Cliffside fractal changed?

Cliffside fractal changed?

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Posted by: yyce.5038

yyce.5038

I am currently in the middle of a level 18 fractal with my guild and as our third fractal we got Cliffside and thought no big deal, right? Well, we hit the chest section and suddenly two waves consisting mostly of veteran chanters spawned, we thought this was strangely difficult, but we pushed through. Now we are stuck on the arms, where, instead of wave spawns, the spawns seem to be one dies, one spawns, allowing us no breathing room. Furthermore, the waves seem much larger than usual, with about 10-15 on each side at a time, with more than a fair amount of veterans. Anyone else have this going on? Is it a change, or did we just hit a bug?

I would further like to point out, that because of the rapid spawn times, the seals heal up before we can even reach the other side…

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Posted by: Bright.9160

Bright.9160

Did a 26 the other day, and although things went horribly wrong on cliffside due to some miscommunications (we still salvaged), I didn’t feel like anything had changed.

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Posted by: zerotwo.4731

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Sounds like you didn’t keep one of the original chanters alive so all his buddies can’t spawn in. I did cliffside on lvl 30 last night and didn’t notice any changes myself. I can suggest that you use the strat that most players use when dealing with the seals that heal up. Take out only one of the chanters on the side you enter in on. Hit the seal and move to the other side. Once there, mark the far chanter and do NOT kill him. Take out the closest chanter and hit the seal. After that the fighting should only be in the hallway. Pull the first group into the hallway to charge the hammer. This will keep the chanters from healing the seal and you can dps them down before they can focus onto anyone. There will be times where the targeted chanter comes into the hallway. Just avoid him and take his damage with a smile. This method will always work, even at high lvls.

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

there are random fractals of increased difficulty.

Dunno if its the case.

I only noticed it at dredge, ascalon, lava….

There are more mobs in areas that usually are empty in those increased difficulty fractals so they are easy to notice.

p.S. level or number of fractals doesn t matters….its purely random afaik.
You can get a normal dredge at 48 3/4 and after get an increased difficulty at 2nd of 32 for example.

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: yyce.5038

yyce.5038

Sounds like you didn’t keep one of the original chanters alive so all his buddies can’t spawn in. I did cliffside on lvl 30 last night and didn’t notice any changes myself. I can suggest that you use the strat that most players use when dealing with the seals that heal up. Take out only one of the chanters on the side you enter in on. Hit the seal and move to the other side. Once there, mark the far chanter and do NOT kill him. Take out the closest chanter and hit the seal. After that the fighting should only be in the hallway. Pull the first group into the hallway to charge the hammer. This will keep the chanters from healing the seal and you can dps them down before they can focus onto anyone. There will be times where the targeted chanter comes into the hallway. Just avoid him and take his damage with a smile. This method will always work, even at high lvls.

We tried this, and that’s why we got confused, because they weren’t wave spawning. The instant any of the chanters died, another spawned in its place. So there was always a full wave of mobs at each seal

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Posted by: FangedTerror.3852

FangedTerror.3852

Did you by any chance “reroll” the beginning level? I’ve seen some changes in mob density if that happens. For example if you got dredge and “rerolled” and got it again there would be a group of baddies on the first platform that weren’t there before.

Also on the volcano lvl bats seem to appear in the cave with the boulders if you “reroll” after getting that one.

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Posted by: Afya.5842

Afya.5842

I just did lvl26 last night. Nothing changed.

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Posted by: zerotwo.4731

zerotwo.4731

Sounds like you didn’t keep one of the original chanters alive so all his buddies can’t spawn in. I did cliffside on lvl 30 last night and didn’t notice any changes myself. I can suggest that you use the strat that most players use when dealing with the seals that heal up. Take out only one of the chanters on the side you enter in on. Hit the seal and move to the other side. Once there, mark the far chanter and do NOT kill him. Take out the closest chanter and hit the seal. After that the fighting should only be in the hallway. Pull the first group into the hallway to charge the hammer. This will keep the chanters from healing the seal and you can dps them down before they can focus onto anyone. There will be times where the targeted chanter comes into the hallway. Just avoid him and take his damage with a smile. This method will always work, even at high lvls.

We tried this, and that’s why we got confused, because they weren’t wave spawning. The instant any of the chanters died, another spawned in its place. So there was always a full wave of mobs at each seal

Each seal starts with 2 chanters. The only way to get more chanters is to kill both of those original chanters. This will start the re spawning of chanters. Did any of your members have pets out? Sometimes pets will take out the marked chanter and leave you with two full groups that fix the seals. You are positive that you still had your original marked chanter still alive when chanters were spawning at the seal?