Guild Wars 2

Since the Fractured Living story the Dredge Fractal in Fractals of the mysts has become much harder. but now since the last update on 22-1-2014 it has reached its limit and i figured to write about it. its not even possible to cross the first part where you have to open the console. even if getting through it still takes 2 hours to complete the whole level, seen that a normal fractal run of 3 levels and the end boss level takes 45 minutes tops for us normally if we DONT run into the most annoying Dredge fractal… it is almost that A-Net is wanting us to get angry and waste time on it… i think the first bit where you have to stand on the buttons to open the console that has a huge TIMER to open the door to continue the lvl would be made easier it would be fine… in the Fractured announcements there was said that easy fractals where made harder and harder fractals made easier… make that promise… cause A-net, its a lie so far considering the Dredge Fractal.

Welp, The fractal map we dont speak of... XD

Timer is less and its unfortunate that we cant yolo sit on the buttons.

>Need a mesmer, thief, and guardian (fracs trinity)
>Need jumping skills, cough cough nuff said
>Wall of reflect and stacking
>Its part of the challenge. Go through or go home

P.S. (we all hate Dredge map and the ones who designed it are oblivious to that fact).

I disagree and I think it should be kept as is. It’s honestly not that bad if you’re with a competent team. Make use of consumables like spykits/harpy feathers if you’re that desperate. Coordinate with your team and clear out one of the sides, help each other out, have warriors make use of blocks and guardians use reflect walls.

It’s not that bad with people that aren’t idiots. In really poorly organised pug groups, then I agree it’s awful. Honestly the game needs really challenging content. This part is fairly difficult to get done and I’m glad it’s here despite how much of a nuisance it is.

2 hrs? It takes about 30-40 minutes whenever I run a lv49 fotm. However this is probably the most painful for an all pug party especially with party members who never communicate.

OP, what fractal level you are talking about?

Anet, for the love of god, plz fix dredge!

Anyone that thinks the clown car is ok on high level fractals must have hit their head.

What from the January 21st patch made the Dredge worst? If you mean the Harpy Feathers, i never it use for Dredge. I have a spykit just in case, but most of the time I don’t need it at all. Its not only Thief, Mesmer and Guardian for this part. Necromancer, Warrior, Rangers and Elementalist can do the job just fine. I never used an Engineer there, but i’m pretty sure that with Shield and Elixir S you can do the job just fine.

They’ve continually ‘fixed’ parts of the dredge fractal with every patch to make it more time consuming and more annoying. Just before the fractured update I think some more dredge were added, an exploit fixed (so players use another), and dead bodies were moved off the cage plates.

as mad king thorn said: i heard the dredge are having a revolt again. PAH as far as i know the dredge always have been REVOLTING (laugh crazily)

honestly i like dredge cuz it force people to run a thief or two in fractals (eat that warrior meta)

Except you don’t really need (as in not required) stealth for dredge fractal.

I do agree that the dredge car can be redone. Either have some mechanic to it that incorporates the boss, make it similar to the molten weapon facility test event, or just put a five minute timer after the boss is killed. The dredge car offers little challenge so I can see it needing a revamp.

The rest of the fractal is fine as is. Maybe close off the Mesmer exploit at the beginning as well as the jumping puzzle part.

imo every dungeon as it is now is completable with every class, so should fractals be. though the only one not possible to complete unless you have some guards or thieves or certain food/comsumables or kits your screwed and people who played so far with you have to leave cause they either dont take it anymore or dont have a thief…