Guild Wars 2

What an awesome dungeon! I’ve spent all night playing it and it was well worth the time. My team and I had loads of fun trying to figure it out, and some the fracs (like the GW1 reference) was fantastic.

Thank you so much for this awesome free content. I appreciate your effort and look forward to more.

Couldn’t stop myself of coming here to post a big THANK YOU to ANet!
Just finished my first 3 fractals and they are AMAZING! Honestly… I am over the top! Me and the guildies were completely taken by surprise! The dungeons, the scenarios, the amazing mechanics in all the fractals! Uau… Really, where did you guys pull this of?

Congrats… I knew you would make me happy! I could never predict you would make me feel like a little kid opening a big present!!! I mean… during the last boss fight, the scenario, the music… I got goosebumps!!!!

IT IS THAT GOOD… THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s complete awesome sauce for sure

I think it’s really good too so far. I’m pretty happy with it, and it’s fun and random enough that I don’t mind grinding it a little to get the items i want..

I agree, it’s so kittening awesome, more dungeons with traps and puzzles like this pls

love the paradox.

Holy kitten this is a good dungeon. Oh my god.

Freed the Giant
Beat back the Dredge
and fought through the Ice Blizzard

All bosses had interesting or even escalating mechanics.

Do Not Run These With Idiots

I’m very glad to see this because there is definitely a bit of disappointment in other aspects of the event so far.

Basically, yes

It’s amazing!!!

Does the whole dungeon have jumping and dodging of crap? First part was extremely annoying.

The Fractals are SO MUCH WIN and i can only hope that new maps will get added to the rotation in the future.
The level of their design is absolutely breathtaking, the ‘many short challenges’ idea is awesome and the drops have been over the top so far.

Just some achievements don’t register (had no failures with jumping at the uncagetorised but nothing popped…), but that’s something to fix in no time. Great job!

Ya this dungeon is just awesome! So much to see and each fractal is like way different!

This has got to be the most interesting dungeon yet.

Haven’t completed a full 3 fractal run but every time its something new, interesting, and really hard.

Its amazing! Well done Anet!

Normally i dont like dungeons!

But the Fractals are very very nice!! I really enjoy them!

I haven’t seen it yet, but it seems people are very happy with the new dungeon. I’m pleased to hear that.

Yeah they’re really cool. More like EOTN mission pack or GW1 missions. Definitely a nice kind of content to have!

I really love this new dungeon it’s awesome in so many ways <3 !!!

The dungeon is really amazing.

The bosses are unique and interesting, the dungeon “traveling” parts are great. It feels like I’m playing a console adventure RPG type game, and THAT is what a dungeon should feel like.

I have to agree. While I haven’t done many explorables in this game, fractals really feels FUN. It’s not nearly as good as what really PvE focused games offer, but it’s getting there. Complete with Star Trek beamups and hilarious jumping platforms.

Maybe it’s just me, because it’s new and there are no tactics for it. Our group had to figure everything out ourselves. That is fun. A lot of fun.

Now anet just needs to find a way to make dynamic events like this too.

Dungeon is awesome. Because of that dungeon i could forgive you lag fest of the event.

@Crazyeye I only run it one time (3 instances) but there is a lot of jumping (they not hard, you can take your time, and you can get revived by team mates). Just use distance weapons to kill enemies. As for dodging. This game is about dodging and there is a lot. If you talk about stairs in asura instance, as long as 3 players finish it, they can disable it for others.

And there is a lot of team work involved. I can only hope that a new map would be at least half as great as new dungeon.

Never got a chance to try it out because my Thief was not wearing Exotics …
(Well it mattered to the groups wanting to do the dungeon) …

It is really great. Nice work.

Budchgon.2108:

Never got a chance to try it out because my Thief was not wearing Exotics …
(Well it mattered to the groups wanting to do the dungeon) …

Level 1 doesn’t even require exotics. Really, you don’t probably even have to be level 80 to do it.

From that point forward tho, you better be geared and you better know the people you are playing with. I heard that level 3 starts using agony.

mapokl.3167:

@Crazyeye I only run it one time (3 instances) but there is a lot of jumping (they not hard, you can take your time, and you can get revived by team mates). Just use distance weapons to kill enemies. As for dodging. This game is about dodging and there is a lot. If you talk about stairs in asura instance, as long as 3 players finish it, they can disable it for others.
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Ah ok, well the pug I was in was having a hard time and we lost two people to them quitting. The jumping wasn’t so hard nor the ramp, but I only pug for dungeons and only run with guildies in Wv3, so I might be SOL…..

Underwater combat is awesome!

Came here to post about how FRIKEN AWESOME these dungeons are! Breathtaking with awesome bosses. Not a zergfest in sight.
ONE PROBLEM THOUGH! If someone gets dced they can’t rejoin and you either have to 4 man the rest or all leave and start again

I agree with what’s been said. I was apprehensive about this dungeon, but after running it, I think it’s incredibly imaginative & fun.

I tried it earlier. We did the Blizzard Map, Underwater Map, and the Unknown Map (abandon asura lab). It wasn’t hard, then again I was difficulty 1, but it was rather unique. The puzzles were cool. My favorite was Unknown for sure. Starts like a jumping puzzle with few foes along the way. Then there was the room where you had to dodge the waves of light by sidestepping to reach top [Hint: I cheated it. They count as projectiles so as an elementalist I ran up, used Magnetic Aura when one got close, then Lightning Flashed further up, then Mist Form to end =P].
One guy left and we 4 manned the last one (unknown). I like the idea of 3 short mini-dungeons with a chest at the end of each over the other style. Nice change. I even got a back slot drop (only a green one, but still…).

