InkyHey, back to dungeon a little bit for a run in one of my favourite dungeon :)
The run is pretty straight forward as usual with P1 but every segment is really spicy to chain properly. I did lose scholar at the end of b1 and was a tiny bit too fast in my rotation to proc Ashen Demeanor on golems, otherwise the kills are pretty decent which did allow me to push past the 3mn cap that I had originally planned. Feel free to ask anything if needed, cheers.
Gw2 : Sorrows Embrace P1 2:54 (Solo) | Renegade PoVInky2023-02-10 | Hey, back to dungeon a little bit for a run in one of my favourite dungeon :)
The run is pretty straight forward as usual with P1 but every segment is really spicy to chain properly. I did lose scholar at the end of b1 and was a tiny bit too fast in my rotation to proc Ashen Demeanor on golems, otherwise the kills are pretty decent which did allow me to push past the 3mn cap that I had originally planned. Feel free to ask anything if needed, cheers.V Rising: Brutal Megara - No Hit - 01:43Inky2025-06-06 | megara is pretty cool imo, i used a physical build not fully maxed yet, mostly melee and pistol for mid rangeV Rising: Brutal Act I - No Hit - MeleeInky2025-04-05 | All bosses from act one with realistic progression level, brutal difficulty and melee.
00:00 - Wolf 01:00 - Rufus 02:48 - Keely 03:53 - Errol 05:46 - Goreswine 07:35 - Grayson 09:15 - Nibbles 10:17 - Lidia 11:36 - Clive 13:05 - Finn 15:28 - Nicholaus 17:32 - Kodia 19:20 - Polora 21:13 - QuinceyV Rising: Brutal Nibbles - No Hit - Melee (How To)Inky2025-04-04 | I see a lot of videos and guides about Nibbles, but no one talk about the summon rats phase skip. This is how to do Nibbles in less than a minute with a realistic progression level.
The putrid blast that make melee so difficult actually trigger at an interval of 6s, you need to take this in account an give the rat some space before it hits you. To prevent the summoning of the rats I cancel the animation of Nibbles (digging the ground before disappearing) with a spear Q. Be aware the timer for the putrid blast runs independantly and will blast you even if the boss is stun lock.V Rising: Brutal Dracula - No Hit - 05:36Inky2025-04-04 | No hit drac with pistol at brutal difficultyGw2 : Artsariiv 0:30 | Weaver PoVInky2023-09-09 | Old record of 33s broken on artsariiv with some pre expansion weaver gaming :)
I'm posting this here as history since the kill time will be improved with post expansion power creep, better timing and rotation using relics (like fireworks triggering on rtl etc). I got lot of fun playing this class tho as it was a good ride. Enjoy the fluff and take care.
https://dps.report/8fRu-20230814-190813_arrivGw2 : Mama & Siax (Daily) | Renegade PoVInky2023-08-22 | Some daily runs we did before the expansion hits :)
Those kills can easily be improved with decent instabs and are not grinded. You can easily go sub 30 siax and 35 mama daily without pre trap bullshit, and the strat is very solid on npng day as well. Skipping Ensolyss because nothing changed there, I'll probably gonna experiment with greatsword next patch has it is gonna be very strong on some bosses. Feel free if you have any question as usual, take care
Hyp (The seagull master) - youtu.be/N87gW8A-DdM Eluana (This is the one) - youtu.be/rV1TMjk5Sf8 Seb (He bought schewppes) - youtu.be/aP0d79_QJ64 Coldi (No hands gaming)Gw2 : Skorvald 0:32 | Dragonhunter PoVInky2023-06-27 | Some double (2) four (4) way and it was a trap all along literally..
