Guild Wars 2

I searched forums but couldn’t find it anywhere so I decided this would be the best place to answer this question.

I’m up to lvl 20 in Fractals and I know there is a trick to getting more crystals to drop from the mobs in the daily level to throw at Jade Maw but I can’t seem to get an answer on how to do this. I’m pretty sure you use Binding Blade but I’m not sure when to use it or what mob to use the skill on. Hoping some of you more experienced Guardians can give me a detailed answer to make our runs a bit smoother.

Thanks for the replies.

Throw Binding Blades onto a tenticle that’s about to die. If the tenticle dies with the DoT active, it will spawn about 8 crystals instead of 2.

The DoT is visible as the bindinng blade icon when targeting the mob. It lasts about 10 seconds, so that’s your window to land the binding blade and have the tenticle die.

Remember that the tenticles have an AoE knock-down so you may want to pop a stability before trying to throw the binding blades.

Ok sweet. So as the tentacle is about to die I throw out binding blade but don’t actually “activate” it correct? If the icon is up then more crystals will drop? I’ll try this out tonight when I get off work. Timing sounds easy so it shouldn’t be a problem. Thanks again.

Yeah, don’t activate. As soon as you do the, dot ends.

If you do this two Maw’s first two tentacles, he actually takes damage.

Don’t let the aura expire.

Thanks all for the extra info and advice. It’s not like it can’t be done without the extra crystals so I wouldn’t exactly call it an exploit. Little things to help out in higher fractals will help though.