Curse

Malchior Devenholm · Jan 13, 2006, 03:37 AM // 03:37

way back on my nuker *BEFORE THE AOE UPDATE* we both nuked the crap outta each other...just as he hit 0 and his corpse fell so did i...

Like all others though, the human wins the tie and the doppel dies

ascended

Sir Skullcrasher · Jan 13, 2006, 04:36 AM // 04:36

First person in Guild Wars history to beat my doppleganger with my warrior/ele only with hammer. I didn't bring any skills or even heal signet. I just smash away till that sucker died!

Malchior Devenholm · Jan 13, 2006, 06:59 AM // 06:59

thats what u supposed to do, he uses axe, u use hammer, if u get the 1st hit then his butts going down

semper.FI · Jan 13, 2006, 05:23 PM // 17:23

1st warrior - tried 5 x (FRUSTRATING) - 2 nd try battle went till timer hit 12:00 (HILARIOUS) omg-

2nd warrior - beat doppleganger in 8 seconds at lvl 15 (o OO PRICELESS)
used berserk stance = adrenaline gain / then frenzy used the deep wound move / exe strike and pene blow - RAPED!

reetkever · Jan 13, 2006, 06:35 PM // 18:35

I'm only ascended with my ranger, and it was TOO easy, I brought 8 spirits and my best bow.

He uses all the spirits, and after the 6th spirit I killed him (within time bonus, without losing any damage or energy)

FalconDance · Jan 13, 2006, 07:17 PM // 19:17

First Ascended (but not first character) was a W/R. She wields a sword though she's tried a Mursaat hammer (wicked looking things!).

Cutscene to dopple, full skill bar of sword skills and comfort/charm animal. Sliced, diced and pureed her to ribbons with swordplay as she insisted trying to use my skills with her *axe*

. Far less than 10 seconds later, I was doing a victory dance and the cats were hiding under the desk thinking I'd flipped out.

Fungus Amongus · Jan 13, 2006, 08:07 PM // 20:07

My funniest experience wasn't from the Dopplegagner itself, but shortly after.

I almost entered the Dragon's Lair right after as a full Dominantion Me/N with Backfire, Empathy and the rest Necro sacrifices.

MSecorsky · Jan 13, 2006, 08:16 PM // 20:16

Recently did it with my Mo/R. Took a few smites... and a few spirits.

He likes spirits.

A lot.

I smote him.

Mr Sly · Jan 14, 2006, 05:37 AM // 05:37

i did it with one of each character (w,m,n,me,r,e) most at lvl 15ish, and i have to say, monk was the harderst, i think i brought useless enchantments and i just smited him to death, it was hard though,

Mister Overhill · Jan 15, 2006, 01:42 AM // 01:42

Took it on the first try with my two r/mos and e/mo, so when my n/e daughter got to that point I thought, "This will be a snap". I had read the necro advice info, so I just told her to take some sacrifice health and useless corpse spells and just dodge arrows and watch it die. But it didn't. Now, my youngest daughter isn't long on patience, and the more she tried and died the madder she got. Finally, after a series of oaths and a death wish on the game devs, she went off with her friends and let me try.
I had taken a necro (my infamous Auntie Acid) up to the last ascension mission before deleting her, so I figured I could handle it. Right. I couldn't do it either, no matter what I tried. Now, my daughter hadn't gotten many elementalist skills, so I hopped around the map buying flare, immolate, and a couple of other fire spells (figured she could use them in the long run), and even trekked all the way from LA to the Ascalon Settlement to pick up meteor shower. That was the charm

. Dropped that sucker on its head and ran up and cooked it in its shell first time out. Too bad my daughter missed the cut scene, but she seemed happy enough when I called her on her cell phone with the news.

Hailfall · Jan 15, 2006, 01:59 AM // 01:59

I had such a difficult time with my characters against the doppleganger..
My first character (who I did all the missions with so no rushing) took it 20 times to beat the doppleganger (at level 20) and when I ended up killing him we both died.. but because he died 1 sec earlier I still made it.

