Guild Wars 2

I did the Grawl fractal twice today, on lvl 32 and 34. There is something seriously wrong with the fight on the upper plattform, before the shaman jumps into the lava. During that part of the figh the shaman gets a protective shield and you have to throw infused stones to get rid of it and continue to dps him. The problem is: no infused stones appear. Both times we had to wait out the shield, fight, get shield again, wait it out etc. I think something has gone wrong during the update and it would be nice if it could be fixed like it was before.

I don’t know if it’s a bug or intentional, but that’s always been something that happened. It’s really annoying when it does.

I recall it happening very rarely, and I’ve been doing lvl 48 daily for months. Now it happens every single time and I don’t see a purpose with it. It does not make the fight harder, just prolongs it and makes it super annoying.

I’ve gotten volcano twice, and it hasn’t happened either time. I think it’s just bad luck. I’m actually curious if it is a bug or not, because it is really annoying.

IceVyper.6810:

I recall it happening very rarely, and I’ve been doing lvl 48 daily for months. Now it happens every single time and I don’t see a purpose with it. It does not make the fight harder, just prolongs it and makes it super annoying.

Anet’s philosophy of making things more challenging is to add as much HP to bosses as possible and create mechanics that do nothing but make a fight longer and more boring rather than interesting and creative.

Having said that, what happened here might just be a bug. I can’t remember ever running that fractal and not having the stones to throw at him.

I’ve had that happen both with the boss fight itself and the phase where we needed to defend the villagers from the running vets.

As long as they fixed the condition duration and speed buffs of those vets, I’m OK either way with not having the stones appear on a regular basis. Nothing worse than having an entire group of 5 beating on a veteran and having them just juggernaut through to the villagers, practically ignoring all forms of CC we throw at them.