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Guild Wars 1: Profession Tier List for Solo Farming
This video presents a tier list of professions in Guild Wars 1 for solo farming, based on efficiency and the diversity of viable farming areas. The creator explains his methodology, which includes analyzing data from various farming areas and evaluating each profession's ability to complete them efficiently with minimal consumable use. Dervish stands out as the best option, while Paragon is considered the worst.
1. 📊 Introduction to the Solo Farming Tier List
- ✅ The tier list is based on collected data and viable farming areas.
- ✅ It differentiates between solo farming and completing solo campaigns.
- ✅ The video explains the methodology used to create the tier list.
00:24 - 01:07
1. 📊 Introduction to the Solo Farming Tier List
- ✅ The tier list is based on collected data and viable farming areas.
- ✅ It differentiates between solo farming and completing solo campaigns.
- ✅ The video explains the methodology used to create the tier list.
01:12 - 01:50
2. ⚔️ Warrior: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Warriors are good against physical damage due to their high armor.
- ⚠️ They have difficulties against groups of casters and low energy regeneration.
- ✅ They are efficient in farms like raptors, but not in vaettirs.
- ➡️ Rating: C tier
01:51 - 02:27
3. 🏹 Ranger: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ The ranger's diversity is unmatched among the martial classes.
- ✅ The 'Whirling Defense' stance is key to destroying large groups of enemies that use projectiles.
- ✅ The ranger's expertise allows the use of skills from other professions.
- ➡️ Rating: A tier
02:28 - 03:02
4. 🛡️ Monk: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Monks use protective skills like 'Prot Spirit' and 'Shielding Hands' with low HP to be invincible.
- ⚠️ They have limitations in spike damage and are vulnerable to interruptions.
- ✅ They are average for solo farming, standing out in some areas but not all.
- ➡️ Rating: B tier
03:03 - 03:45
5. 💀 Necromancer: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Necromancers are diverse in casual play, but not so much in solo farming.
- ✅ They use armies of minions or hexes to eliminate targets.
- ⚠️ Other classes usually outperform the necromancer in efficiency.
- ✅ Similar to the invincible monk, but with more focus on hexes and low HP.
- ➡️ Rating: C tier (slightly below average)
03:46 - 04:36
6. 🔮 Mesmer: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Mesmers are strong in casual play and decent in solo farming.
- ✅ They can farm casters with spell prevention and domination magic.
- ✅ They can farm martial enemies and bosses, but are not always the fastest.
- ⚠️ Their base caster armor limits their capabilities.
- ✅ They are the best class to complete the game solo, but time is an important factor in farming.
- ➡️ Rating: B tier
04:37 - 05:14
7. 🔥 Elementalist: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Elementalists can be tanks with earth magic, increasing their armor and reducing damage.
- ✅ Combinations like 'Protective Spirit', 'Stoneflesh Aura' and low HP make them almost indestructible.
- ✅ The 'Sliver Armor' enchantment can destroy targets and bosses easily.
- ✅ They can also use mesmer domination magic skills.
- ⚠️ Interruptions affect their long casting times.
- ➡️ Rating: A tier
05:15 - 05:56
8. 🔪 Assassin: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ Assassins can be great tanks and deal a lot of damage.
- ✅ Their tank skills come mainly from shadow arts.
- ✅ They can use secondary class skills like mesmer, elementalist, dervish or ranger.
- ✅ They can focus on dagger mastery or shadow arts enchantments.
- ➡️ Rating: A tier
05:57 - 06:53
9. 👻 Ritualist: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ There are two main ways a ritualist can farm.
- ✅ The first is the 'spiritspammer', creating a wall of spirits to do the work.
- ✅ The second is to hold an object and let enemies attack you to steal their HP.
- ✅ This last one is a lot of fun because enemies always auto-attack you in PvE.
- ➡️ Rating: A tier
06:54 - 07:47
10. 📣 Paragon: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ⚠️ Paragons are strong in hero teams and endgame content, but bad at solo farming.
- ⚠️ Their unique attribute, leadership, only helps in large groups.
- ⚠️ Their energy regeneration is low and their spear mastery skills are useless.
- ➡️ Rating: D tier
07:48 - 08:57
11. 🌪️ Dervish: Analysis for Solo Farming
- ✅ The dervish is the creator's favorite profession.
- ✅ 'Vow of Strength' (VOS) builds are great for solo farming.
- ✅ 'Vow of Strength' and other earth prayers make the dervish very tanky and good at clearing groups of monsters.
- ✅ 'Vow of Silence' is used to deal with casters.
- ➡️ Rating: S tier (the best for solo farming)
08:58 - 09:45
12. 📊 Tier List Methodology
- ✅ The rows represent the different solo farming areas.
- ✅ The columns represent the 10 professions.
- ✅ A green checkmark indicates a viable and functional build for that class.
- ⚠️ Unreliable, slow, or RNG-based builds do not count.
- ✅ The use of consumables (pcons) is minimized.
- ✅ The ranking is based on efficiency and the number of farming areas a class can complete.
09:46 - 10:16
13. ✅ Final Summary and Survey
- ✅ The final tier list for solo farming is presented.
- ✅ The results of a survey on the channel were similar to the creator's calculations.
- ✅ Viewers are invited to comment and give their opinion on the tier list.