I suck at speedruns

[Cap75]

I'm a WAR so not everything I do applies. As far as pulling, so long as nobody else in the party does anything at all a shield lob at each connected group should be more than sufficient. Hell, I face pull most stuff now after doing it a million times. As I'm coming to where I'll stop I'll pop infuriate then steel cyclone followed by vengeance. At that point everyone can go hog wild. From there it's just avoid AEOs and smack random mobs with wrath builders to get another steel cyclone. In between each rotation I'll overpower. Probably overkill, but it goes faster if everything stays tight. One note, if you're seeing yellow you've already lost them. They're already heading towards someone else at that point.

[RhazeCain]

1st pull: Shield Lob first 6 mobs. Flash the pack of 3 at bottom of ramp. Then pick up that last Coerl and pick your kill spot.

2nd pull: Flash the first pack of 3. Shield Lob 1 pack, provoke last pack to get them all running toward you. Then Flash spam.


Personally, I always tag every single critter in that 1st pull. You *could* skip some and Sprint, but then you are forced to rely on all group members to not cast anything too early. And what if you miss a few with the first Flash with whole group together? *Splat* ... Not tagging everything is a risk. The payout for winning that risk is the time saved by Sprinting past (can't Sprint if you're Shield Lob everything).

As for staying alive yourself, not much to say there except the obvious.
- Use your cooldowns. All of them. I like to start clicking a few secs before I stop running, so that 2-4 are up as the first volley of hits lands on me. But don't run all of them immediately. You will need something for when the first ones drop. So for example Sentinel + Foresight + Awareness. Then Rampart + Convalescence when Sentinel fades. Then Bulwark + Bloodbath later. (PS. that's not optimized, just an example)
- For the 1st pull, don't completely stop. Instead, run tight circles around the pack of enemies. Avoid some cone and circle AEs this way. 2nd pull you can stand still once they're gathered.
- If your healer didn't do it at the start, Stoneskin yourself before the pull.
- Raise your gear level. Maybe i80 is enough, I dunno. But definitely it can go up.

[Shref]

I'm a WAR so not everything I do applies. As far as pulling, so long as nobody else in the party does anything at all a shield lob at each connected group should be more than sufficient. Hell, I face pull most stuff now after doing it a million times. As I'm coming to where I'll stop I'll pop infuriate then steel cyclone followed by vengeance. At that point everyone can go hog wild. From there it's just avoid AEOs and smack random mobs with wrath builders to get another steel cyclone. In between each rotation I'll overpower. Probably overkill, but it goes faster if everything stays tight. One note, if you're seeing yellow you've already lost them. They're already heading towards someone else at that point.

i see a disturbing lack of bloodbath in this post...