Guild Wars 2

Esprit Dumort.3109:

No checklist for something as basic as a party wipe?

Also, if you try the relog trick, it doesn’t let you get to the reward chest after the last boss. Until they fix it, save a res orb for that.

Don’t worry all you get really are blues & Greens. Do one round of Camps and you will have made more in a fraction of the time.

Just relax everyone, they’ll have it figured out. May have been a problem with versioning… if separate teams are working on the profession polish, and a different team is on dungeons and fractals, it could simply be a miscommunication. On the bright side, everything in the new fractal looked great. I like the concept-arty boss with the beam of light tracking. looked like something out of a Tron storyboard.

Besides you might have a Gnashblade spy in QA that really wanted their dang Abaddon fractal and they are making us pay for it lol.

Credit where credit is due…..The art department is singlehandedly carrying the company. The art in the game has always been amazing.

McSlappy.1372:

Credit where credit is due…..The art department is singlehandedly carrying the company. The art in the game has always been amazing.

quoted for truth!!

BTW Revive orbs work great here!

Didn’t you get the memo? Using revive orbs is an EXPLOIT. You were clearly not intended to progress further.

As much as I like to defend developers for having a very hard job… I really wonder how this one even made it through the beta phase.

I mean I won’t sling words like ‘garbage’ around like some people, but I’d appreciate it if you guys would acknowledge the fail.

On that note, I assume the problem hasn’t been fixed yet.

This is something you would pick up in one single run through during playtesting. Was there seriously no testing AT ALL on this release?

This entire patch has been an embarrassment.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Simonoly.4352:

Still no waypoint/means of respawning without having to either log out or have the rest of the group sacrifice themselves (both options are ridiculous). It’s not as if you can actually res anyone stuck in that horrible burning DOT room.

What’s the point of that room anyway? We never went in there while finishing the storymode instance. Is it only used when you come across the fractal in a normal run?

Oh. I’m not entirely sure. I heard that other groups completed the story without going in there, but the group I was with took both coolant rods through the fire room to complete the story.

This is shame srsly. Worst part is you cannot skip that useless story (who cares about some story in this game ffs?) and do regular fractals.

At least they gave us some new, unique armor skins in the gem store… they’re only like 800 gems for fiery versions of … oh wait… previously, unique cultural skins?! karma skins?! 800 gems?? omfg!

Ah, at least we got our fractal run going in the guild and the Aether paths were nice; however, another guild group got the Molten boss fractal which bugs out and doesn’t let people exit or progress so basically you lost 4 fractals worth of progress… :/

Oh oh, and I almost forgot, after an evening playing through fractals, I check my daily achievements and woah, Daily Fractal Runner was still not completed… hmm… how about that…

Anet – I appreciate the work your developers are doing, but this content was clearly rushed and way below par in terms of quality than usual… wth happened?

Adam.4103:

Maybe test things before you release them?

Don’t be silly…..that’d cost money

Simonoly.4352:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Simonoly.4352:

Still no waypoint/means of respawning without having to either log out or have the rest of the group sacrifice themselves (both options are ridiculous). It’s not as if you can actually res anyone stuck in that horrible burning DOT room.

What’s the point of that room anyway? We never went in there while finishing the storymode instance. Is it only used when you come across the fractal in a normal run?

Oh. I’m not entirely sure. I heard that other groups completed the story without going in there, but the group I was with took both coolant rods through the fire room to complete the story.

I we never touched the burning room, just went from slime to maze then straight to the center, seems a bit odd. Could just be multiple paths or an extra chest.

McSlappy.1372:

Credit where credit is due…..The art department is singlehandedly carrying the company. The art in the game has always been amazing.

Pretty much. I’ve given up hope for an engaging story, but the settings and visuals are always appealing.

Greyfur.1082:

This is why you need a public test server, the people you have right now are not up to par.

Actually, wouldn’t this bug point to them being above par? Below, whatever… After all, they apparently didn’t die…

Rajani Isa.6294:

Greyfur.1082:

This is why you need a public test server, the people you have right now are not up to par.

Actually, wouldn’t this bug point to them being above par? Below, whatever… After all, they apparently didn’t die…

Not up to par in testing and playing are completely different. Test servers are not just to get a preview of what is coming but to find bugs, exploits.. etc.

I’m amazed that this WP issue is still not fixed. Usually the dev team is pretty quick with patches in my limited experience.

rofl… this game xD

The fractal update is the essence of what I think of the gw2 staff:
OH MY GOD, the art team is amazing! The fractal trailer is a piece of art, that is worthy of so much more than being slapped on a half hearted content patch.
OH MY GOD, the content design team is kitten, Q&A nonexistant. just wow…

I wouldn’t expect an update on this issue until next week. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, after all.

So…yeah. Enjoy!

Cool down guys. You all have to know that the devs do not play the same game as the players so it is entirely understandable that they could miss it out.

It’s QA, not Q&A. QA means quality assurance, and Q&A means questions and answers.

FateOmega.9601:

Cool down guys. You all have to know that the devs do not play the same game as the players so it is entirely understandable that they could miss it out.

Sometimes I wonder if the devs play the game at all, honestly. I mean, the guy in the livestream was using his healing skill at full health for stealth and apparently didn’t know what utility skills were.

But you’d think then that when they DO come up with a mechanism such as Mistlock Instabilities, that they would setup this table of instabilities per level, and then go through each fractal and look at the consequences of each?

Say, “Keem Them in Line” which gives damaged enemies boons when unattended… where does that happen, for example, oh, ofc, Mai Trin boss fractal where she ports out to let Horrik do her dirty work. If you’re lucky she gets regen and heals back up…

It’s stuff like this that needs thorough testing, yes, you can think of a difficult condition to fight under, we all can, but you need to ensure that what you come up with doesn’t break or become impossible in any of the game situations.