Easiest And Most Forgiving Veteran Dungeon?

HardlineShark

Hi All!

I'm at CP330 on my stam DPS Templar and want to dip my toe into a veteran dungeon. Which is the easiest and most forgiving for me to brush up on my mechanics ahead of time and not make a complete fool of myself? I have made my build based on metas, got most of the crafted sets I needed, practiced my rotation in PVE and PVP.... I just want a dungeon to see how "ready" I am.

What would you suggest?

DLM

Go for Dungeons I.

sionIV

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

MartiniDaniels

Crypts of Hearts 1. There are no one-shot mechanics as I remember, but if your dps is too low, last boss will take like eternity and you'll see if are you ready or not.

sionIV

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

Crypts of Hearts 1. There are no one-shot mechanics as I remember, but if your dps is too low, last boss will take like eternity and you'll see if are you ready or not.

While the dungeon is easy, the last boss has 10 million HP (with scroll), and if you position yourself wrong, you can get one shot from them quite easily.

Tasear

sionIV wrote: »

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

Wayrest 1 has final boss can KO final people if low cp or don't block/shield. In this case it's actually 2 that is easier.

Salvas_Aren

All of the above and Vaults of Madness.

dazee

FG1 is super easy on vet as long as you dodge roll out of the big PBAOE the last boss does.

Tan9oSuccka

Tasear wrote: »

sionIV wrote: »

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

Wayrest 1 has final boss can KO final people if low cp or don't block/shield. In this case it's actually 2 that is easier.

Agreed. I do not recommend Wayrest 1. Final boss KO’s so many max CPs.

I’d start with these two:

Fungal Grotto 1
City of Ash 1

MartiniDaniels

sionIV wrote: »

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

Crypts of Hearts 1. There are no one-shot mechanics as I remember, but if your dps is too low, last boss will take like eternity and you'll see if are you ready or not.

While the dungeon is easy, the last boss has 10 million HP (with scroll), and if you position yourself wrong, you can get one shot from them quite easily.

OP asked for a dungeon which will test his build. One-shot in CH1.. it's more like if 1 boss explodes and second will runaway from tank and hit you in the same moment, so still requires 2 errors to die. While in other HMs like Spindle1/Wayrest1/Fungal1, boss really one-shots if attack is not blocked/dodged, this 1-shot mechanics don't test anything, they simply require experience how to counter them.
For dps main check is, well, dps. And that's what last boss of CH1 provides.

sionIV

Tasear wrote: »

sionIV wrote: »

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

Wayrest 1 has final boss can KO final people if low cp or don't block/shield. In this case it's actually 2 that is easier.

Pretty much every veteran dungeon has one or more mechanics that can KO people if they don't pay attention. I fully disagree that Wayrest II would be easier. The normal trash mobs in Wayrest II are more difficult, and have more health. There are bosses in Wayrest II that are much more difficult than the last boss in Wayrest I. If you don't do the alters, you'll wipe on the boss, the lich in the water can one shot the entire team if your healer is a bit slow. It's all around a more difficult dungeon than Wayrest I. I PuG a lot, and Wayrest I is the dungeon that my groups get Survivor on the easiest, along with City of Ash I.

kwinter

Assuming you are going to use group finder so no matter what dungeon you pick your results will vary based who you get grouped with.just don’t go with dlc dungeons or city of ash 2. Save those for when you have higher cp and have more experience

SidraWillowsky

IMO COA I is the easiest, and has the easiest HM aside from Darkshade II, which I wouldn't recommend until you're comfortable with vet dungeons and your DPS (it's basically a DPS test)... DSC II HM is actually easier than the non-HM if you have decent DPS, coordination, and a good healer.

kwinter

Also sometimes you just get a bad group. So if you have a bad run don’t get discouraged. The only way you get better is to practice

Nilarynpaw

Fungal 1,
Darkshade 1,
Spindle 1,
Vaults of Madness and maybe Crypt of Hearts 1.

kwinter

Also I find volenfell to be pretty easy. The only thing on last boss it not so much about dps as it is just staying on the move.

mobicera

Really any non #2 base game dungeon in non hard mode is rather forgiving. Hard mode typically just adds more health and damage in base game non version 2 dungeons. If you are on PS4 na I often tank dungeons for newer people that have tried to prepare and would tank any base game non version 2 dungeon...

rotaugen454

Tan9oSuccka wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

sionIV wrote: »

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

Wayrest 1 has final boss can KO final people if low cp or don't block/shield. In this case it's actually 2 that is easier.