https://dps.report/bLDU-20230619-201714_enso - youtu.be/dIvpx45_Pgw youtu.be/SU9UJO9yU40 youtu.be/KKf2uX5xIV8 youtu.be/lWeRk_Pa3RsGw2 : Artsariiv 2:16 Duo | Renegade PoVInky2023-05-09 | It was an interesting duo on a very intense boss in my opinion due to a constant damage and mechanics pressure. Renegade doesn't have a lot of sustain on its own after the removal of battlescars but I wanted to see how it would perform in this scenario. I know it was already strong on arts since the boss has a large hit box and its a spec that can solo orbs or kill anomaly very easily. That was mainly my job here, do the orbs mini-game while cleaving anomalies to allow the untamed to 100% focus on dealing phase damage. The whole strategy revolve around untamed as a damage dealer, so to prevent adds stealing axe4 and spores I played with 1 toughness infusion to take the aggro sporadically on the little adds. About this specific kill my p3 is far from best, I was very focused on healing the spirit in p2 which kept dying in our previous attempt, this made my weapon swap rotation slower and then collapsed into making split2 a bit slower too. Overall not a bad a kill tho and the boss is very fun to play without too much rng (for ren at least xD)
https://dps.report/B51n-20230429-180604_arriv
the 120 ping gamer - youtu.be/m0grvszs-UwGw2 : Fractal farm 42 (Mai Trin) | Bladesworn PoVInky2023-05-09 | Love to double tap cartridge, who need this anyway :') Idk what I'm doing but this is idiot proof as long as people start slashing at 6 stacks from p1 and 8 stacks past 50% then wait for Horrik to cast the aoe attack on the ground before doing any boost. Damage hardly matter since we over dps pretty much everything, you can probably do this farm with 3 bsw's that it would work still. The team basically focus damage and rotation around Horrik cast time to prevent getting stuck in animation and waste time (as phasing too fast/before the attack result in a slower pace).
The pace of a run including pre event is between 1mn40 and 1mn50 consistently with okay instabilities. I assume you can go even faster than this with proper play.
This is based on random dailies with ppl on a different class than their main. It is far from perfect but its a good example of what we expect from a run rotation/cc wise. Skor and Arkk got recorded on outflanked but I used the normal rotation so it will work with a slower pace too. I have updated the website to put details under the Renegade guide instead of the video description like I did 2 years ago.
00:00 - Skorvald 01:08 - Artsariiv 02:13 - Arkk 03:55 - MAMA 04:50 - Siax 05:33 - Ensolyss 07:33 - Dark Ai
Feel free to ask me anything if needed on discord.Gw2 : Dark Ai 0:52 | Mirage PoVInky2023-02-05 | Featuring lag shatter, inventory scroll fuck up, axe2 combo field into water for maximum healing pleasure, 900+ logs total where 20mn can elapse without any close dash, did I mention no boon overload? i love dark ai.
https://dps.report/vNvf-20230204-235108_ai
No booster and 5s improved over our virtuoso 57s run, overall okay but 49 to 51 is possible with a lot of luck and better p1 (which was our worst by far this run atl 1.5s slower). Feel free to ask anything if you want to know more about the strat. Need a break of 100cm now.. long enough for me to recover.. xD
Hyp (the italian monk) - youtu.be/RliSTJMEyuo Elu (hated on wingman) - youtu.be/oZRNv9YtrbY Coldi (i quit gw2 but spend 30hours grinding dark ai) - youtu.be/yU7OH08IGj8 Breke (im using /dance emote mid p2 and we still have too much dps)Gw2 : Dark Ai 0:57 | Mirage PoVInky2023-01-29 | A solo alac staxe mirage kill we did yesterday.
https://dps.report/RQm8-20230128-210954_ai
We could open a full dps slot in the comp by playing without sharing alacrity thanks to the latest change anet did on mirage boon generation. We also took a power virtuoso to reflect the laser's from the boss which allowed us to break through the whole 61s cap that was done by iV. Frankly I'm glad to show a 100cm kill with a skip since it hadn't been done since half a year now when we grinded our 1.13 with pS.
About the rotation, I could have greed a bit more before 66% but I really wanted stable alacrity uptime, since we dropped sanctuary I had to chaos storm the sorrow so I replaced it with a gunk which is more damage but also has ethereal field for my combo, otherwise got trolled by fears on my axe2 clone generation but this never change anyway.
