Guild Wars 2

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Normally you would want to go with either cheap tactics or an inability to rez. But this combines both at the same time, which makes for a very unpleasant dungeon. For example, while doing the underwater fractal there is a pathway that you have to go through that is extremely dark and does high damage in this darkness. The only way to go forward are to grab luminous plants and go from luminous plant to luminous plant.

Problem is, with 5 people and only 2 or 3 plants at each point, someone dies from the darkness. Or they die because the krait in that area use nothing but stuns and sinks and immobilizes. So you have to go back to rez them, but they die immediately since they’re in the darkness without protection, and you’ll likely die if you go there since krait will be around their carcass. So the team dwindles down from 5 to 2 or 1, and those few can’t fight off the vet kraits that await them at the end and then they get killed. Restart event. Then, if someone manages to get forward far enough to hit the checkpoint, they have to suicide themselves so the whole team can arrive and respawn finally.

I want to make a comment on this, since this is the first fractal I did with a PUG, one was level 5, another 44 and the others 80. The whole thing about the fractals is to figure a way to go through it, as a team, in my humble opinion.

Regarding the Fractal with dark water.
If you did grabbed a luminous plant, you would've noticed the skill on them, that once you click on a dead party member, you revive them and teleport them to you. Adding to that, there were zones with light coming from the ground, and those were safe to swim around.

Fractal of the Mists is one of the most interesting dungeons I’ve had the pleasure to play, with different mechanics, some more fun than others (I’m looking at you, Legendary Imbued Shaman), but it’s doable with PUGs, since I’ve been to PUG’s where not everyone was 80 and was able to do the Fractal with no problem.

The only thing I would complain about, is not about the Fractal, but the fact that once someone gets disconnected, you can’t get them again inside. That’s the only thing that have give me problems.