Guild Wars 2

I gave a try and fractals and WvW and came up with some new inquires.

1. What is my overall objective in Fractals, I mean finish the mission I’m on got it, but what is the pay out for doing them more and more?
2. Agony system. I came from WoW so I feel like Agony is a type of resilience to fractal mobs, and will be needed later. I go off builds on some sgw2 sites, will I need a separate set of gear for just running fractals?
3. How do you know which fractals are too much of a challenge or do I just go in and try my best hoping not to fail? Basically at what point am I wasting my groups time with my presence? I don’t want people to feel they are carrying me.
4. So no tanks or designated healers, is this a myth?

WvW
1. WTF did i get myself into?
2. I saw this little girl run from my friend, she had her back turned the whole time. He died instantly. Is this a common thing in WvW?
3. Like in #2 for fractals, do I need a separate set of armor for WvW?
4. Ways to progressively get EXP? Seems slow, hard to find fights that we could win.
5. Build like glass, watch people shatter you. Build like a tank, watch them, run while they shatter you. Whats the best way to gear for this? Is there a PvP stat I should know about?

Other:
1. How can I inspect people, I love to know what they are wearing or using, mostly everything I have seen looks amazing.
2. Should I join multiple guilds? does it benefit to have a WvW guild, raiding guild, social guild, etc?
3. I attempted a meta event with the 3 worms, I dont think a single worm got below 95%, are these doable for a random that just shows up, or should i wait to find a guild that does it?

Thanks in advance.

Fractals:
1. The daily routine of tier 4 daily fractals + fractal 100 challenge mode is worth about 30 gold and takes about 1 hour. Fractals are the only way to get gold by just playing the game and not through a farm.

2. If you don’t have enough agony for the fractal you are in, you will be killed by the mechanics of the fractal. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony. you need 150 agony for fractal 100 (which is the highest). Maximum is 18 slots so 12×9 and 6×7 or some such combo and don’t forget the extra 2 9s for your off hand weapon. Costs about 150 gold.
You’ll need a full set of ascended gear and attuned infused rings for the slots for the agony, you can also upgrade your ascended backpack for an extra slot. For this reason most people use their main in fractals.

3. Fractal difficulty increases with the tiers: tiers 1-4. The mechanics remain largely the same so it is relatively straightforward to progress through the tiers. Tier 3 is when things get challenging and it is at this stage where you will see if your build holds up.

4. Outside of raids there are no tanks. There is a fractal meta which you will see enforced on 100 CM (challenge mode) 1 condi phalanx strength warrior. 1 healer druid, 1 chrono mesmer and 2 dps (either necro or ele but ele preferred). In CM there is 20% healing so a healer is important.

WvW:
1.Considered by many including myself to be the true gw2 experience.

2. Not common no, probably had alot to do with your friend’s skill level. It is easy to put an AOE wherever you want as you run so… try not to stand in the red circles (words to live by honestly ^^)

3. Yes.

4. Get in a squad and on TS, tag all the things.

5. Join a WvW guild and run with them while using a build that they recommend (more than likely they will have their own guild builds). Other than that marauder armour for sure, maybe take a look at celestial trinkets. Hard to say without knowing what class/build you’re on.

Other:
1. Inspecting other players gear is not allowed in GW2. I don’t know how to do it shrugs.

2. Absolutely. Joining guilds that specialise in an area of the game you are interested in will greatly increase your success in that area. Only broad PvE guilds tend to be 100% rep anymore so you should be able to join a WvW guild and a raid guild for starters with no issues. P.S if you join a high level guild be sure to mine the nodes in the guild hall.

3. Triple trouble only succeeds when run by the big community guilds on TS. Try showing up a half hour before it spawns and pray you get on the right map. Once you get in one and on TS, you can save the TS details for future runs or even join the guild if you like. Every time I did it they were mad recruiting on TS afterwards.

Hope this helps glhf o/

Ballistic.2570:

Fractals are the only way to get gold by just playing the game and not through a farm.

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Not even close to true. I understand what you’re getting at but this is the worst possible advice you could ever give anyone ever. Also for me, fractals are a chore and things like WvW where you earn 10g/hour or whatever are fun.

For WvW, everyone will tell you to get on a tag, but that’s only like a quarter of what the game mode is. If you’re like me, you prefer to do small group or solo stuff. You can announce that in map chat like “hey I’m putting up a catapult at the southwest tower, someone cover me” and so on. Or just run around killing stray zerglings trying to get to the enemy commander, which is ridiculous cost effective to the server.

You’ll have a more noticeable impact doing small scale stuff, but if no one is in the zerg, it’s fun and important to get one going.

About gear inspection: This can only be done voluntarily, and requires the other player’s assistance. Ask them to ‘ping’ their gear.

Pinging gear is done by shift+left clicking on each gear item. This will put it as a link in the chat box. After you hit enter other players can now mouse over said gear to check stats, and even preview it on their own character.

Fluffball.8307:

Ballistic.2570:

Fractals are the only way to get gold by just playing the game and not through a farm.

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Not even close to true. I understand what you’re getting at but this is the worst possible advice you could ever give anyone ever. Also for me, fractals are a chore and things like WvW where you earn 10g/hour or whatever are fun.

It’s honest advice and I stand over it. Your 10g an hour or whatever from WvW is pie in the sky.

Fractal farming is not the only way to get gold in the game, and that is an indisputable fact. You may prefer doing it, but it’s absolutely not the only way to get gold. In fact I have about 1.5k gold at the moment and 0% is from the horrible boring grind of fractals.

I will have to agree that Fractals are not the only way to acquire Gold in-game. I rarely ever do Fractals, nor do I farm, yet I am able to amass Gold.

Welcome to Tyria, and good luck.