Agreed. I do not recommend Wayrest 1. Final boss KO’s so many max CPs.

I’d start with these two:

Fungal Grotto 1
City of Ash 1

I was able to solo Wayrest 1 on vet... until I got to the last boss.

Lisutaris

All I dungeons and same order like lvling up.

Fungal I = most easy one.

zaria

sionIV wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

sionIV wrote: »

Fungal Grotto I
City of Ash I
Darkshade Caverns I
Wayrest Sewers I

Wayrest 1 has final boss can KO final people if low cp or don't block/shield. In this case it's actually 2 that is easier.

Pretty much every veteran dungeon has one or more mechanics that can KO people if they don't pay attention. I fully disagree that Wayrest II would be easier. The normal trash mobs in Wayrest II are more difficult, and have more health. There are bosses in Wayrest II that are much more difficult than the last boss in Wayrest I. If you don't do the alters, you'll wipe on the boss, the lich in the water can one shot the entire team if your healer is a bit slow. It's all around a more difficult dungeon than Wayrest I. I PuG a lot, and Wayrest I is the dungeon that my groups get Survivor on the easiest, along with City of Ash I.

COA1, main reason you don't get no death run is fall damage jumping down from the tree

MJallday

Vaults of madness, you can pretty much solo that on vet

jlmurra2

I am currently cp 709, and I just completed my first veteran dungeon last evening. It was Banished Cells II due to that being the undaunted pledge I had.

I was the tank, and it was going very well until the final boss. Our group was wiped out after a fairly long fight. Then the group leader informed us all that it was set to hard mode, and asked if that is what we wanted. Everyone replied "no". After that we had no trouble killing the boss.

I have been planning on completing veteran dungeons for a long while, though This game has so much content, and events, that doing them just keeps getting pushed down my to do list.

siddique

Banished Cells I

Soleya

siddique wrote: »

Banished Cells I

Hardmode has a one shot on the final boss, which wrecks a lot of newer players, and then typically wrecks people trying to res those down players.

Mettaricana

Vaults of madness nothing but first mini boss hits for beans

FierceSam

Any of the 1 dungeons, you should be perfectly fine especially if you have done the normal versions.

If you want a great set of catch up vids, Xynode’s All About Mechanics ones on YouTube are the business.

Good luck and have fun

zaria

siddique wrote: »

Banished Cells I

BC1 has an nasty one shot who is very hard on low cp even non HM. Yes its an mechanic for it.

For that watch the relevant dungeon before doing it, its probably the best walk-trough I know.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rM-3hfqAOSLSP3w_W57Iw All about mecanics
i use it myself.

MattT1988

Fungal 1 and City of Ash 1 are on the bottom of difficulty scale IMO.

Karius_Imalthar

I agree with a lot of the previous posters. Go for the "I" (one) version dungeons, like Fungal Grotto I, etc. Also, you are likely to end up with a group of experienced people who have done them many times.

FierceSam

jlmurra2 wrote: »

I am currently cp 709, and I just completed my first veteran dungeon last evening. It was Banished Cells II due to that being the undaunted pledge I had.

I was the tank, and it was going very well until the final boss. Our group was wiped out after a fairly long fight. Then the group leader informed us all that it was set to hard mode, and asked if that is what we wanted. Everyone replied "no". After that we had no trouble killing the boss.

I have been planning on completing veteran dungeons for a long while, though This game has so much content, and events, that doing them just keeps getting pushed down my to do list.

Gratz on your first vet. BC2 can be a full on pain if people don’t know what to do especially for the tank. You won’t find many that difficult from a tanking perspective outside the DLC ones.

It will all seem easy from here on in

SirAndy

I find Darkshade Caverns easier than City of Ash for some reason. I think it's the annoying teleport of the final boss in CoA.


1. Fungal Grotto I
2. Darkshade Caverns I
3. City of Ash I
4. Wayrest Sewers I