Scourge slaughtering CM, solo

I had been thinking that Scourge was toned down enough. Sadly, I just watched a brand new Scourge ( level 80 boosted) essentially solo CM path 1.

The idea of large and highly mobile AOE should never have been introduced. It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon.. He didn't even bother with the traditional sneak and skip. He merely killed everything in his path.

LOL Caudecus Manor? I thought Fractal CM... Yay a guy soloed a dungeon... Welcome back to 2013.People were doing that before Elite Specs, so great it can also be done with scourge.Also "Highly Mobile", LOL.

Maybe we should nerf that highly OP skill called stealth so people can't skip the dungeon! Lol

@Ithilwen.1529 said:I had been thinking that Scourge was toned down enough. Sadly, I just watched a brand new Scourge ( level 80 boosted) essentially solo CM path 1.

The idea of large and highly mobile AOE should never have been introduced. It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon.. He didn't even bother with the traditional sneak and skip. He merely killed everything in his path.

I don't get why this is a problem ... people have been soloing dungeons for a LONG time. A scourge soloing a dungeon is not an indication of the power of a spec ... metapushers were soloing dungeons on the worst builds they could think of, thinking it was a show of how bad a build was.

I solo'ed CM p1 on a minionmancer build. And like this player you describe, I skipped nothing.I regularly solo CM p1 and HotWp1.

Does that mean minions should be nerfed too?

I've soloed ta on a reaper, weaver, soulbeast, and deadeye, should those be nerfed too?

People can solo dungeon paths? What year is this?

@Ithilwen.1529 said:I had been thinking that Scourge was toned down enough. Sadly, I just watched a brand new Scourge ( level 80 boosted) essentially solo CM path 1.

The idea of large and highly mobile AOE should never have been introduced. It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon.. He didn't even bother with the traditional sneak and skip. He merely killed everything in his path.

OMG. Get the Nerf hammer here quickly. /Shrug

@Voltekka.2375 said:People can solo dungeon paths? What year is this?

1652

Good call OP! I heard scourge can 1 shot lupi by teleporting on top of the wall with scourge portals and holding the crystals when he does aoe of doom. BAN!

@Ithilwen.1529 said:It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon..Pretty much any prof has been able to solo dungeons for years, aside from a couple of mechanics that require multiple triggers (and even those can be soloed by certain profs).

@Ithilwen.1529 said:I had been thinking that Scourge was toned down enough. Sadly, I just watched a brand new Scourge ( level 80 boosted) essentially solo CM path 1.

The idea of large and highly mobile AOE should never have been introduced. It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon.. He didn't even bother with the traditional sneak and skip. He merely killed everything in his path.

I did an Arah path recently that I hadn't done before. The other 4 members of my group died halfway through that giant wolf-man boss and I just finished him solo. I'm sure this was a big deal years ago, but power creep happened. I don't even know this guy's mechanics at all and was able to solo it. I wasn't playing scourge either!

This doesn't strike me as an issue with scourge so much as an issue with power creep from the expansions poorly interacting with old content.

why on earth would you run scourge in a dungeon, it's a condi spec. i mean even solo mobs are so weak that power is better.

@Sublimatio.6981 said:why on earth would you run scourge in a dungeon, it's a condi spec. i mean even solo mobs are so weak that power is better.

Just a lucky guess. He wasnt good to avoid damage, so he run condi using Parasitic Contagion for those heals.

@Ithilwen.1529 said:I had been thinking that Scourge was toned down enough. Sadly, I just watched a brand new Scourge ( level 80 boosted) essentially solo CM path 1.

The idea of large and highly mobile AOE should never have been introduced. It is abundantly clear that the build is OP, when a brand new scourge can essentially solo a dungeon.. He didn't even bother with the traditional sneak and skip. He merely killed everything in his path.

Interesting. Did you do it yet solo? If not, its probably not OP. Just more as a skilled person playing.

So, since CM was the daily yesterday I went ahead and tried path 3 solo. I had no trouble with it. The first two bosses went down on the first try, then I got disconnected. But I decided that the lack of any serious resistance up until that point made for a decent test.

Power creep vs. Old content. Power creep wins!

Was this from a video where an experienced dungeon runner captures a successful solo run on a new, boosted toon that somehow also had an elite boosted and does not show any failed runs or edits out any deaths to prove the profession is OP?