Guild Wars 2

with FoM VOIP is needed. you cannot coordinate with your teammates on the fly via text. I will never tough another PUG again for FoM. I ran pugs all day today and i got so angry i had to just log off and do something else.

The dungeons are pretty cool though, once you have a propper team that is.

Sorry you had a bad group. I did it with a PuG last night one person DCed and did not come back on, so we continued. We had a great time. I was lvl 42 (thief) andother thief lvl 38 I think he was, a Necro 70sonthing and a lvl 80 Guardian. We had no troubles. Had a few wipes while we worked out how to beat certain bosses and falling off the scaffolding!
I guess you just got unlucky. Dont give in, the dungeons are truly great fun. Not trried the swamp one yet I hear it is brutal though so not looking forward to that.

Personally I don’t ever want to be forced to get lost in a large guild or jump through any other random hoops to be considered a proper team… just to see game content been there done that…

My experience of PUGs in GW2 has been very possitive up to this point.. all downhill from here.

The swamp is near impossible with a PUG that lacks coordination.

The cultists takes hours.

The charr one is 50/50.

Only ones I’ve enjoyed are the dolphin one and the asura jumping puzzle one.

to be honest, my Lv.1 group was absolutley kittykitten. No cordination and you would assume they played with one hand on the mouse and the other scratching their snickers bar with the amount of attention they payed to dodging or generally performing simple tasks. With that being said, once i got to lv. 3 I pretty much ended up in groups that knew what to do and did it well. So patience is all i can suggest.

I completed them all with a PuG and no voice coms…multipe times,you probably just had a bad group…it is not as easy as playing with your guild mates on voice coms but it is not that hard

yeah OP, you are totally right VOIP is needed, get a guild run it’s the best way to enjoy the content. We did d1 twice with 0 wipe. Could not have been possible whiteout TS

personally i don’t think i would run with pugs at least for 2/3 weeks when everyone start to know what they are supposed to do.

Azure Prower.8701:

The swamp is near impossible with a PUG that lacks coordination.

The cultists takes hours.

The charr one is 50/50.

Only ones I’ve enjoyed are the dolphin one and the asura jumping puzzle one.

The dolphin one? Is that the one with Jellyfish at the end? It seems to be on the achievement page, but I’ve done that one twice and no one was turned into a Dolphin. The only other water one I know of is the Ocean one and I have yet to do that.

VoIP is not a must, and a decent PuG will manage just fine.

Me and 3 friends along with a PuGer got to level 3 fairly easy, ran into issues on one boss (cthulu) and the piranahs in the dark underwater caverns.

We used very little communication with the PuG, just short plans before a fight regarding supposed obvious boss mechanics or routes. One of my friends was also half sleeping/loaded and it was still pretty much a walk in the part.

Biggest issues with PuGs or bad groups in general is that they dont keep track on health bars, miss too many dodges and miss easily spotted “downed” messages from party members in chat.

Fractals are nowhere near as annoying as the regular dungeons, the fractals play mor like open world events or personal story quests. There are no uber trash mobs, and bosses are fairly easy to understand even BEFORE fighting them.

IMO fractals are PuG friendly to say the least.

The swamp can be an issue, but shouldnt be.

All you need to do is designate wisps before you move from the starting spot. You tell number one to say go when hes about to pick the first (the one that needs to run furthest), when the time starts ticking the other 2 pick theirs and run their kitten off (equip speed boost weapons/utility). The 2 leftover members make sure to block the spider trail and the other, while the guy picking the one by the traps should have ZERO problem going solo.

Braxxis.7062:

Azure Prower.8701:

The swamp is near impossible with a PUG that lacks coordination.

The cultists takes hours.

The charr one is 50/50.

Only ones I’ve enjoyed are the dolphin one and the asura jumping puzzle one.

The dolphin one? Is that the one with Jellyfish at the end? It seems to be on the achievement page, but I’ve done that one twice and no one was turned into a Dolphin. The only other water one I know of is the Ocean one and I have yet to do that.

There are more than 1 paths for fractals,you will turn into a dolphin eventually (yes it’s the one with the jellyfish.

i think an in-game party voip would be awsome

Timmy.9371:

with FoM VOIP is needed. you cannot coordinate with your teammates on the fly via text. I will never tough another PUG again for FoM. I ran pugs all day today and i got so angry i had to just log off and do something else.

The dungeons are pretty cool though, once you have a propper team that is.

Ran FoM Difficulty 1-5 with a pug. 1st pug had a 29 warrior. We were successful on every run. No voip was used.

Iv tried over 4 times to do FoM with pugs and failed them all. They are just too hard. Happy others have had results but i can tell you now they are too hard for pugs.

No you don’t. Got to Level 4 until time constraints.

Maybe you type slow?

What did you guys expect Anet made most previous dungeons ridiculously easy where people would autoattack and tab out now obviously not all previous dungeons were like this

honestly its completely ridiculous how any mmo in 2012 would go live without a voice program. TS, vent, mumble, skype, etc…all need to be downloaded for a feature that should be built in.

Have completed all 9 fractals with pugs only so far…

azmodeus.3409:

honestly its completely ridiculous how any mmo in 2012 would go live without a voice program. TS, vent, mumble, skype, etc…all need to be downloaded for a feature that should be built in.

It costs the company a lot to invest in that feature and you usually get something lackluster

It IS a lot lot more fun to play with people you actually like.

I just completed the fist scale of all the FotM for this first time this morning with a very good pug. We actually had one guy leave randomly in the begging of the first dungeon, but we were able to 4 man the rest.

In conclusion, I absolutely loved this dungeon. Although it has some bugs and minor issues, it was incredibly entertaining for me. The fights were awesome. The mechanics and tactics needed were great. Everything about it was VERY cool imo. And don’t get me started on the colossal fight. That was SO much fun. The different tactics needed for killing the adds and using the hammer to destroy the shackles was very clever. And the scenery of the dungeons (including the Colossal) was amazing! I must have taken 15-20 screenshots of the colossal dungeon alone! Overall, this is one of the mot awesome dungeons I’ve ever done. Well done Anet, cant wait to see what you hold in the future!