Ranger Boss Booost

So how did you manage to get skills from all six professions at once, hmm?

Echo, Mimicry etc. from other people I guess.

Yeah, that occurred to me after I posted it.

Mes/* or */Mes

4 Signets of Capture
1 Arcane Echo
1 Elite (Mes or other class)
1 Arcane Thievery
1 Arcane Mimicry

1 Trusting group that will take you to cap skills since you are basically useless to them. :-)

Go into Snake Dance (or maybe Perdition Rock). If both mesmers spawn (keep zoning till Featherclaw spawns), cap two mesmer elites. Cap other 2 elites from other class you chose (Monk or Ranger have best chances since there are 3).

That knocks out 5 elites.

Find another boss. Kill his mob. Spam Arcane Thievery until you manage to grab ahold of his elite. Then, cast Arcane Echo, followed by Arcane Mimicry on one ally, then the echoed Mimicry on same or other ally. There, you have 8 'different' elites (at least for 20 seconds anyways).

If you want to cover all 6 classes (the above only covers 5), then you would have to go somewhere (probably perdition rock) and round up more two bosses (one being a monk boss). Use Inspired Enchantment on the monk boss and Arcane Thievery on the other boss until you are lucky enough to grab both elites. Then go buy as many Elonian Keys that you can afford so that you can go grab your Crystalline Sword, because you are one lucky mo-fo :-)

EDIT: I just realized that if you want all 6 classes, your elite needs to be Echo so that you can use mimicry on another ally with another class.

Inspired Hex, Inspired Enchantment also are easy ways to grab more elites for your bar. With no SoC you can use both inspired, an Arcane Mimcry and an Arcane Echoed Arcane Mimicry (or inspired) to get 4 elites, plus the one you start with, for 5 on the bar without resorting to SoC. Arcane Thievery another to hit 6. After that I am pretty sure you need to use SoC though.

Sorry if im wrong, but when you solo something i dont think te chat log says :
X drops Y, which your party reserves for Z

unless they nerfed it, last time i farmed on my self it just said
X drops Y


Sorry im not 100% sure about you soloing it :s

Good point....

My lost post from hard skin rangers... still hard kill rangers... rangers are strong like steel... they make me run...

Yeah, here's another thread about soloing that shows exactly what you are talking about. I wouldn't say 100% that he's not soloing though just because I know from reading (and remember) the update logs that there have been differences (such as loot distribution/drops) in the expansion area from the normal areas. I imagine, though, that he has at least one other person with him (or henchie).

EDIT: I forgot the stupid link.... http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=109019
EDIT 2: I also noticed that he is indeed using one of the quests as you cna plainly see Bugder the Queer (my nickname I gave him when I sent bug reports in that he followed too close and got people stuck too much) is in two of the photos, which comes from Final Assault. I dunno what he's doing, but its pretty weird. I can understand not seeing any of the other mobs in the picture as their bodies may have dissolved if he saved each boss for last, but I guess he picked up their drops as well before taking on each boss.

Sorry. I was thinking about this a bit. I have to retract my opinion about him not farming it solo. Two things just clicked a little while ago.

1) The announced drops would probably be the same if a party member dropped/warped out.

2) I believe it would make sense if he was using a runner to get inside Sorrow's Furnace before he solos. I remember now that I've been in Warcamp and thought it was odd that someone was asking for a runner to Sorrow's Furnace. People told him it wasn't an outpost and that you just fight there, but he continued to ask for a runner.

These two things make sense now.

Perhaps the build he is using doesn't work well outside the Furnace (Ice Golems or something, maybe Heretics even though there are Taskmasters inside, i dunno). So he could basically get a run to the Furnace (gets Final Assault so he can get into the inner furnace sometimes maybe), pays the runner, and then the runner warps back without him. The runner will be greyed out, but I believe that all the remaining drops will probably still be announced as if there were more than one person in a party.

Anyhow, I'd really be interested in an in-game PM the next time you do this. I can try to run you there and I'd like to watch you do this...

Last time I checked when someone drops something and ur soloing it says:

"Someone" Droped a Enternal bow

examples...

wow i love soloing... thats like all i do lol

Did you check after having someone run you to the place you were soloing? This may be the case.

I would have someone run you to a zone, then drop out and see if it still says the same thing (with their name in gray in the party list). He could be soloing, but that could include someone running you to where you are going to solo. Perhaps he solos in the furnace, but can't solo in footprint. The solution would be to get a runner into the furnace, pay the runner, then the runner warps out. He can't rezone because then he'd lose the Final Assault quest.

This makes me laugh, 'they made the game harder know I cant go and solo everything anymore', boo hoo. You know why they keep making it harder, cause of all the people that just have to post the pics of them soloing all the bosses, so they post the pics, and Anet goes, mmmmm. Duh.