Elu (Virtuoso) - youtu.be/mCpc2N6zwO4 Hyp (Firebrand) - youtu.be/XHgFQneYSwk Coldi (Soulbeast) - youtu.be/Lu3iJfuGr5Q Breke (Specter)Gw2 : Gorseval 4:12 (4man) | Firebrand PoVInky2023-01-27 | Some Firebrand gaming that I had to pick up for the occasion.. I like it actually except for a few frustrating bugs with tome, the rest is very pleasant. Far from my best run but I was starting to be sleepy, anyway this boss is really fun to do and remind me of Siax in a lot of way :)
No food swap or weird shenanigan here, started to precast might for the pets and summon. Some cool fact the prison eggs in p3 do reset full pages, it may have been the play to actually get egged to spam tome1 at the end.. lol
For ppl asking about boon duration, I played 49%bd - the first charge of Potence got unfortunately removed by status reset at the very start of the fight.
https://dps.report/1VOk-20230125-013244_gors
Ryan (Weaver) - youtu.be/7tpVc6KC4vU Roul (Untamed) - youtu.be/T1XyP6CpKN8 Incera (Specter) - youtu.be/g_yWwHZAThoGw2 : MAMA 0:32 | Renegade PoVInky2023-01-06 | Happy new year!! 3 bladesworn's mama comp to start the year, we ended up with a very consistent 33-32s strat as long dt's weren't desync, would have like to proc severance p1 but np...
All time record alacren dps can be found here: youtu.be/l7CSoS5kVgsGw2 : Skorvald & Artsariiv | Renegade PoVInky2022-12-21 | New strat to push 4way outflanked along side triple mid burn artsariiv.
pyHHypyHyp - youtu.be/APis_GGwAPQ Cooldi - youtu.be/kaiWYpyOiU8Gw2 : Dark Ai 3:48 Duo | Mirage PoVInky2022-11-25 | This duo was quite an adventure actually, grinding this boss with all the random dashes and without any good instabs in between pulls did feel really bad. In some cases we had to save instance for a few days to even have a chance to schedule a run. Nonetheless I learned a lot about mirage in this project and it took me a lot to just catch up to Ryan. There are a few cancels here and there and it's far from perfect but I'm overall satisfied with this pov, it was really fun to do :)
Talking about the fight now, we had to grind the RNG of the 2nd and 3rd dashes to be the closest to us so we could meet the dps check to reach 66% before the spin and circles hit us. Right after the fear cc phase we ideally wanted the boss to dash to the wall and come back mid instantly, as not dashing would result in a very slow break bar spawn time (and so not enough cool down on our domination signet to cover the sorrow cc phase). By dashing to the wall back and forth to mid we were assured to have the break bar spawn instantly.
We originally planned not to cc the last phase on this specific run, since we had a few previous pulls where we did break but had no juice to continue afterward as the bad dashes would then destroy our time. Ryan decided to still attempt a cc at the very end (predicting that it would be good in this specific scenario) but I had already done my double axe clones generation at that point, so we decided to keep our domination signet. Luckily we got blessed by a very good dash from wall to mid which did proc a lot of confusion for the final burn.
Finally, breaking would have probably saved us 3-4s on this specific run while a perfectly grinded run with the best RNG and damage available would be around ~10s saved.
Ryan (the good mirage pov) youtu.be/hXi4xtmlQNg - Send force to @zypmusic4842 who has some awesome piano videos!Gw2 : Shattered Observatory 4:59 | Renegade PoVInky2022-11-22 | Its been a long time we wanted to do a full run of 99cm, the change of outflanked instability was a blessing to this project as it did allow us to match most of the old exposed time now on 2 out of 3 bosses. This is the 2nd or 3rd run we recorded that day, so we did the record pretty fast actually and its not looking too bad, I wish we would have had more days to refine the run properly. I'm very eager to improve this time with a possible new comp next patch even if playing with 3slbs is refreshing for the renegade (I don't have to worry that much about might and alacrity generation), we will see... in March for the next BO+outflanked :')
00:00 Skorvald 02:10 Artsariiv 03:20 ArkkGw2 : Skorvald 0:54 (stealth edition) | Renegade PoVInky2022-10-28 | Stealth edition (big brain strat from breke and coldi) that did allow us to one shot consistently i2 and i4.