My Warrior was a whole other story.. that took me about 14 tries at lvl 13.. after I finally found out how to do it.. Final trust FTW!

And my monk was just annoying.. I even let a friend of me try numerous times.. i got so pissed off because nothing worked.. I eventually got it after god knows how many times.. I was cursing the whole time in Guildchat.. and when I made it I just screamed of happiness.. (was on Skype as well lol)

Haggard · Jan 15, 2006, 02:18 AM // 02:18

My first time on ranger it was impossible the first few tries because i was trying to fit all the advice coming through guild chat into one build.. which failed horribly. In the end i just changed back to my normal build and for some reason he just stood there recasting mending on himself about 7 times instead of attacking so i kinda beat him

Wessels · Jan 15, 2006, 03:22 AM // 03:22

By far the funniest was my necro. I just took in all kinds of sacrifice skills and vampiric gaze and he started sacrificing himself to death ( I believe with order of the vampire ) .I had to hit gaze about twice I think and he dropped dead.

Ranger is also funny : equip quickening zephyr and run into melee-range ( he'll pull an axe or hammer or sword ) hit him with all kinds of bow attacks ( for a laugh : use ignite arrows and dual shot ) and he'll drop in about 15 seconds - or even less . Once the doppel even dropped a hammer for me - hadn't had loot before . It tuned out to be a very "below-par" hammer which I sold for 20 gold at weapons guy

Kook~NBK~ · Jan 15, 2006, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Took me a while to figure it out with my first character, a Ranger. When I finally did beat him, all I took was a short bow, Ignite Arrows and Dodge. Hit dodge, and ran into melee range - he switched to axe and I blew him to bits in short order. With my Warrior, again - easy as pie: took all sword skills, rushed him, he switched to Axe and buh-bye Doppleganger. I had the hardest time with my Monk, don't remember how i did that 1.
On my Mezmer, I had a tough time because the doppleganger beat me to the punch on casting backfire (He's half way through casting when the screen finally loaded, the cheater!) So, I had to wait for it to run out and then cast it on him - he kept casting and promptly fell over dead. The key was to take spells that didn't cause much damage other than backfire.

Mandy Memory · Jan 15, 2006, 09:42 AM // 09:42

I have a funny story... I beat him first try every time! Even the 3 times i did it with a lvl 3!

HAHAHAHA

But no...really...One time I had him glitch and run up a wall....does that count?

Francis Crawford · Jan 15, 2006, 08:01 PM // 20:01

I just had my first Doppleganger fight, and it was over so fast I was still getting oriented, making it anticlimactic.

I went with a full bar of two skills, but only two seemed to matter.

1. I cast Backfire on him.
2. He spammed Ice Spear.

Needless to say, Domination was maxed out, but I had 0 attribute points in Water Magic.

Subtle points of the build:

A. Ice Spear has lower minimum damage than Flare or Stone Daggers.
B. I tried to take only low cost/fast recharge spells, Backfire excepted. (Well, I took Arcane Echo too, but I didn't need to.)
C. I maxed out Energy Storage, so that he could cast all the spells he wanted to.

But the fight wasn't really subtle at all.

arbiter · Jan 15, 2006, 10:01 PM // 22:01

on my E/R i had him down to almost 0 health then he killed me, but he sprang a trap i made and died of bleeding, i got the 50k XP but it took me back to augry and i didnt ascend ^^

Rafe · Jan 15, 2006, 11:13 PM // 23:13

I was doing it with my warrior at a low level. Hit him w/ some bleeding. You'll see.

MMSDome · Jan 15, 2006, 11:14 PM // 23:14

i was told doppleganger was real hard using mesmer so i brought energy burn only and owned him

Sledge · Jan 15, 2006, 11:20 PM // 23:20

Heh, it was with my "main" norman.

W/R and I loaded all my traps, pet attacks(no pet), and 1 sword skill.
I brought my best purple weapon.

Doppleganger brought a bow. Huh?