you melee and while the party is stacked range, chances is that you won’t get much aggro and lupi will not do his kick (to learn melee in p1, you need lupi to actually use those kicks). The locusts will be split and you probably will not be helping to kill grubs if they did spawn from your team mates. And worse, some other party member might see you meleeing and comes to melee lupi too….. but they can’t dodge grubs…. In this case, I will stack range with my party.
Well out of the times I tried, I havent encountered that champ. Yet anyways. And it is more of a personal choice as in 1 of the run, I aggroed that drake by accident. So I just made it a point to kill it in case I mess up.
I saw 1 of wethopsu vid and pulled him closer to the crashed chopper(?) after prep. But I always killed that 1 orrian drake that was slightly closer to me just in case. Circle strafe the abom anti-clockwise to his back so his AA swipe miss. Dodge AoE stomp. When you get pushed away after enrage, you might need to dodge in case he does the rock throw.
Seriously, after killing him solo you will be wondering how PuGs even managed to get themselves downed in that fight.
Both casuals and pros have said mean things to each other. How about everyone just stops?
Casuals, please don’t join a speed run.
Pros, please don’t join a casual run.
I wish it was easier to make it more obvious in the LFG which is which… but people don’t always have time to read the description.
If you do enter a party of 4 other players not playing how you want to play, then just excuse yourself and save everyone a headache.
My earliest post of the whole trash-skipping vs trash-killing fiasco was 11 months ago. Every time someone joined the wrong party running the dungeon different from what they expect and feels the need to express themselves on the subforums, they keep reopening this can of rotten worms. It is just wishful thinking at this point.
I’ve never had this happen to me, even in groups where I’ve joined solo and there were 3+ ppl of same guild in the group and I criticized their builds/playstyles (guardians running around spamming staff #1 all the run, etc).
I am paranoid, however, so I grab a screenshot at the start of the run so that if I get kicked for no reason I can put them on block list and add nickname “kicked for no reason blahblah”.
But as I said, never actually happened to me yet, so as of now I’ve just been overly paranoid.
I would, however, like to see them fix it so that party chat isn’t completely erased from your log the moment you leave/get kicked from a group.
I want this because of reasons.
Lol, this reminded me once when I got kicked from Arah p3 when I teased a 5signet warrior. I wouldn’t have felt so trollish if not for the fact he was loud with his instructions yet made wrong pulls. First he didn’t realize that we havent pulled the 2nd risen mage at the start even after I mentioned the fact and went and got himself killed with a wrong pull. Second, he ranged-aggroed the lupi room abominations and made them charge straight into the party unprepared. and caused a wipe. Apparently my last tease while running back to lupi was too much for him and I got kicked. But the kick was well-worth it. I even thanked him for the laughs and kick after that.
I highly disagree about this being a dev issue. It isn’t in the interest of the developers to straightjacket players through hard coding the game a certain way. There must be flexibility in the system to allow players to feel like they are free to make their own choices. There is a rule framework that ANet has about what is and isn’t an exploit. For example, as much as it might irk some people, skipping certain sections of trash mobs isn’t an exploit, and has been mentioned before by devs to not be exploits.
(Hrouda on skipping, Vaughn on skipping)
The developers have given us a sandbox. We as players have to take a certain amount of responsibility to avoid kicking sand in each others’ faces/privates. This might mean playing in different corners of the sandbox.
Run Arah without skipping 100+ times, I’ll do the same but with skipping. Let’s see who gets bored first, a person who is playing a game or the person who isn’t.
This whole whining is ridiculous, what happened to ‘play how you want’?
But thats not fair. Cose you have already ran Arah 100+ times.
If it is not possible to succeed unless you are using a very specific set of skills/gear/weapons, then the game is poorly designed.
If you refuse to respect others because they don’t use the “best” skills/gear/weapons, then you are a bad player. And a jerk.
Understanding the difference between flaws on the part of the devs and flaws on the part of the players is the key to improving any game.
That said, you have a very good idea here;
Encouraging players to actually help each other can only improve a game.
Complaining about how stupid people don’t deserve or accept your help can only prove how arrogant and unhelpful you are.
I’ve seen many game destroyed becasue the devs can’t tell the difference between their flaws and the flaws of the players.
This is so one-sided. It as though all newcomers are innocent and can do no wrong. If you get really proficient in any one of the dungeons and start teaching newcomers on a consistent basis, it might just change your perspective.
Yup as said, both still works. The site recently changed up to provide a list with smaller number of entries. If I had to guess its to prevent the site from overloading. In-game LFG tool works similar but players do not have to be accepted to enter the parties.
Anyways my stance on trash-killing or trash-skipping has not changed since the earlier days. And while I skip trash more often than killing them, I do not have anything against either. I am against the removal of the choice to do either.
You think it is more complicated than what I said? By all means. However, my stance is not going to change.
