Guild Wars 2

It seems that no matter how good an internet connection someone has, someone WILL disconnect from the group. And because of this, and how fractals will NEVER be fixed to be like a normal dungeon, we are unable to have a full 5-man group to ever complete. It always dwindles to 4 or even 3 manning, and I find that this is crap. I want to enjoy fractals without the looming fact of “if you disconnect, you restart.” This is crap! I am only lv.5 and I have done over 40 fractals due to this issue. You fixed all the exploits, but you can’t fix it to be like dungeon that it is supposed to be? All other dungeons are cross-server, there isn’t much difference between it and another other than continue to ask to continue with the group or not. Too much hassle over something that is related to other dungeons. Nice going, fix it quickly or we will be raging further about this.

They definitely need to allow people to rejoin. But 40 fractals and level 5? That’s some terrible luck. I’ve probably done around 40 and have only had 3-4 people disconnect.

It shouldn’t be able luck to stay in Fractals. Hell at times EVERYONE from our group was kicked out of fractals. Just now we had a group that had the bugged colossus fractal, and 2 of us(including me) disconnected. We were on the third fractal too for lv.5, and we come to find out it is bugged from the other 3 as they killed the archdiviner and no additional enemies came. So that’s another problem; fail at fixing code for exploits AND the inability to make the dungeon fair.

since we’re on the topic of fractals, can you change the exotics that drop from the reward to not be account bound?

zugzug.5163:

since we’re on the topic of fractals, can you change the exotics that drop from the reward to not be account bound?

No, save them until you get 4 and you can mystic forge them into a non-account bound exotic. Or use them on an alt.

edit: and to answer OP’s question

Game Director Colin: "We’ve got people working specifically on this issue, it has turned out to be much more complicated due to the way fractals are implemented than we hoped. We’ll have a fix for this soon as it’s tested enough we think it’s clearly solved and doesn’t cause any other issues.

We are at least a week and a half away on a fix for this, possibly longer depending on how long it takes to test it properly, we wouldn’t want to deploy anything that makes the issue worse!

Thanks for your patience, we wish this one was super easy! =)"

Well…I still don’t like the fact that I’m doing so many fractals, only to have them unaccomplished by the disconnects. I suppose I’ll avoid fractals until I get hard proof in the update notes that it has been fully fixed; not like the hot-fixes that nearly broke Cliffside Fractal…

I have not been as unlucky as OP but im currently on level 12 and have failed 3 times due to player disconnects over the course of the 12 levels but I have had about 8 disconnects in total but managed to complete as 4 man team on the lower levels. I have also been lucky enough that I personally have not been the one to disconnect.

I feel terrible for the players that are disconnected though, specially when one disconnected on the last boss before being taken back to hub, he must have been raging and this is not fun gaming for anyone involved, even if you enjoy the FTOM being disconnected would soon make you think twice. Lets not beat around the bush FOTM is not excatly a 15minute run is it lol.

In very simple terms you must find a way of letting players rejoin like you did in Guild Wars 1. I know this might come with exploits that some unfair gamers might take advantage of (well I assume otherwise why not implement this straight away) but there has to be a workaround for this otherwise this will soon become a failure dungeon that people simply will not bother to take a gamble completing.

On a plus note whoever created the FOTM needs some speical praise cause im having way to much fun, really enjoying it and cant get enough.

Bring us some Ascended armor please

datbabykilla.4307:

zugzug.5163:

since we’re on the topic of fractals, can you change the exotics that drop from the reward to not be account bound?

No, save them until you get 4 and you can mystic forge them into a non-account bound exotic. Or use them on an alt.

edit: and to answer OP’s question

Game Director Colin: "We’ve got people working specifically on this issue, it has turned out to be much more complicated due to the way fractals are implemented than we hoped. We’ll have a fix for this soon as it’s tested enough we think it’s clearly solved and doesn’t cause any other issues.

We are at least a week and a half away on a fix for this, possibly longer depending on how long it takes to test it properly, we wouldn’t want to deploy anything that makes the issue worse!

Thanks for your patience, we wish this one was super easy! =)"

thank you for citing—hope they fix it soon.