Guild Wars 2

The fractals update made a lot of bad players start to do fractals.
In addition to that there are still bugs…
That is what makes fractals harder then before.
Because of this and the reset to level 30 i dont have any motivation to rush to 50.

Its just stupid how they want to implement leaderboards for content that has progression blocking bugs in them.

At first i thought the fractal update could be great… but i was wrong.

Now i am only doing 1 fractal run each day and climb up slowly and get the daily reward every run.

I dont want to compete in something that is somewhat rng based and started with bugs that were able to block progress.

Only the new fractals, new agony system and mistlock abilies
without the leader boards and the reset to 30
aswell as better rewards (risk/reward or reward/time)
would have been way better.

I loved the fractals… but now i hate them because i have to level up again but with worse players in my group.

+1 all over this.
You can keep ignoring us anet but we won’t stop posting.
We are however playing less now. But you knew that.

So you pugged yourself to your “naked 79’s”?

Why can’t you just run up to 50 with the same people you were talking about “naked level 79’s” with?

AKGeo.6048:

So you pugged yourself to your “naked 79’s”?

Why can’t you just run up to 50 with the same people you were talking about “naked level 79’s” with?

I did 50+ runs with randoms from lfg.com and later with the ingame lfg tool.
The problem is that the randoms for lvl 30-50 are way worse then the 50+ players.

Its like breaking a sPvP matchmaking system.
Let’s say you are rank 500 in leaderboards.
And then the matchmaking system puts you in a team where everyone else has 50% or less in the leaderboards.
But the enemies will stay at your level (around rank 500).

It would be very frustrating for you to play and see how your team stands with 3 players on 1 uncontested point and not knowing stuff that is essential to win on this level.

Face the facts:

• The number of bad players in fractals had to rise, since most people didn’t care about high lvl fracs in the time prior to this patch.
• Even unskilled players had no hard time getting higher than frac lvl 30. As a result they are now there aswell.
• The new fractals are different from the old ones – it is not like you were thrown back to the very start like the reset of leaderboards in PvP did. Instead you’re doing something new.

And even at rock bottom it still is the same with instances:

• Carry your party, support the weaker players to get through. Maybe even explain, but never, NEVER let them feel like they’re bad and you’re the super-experienced-I-am-better-than-you-elitist.
• Don’t just play and survive for yourself, care for the others

Some useful tips:

• Try not to have the same class twice
• Get away from Rock Bottom and it will get better – a lot.

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill

Let this be said by an elitist, who wants you to learn your lesson.