I have a lv80 thief with 30AR and personal reward of 30. But I always think that it will be very interesting to bring my level 57 guardian to run a low level fractal, since the level will be upscale to 80. However, nobody, not even my own guildmembers (ex guild members) want to go with me. It kind of makes me wonder, how bad will my guardian be? Since FOTM 2 is kind of easy, and I have done wvw with my guardian at lower level and have 31 enemy invaders killed in around 45mins, with staff and greatsword.
Anyone ever experienced how its like bringing a low level char into FOTM? Mind sharing with me?
Meh, the problem would be finding a party. After that, at lvl 2, you wouldn’t have any problems.
Heck, I just soloed some fractals lvl 1 with a berserker warrior…
Thing is, everyone told me to get to level 80 first, bla bla. If I want to go with a level 80 char I will go with my thief, all I ever wanted is to have some fun, facing some challenges if there’s any. But no! LOWBIE are not welcome or something, lowbie here lowbie there. I tried to look a for party everywhere for more than 2 weeks, but nobody willing to go with me. Not even guild members, not even those so called friends.
You can do it, the scaling is very reasonable. I did FotM 18 with my level 55 engineer, but it’s really not worth doing, you get SO little XP compared to Dungeons, I did about 5 runs and then went back to leveling via dungeons.
I do that from time to time to get gear for my low levels. My warrior got to fractals lvl 5 when he was lvl 60 something… And I did Fractals 1 with my Ele at level 31.
No problems at all, damage is a bit low, but you can survive without major issues. Also, if you find a group of newbies, you can offer guidance, and that’s more important that your level.
I did sub10 fractal on my non 80 guardian (I don’t remember my exact level). Mobs may hit a bit hard compare to lvl80 exotic. (I think it’s the same damage to lvl80 with green armor) But if you let other member do the pull, it shouldn’t be a problem. And guardian is probably the easiest profession to play in fotm.
However, if your guildies don’t wanna go with you then, nothing you can do….. Have to face the fact and just level up I guess.
Sounds like you need to find new friends. I’ve grouped with lower level guild members through fotm lvls 1 and 2, and they just did fine. I wouldn’t take more than 2 people under lvl 50, however.
I helped some lowbies with their monthly in January. Went in with a level ~30, a couple 60’s and two 80’s. The three lowbies were new players, not alts, and had never even done a fractal. We did scale 1 and 2 to get their monthly. A few difficulties, but we made it. It was also pretty fun.
Ive been playing my Ranger lately in low level FoTM. Its basically a case of it really doesn’t matter how bad the players are, you will get through easily. Just burst everything down real quick and make it easier for them. Once you get to 10, then you don’t really want to be pugging too much. Even 10-20 isn’t always bad, but if your pugging that stuff then occasionally your going to get a frustrating run. I wouldnt go past 9 with a sub 80 char personally. But tbh and feel free to tell your guildies I said this, if they are worried about a level 50 in their group in a sub level 10 dungeon they are clearly bad at the game and need to learn to play better.
Some in my guild was so bored that we once took level 18-44 toons into FOTM 1~4 (cant remember which). It is not that bad and it can definitely be done.
It would simply take longer because my Thief at level 18 only has 2 utility skill and I forgot about traits
Wow, what you guys shared here meant a lot to me. However that kind of make me a little envious :P well, after all that been through, I thought some closer friends might be willing to help out but, guess I just have to accept that everyone for themselves. Gonna stop leveling my guardian (lv59 now) until I get into FOTM 1-9 with her at least once. I am that persistence, or you might say, stubborn
And thanks for sharing, I do really appreciate them
…I ever wanted is to have some fun, facing some challenges if there’s any. But no! LOWBIE are not welcome or something.
Here’s the problem, in my view: Many people do not share your goals. You may want to have some fun and face some challenges, but lots of people just want to get their fractal daily done as quickly as possible, and they view an upscaled character as a possible hindrance to that.
I think that view is often wrong, and if you have an inkling of how to play your guardian, I’m sure there would be no problem completing the run in reasonable time.
I had the same problem when my guardian was 60 and I wanted to level by running TA explorable paths (because I was very familiar with the dungeon, having done it many times on my main). The few times I was allowed to join a group, we did just fine, and the runs went just as smoothly as they had in a group full of 80s. But often, I would join a group and someone in the group would say “Are you switching to an 80 toon?” I would respond that I would like to run it on this toon for the exp and tokens, and they would drop without any further discussion. Then the rest of the group either kicked me or asked me nicely to leave so that they could fill the group.
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When fractals first came out my guild ran it several times levels 1-5 with groups that had 2-3 players < level 60. It takes a bit longer but it’s doable. That being said this is something you really want to only do with a guild group.
When running this with strangers you have to be mindful that your willfully joining the group with a suboptimal configuration and they have no indication of your play skill. Doing it with your underdeveloped character will at the outset take more time for everyone involved.
Most fractals groups until r20 (that I have experienced) are pretty flexible about builds and I’be never had to gear check. But underlevelled characters might seem unreasonable (even if you are scaled up) given how easy it is to level to 80, and now inefficient the fractals are for levelling.
I ran one the other day with a guildies level 32 guard and just last night with a level 34 ranger. I think they were level 6 and 9 fractals. Didn’t see any issues or any restraints on capabilities. I probably wouldn’t want something lower then 30 in my group just because you haven’t unlocked all your skill slots. That and maybe do some tweaking to find a build that works with what skills you have unlocked. I know that would be the biggest drag is a poor selection of skills that work together with the traits yiu have available. Other then that anything below level 10 I find easy. I’m working on the level 10 and up stuff now but with no agony resistance, my thief hates it lol
Used to run up to Fractals 10 with my Necro when he was mid20s. He actually ended up having A LOT more hps than his current set up (prec, tough, cond now) and his upscaled stats provided more than adequate dps.
TLDR: It’s pretty kitten easy to do up to FotM10 with any toon over level 10.
I joined a PuG group about a week or so ago for FoTM 10 and one of the guys was level 57 (if I remember correctly, might have been 67). I thought about saying something, but I would rather give people the benefit of the doubt so I kept quiet. Went just as smoothly as any other run I have ever done.
TL;DR : It shouldn’t be a problem doing what you are suggesting.
