Guild Wars 2

Fractals is currently a nightmare. Personally I’m up to level 3 but trying to get my core guildies through level 1. We normally have to pick up 1-2 random people as well. The issues are well known including:

- DC of a party member excluding them entirely from continuing
- Trying to find a replacement party member = starting from absolute scratch
- Impatient PUG members quitting after one failed attempt, especially on the swamp fractal, which is further impacted by the above

This is making GW2 especially un-fun for everyone involved, to the point that guildies are trying other games until these issues are fixed and possibly not returning. We just failed our 5th attempt at level 1 and its not mechanics or difficulty that is the issue. The core issues are technical ones and they need to be fixed ASAP.

So I have heard rumor of some fixes coming. When exactly (date!) can we expect them and what exactly are they going to fix? The current state is so bloody frustrating and we are hemorrhaging people left right and center as they lose patience at the lack of progress..

the only specific date we got was end of January
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fractals-of-the-mists-dungeon-improvements/?utm_source=client

Thanks for the link.

Sadly its just a fix for DCing players that I’m interested in on that page and notice specifically ANet didn’t address replacing dropped players in any way. The level option is nice but is a very poor substitute for a proper lfg tool I think.

Does this mean people leaving the party will still punish the rest of the party by making them have to restart from scratch if someone leaves?

As things are right now you have to 4 man it sometimes. I’ve had to 4 man a bunch of them on pre-10 levels because of DCs or people leaving. It’s not that hard so just keep going and get it done.

4 man works in some but not others, e.g. Dredge fractal. The loss of a party member when one also has to pull leavers at low levels seriously impacts dps.

Also, having to do these as a 4 man group is just a cop-out. Its 5 man content!

FaceYourFear.6902:

4 man works in some but not others, e.g. Dredge fractal. The loss of a party member when one also has to pull leavers at low levels seriously impacts dps.

Also, having to do these as a 4 man group is just a cop-out. Its 5 man content!

we have 4-manned a good portion of lvl 34 fractal. one DCed at asura last boss. we had to 4-man swamp with bloomhunger + jade maw.
it was a challenge but we did it.

the best advise i can give for dredge fractal is – buy a stack of spy kits. that’s the only way anybody’s doing it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/DC-in-fractals-no-way-to-get-back-in/page/8#post1121224

For all the info regarding this.