https://dps.report/zTl3-20221022-180334_skor
Marchen (Orange thief) - youtu.be/jP46h-04CL4 Eluwu (Soulbeest) - youtu.be/ElMwJMnvP68Gw2 : Siax 1:56 Duo | Renegade PoV (Old Patch)Inky2022-10-27 | This is an old kill that we worked on with the 100% exposed era. Even if Renegade was really good back then with battlescars and strong damage we still had to compensate the lack of quickness from the comp by playing on Sugar Rush day. Unfortunately we couldn't finalize this project for various reason, so this is one of the fastest try we got. I decided to upload it now, even if I'm not fully satisfied with the run but anyway, since its probably in the top3 duo kill on the boss right now it is still worth showing i guess.. Watching my pov again after almost a year, I would have done a lot of things differently now that I think about it (don't ask me why I'm not spacing etd lol), but overall I'm pretty happy of this run as it was my first low man experience on Siax.
https://dps.report/iOVJ-20220120-022409_siax
Ollie (Renegade) - youtu.be/qgBmTYG3e5EGw2 : Skorvald 0:57 | Renegade PoVInky2022-10-16 | Improved the previous rotation a bit, it still can be better like I would redo the p2 to fit in a sword2 since it was free, and i2 was kinda unlucky on the 1% :) I tried another rotation with enabling full burst p2 but then the renegade is kinda out of juice for p3 camping kalla, I didn't give it much of a try (maybe 2) so I have no idea if its better time wise or not.. but if you are interested in this one (for group that have a bad p2 maybe or for testing) I can try to record another run with the rotation. This is not the 57 but has I forgot to record, the ~58 will do too.
Elu (Miyamoto Musashi) : youtu.be/emmlk17X8A4 Feint (Orange is the new purple) : youtu.be/rJe5p4hOUwwGw2 : Arkk 1:29 | Renegade PoVInky2022-10-07 | Some queuing lag here and there with sw5 and sharing might in p6 but overall a pretty decent run, I had to delay staff5 in the last phase so the Soulbeasts could proc severance.
https://dps.report/NwsK-20220927-182044_arkk
Elu (Soulbest) : youtu.be/XmhndTABBuAGw2 : Dark Ai 1:13 | Mirage PoVInky2022-10-06 | I'm glad we could match the run we did with pS this summer, considering all the nerfs we got lately. I'm missing 7 spiteful infusions on this run also so it would have been more dps (I'm just pepega).
Light Ai : youtu.be/Q5TNq1bVGLgGw2 : Light Ai 2:41 | Mirage PoVInky2022-10-06 | same as before but replacing renegade with staxe, we did a few pulls and this one didn't look too bad
https://dps.report/zQev-20221003-223944_ai
Dark Ai : youtu.be/xBehk2mqVJsGw2 : Artsariiv 0:49 | Renegade PoVInky2022-10-05 | We wanted to see if the triple mid still work this patch. It does and its kinda free with 3 slbs (we played 1 OS and 2 LOTP here), I just freestyled a shiro rotation that turned to be okay-ish as it is, just a fork of the 43 with no portal pre.
There is probably a way to reach easily sub 50 by combining my run and Lumi's start, unfortunately I discovered it a bit late and the run was already recorded. The wall break spot I use at the start is very consistent so it wasn't that difficult to get things going, unexpectedly :)
Lumi's run here: youtu.be/f-FltKKSTP4Gw2 : Arkk 1:41 | Renegade PoVInky2022-09-06 | Testing the daily comp on Arkk, rotation is a bit different on non outflanked day as we need to put more damage into the adds phases. Thank you ANET for making alacren unable to crit cap anymore with boon duration, I love it.
