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[SC] Duo Arah P2 | 10:42
updated
Didn't think much about glyph choice at the time, rewatching this I guess it could have made more sense to spam fire glyphs till the end, esp. air glyph at 1:20 obviously didn't get the value it should have, but first few air glyph hits are the most important ones anyway. Difference is 100% really small regardless though
Manu Chao - La Vida Tombola
Hardstuck 42K dps. I feel like getting significantly higher than 42.2 is insanely hard (with fgs, earth ele is a bit higher damage, but it's realistically worse so I decided to go with fgs)
Ryan: youtube.com/watch?v=vDfmQT6Wygk
The Tech Thieves - Fighter
https://dps.report/vJAR-20221202-184528_golem
Tobu - Back To You
I use the meta build that can be found on the SC website, with a slight trait variation: imgur.com/gQBdcoI
The Lifted - Mr. Sandman (feat. Ashliann)
Happy to announce the rotation now almost loops perfectly, you simply *always* wanna go air - water - air - fire - air. Reason for that is that water attunement is essentially as strong as fire now whenever Wildfire isn't up. Another thing, the self healing of this build is absolutely insane now, due to water trident being part of your rotation, lmao.
Veorra - Change
Alice et Moi - Je suis fan
With Eles: https://dps.report/LmtL-20221130-182144_golem
Music: Veorra - Not Yet (I'm really not sold on the drop in this song, I feel like it would have been much prettier had they just reused the background music in the refrain, just louder and a bit more enhanced. What do you think?)
Log: https://dps.report/7UHQ-20221130-152858_golem (it's from an avg attempt, logging wasn't working without my knowledge at time of the benchmark)
Music: youtube.com/watch?v=HS6lu3NGRJY
Yes I rounded up 38.944 to 39k, what's the problem?!
Log: https://dps.report/ZvRS-20221108-121342_golem
Music: Against the Current - Wildfire
Music:
Neovaii - The Maze
Veorra - Secrets
Veorra - Run
Very long term project which we finally managed to finish shortly before Dooms Day Patch. Overall happy with the run, if you ignore the obviously very unfortunate Lyssa.. usually I would have aegis there, but chaos storm rng just fucked me over. Sad to have this taint the otherwise great run a little bit, but meh, what can you do.
The music is a collection of some of my favorite songs ever! You can check out the playlist here if you want: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F8qxAt13o7MmM4xMkAOIwRZL3AeJIlC
Songs used in the vid:
Oh Wonder - Technicolour Beat (Urban Contact Remix)
Feed Me - Back Home (Caribou Cover)
Louis The Child - It's Strange Ft. K.Flay (Win & Woo Remix)
Veorra - Change
Echos - Saints
Hellberg - The Girl (feat. Cozi Zuehlsdorff)
Log: https://dps.report/OowR-20220503-220054_kc
PoVs:
Music: Stalgia - BDY (Joe Mason Remix)
Ryan: youtube.com/watch?v=c-9Hw4sN-nM
https://dps.report/y4LH-20220408-051637_siax
Two Feet - Devil
Brandyn Burnette - Down
Sickick - Infected
Ele so squishy anet buff wtf!
https://dps.report/wqpS-20220330-222144_vg
Log: https://dps.report/TbZW-20220330-160041_golem
Let me give you the two main reasons as to why this rota is way less dps than the 46k one floating around, I would much appreciate you reading them:
- This is done OUTSIDE the hitbox. The 46k is done INSIDE the hitbox. When I first did the bench after eod, I benched inside hitbox. Many people got mad at me, and honestly I understood it, it's simply questionable to bench inside the hitbox when in reality it can be painful to do that in real fights + on some fights it is not even possible.
- I was actually the first person to find out that it is possible to have way more dps inside hitbox even in this patch, due to being able to collect way more energy from hammer 3s (unfortunately noone gave me credit, which is making this look even more confusing). But I simply didn't want to bench with it. Reason for that is that I didn't want that bench to be the main representative bench of catalyst, as it is situational, while the outside-bench isn't. And now this patch, as you can see, everything went to shit again. Don't get me wrong, inside-hitbox NEEDED a nerf, but as always the more universal bench suffered hard cause of it. Catalyst got nerfed harshly, which makes the inside-hitbox bench still ok, while outside hitbox dps is way worse again. Anet simply has to equalize these two numbers, but unfortunately they never will.
