Guild Wars 2

Please don’t join a group for it unless you have….

1) A thorough knowledge of each fractal and it’s mechanics – You have 25 or so levels to learn this stuff. You should by now or you should go back and learn it. Don’t try to learn the basics half way up the ranks!

2) Full exotic/ascended gear – This is a dungeon designed for endgame players. Don’t come in your greens.

3) Food buffs – They’re cheap and easy to obtain. If you’re not using them you’re wasting an opportunity and lowering our efficiency.

4) At least 15 AR. Please. Please don’t make us carry you.

This isn’t even close to as hard as it gets, let’s not make it into an ordeal. For some reason a lot of lowbies think they can jump right into this. You can’t, you should move up naturally. Rushing only makes it worse for us all.

I feel the same at 36.

I feel the same at 20 when I find out my allies have 0 AR, after I’ve resd them for the 100th time. FotM is the new “Im noob, carry me” dungeon, didn’t you get the memo?

I know when im looking for a 40-48 daily I prefer to go for 48, however I ask everyone in the group if they are at least at 45 before I go in at 48, if anyone is not at least close to 48 I lower the dificulty to adjust to the players around me, its not good to go much higher than the lowest scaled person on your team, if you really want to check on scales then get on an alt, bring em to lians arch and go to each persons overflow and see how high that alt can get in at

PlasticHippo.8934:

if you really want to check on scales then get on an alt, bring em to lians arch and go to each persons overflow and see how high that alt can get in at

We shouldn’t have to do this, anet just kittened up, and they kittened up bad as per usual. They should of made it so only people in the same guild can join different lvl fractals or at least have an option to see someone else’s fotm level. I personaly quit fotm when the update came out but im honestly tired of seeing people post about it and anet not even give a response to them, theres numerious ones out there and not one response.

Can I have rare aquatic weapons? Or blue aquabreather?

Anet should just allow ppl to join in as range only… 1-9, 10-19, 20-29 like that. It should help screening players for each level a bit while still give player freedom.

What I dont understand is why someone at level 0-10 would do a level 20+ fotm, because they will only get a level 10 reward. Why make something way harder for themselves, to recieve a lesser reward….Ignorance or ?

This problem was here even before the fotm patch and concerns not only fotm, but all of the dungeons in general- unequipped or equipped with magic find gear, casuals/low quality players,who are strongly opposing the gear inspect feature, slipping into the groups reducing the potential effectiveness of ones. And we’ve all seen the laughable arguments they provide, if not – just take a look in one of the neighboring threads: “I want to play the game the way I want to”, “I compensate the lack of stats with my super skill”, “you are just jealous” (apparently one is just jealous about the fact that he is not the one being carried).
The reason behind the strong gear inspection opposition – is the elimination of the ability to slip into groups. They are afraid of facing the consequences, they are afraid that they will no longer be carried, but kicked and replaced by a potentially more effective players.

SteepledHat.1345:

Please don’t join a group for it unless you have….

1) A thorough knowledge of each fractal and it’s mechanics – You have 25 or so levels to learn this stuff. You should by now or you should go back and learn it. Don’t try to learn the basics half way up the ranks!

2) Full exotic/ascended gear – This is a dungeon designed for endgame players. Don’t come in your greens.

3) Food buffs – They’re cheap and easy to obtain. If you’re not using them you’re wasting an opportunity and lowering our efficiency.

4) At least 15 AR. Please. Please don’t make us carry you.

This isn’t even close to as hard as it gets, let’s not make it into an ordeal. For some reason a lot of lowbies think they can jump right into this. You can’t, you should move up naturally. Rushing only makes it worse for us all.

I fell the same and the main problem is that yet today lots of players dont know they only get reward based on their personal lvl not on the fractal difficult scale.

BlackPaw.5948:

Anet should just allow ppl to join in as range only… 1-9, 10-19, 20-29 like that. It should help screening players for each level a bit while still give player freedom.

I agree on this. I thought it was going to work like that anyway, but I was disappointed to see it does not. The bottleneck around the “9” levels wouldn’t be so bad anyway. People grind those to uprank faster now. (3 fractals instead of 4 on even fractals.)

I wish there was a way to determine how experienced someone is in fractals by some kind of title or point system to know that Agony Resist =/= Skilled.

Joining the high level FOTMs without the basics down is pretty baffling to me.

I mean if you’re on fractal difficulty 5 and the closest you can find is some group LF1M for level 8, go ahead and jump right in. But joining FOTM 30 groups with no AR is just silly.

Minion of Vey.4398:

Joining the high level FOTMs without the basics down is pretty baffling to me.

I mean if you’re on fractal difficulty 5 and the closest you can find is some group LF1M for level 8, go ahead and jump right in. But joining FOTM 30 groups with no AR is just silly.

I do it, no one notices till jade maw.

I’ve seen experience people running ALTs that had lower fractal levels. These people knew the mechanics and thus were not a hinderance, even if they lacked the necessary AR.

But really, there is not much for an inexperienced level 8 guy to gain by attempting to run a level 26 fractal run. The daily chest and personal rewards are still tied to his current level, 8, and thus he isn’t even going to have a chance at a ring drop or fractal skin. Random loot is not that much better.

don’t bring randoms them, if you do you open yourself up to alot of bad ignorant players out there.

technically its Anet’s job to “instruct” players about higher level fractals and agony resistance since its their game however you could also say only a lazy player would not prepare himself with the knowledge needed to tackle these higher fractals with the right gear ie; agony resistance.

When you start the fractal you should be able to see the maximum level of each player. Not the level of the character but of the player. I would be kitten if someone kick me because my engineer is only level 12 while I’m doing level 20, since my guardian is level 67.

The only problem of seeing other people level is, they will kick everyone faster than saying “I have a main char with lv 48 frac and farmed AR gear for my alts so I have 30AR with a lv5 frac char.”

i was in a party with a bunch of low fractal lvl players doing a lvl 36
they melted at the first agony attack ^^, all 4 of them

haviz.1340:

Can I have rare aquatic weapons? Or blue aquabreather?

Get the green aqua breather for a little karma out in Cursed Shores