Guild Wars 2

As someone who used to do lvl 50 in the old 3 frac system (with the old infernal dredge) and who did lvl 1 to 100 at HoT release, my opinion is that now they are a lot less challenging and that it feels less gratifying accomplishing them because they have been pretty casualised.
They actually did a great job in the HoT release because the tier 4 fractals were actually challenging (looking at cliffside or snowbind lvl 90+ for example).
But since it was their goal to casualise it, I’d say they did a good job because it’s easier for people to get into it (cliffside nerf, revival,etc).
Concerning the rewards, I think they have always been correct (not a lot but enough, getting ascended items is a big prize).
What I’m salty about is that casualising fractals decreased the value of items that could show that you were good at them. First example the golden frac weapons, at the release of HoT, having one from the 1-100 achiev was a big thing (people would gz you for having one). Second example is Ad Infinitum, I mean I thought having one would show that you were trully dedicated to fractals but anyone can make it without any trouble within some weeks (lots of time gate there).
So overall they did a good job casualising them but now it’s not as satisfying for a “veteran”.
(sorry if bad english, not native speaker)

Anyone has infos about Ad Infinitum ? Can we finish it now ?

You can’t do all the fractals alone, some require you to be at least 3. It is not a good idea because it’ll take you way more time and finding a group is actually easy. I’ve done some easy ones alone when there was nobody coming for a group or to get specifics achievements (did Jade Maw alone to get the no lasers achiev)

Bart Weird.9671:

Also it should be in line with the fractal theme and the fractal weapons and supposedly have the same glow and not some random blurry purple.

Totally, the purple has nothing to do with the whole fractal theme.

Change it back how it was before or make the glow dyable, this is just wrong.

IronKenn.6094:

Hey BMKLD,

Salvaging the first two tiers of the backpiece should yield you a 100 percent chance of 5 balls each. I salvaged both tiers and got 10 total ( 5 and 5 ) and this also was the same case for 2 other guildies of mine. Not sure if this helps but

Oh kitten I didn’t knew this ! Thanks for the tip ! ^^

IronKenn.6094:

Hey guys,

The recipe I found off the GW2 Wiki page, hence I was curious if anyone already finished their Unbound and was able to craft the back piece Ad Infinitum. A shame that these components have not been introduced yet since I am finishing my last dailies for Unbound tomorrow and have been saving up mats to create the Legendary back piece. Let’s hope these components will be introduced with the upcoming Fractal changes later this month.

Looking by the recipe, unbound isn’t hard to craft. The thing that bothers me is that we need 5 Balls of Dark Energy. I mean, I’ve enough ascended armors/weapons to savage but that’s expensive.
We can also savage amulets or accessories but what’s the best way to get them ? I’d say the amulets purchased from WvW Laurel Merchant for 20 Laurels and 250 Badges of Honor or the 30 laurels ones. Are there better ways ?

My warrior Norn

Wait a bit before CCing him, if you do it right as he spawns he will still try again. This works for the majority of time but sometimes doesn’t

Malediktus.9250:

There is literally no point in doing the higher levels except once for the achievement.

Well it’s about personnal achievement, and I’m pretty happy with my Golden Fractal Greatsword

Laraley.7695:

to make fresh air zerker ele viable.

Before HoT came out, I quit the game due to the fact it just got extremely stale and nothing new was happening. After HoT came out, I stopped playing ele in every game mode and swapped to revenant. Not gonna say it’s bad, obviously it’s pretty fun, but today I thought I could mess around with the old fresh air build and I can tell you it made me realize how much fun it actually was. I miss playing it a lot. It’s lots of fun, but it’s just so weak.

I would like you to consider what direction you’re pushing this class. It goes from one support spec to another, witht little differences. I’m sure there are people who enjoy it and people who find tempest fun, but to me this support auramancer is the dullest build I’ve ever seen. It’s okay to have this for people who enjoy it, but for the love of god let us have at least one dps spec viable. Just one, it’s all I ask.

I’m not sure why fresh air never really got buffs like mesmers and other classes did, why it got rather nerfed, but zerker fresh air was just slowly losing viability with each buff other classes got. And in the end of the day ele couldn’t compete with buffed classes while itself it recieved pretty much nothing.

First of all, please fix scepter already. There have been tons and tons of threads and requrests and I really really cannot believe the weapon is still as bad as it was a year ago. The changes it got was rather a joke. And if I should be honest I rather dislike the change to Dragon’s tooth, I prefered when I was able to cast it from LOS, when it was faster and possible from any angle. Not asking for this to be reverted, just saying.

There really needs to be done something about ele survability. Base survability is pathetic, while traited it’s insanely strong. Why keep forcing eles into taking survability traits all the time? Why can’t eles run mostly dps stuff and be fine just like other classes? Why do we have no utility outside of support stuff? Why do we depend on boons so much? Why such high cooldowns on essential things? Why are all the AA’s on scepter so bad? All of this is the reason why fresh air zerker ele build is near to extinct.

Another huge issue is the fact it lacks sustained damage greatly. It’s almost hilarious marauder ele will have less damage than celestial specs. Yeah, it has burst, but one skill on 20 second cooldown is not really gonna cut it. Other than that? Some decent skills, a lot of trash skills, but in the end you just give up trying to deal any damage to people who facetank everything, but will still outsustain you. With all these high sustain high damage builds running around, ele can just alt f4. It doesn’t have enough damage, it doesn’t have enough sustain, nothing.

The spec has a lot of wrong with it right now and I’m not saying it needs to be this one exactly, but come on let us have a choice. If you need to revamp the class, I don’t care, just do something, please.

I really wanna play ele again.

I don’t get it, I’ve been playing fresh air Scepter/Dagger for more than a year now, mostly on fractals (just switching to Staff when needed). I have very decent survivability (3 heals + water switching, air 5 dodge, water 4 and earth 2 for damage reduction, vigor) as well as control. I do not feel like doing much more damage when I’m with staff. I’m at lvl 76 at fractals now and never felt useless.
What I feel like is that I do less damage overall than my warrior, but I offer much more utility