Best dungeon I have ever played its so much fun!

LiveSpartan.8206:

Best dungeon I have ever played its so much fun!

Yes indeed

Fractals are AWESOME! Well designed… Fun Mechanics… and… Fractals of the Mists > Lost Shore Main Event.

Just wanted to make another thread about how awesome the new dungeon is! replying to an existing thread is not enough :-p Just finishedmy first 3 spectrals, the dredge (wich had a super annoying and hard boss), the underwater thing and the charr pre-searing thing. we had done the fractal with that giant statue to, wich was amazing aswell! Again Anet, great job!

i played 3 of them, the charr one, the hammer one and the ppl thrown in the lava one, all pretty standard, hammer one is fun with a good group but terrible with pubs that dont listen, the charr one was pretty mediocre.

So far im not impressed, i need to play more to see more, but i see ppl on level 3 difficulty and still only have 5 fractal per run, i dont see myself repeating the same dungeon 100 times 2 higher stat gear pieces, i still prefer CoE to all 3 of them.

I agree! Best dungeon ever!

They are all perfectly designed, unique, the perfect length and rewarding. The puzzles are fun, the mechanics are challenging (maybe not at lvl 1, but more so at level 3)

If you did nothing but add more fractals from now on I would be perfectly content!

Yes AMAZING!
/15 chars

The thing that completely sucks is the fact that if your game D/C’s or crashes you will be unable to rejoin your group, forcing them to lose all progress to either pick you or another person up. For example, earlier today I finished 2 fractals with a group, and on the 3rd one (the asuran jumping puzzle one) my game crashed right in the middle of a jump. I just ended up leaving the group because they seemed to be managing with 4 people. Then just about an hour ago I was in a group, and the second fractal was the jumping puzzle one again. And guess what? I crashed on the same exact jump. The group agreed to leave and pick me up after they finished it, and about 30 minutes later they do. Then we are in the grawl lava fractal, and not 2 effin’ seconds in, I get that ridiculous “Incorrect Password” bug, and am booted from the game again. At this point, I was so mad at Anet I didn’t even bother launching the game again to explain what had happened, so I had just stayed off.

It is a great dungeon, but if this bug (or possibly feature?) doesn’t get removed, I will never do this dungeon again.

Edit: And do not blame the game crashing on my computer. I have a custom built $1100 computer and it is not responsible for this.

Truly Amaizing Thank you!

It’s not bad, “breathtaking” i think is going abit to far. Also i don’t see myself doing these after maybe a week. I got 35 tokens so far and im starting to get abit bored of it.

I do like the jumping parts and the dolphin

Love the new dungeons. But as I was going round – perhaps I missed it – I kept looking for the story. I know we were killing things and the fights were fun but I didn’t know why most of the time. I was expecting to see some mysterious lore from Tyria’s past and perhaps I did, who knows…I did the snow one, the jellyfish one and the asura jumping one. No idea what any of them were about.

Dungeon lengths are spot on, everything has a mechanic to it, the art design is breathtaking. Have not tried level 2 dificulty yet, very excited to go for that tomorrow.

I don’t know who designed the manic asura and his cat golems, but that was such a brilliant boss fight. The music went so well, the golems were so funny that I could barely concentrate on the fight, and the pace was absolutely perfect. Nothing felt overtuned, unbalanced or unfair. It was just right.

Best dungeon ever.

This is of course my opinion, not to be taken as fact by and for anyone else… aw, heck with it. Best dungeon ever. I’m having a blast.

Ok.

I am writing this while watching at the World Boss of the dungueon…

Holly kitten!!!!! That was… Wow!

I’ve enjoyed Fractals very much. Do not recommend running them with people who have little patience to learn the mechanics or who suppose that they will be “powerpulled” with the group.

I had a terrible experience with the new dungeon today

Kept on desconnecting all the time…kicked out of the dungeon… then when i logged back i was sent to a different Excess … The whole party had to regroup and re-enter the dungeon..then someone else disconnects… start all over again….

I had too much with the loging screen tonight…I hope tomorrow i can finally play it :/

This dungeon is awesome. Haven’t gotten to the point where I need ascended gear yet, but I imagine by that time i’d have enough tokens.

STILL don’t know how I feel about another tier, but at it’s face value, VERY good job with the dungeon.

Agree with OP, absolutely breathtaking. Hope to see more of this style dungeon in the future!

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

Couldn’t stop myself of coming here to post a big THANK YOU to ANet!
Just finished my first 3 fractals and they are AMAZING! Honestly… I am over the top! Me and the guildies were completely taken by surprise! The dungeons, the scenarios, the amazing mechanics in all the fractals! Uau… Really, where did you guys pull this of?

Congrats… I knew you would make me happy! I could never predict you would make me feel like a little kid opening a big present!!! I mean… during the last boss fight, the scenario, the music… I got goosebumps!!!!

IT IS THAT GOOD… THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Translated into an easily-digestible post, for ArenaNet’s ease-of-consumption:

Hoo! Eddie Van Grog likes you! OooOoOo!

Thank you for shifting this game from an MMO to a dungeon crawler.

Who needs Dynamic Events to clear off waypoints or to win back temples when we can gather 5 and crawl into a dungeon that offers everything that we need.

Awesome job ANET. Thanks for increased stats on the rewards as well.

Even with all the bugs and issues, the new dungeon is amazing, it’s not even comparable with the Main ones, I hope it gets expanded.