https://dps.report/iqwY-20220905-005422_arkk
Scrapperino here: youtu.be/mZCLD04km8gGw2 : Langmar Estate 1:58 | Guild Puzzle | Engineer PoVInky2022-08-29 | I improved the route of about 15s+ but couldn't record it in time, the recent rifle5 nerf got me by surprise and so this run is now impossible to do the way it was planned. Some really beautiful screenshot of the area here (Thank you Jetrell): imgur.com/a/bcVHD1v
Enjoy this short voyage in the Elden Ring like design of Langmar Estate :)Gw2 : Siax 0:35 (double split) | Renegade PoVInky2022-08-27 | Testing a double split siax to get back in the flow, and yeah nothing new here just the same struggle with scholar, less damage and as expect Dh is still a really strong pick in orga :) https://dps.report/0SZ4-20220827-013634_siax
Note that the run potential is inflated by the outflanked instability that make you deal 100% damage on islands anomalies.. in reality it is way harder to kill especially with renegade. The instant application of vulnerability is also kind of lacking in this comp since we are missing soj now - otherwise it feel really good to play again properly :)
Hyp (scrapperino) youtu.be/ghUt9MynVaI Roach (soulgoat) youtu.be/ggXpf02XsvY Jetrell (soulbeest) youtu.be/1Z1HRHOWtjk Seatek (weeb roleplay)Gw2 : Honor of the Waves p2 duo 3:41 | Mirage PoVInky2022-08-11 | Matsuta on a cruise to unrestricted p2. Had to learn mirage from scratch for this run so it is far from perfect, very cool spec I love it :)
About the strat, the actual time gate is the engi skip which is about ~35s of b1 kill time (you can kill b1 in sub 30 but then b2 would become vulnerable and stop snapping out of bound). We pulled b2 out of bound on top of b3 (Andal) to have a better transition to the final boss. Actually the fight of b2 is very intense with this comp as this boss relentlessly attacks with very powerful hits, not to mention the waves of fear. We found a consistent way to merge b2 (Son of Svanir) without losing the aggro which happened very often at first. I'll probably do a post about it somewhere one day.
For the last part once the end boss is pulled out of bound it will follow us right through the p3 room by clipping into it. Being stuck in that room on "ground" its attack pattern was way more manageable (only the second auto chain would hurt).
Finally thanks to Andrej for the help at the beginning of this project, it had to be done :)
Hyp (engineer) youtu.be/iVPfjJAcfP8 - Music: System96 - ApertureGw2 : Citadel of Flame 8:56 | Revenant PoVInky2022-08-02 | Citadel of flame p1 merged with p3, it has been a long time I wanted to do this one. A year ago I discovered that merge route and thought it would be nice to do a run on it. At that time only thief and revenant were able to do the skip (not anymore since the broken rifle5 from engi).
Revenant got a lot of very harsh nerf meanwhile and I had to adapt over the time with overall less damage and sustain. Since plenty of theory craft went already into the run I decided to still continue with it.
About the strat the main time gate is p1 engineer event, which is about 3:50 to fail and 4:23 in total including the roleplay dialog, so it was important to trigger it first before going to ride p3. If you have any questions on the run feel free to ask :)
Here is the skip done with engineer: youtu.be/JFQrybTLQR0Citadel of Flame : yet another way to merge p3 from p1Inky2022-08-02 | Revenant version here youtu.be/FPWsRrhFKjISorrows Embrace : fast roof skipInky2022-08-01 | easy -3s at start by having more alac uptime for rifle5 (spawn golem oob)
0:31 - start to behind portal 1:27 - behind portal to pipe 1:38 - pipe to boss2
Additional note: Killing b2 without triggering the cutscene (and p1 path) will bug the path, it is however fine to kill as long as the cutscene is triggered.Gw2 : Ascalonian Catacombs p1 duo 2:58 | Engineer PoVInky2022-07-05 | Hodgins shenanigan and some new tech, unrestricted :) We were unfortunately 16s off the world record maintained by the best player of all time Erwin Arselkow, but we are still pretty happy with our run!
start2roof skip here youtu.be/2eM9p7qHvHU - Music: The Informer · M-Sevenbalanced rifle5Inky2022-06-29 | when the one man "team" balance is a clueless engi lover messed around to test the new rifle leap after release, feel like using a grappling hook
First attempt here youtu.be/ZHlkD8IQmKsGw2 : Ensolyss 1:17 | Renegade PoVInky2022-06-25 | Patch notes predict a really grim future for fractals... Hope you enjoy the kill, it was fun to do at least :)
Stuff found along the way but not used: youtu.be/cJEiJwOZfw8 - Music: Mario Kart - Rainbow RoadGw2 : Skorvald 0:16 | Soulbeast PoVInky2022-06-22 | Legend has it that he would one day succeed to do a proper LH4.. and buy agony's optionally Two kills here one with alac specter and one with alac willbender, catthumb
Music: Mayor Higher - Tree of Savior OSTGw2 : Dark Ai 1:13 | Specter PoVInky2022-06-17 | A decent kill we did before the doomer patch hit, we discovered that it is still possible to skip in this patch but you need to grind the first dash and delay the break at last moment. I could have pre cast venom rot at mistlock but I forgot in this run, we pretty much got this kill in 3 pulls and improved the rotation later but we didn't get a better result in the span time we had left. The boss rely heavily on RNG which can be quite demanding after a while, overall pretty fun tho.
