Guild Wars 2

Fun Fact: In the Fractle Main Hub there is now an Agony Checker, once you touch the orb you take agony damage related to the level your on. now you can check agony without pinging armor and find lairs trying to leech from you. I found a lot of people still dont know about this so here ya go.

Too bad it doesn’t show you what having 4 of your teammates around you will do XD

Great, now every wannabe lfg will say “10K+ AP GEARCHECK AND AR CHECK”

Roul.3205:

Great, now every wannabe lfg will say “10K+ AP GEARCHECK AND AR CHECK”

Good.

Roul.3205:

Great, now every wannabe lfg will say “10K+ AP GEARCHECK AND AR CHECK”

Is asking for level appropriate AR really too much in your eyes? Idk, seems like a reasonable request to me.

Sounds so elitist and unnecessary complicated to me :S you still can kick them if you see they dont have enough ar, why standing all the time around in fotm “lobby” till group fills just so that you can see everyones ar instead of just starting

As much as I am an opponent of elitism I can actually appreciate something like this. Even though we can kick someone if we find out they’re lying about AR we usually find out this information at very inopportune times (such as a boss fight). I’d much rather know before the round even starts that said team mate is not up to par on his AR so I can consider replacement. Not like the AR check process would take very long. Just have everyone run through the dot once, and you’ll see who’s ready to go and who’s not.

Plus, with some of the joining glitches going around I generally tend to make sure everyone can get to the Lobby before queueing up the fractal. At most, I’d just be adding a few seconds to my usual schedule.

An AR checker NPC isn’t even elitist, it’s just sensible.

Roul.3205:

Sounds so elitist and unnecessary complicated to me :S you still can kick them if you see they dont have enough ar, why standing all the time around in fotm “lobby” till group fills just so that you can see everyones ar instead of just starting

How is checking if someone fulfills the AR requirements for a specific fractal level, or at least comes close enough to not get OSed all the time, before you start the run more elitist than kicking them later if it turns out that they don’t meet the requirements? Heck, how is checking if someone has sufficient AR elitist at all? I mean, what the hell?! That is like saying it is elitist to e.g. ask for people to be at least level 55 when doing the TA up/fwd paths… I don’t get it.

People really need to stop using words like “elitists” and “elitism” for everything they personally might not like or deem inappropriate when the game design clearly indicates otherwise. It has almost become as bad as the misuse of “toxic” X_X

Roul.3205:

Great, now every wannabe lfg will say “10K+ AP GEARCHECK AND AR CHECK”

There’s a problem here, but it’s not the AR check.

wow i didnt want to start that discussion lel

yy ok i get it, its not bad to do that

and +skoigoth, ar check in my eyes is just like gearcheck, which is more than unnecessary for me :< just my opinion.

Good, I hope people make more use of it to check.

Roul.3205:

and +skoigoth, ar check in my eyes is just like gearcheck, which is more than unnecessary for me :< just my opinion.

And you are entitled to have that opinion of course. If someone doesn’t have an issue with carrying people without sufficient AR through their fractal runs, that’s fine by me.

I just get really p*ss*d off by the overuse of buzzwords like “elitism” these days… sorry if you felt personally attacked by my comment, that was not my intention.

Roul.3205:

wow i didnt want to start that discussion lel

yy ok i get it, its not bad to do that

and +skoigoth, ar check in my eyes is just like gearcheck, which is more than unnecessary for me :< just my opinion.

Roul,

Ar check is nothing like gearcheck, and is necessary it shows you that players in a party meet the minimum requirements to not be useless to a party in fractals, more so in Higher level fractals

Dw everything is fine, I am convinced. Most ppl like the idea of ar checking anyway, so I’ll stop doing trouble, I didn’t want to stress anyone anyway ^^

It’s funny had to use this on a pug in the group as when he joined we doubted he had enough ar.

Was funny watching him lose 12% per tick on the spot – not enough AR sorry we’re not carrying you on this one. I have seen some pugs go boom instantly when they think asking for a fotm lvl 50+ means your character got to lvl 80 so they are good to go. The AR checker is something which can be a really useful check.

To be clear, an agony checker is a fine thing because it makes a physical difference in being able to complete a fractal if a person has enough ar or not. This is not true for an Ap check as that could be accumulated from other sources for high aps or because someone is on an alt for low aps. In fractals, you will be a legitimate deadweight if you fail the ap check. It is extremely unfair to the other 4 members to carry a undergeared player in fractals.

They should have the Entrance Platform of the Lab pulse constant Agony. This way you don’t have to ask them to run to a tiny little ball of purple energy to test their AR. Or make the Entire Lab pulse Agony, except for a tiny spot around the Vendors/Repair Station. This way, People can still get out of combat to buy, repair, or change their Build.

I totally love Mai Trin for her Noob Filter, once you are through the gate, if you don’t have enough AR, everyone will see it when you die on her Platform while she is still green.

NapTooN.6283:

I totally love Mai Trin for her Noob Filter, once you are through the gate, if you don’t have enough AR, everyone will see it when you die on her Platform while she is still green.

This happens at every final boss (Mai Trin, Molten Duo and Jade Maw)^^

Frostfire.7492:

NapTooN.6283:

I totally love Mai Trin for her Noob Filter, once you are through the gate, if you don’t have enough AR, everyone will see it when you die on her Platform while she is still green.

This happens at every final boss (Mai Trin, Molten Duo and Jade Maw)^^

I know, but for whatever reason it is the biggest satisfaction if it happens during the chatter between Mai and Horrik.