Guild Wars 2

Hey,

How do people normally go about looking for organised fractal/dungeon run groups? I’ve been playing gw2 for a couple years now, but I’ve never been into major competitive groups/teams. I’m currently really into fracs and I want to progress through to the higher level >50+ up to (eventually) 100 etc runs, with the ability to do T4 dailys etc. At the moment, I’ve got like 110+AR, full asc on herald with a good knowledge of fractals, stacking points and good knowledge of my class etc. But I still find that everything is just extremely difficult/much more time consuming than it has to be when I’m running with “pugs” in lfg (no one seems to know what a dodge roll is). There always seems to be one or two people who don’t know what they’re doing, slowing everything down.

Anyway, any advice on anything I’ve said and any advice on how to move into organised runs etc would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Xann :*

Well do you want to be part of a organized fractal/dungeon group that does speed run and will ask you to have probably 2 or more character with 150 AR to create good composition?

Or do you simply want to reach level 100, get 150 AR and do some daily t4 fractal and smooth dungeon run. Because you don’t need a team to do that. You can just pug dungeon and fractal.

Well I suppose both, but I’m kind of looking for advice on where to go to find other like minded people who want to form up into a group and hit fracs together. I’m basically asking, where to find these people? High frac LFG, map chat asking for guilds to join, online forums? I literally have no idea where people normally look for things like this, so any starting point would be useful.

Join FOTM guild
You will be required to have ascended Zerker (or Viper if you’re condi) for your class and be decent fractal lvl.

If you not there yet, if time permits run fractals with pugs shortly after reset. Most of the veteral fractalers run fractal dailies shortly after reset (3-4h after reset is also fine) so if you do fracs with them it’ll be quite good.
If you do fracs at the end of the day before reset, you’ll see much less /lower quality traffic.

Well start with LFG. You can’t really ask for experienced run since you are not experienced yourself yet. But as you get to level 100 and have 150 AR you will be able to ask for experienced when you post LFG for your dailies.

That will be the easiest way to do it.

Play at reset time, Ive always pugged it and no issue, fractals are not raid.

Just add any good players you meet along the way and try to run with them when you can. That’s how I met all the good players I know, played with them through other friends/pugs and eventually became friends with them.

As soon as I notice someone who seems inexperienced I just explain the basic mechanics of what’s coming and give tips. After t4 fractals my recommended fractals usually take longer because of this. It can be bothersome spending more time on the lower numbers, but I think teaching people will pay off. However if you expect to be taught the basics at t4 I’m going to go with whatever the group decides. There’s a YouTube video or guide to everything, lying to people isn’t going to get them to help you. You also can’t accommodate someone if you don’t know what they need help with.

My biggest complaint for experienced and inexperienced players is the molten facility fractal. The easiest way to go through the first part is to kill everything in the center. Then one person who isn’t paper steps on the button and sprints to the gate when they see everyone go through. Group kills the last two in the center by the main gate. One person needs to survive holding the second button and sprinting back. Extra points for holding it long enough for the first button person to rejoin the group. * the group should barely enter the main room*. Everything respawns at the buttons and main room! You do not want to be there longer then you have to, and you don’t want to assume anything of your PuG and have to restart.

The fight is Aetherblade retreat ring around the rosie style with lava buckets unless everyone is on the same page for a different mechanic. You at least get it done consistently playing the boss fight how it’s intended. Trying for one burn is unnecessary risk when someone is out of the fight for 10 minutes if they die. Don’t focus on breaking him, and don’t focus on staying to dps him. They both regen if you spend too much time waiting on your team to try and type don’t do that without dying.

Anyway that’s just my tips so you can avoid that one horrible experience I had with a group with inexperience and one actual elitist. The inexperience didn’t bother me, but the elitist that was assuming too much made the entire thing hard until he left.

TL;DR You can leave the main room in molten facility fractal by going through the cracks in the center by the drill. easy reset it you sprint to the beginning. Just be careful there are extra dredge down there.

PUGs are sort of in an odd spot right now. My experience tends to vary from group to group. Although a common trend is that I’ve noticed more terrible people in my T4 runs late at night. I’m guessing because they’re usually in failed squads.

I don’t blame them though, the old daily system was sort of terrible. Most things 1-40 were able to be zerked down. Then there was 56 67 and 77 swamp that didn’t take much skill bar the last 10% of mossman and the initial opening of the passages. Now you’ve got sturdy bosses that don’t instantly die and they’re expected to learn all the mechanics they’ve been skipping.

I did my T4 molten bosses run late today because I went out with some friends. 3 of my party members died before we could even get the berserker down to 80%. Only me on my warrior and a very skilled mesmer were left. We tried resing them, but they just died about 15 secs later. Eventually we just left them dead and broke our wrist grinding the thing down ourselves. Hopefully they were able to see how to dodge shockwaves from the greyscreen but realistically speaking they prob just took the free ride and left.

I personally wouldn’t give up on pugs, you’ll meet some really cool people. However, I’d probably get dailys done as soon as possible. If you do give up, I’d probably just look for a guild and have a test run with them. I’ve found that guilds tend to vary in flavor as well.