So tonight I entered for a level 50 fractal with some decent pugs. We had a nice group and the first two fractals went fine. The third fractal was Cliffside, which recently bugs out when you fall with the hammer rendering it impossible to complete. I assume this fractal breaking bug was introduced when the developers decided to fart around with removing the double seal hit, and hitting seals from the side… (What was the point of that minor fix anyway?)
After rerolling and re-completing the next three fractals, we roll Mai Trin. All was going well, at around 80% health we all lag out a little bit. I mentioned it in chat and everyone else stated the same. We continued to the next phase after 50% health and I begin to see everyone running into walls and off the cliff. I mention lag again in the chat, and then I get disconnected. I log back in from character select screen and the whole party have had a 5 man disconnect! The disconnect was at 1:45 AM GMT time. I was not the party opener so there was no worry about the dungeon owner issues.
So all in all, 2 hours wasted in fractals. I’m kidding myself to say they wouldn’t be wasted even if we completed it anyway :P The joys of another Magi ring and 1.4g for the highest content in the game is so worthy of my time.
One of our party members joked that a fractal tonic was going to drop so we got disconnected intentionally which kinda made me laugh, and disappointed at the same time. I will include that in the bug report too that the fractal tonic doesn’t exist considering it has 0% chance to drop.
362 Pristine fractal relics and 21,000 normal relics not counting the amount i’ve broken and spent for obsidian shards. Let me spend these on a tonic, fractal skins and ascended gear already!!! Rng sucks and anyone who has ever done fractals will agree. I remember after fractured someone data mined the fractal weapon chest. Considering there are new Npc’s and vendors created every patch, why can’t a few fractal rewards be added to the merchants in the Mistlock.
Fractals are the only PVE content I still thoroughly enjoy, yet their rewards are an absolute joke day in day out. I know most of this post changed direction but i’m another one to add to the list for being unhappy with fractals.
TLDR: Fractals bugged twice in a row + Fractal rewards are (in a sense) bugged