To everyone trying to blame me for "hiding" the bench (just to be clear, there aren't a lot of them, but I felt the need to address it regardless): Please. I am not in charge of the website whatsoever. I didn't demand for the higher bench not to be put (although I have told you my personal concerns as to why I didn't want to bench it). There are people blaming me for that shit even though they could have easily put the 46k bench up there. The person who benched has already been featured on the website before. Alternatively several people could have benched it themselves. And finally, even if I were the only person able to, literally none of the people in the know contacted me about wanting a new bench or anything, so there didn't seem to be any demand by anyone. I stand by the decisions I've made. Everyone (including myself) wanted an outside-hitbox after the big nerf, and some people apperently just forgot about that. That's all there is to this.
Log: https://dps.report/DLtw-20220330-164910_golem
Avg Number: 38.7k
Song: youtube.com/watch?v=sFSWlfZ4CXM
Arah P2 Solo: youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ_Ed73sTY
Cairn Solo: youtube.com/watch?v=inbiI2xBCh0
0:00 - Introduction
0:38 - Build
3:08 - Skills and skill variations
4:39 - Gear
5:28 - Recommended Food
5:47 - Rotation
0:00 - Pre-Enrage
8:00 - Enrage aka Interesting Part
I would have never guessed, but I’m enjoying Willbender a shit ton. The mobility is super fun and even the combat is more fun than Firebrand once you get used to playing without quickness imo!
I’m just gonna talk about it now in order to prevent questions/discussions: I am aware that willbender has another shadowstep in its kit (one of the utility skills), and it’s quite decent, so let me tell you why I didn’t use it:
- It brings you in combat instantly on mob touch with no way of avoiding it, which made it basically impossible to use in the last skip and the mines skip, and very very annoying and clunky in any other skip really
- Since SoJ goes on a very long cd when build template swapping and I didn’t want retreat or judges intervention to have such a long cd, it ended up with the wb skill always inheriting that 40-60 seconds cooldown, making it only useable once per skip
- I think it isn’t very suited for arah p2. Any other dungeon I probably would have used it, but there were so many instance of it just bringing you in combat / it not working very well with the path in general here, that I just ended up swapping it out. That being said, maybe it could have been useable even here, but there is no way it would have resulted in a significant time gain compared to the amount of frustration it caused me
That being said, I am really happy with this run. My goal was sub 11:30 and I met that fairly comfortably. Most bosses are smooth, Alphard was 10 seconds slower than my best skill, and lupi was ~15 seconds but hey.. The amount of rng included in these two fights is frankly insane, so while I’m sad about that potential sub 11, I’ve grinded a shit ton, and this imo is a very very good run. Mesmer might be able to compete, I am really not sure though since my mes solo had reaaaally good boss kills, shrug.
Logs:
https://dps.report/2OmQ-20220307-161309_mama
https://dps.report/3c3z-20220307-174201_siax
https://dps.report/2xFG-20220307-174926_enso
Catalyst is looking super good in fracs right now! Generally the BD through ar in combination with 2-3 diviner pieces or arcane gear already lets you provide perma quickness. On MAMA and Siax I provided quickness alone, on Enso Marchen helped me a bit via Feel My Wrath, which allowed me to go very offensive rotation-wise.
Also nerf Soulbeast smh
PoVs:
Elu: youtube.com/watch?v=nKIhGDpGesg
Marchen:
MAMA youtu.be/Wd3QaH9g-Jw
Enso youtu.be/Vji2lkNFpBg
Coldi:
MAMA youtu.be/Clm67LXF6mI
Siax youtu.be/xMSaSY_fmLM
Enso youtu.be/ziQmEHQCR_0
Scorg:
MAMA youtu.be/PRr6Lg_bVT0
So, basically there is a bug in the dps area where, if you apply any boons to yourself, quickness you apply will get stripped every 3 seconds. Because of that, I went way too much BD in the previous bench for no reason. The solution was to get someone to afk next to me (thanks Jerry) in order to prove that the quickness uptime works.
Gear: Diviner's Back, Earring x2, Head gear, shoulder gear, arm gear, pants, Assassin's foot. Puts you at 30% BD (you need something around 26-28% to upkeep it reliably, and 30% to upkeep it without having to hurry to get back into air too hard). Rule is the same as always: If you want your quickness to last longer and thus be more reliable, either equip more Diviner gear or go Arcane over Fire!
Fresh air bursts way harder than btth and has a very similar end number. I figured I'd go with BttH because usually it outperforms FA in real encounters whenever the numbers are similar, and well, it also makes the rotation way easier to learn since it is similar to the normal rota.
