Guild Wars 2

Fractals are the best content in GW2 till now! (and I like the game, in the complex, so…)
I simply love the Blizzard Storm and the Sealed Giant!

The only flaw, maybe, is the lack of waypoints, but we’ve managed to do it 2 times w/o any big problem.

Great job with Fractals, seriously!

Hey guys, I hearing a lot of hate on the marsh so let me give you some tips.
First change your action bars/traits (no don’t repec just switch out your offensive traits for some defensive/speed ones) so you have swiftness and condition removals. If you can’t let someone who can run the wisps while you trigger traps and protect them.
If anyone carrying a wisp is downed or drops it the timer is reset.
If a nasty mob is in your way dodge past it/get a non runner to distract it.
COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR GROUP.
This is by far the fastest frac to run once you get the hang of it.
Good luck.

greyman.8105:

It’s an interesting combination of ‘stuff’ but really a mixed bag. The Jellyfish really was just a ridiculous spamfest with a boss with way too much health and not enough real sense of danger or strategy needed besides swim in circles and click skills.

The Dredge fractal ending with the Legendary Rampaging Ice Elemental broke our team’s spirits though. That fight was either bugged or just foolishly difficult. It’s one thing if you can only hurt him when he’s dripping with hot oil, but to have him fully regen as soon as he cools was a bit of a kick in the boys. Particularly when he would tend to stop and sit down for a while during the fight (giving just enough time for the superheated thing to wear off). Despite our best efforts we couldn’t dent him and gave up after 20+ minutes of total futility.

20 minutes? Our group got handed that piece of kitten as our 3rd fractal, having already been messed over by the dolphin level losing us a lot of armour bonuses. We played that boss for well over an hour and a half, when none of us had any armour pieces left and in the end we just had to throw in the towel. What you have to do is blindingly obvious, but executing is nearly impossible.

You miss one, just one, of those lava pots and bam he has full health, nothing you can do. It is ludicrously easy for him to path out of the zone. With no armour any of his abilites 1 shot everybody, and even if you interrupt the heal he still gets more health back than you can take off in one superheat.

Awful. And I was loving the dungeon till then. Sigh.

TonySu.7942:

Please remove the Swamp. Or make it less annoying.

Totaly agree, the swamp is awfull,, ok it was everytime with a pug, but 5 time i got the swamp, and we made at least 10try, never succeed because – too much trap – thoses freaking wall who close just behind you face
And only 30secondes... can you imagine ? are you insane at Anet ? did you really try your game ?

Oh and Btw, in serval others run, the party just give up the swamp to reset the fractal.

Thanks god, the only good point about the swamp is that i always had it as first dungeon.

Also, one of the biggest problem is having to create a groupe at lion arch, are you st***d ?

Its the city with the most ppl in the game !

I’am always in this freaking overflow server, and i can nearly NEVER be in my own server.

best advise, keep the enter where it is, but allow ppl to create the group AFTER you pass the portal, and least we are going to be able to group with our own server players…

+ As pug, many are doing the lvl 1 only, many are giving up thoses fractals, many are leaving after only ONE dungeon, and you CANT, like other dungeon fill the last player slot…

Playing that for the first time, thoses dungeons are not so bad, but after a moment and because somes really bad made stuff, it turn totaly irritating.

I just ran my first few fractals and I have to say I absolutely loved it. The artistic design, the mechanics, the difficulty was all great.

It’s interesting that in previous discussions of normal dungeons, people were concerned about “death zerging” with waypoints, and how that didn’t constitute learning how to play correctly. Well, now fractals don’t have waypoints (and due to how the technology works I can understand that) and people are complaining.

Personally, I think it’s better this way. I feel more accountable to the group to do my best. And once everyone in the group does die going back to a checkpoint is hardly any different from a waypoint. You’re just together as a group instead trying not to let the mobs de-aggro and reset.

All in all, I think Fractals of the Mists is the best thing so far about the Lost Shores: the initial invasion was a frustrating lagfest and I’m currently not sure how to complete these quests.

So… great job on the dungeon!

If I had a criticism it would be that the dialogue box to go to the next part comes up before everyone has looted the chest (and also been revived, in some cases, heh…). I have to drag it out of the way. I don’t know if this is initiated by players or automatic.