Guild Wars 2

I just started out with fractals some days ago and completed it fully one time so far (of 3 tries). I tried to do it with pugs, since my guild barely has active members and i don’t know too many people in the game, as i haven’t been playing for more than a year.

Anyway, i have faced such problems that just made me go “what the hell?”.

The first time i actually managed to get a nice group and even while we died on the boss multiple times, we could finish it and it was pretty fun. Even more fun than my dungeon experiences so far. I wanted more.

So i grouped up yesterday for my second fractal ever. It was lvl2, nothing special. I got 4 random players and we started. It was the swamp fractal, with the whisps. That’s when the nonsense started: We tried 10 times, but failed to pass the swamp. Out of 4 players only one understood what to do, so both me and him explained it to the others, so they can keep up and do it. BUT that wasn’t enough… i can’t even imagine how, but they couldn’t understand a simple concept like that whisp “event”. They kept failing and after 10 tries one of our guys left, then i decided it’s over: when a group can’t get past one of the easiest fractals, it will get worse later.

So i tried again, got another group and luckily we got a simple “kill these things” level, so they couldn’t possibly fail. Then one random guy left after the first map, another one went afk and got kicked, so we had to give up before the Colossus.

That was my experiences with PUG Fractals so far. I’m seeing a common pattern here with multiple problems, just not sure what to do. You could say “play with your guild or your friends!”, but as i said, i can’t do that.

Any suggestions maybe other than this?

Which region and what timezone do you play in?

It gets better when you get to higher levels (20’s – 40’s) then bell curves again (40’s – 50’s)
best you can do is either lfg – speak english/ know what to do.
or
when you do run with someone good ask f you can add them so you can run together again

Lindbur.2537:

Which region and what timezone do you play in?

Europe, timezone pretty much does not matter, as i don’t have a set schedule of sleep/uptime. Sometimes i’m up at night, sometimes i’m not.

Alas, I play in NA. I’m afraid I can’t help you then. :/

You can add me ingame, just ask when you want to do fractals. I’ll happily join you if I have time and nothing better to do. If I’m not answering I’m probably afk

Arc DLad.2194:

It gets better when you get to higher levels (20’s – 40’s) then bell curves again (40’s – 50’s)
best you can do is either lfg – speak english/ know what to do.
or
when you do run with someone good ask f you can add them so you can run together again

that is true bit also false. most of the time there is allways one, sometimes two half brained morons who think their way is the best way (even tho there is at least 5 easyer ways).

you can write : pls have some experience, 6k ac, but sometimes ppl get into groups hoping they are only ones who are goning to leech, so you might end up with 2-3 leechers which will give you a early state of an ulcer.

adding ppl to friends with you ran fractals once will probably result with: do i know you???

but thats the joy of pugging, i puged my way to lvl 50 and i became a little bit elitlist and it saved me a lot of nerves ever since.

i hope you will continue to play fractals, but be prepared for all kind of feces there especialy in pugs.

I’m currently leveling my eu accounts fracs so just hit me up if ypu see “Sunshine Lepton” on.

Feel free to whisper for a frac run, no promises for the next 2 weeks due to exams, but should be on plenty again after that.