The Fractal dungeon is beyond cheap
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Hello Mitch,
I am sorry you are having trouble overcoming some of the encounters within the Fractals. Allow me to give you some pointers that might help you overcome your obstacles.
The Dredge Suit Boss, while being a bit beefy is not ‘immune’ to damage when he is not Superheated. He just takes normal damage during that time. The superheated buff lasts for quite a good amount of time, and allows for ample time to move him to the next bucket.. To achieve this easier.. have your team stay in the 180 degree arc you wish to go in. The bombs he throws can be reflects as well. If you have the ability to do such within your class.
As far as the Colossus, I assume you mean Cliffside, which the chest seal gave a team I was running with quite some difficult as well. So we developed a strategy.. We allowed 2 people to be the hammer switchers, and we clumped up to the left of the seal just outside of fire burn reach.. We would kill the heretics and then the hammer weilder would charge in, smack 4, then run back to the group and drop the hammer.. then the next guy would grab the hammer and do it again.. Then switching back and forth as stacks dropped for those two.. With the others running cover.. Talking with your group is the step to overcoming these encounters…
As for the Swamp issue as really the only thing I can tell you there would be to use a speed boost and jump often.
I hope these tips will help you in your travels.
Good Luck
William, the big problem is that these tips are never available for people who are actually in the game.
If you take a fresh group of five people who have never seen, say, the swamp fractal before, then they will have no idea what to do.
There is an arbitrary wisp reset timer.
There are arbitrary wall spawns.
There are arbitrary traps.
There is an arbitrary champion drake.
There is a randomly spawning Moss Man who you’re not supposed to fight.
Nothing in the fractal indicates why any of these things happen or when they happen. The only way to know is by leaving the game to read the forums or to have someone who’s done it before. Do you see why this is a problem?
The same thing happens with the snow fractal. Oh, you have to light the big fire and not fling torches at the wall that the event says you have to destroy? Not very intuitive. There’s no real link between the fire and the wall, and nothing indicates that Sons of Svanir will infinitely spawn while the fire is lit, nor that they will CONTINUE to infinitely spawn while the fire is lit AFTER the event is complete.
Aquatic fractal? Sure, let’s let the players find out that they’ll be one-shot by fish if they don’t touch the pretty lights. Trial and error deaths are terrible design.
The same thing happened with the Lost Shores one-time events. There simply wasn’t enough guidance inside the game. People had to read the forums to know what the heck is going on and how to get to the event.
(edited by Tulki.1458)