Dash skip: https://dps.report/LtjR-20220615-204532_ai - Music: Gotta Get through Til Monday · CassiaGw2 : Swampland 2:41 | Renegade PoVInky2022-06-17 | Not my best gameplay so far but I was really tired, expected an aegis for some reason at the end lol Also my portal got a bug and had 80s cool down still after double /gg so had to compensate with choya instead. We could have mitigated this issue by letting the last wisp (closer) to the one that gets a portal bug. We could have for sure shaved off +10 seconds on the run with a proper kill.
This strategy requires Mist Convergence instability to work by spawning an Awakened Abomination that will then cast Grasping Mirror - pulling any ranged attacks hitting the Abomination. It is very difficult to get it because the abomination hitbox is really small and doesn't have much chance to get hit by a random projectile from the boss. It took us more than 4days of tries to get a "decent" result.
The wiki officially states that Mist Convergence causes a set of effects and enemies from other places of the Mists to spawn randomly throughout the Fractal Island. There are 7 effects that occur either near to or directly on top of a random player in the party, effects which disappear after a certain amount of time or if they are killed.
- The Mossman from Swampland Fractal spawns. - Champion Rabbit from Uncategorized Fractal spawns. - Veteran Jade Maw Tentacle from Solid Ocean Fractal spawns. - Elite Awakened Abomination spawns. - Inspector Ellen Kiel from Aetherblade Fractal spawns (Braham spawns instead if Ellen is already part of the fractal). - An air strike from the PvP map Skyhammer. - A cannon assault from Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal spawns.
Wiki also states that effect can occur within the same fractal. For example Mossman would spawn also in Swampland, which proved to be wrong (someone fix the wiki maybe?). So in our case we had to deal with 6 effects instead of 7, lucky.
Going further down the rabbit hole we discovered that the effects are not random and work through a cycle of effects, each instance is set up with a different sequence of pre determined effects that will be then cycled through every time a player triggers the instability.
Each combination have a pre defined internal cool down that change depending on what effect needs to be triggered next. Here you can see one of the combination possible for a sequence: youtu.be/EyAJj1nq3N0
In practice it means that every instance reset you need to enter in combat permanently to trigger Mist Convergence and decode the sequence of effects. This takes approximately a bit more than 1mn if you are unlucky and get a late abomination effect. Once the cycle is known you can then count how many effects you plan to be triggered ahead, to be able to spawn the Abomination effect in the split phase of the end boss fight. Obviously this is prompt to fail if we enter in combat and trigger undesired effect too fast or too slowly.
The spawned abomination then casts Grasping Mirror for about 4s, then it's a gamble. If it's a hit we win - otherwise we reset and start again.
Shout out to [iV] that discovered the displacement when grinding for the bounty. - Music: The Growlers - Going Gets TuffGw2 : Skorvald 0:18 | Renegade PoVInky2022-06-01 | Just a stop by skorvald before continuing our way to the real end game of gw2, swampland. https://dps.report/B7U4-20220531-233438_skor https://dps.report/xmt2-20220531-232006_skor
the tech here: youtu.be/R9YUDcJtZrA - Music: Monkeybars · Eazy Mac & Cal ScrubyGw2 : Skorvald 0:41 | Soulbeast PoVInky2022-05-30 | We got a decent kill when testing alac willbender. Its my first time playing the class so I had to learn quite a few stuff and ngl it was refreshing to play! Missed tav proc in split2 and I didn't know you need to stand in the hitbox with lh4 (no bully xD)
Log: https://dps.report/iMrv-20220527-230257_skor
Magicbender: youtu.be/fZqgDvNdUDw - Music: SFA - Milden Miles (Tree of Savior BGM)