Difficulty scaling splits up people interested in doing the dungeon into many groups: Makes it hard to form teams, usually takes a long time searching for people to join. Makes it unrewarding doing lower level difficulties. Massive LFP spam in Lion’s Arch.
Agony is hardly a skill-based mechanic. It’s described as a condition, yet it cannot be removed. The best way to survive agony is by getting new gear, effectively outdating current exotic gear. The new gear is either hella expensive, or reliant on a random drop system. These are requirements to progress through the difficulty scaling in the higher levels. Being forced to grind through low and easy difficulties before getting to the more difficult stuff.
Fractals having statistically better rewards than any of the other dungeons. Makes it harder to find parties for other dungeons now, because of less reasons to go there anymore.
People not getting auto-ressed when a dungeon boss is defeated can possibly result in griefing: People not willing to res teammates, especially a bad thing at the end of the 3rd dungeon. Final attack of Jade Maw is a free-for-all instead of a team effort: Rewards players for selfish gameplay, rather than teamwork.
I could probably come up with more, but these are the major ones.
I disagree!
altho the scaling difficulty split the people doing the dungeon into many groups
it encourage people to find 1, sort of, permanent/main group to do it so everybokitteneps it at the same lvl!
And even with that, if some1 is lv30 and his main group isnt on, he can easily just join a lv10 fractals just for the sake of doing it, just because it would be incredibly easy for him! i’v had people of lvl30 fractal doing lv10 with me, just because his main group wasnt on!
That same guy taught me that Agony actually IS a skill based thing, and just like any other skill you can dodge it!
and at lvl 30 you either dodge it, or pretty much die by it!
the kind of partys that make it that far, are the ones that actually study the boss fights and know every possible animation a boss do!
The best way to fight Agony is dodging at the right moment!
Right now ther’s no “better than exotic” gear since the only pink(Ascendant) stuff ingame are Rings and Back item!!
Ascendant gear is account bound, or at least the ones in game so far, u can only “craft” the stuff you already got from the daily to make it have resistances!
Fractals doesnt really “haave” better rewards than other dungeons, they’r just different!
Fractals cant provide you with full exotic set/weapon, yet!
unless you are lucky and get them from drops/chest! wich can happen in any other dungeon as well
The rest of the dungeons give you the tokens to trade for full exotic sets!
and i still see a lot of people doing normal dungeons, not just fractals!
Well, thats pretty much why you should find a small group of friends/guildies, so you dont get griefed,
ther’s Trolls in every game, is just how it is!
you can get griefed in any dungeon anyways, i.e: the person that joined the dungeon first, disbans the party be4 u claim your chest (happened to be twice on CM exp mode b4, not because they were griefing, but because they had to leave and i guess they didnt knew that would happen)
Well the Final attack is in between both things, is a FFA to be the person that picks a crystal up be4 it happens, and its also a teamplay thing, because if u survived you should ress your party members!!
PS: for finding groups, try www.gw2lfg.com
