Guild Wars 2

Hello i am starting this thread in pure frustration. The dredge fractal is one that is hated by everyone in higher levels. It is time consuming, and close to impossible if you are in a PUG that does not have the right profession composition. The dredge fractal is simply too long.

Please fix the following:

1.) In cage puzzle allow the gate operator to be attacked more than ones. That is, don’t interrupt them by single attack. This is not a big deal if players on the buttons can stay alive for the time needed. But the way it is now unless you are super tanky, you die on the button. You can’t move, you can’t dodge, the only way to survive is if you are build for that.

2.) Remove the first “puzzle” prior to entering the cage. Do we really need 2-3 “puzzles” in a single fractal? Most people skip it anyways, why is this in there? It just time consuming.

3.) Reduce the health of the gate or make it easier to protect the bombs.

4.) Reduce the number of mobs in the clown car. Simply way too many of them. They are not difficult to kill, they are just too many.

Was this fractal designed just to waste player’s time?

Please correct this fractal!

The only thing I can really agree with you on ith removing the puzzle before entering the game. That entire part is worthless and is just annoying.

The rest I do understand what youre complaining about, because ive felt that same way, but honestly if you could just run in the cage and do it instead of the entire puzzle before it none of the rest would feel that bad. And this is oen of the few things in the game hard for the “Zerker” Meta so I wont really sit and complain about it, we kinda deserve it.
The clown far usually gives me 50+ bags so im not complaining about that at all

Only problem with dredge after countless threads is really the bomb gate portion. The spawn of dredge is absolutely ridiculous and increases in difficulty the more you charge (and fail).

They absolutely need to remove the ability of random dredge of picking up bombs and the crazy amount of spawns.

I agree with the dredge car but not the others.

The door takes 7 bombs to go down. Only the first group of dredge on the stairs (like 5 of them) infinitely respawn. The rest of the dredge spawn after every two bombs explode.

Doing the floor plates should not be that difficult. The first plate only requires you to stand on it for a few seconds. The second plate can take longer as the 1st person needs to run through the entire corridor. You can always open it for them to get past the first gate and reset the enemies before letting everyone into the panel room. All of this should not take more than a couple of minutes.

You don’t sit there and eat damage on the panels. You could before as your dead body still counted as being on the panel. Unfortunately this is how many players were taught to do the fractal, and now that it’s been changed, they struggle as they were never taught the proper way to do it.

I want to chime in too. The Underground Facility Fractal kills many a group I’ve been in, compared to the rest of the fractals it is longer for some reason. I have had several groups fall apart for that reason alone. People have time constraints in their lives and though they want to complete the fractals having to do 3+boss including this one just seems to be too much sometimes. I would have like to continue this fractal the time that I got it, but the instance leader often seems to be the one on the time constraint and so everyone has to abandon it because he or she leaves.