Guild Wars 2

I swear this fractal was designed to troll us. The knockdown tunnel, the excavator that moves at a snail’s pace, the earth elementals that have stability and 1-shot you, the end chest that contains a whole 1 blue, etc. I can deal with all of that though because frankly it’s a brain-dead easy fractal to complete.

What I’m not okay with is the fact that this fractal has prematurely ended more of my runs than I can count. I know of at least 3 progression-halting bugs in this fractal:

• The steam vents don’t shut off
• The weapons test doesn’t start (yeah I know, never run ahead of the npcs but pugs will be pugs)
• The end boss is defeated and no continue prompt comes up

If Anet isn’t going to fix this fractal (not likely since it’s been 9 months and I’d guess hundreds of support tickets) at least remove it.

I run 2+ fractals daily and I never encountered any of those bugs. I pug all of those runs, so I can’t control what the others do (and the others often like to run in).

Although I think the scaling should be fixed and the drill should move faster + the knockdown really is annoying as kitten.

the fractal is pretty easy, but I just dislike the mandatory ar resist during the weapon testing

king has a nice guide on it

the weapon test doesn’t start

you can go ahead of the npc but you have to wait until the boss says “wait intruders”

The steam vents don’t shut off

I am not aware of this bug

With the steam vents, it’s probably because your party wiped. If your party wiped, you may have to move all of the boulders considerably off of the vents, and then replace the boulders. Always check all boulders after a party wipe.

Does plugging those steam vents actually do anything?
I get OCD and plug them but I don’t notice if there’s any difference.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned how god kitten kittening annoying it is when you get continuously teleported to the entrance of the weapons test room when trying to loot your end chest.

Molten Facility is Hrouda’s last contribution to the game, and I for one loved that we did finally manage to keep part of it. Fix the bugs but please don’t ever let it go away.

Purple Miku.7032:

I can’t believe no one has mentioned how god kitten kittening annoying it is when you get continuously teleported to the entrance of the weapons test room when trying to loot your end chest.

I thought it was just me… <.<

Kaldrys.1978:

• The steam vents don’t shut off
• The weapons test doesn’t start (yeah I know, never run ahead of the npcs but pugs will be pugs)

1 – This actually isn’t a bug, or at least I’ve been able to fix it. It happens when not all steam wents in the drilled cave are closed with boulders, or when not enough mobs at the end of the tunnel were killed.

2 – I’ve heard rumors that this can happen when Frostbite (3rd NPC) is left dead behind.

There’s actually a rather odd bug that I’ve encountered a few times. The boulders can randomly despawn so that the vents won’t shut off. You just have to go back and find the boulder and plug it again,

Yeah, one time I decided to see what happens if you don’t plug the vents with boulders. Turns out that the steam vents later never shut off if you do that.

Really? :O Few times I have soloed it I don’t think I bothered with them and was able to progress still completely fine. But I probably remember wrong.

Wethospu.6437:

Really? :O Few times I have soloed it I don’t think I bothered with them and was able to progress still completely fine. But I probably remember wrong.

You can’t even get through the 1st fog curtain with Stability as there is an invis wall.