The rotation desynchs a little bit with every loop. Because of that, I stay in air for an additional air 2 in the third loop, as it normalizes the cooldowns more or less. You are just fine if you only learn the loop though! Up to you. (Written rotation will be on the website)
0:19 - Gear Choice
1:20 - Rotation Tips
5:55 - Simplified Rotation & Breakdown
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGQAIlpyoYrMWGJO6KbRTA-zRIYRUwXG1mAVUA2eQCjNwbJilN-e (this link has no dragon's stats included)
Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGQAYlpyoYHMEGJmyXXxfA-zRJYqRBfZUdCkeB47BJU2AvF/2sA-e
(the utility skills are mostly random since there are no good ones for healing. I chose these as you need to build up energy fairly quickly and they happened to be the best for that outside of icebow and LH)
Wanna know something really random? With iceglyph as second-to-last glyph, I had 43.5k dps, lol. Decided against uploading it simply because it seems kinda arbitrary and unlikely to be used in real raids.
I'll make sure to upload a bunch of vids in the coming days, stay tuned!
Log: https://dps.report/x6CF-20220302-220159_golem
Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGQAIlpyoYrMW2JO6KbRTA-zRIYRUwXG1mAVUA2eQCjNwbJilN-e
WRITTEN ROTATION:
Air: glyph, air 5, air sphere, air 3, air 2 into fire
Fire: Fire sphere, relentless fire + shattering ice, cast fire 3 while using hammer 5 (technically should alrdy using it while using relentless fire, but that is very clutch and hard to do, so during hammer 5 is safer and barely worse), fgs + fire sphere, fgs 5, fire 2 into earth
Earth: Instant use of earth 3, earth 5, 2x autoattacks, earth 2 into water
water: water 5 + water 3, water 2 into air
Loop more or less works out, it’s slightly different every loop. General idea: Play connect 4 with the orbs into air 2 + grand finale, activate relentless fire into fire sphere and shattering ice around that time too, never leave fire before having used fire 4 and 5, if earth 5 is on cooldown aa a few times more instead, always use 2 skills in water (either water 4 + 2 or water 5 + 2)
Second kill from the fractal bounty (https://discretize.eu/bounties/leaderboards). This is by no means a perfect kill. 27s with the same comp is possible, and 25s with a different comp and without the restrictions of the fractal bounty sounds doable.
PoVs:
Alex | Soulbeast: youtu.be/yPjp_xkgTKM
Delay | Soulbeast: youtu.be/SUeCTklfl0A
BlackHawk | Ren: youtu.be/9rdigbhENrU
Me / Guardian : youtu.be/TYniQauwHHs
I used Heavy light as GM on 2nd boss, so no need to use spear of justice. Used it at first boss due to vuln issues.
Delaying Bane on first boss in order to avoid not having LoS.
PoVs:
Thief1/Left: youtube.com/watch?v=s2Tl4rHyauo
Thief2/Perry: youtube.com/watch?v=1J4ZRBvi8C8
Mesmer/Yui: youtube.com/watch?v=TwqwSdft1iE
Guardian/Roul: youtube.com/watch?v=jGyvTTI3mDw
Ranger/Zeneles: youtu.be/MLpr2x53Xts
Tech thieves are one of the most important musical groups of the modern era and noone can convince me otherwise. Songs:
youtube.com/watch?v=oTgWz0pQNOY
youtube.com/watch?v=5_385OOZlIg
Putting out my first vocal vid definitely makes me kinda nervous. I hope the mic quality isn't too bad. Any feedback is much appreciated!
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Traits
6:00 - Tempest vs. Weaver
6:55 - Gear
7:55 - Food
8:53 - Rotation advice, skills, tips
16:40 - Soloing legendary bounties
23:12 - Cairn solo (raid boss)
Met a group of supergood and nice players in late night lfg, with which I managed to get some great catalyst povs. We even played power comp!
These rotations may very well not be final, but it is what I've come up with for bursting so far. Also note that NPNG lowered the dps by a bit.
Comment of the day: "What an absolute whack joke reading these comments! Nobody should fucking care about these golem benchmark videos because nobody will play this glassy "golem killer" shit in real game scenarios and no game should be balanced around these BS videos"
Logs:
https://dps.report/EtBW-20211205-021227_mama (We had a pretty bad mama in our reset fracs, and the dudes redid MAMA just for this!)
https://dps.report/Wnjc-20211205-003547_siax
https://dps.report/YRRg-20211205-003845_enso
Originally wanted to upload a Samarog kill as mentioned on the Sloth vid, but all Sams I did were cursed (going to shti towards the end with only 4-5 players alive), so I figured thi Kc will do lol. This boss moves a LOT, and at some points you can't be in his hitbox. Does that count, gw2 forums?
