Guild Wars 2

When you transition from fractal shard to another fractal shard, you now lose all your stacking buffs, e.g. Bloodlust/Perception/Corruption stacks. It also seems to remove anything that you would normally lose through a normal map transition, such as Mesmer Mimic/Echo.

Why? If we are skillful enough to keep it, we should be allowed to keep it. If it’s a problem with Mimic then fix Mimic. Does anyone know if this is a bug or nerf? (does not seem like a bug – you’d have to explicitly add a call to remove it given it’s the same ‘map’)

A disappointment for me this patch because I made dual bloodlust ascended weapons just for fractals before the patch rolled in, only to find out this.

Stuff like Bloodlust sigils need to be reworked in PvE. They’re nice but it’s hard to get 25 stacks in dungeon due to not enough fighting because of skips or mobs not counting (like bomb golems in CoE).

I think in dungeons it should be like PvP and you gain 5 stacks per kill.

As for them getting removed in fractals now, I think it should be changed back. You’re still technically in the same dungeon even after you change fractals

They did it to prevent mimic. Even though when mimic was reported as an exploit they said it was fine and smart use of mechanics. Nice bait and switch by anet.

spoj.9672:

They did it to prevent mimic. Even though when mimic was reported as an exploit they said it was fine and smart use of mechanics. Nice bait and switch by anet.

Mossman spawns on 31, so you can mimic him, but it doesn’t do damage anymore (I think they gave mini-bosses AR), so I’m not sure if this was to fix mimic.

An Ode to Mimic

Gone are the days of the perfect, bouncing axe
KO’ing the ettin, shaman, and vet with bomb attacks.
Forevermore shall we weep,
Lost hope to roll the fights that made us sleep.
Dealing with the frosty tower, the icy poll,
Never again which we shall troll,
Guardians be quick with stability equipped,
An A net decision has once again been flipped.
Gone forver, our purple tick,
Which made Rabsovich grab his kitten.

Mimic was more fun than functional most of the time, but hey. It was cool while it lasted.