Had an awesome pug run with really good and nice players! The run gets into a few problems towards the end due to cat-on-keyboard-issues.
While the boss is stationary, Sabetha has a lot of mechanics and aoes going on during the entire encounter, so imo this serves as proof of concept for catalyst being useable outside of the golem area quite well. It also is one of the smallest hitboxes in raiding, yet catalysts dps is still pretty insane!
Scuffed start since I don't have full Energy, so I only get to use one fire sphere. Still pretty smooth overall.
I did not grind this in the slightest guys! Kinda exhausted from all the experimenting, so I only invested a few attempts into this. Maybe it is possible to make the rotation a bit smoother still. Fresh air performed significantly worse than Btth, honestly I think this spec just doesn't favor FA at all... except in solo!
Log: https://dps.report/Ttnh-20211201-230833_golem
Large hitbox 55k DPS: youtube.com/watch?v=6drqIfFi56Q
Can push both benches a bit further I reckon, only spent like 30-60 min on each, quite happy with the results regardless though
Music: Veorra: Silk
Log: https://dps.report/OtOo-20211201-015906_golem
Log outside of golem (42k): https://dps.report/r9PJ-20211201-011620_golem
I've been playing a ton of necromancer lately and naturally wanted to test it in a solo! I'm quite enjoying its mechanics. Also let it be known that I did try making Spite work (it has such good vuln and boons), but the dps traitlines were simply better, which is kinda disappointing, oh well. Overall I think this was a good solo to start the class off with, and I am quite happy with it.
ONE LAST THING, I literally only had to bring Trail of Anguish over a better skill cause of that one moment when I need stability :( what a waste of utility. #BringBackSnowballs
I had to deal with weird lags the entire day, and it's especially noticable on siax in this run. Unlucky. Overall a very good run, though I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't have been sub 14 without hamstrung.
https://dps.report/IwrN-20211012-215728_mama
https://dps.report/eRKN-20211012-220221_siax
https://dps.report/HXxE-20211012-220834_enso
*Some things I wanna mention:
Jumping over the first gate is unrestricted.
Anet made f1 tome reset on like everything, and also made wolves give corruption stacks with last patch, big value.
This was done after the 7% condi dmg nerf, slowing down the end time by quite a bit, still pretty good tho!
Gear: Strength runes, 2 Assassin's Trinkets, force impact hammer (would have prefered strength sigil but didn't have access to it). Dumplings and Scarlet potion as food.
Credit for the music to Power Music Factory: youtube.com/c/PowerMusicFactory/about
I'd recommend using this rotation and build on short phased fights, picture Samarog, Sloth, maybe Vg etc.
End number is between 40 and 41k
Also hope you don't mind me using kinda downer music lmao, idk it just felt like the right song to me right now. It's Glycerine by Bush
*For any backseat gamers: I thought about purging flames vs signet for very long, and honestly I swapped them for each other like every 2 attempts with still not having reached a completely satisfying conclusion. I am aware that purging flames technically is higher dps even on zeal in party scenarios, however the significant lack of alacrity made the difference very very slim. Condi signet is a more reliable source of dps, not as dependant on boons or anything, so I went with it on this attempt. Also in retroperspective probly should have gone doom instead of geomancy on scepter. Geomancy procs just don't hit the boss too often in this scenario.
Thanks a lot to Zen for the thumbnail!
PoVs:
Zen/Renegade: youtu.be/LarAO10Mgqw
Fennec/Renegade: youtube.com/watch?v=6TjSKNINrNY
Kenzo/Scrapper: youtu.be/7mrawpY2u2A
Credit for the music to Power Music Factory: youtube.com/c/PowerMusicFactory/about
Playlist with the music used: youtube.com/watch?v=VNP5tKfv0eA&list=PLqi51aibKx1nsPhJlXupZAIE_XgGJhieD
PoVs:
Hint/Engineer: youtu.be/6wIClIS6Vsg
Yui/Mesmer: youtu.be/maeWnG8-oHY
Nika/Mesmer: youtube.com/watch?v=S53kVnAP2I0
Jan/Ranger: youtu.be/inQEVmajHxY
Roul/Elementalist: youtu.be/bJzBmypZNPM


