Guild Wars 2

Question: Was that your first hot join match of the day or did u do more before? (Day as in after reset). I’m not sure about dailies, but hot join progression is capped at 2 tiers a day. However I’d imagine you’d get your pvp dailies before 2 tiers were reached so it could be a bug.

I knew something was up… It’s disheartening to know you’ve only got around 1/40-1/50 chance for a fractal weapon now. The drop rates were much higher pre fractured, why would you nerf it even further ANet???? Heck, the ultra-legendary Fractal Tonic was probably nerfed to 0.000001%. Thanks Dan and the others for compiling this, now I want a fix!

The game won’t let me talk, shows that a player is offline if I try to whisper them. Please help

I assume that if I have wings of the sunless, slickpack, or other LW exclusive back pieces that they’ll be available in the wardrobe?

Skimmed.. I’m sorry but if you’d rather wait another few dozen fractal runs to get a duplicate rather than have this new system then you’re just impossible. Now I can get my 2nd dagger and have a shiny fractal back for all my alts

Hayden, myself and others are planning to start regular Tequatl kills on Dragonbrand server again, the first will be tomorrow. Sir Hayden will be doing his regular temple runs after reset (5pm Pacific), which will gather people for the fight. After the temples, we’ll be preparing for the next Teq spawn. Anyone is welcome! For better coordination, we’ll be using our server Teamspeak (ts3.dragonbrandforums.com). Tell your guildies and friends also :)

If you have any questions, feel free to whisper me in-game or forum pm.

Tom Gore.4035:

The recipe costs should be the very least of your concern when you’re crafting ascended armor…

Eh, I didn’t save my laurels so while I was crafting my guards armor I was slowed down by a week or so. T7 mats are the bulk though

Dragonbrand does world events starting after reset and running all day. If you miss an event the first time, there’s enough people doing them to last till midnight CST at the least. Only events that only get done once usually is Karka Queen, And Balthazar temple. 5 temple events + Karka queen already equal 180 dragonite. Dragon events are around 20 dragonite each, you can easily get 250 dragonite a day.

Don’t even need to do much to get rank 14.. Player vs Dolyak

My unopened clerics and sentinels armor boxes didn’t change – didn’t expect them to. I resist opening them because I simply have no use for them atm. I’ll probably end up with a bank full of boxes soon >.<

Doing dungeons with less than 5 players is for those looking for a greater challenge. In a perfect world where all 5 player builds are the same, each contributes 20% of damage. 3-manning it reduces your DPS to 60% along with support skills. As a new dungeon runner, you should have 5 people in your group with proper level gear and skills etc. Dungeons are challenging at first, but you’ll find that each run is better. Don’t give up after a bad experience, arm yourself with knowledge and delve in again.

“So don’t fall for it guys, cheers”. You do notice that there are people out there who click links without thinking? It’s bad enough that these emails are circulating, but putting phishing links out on the forums pretty much makes you part of the problem.

I’m just running them for the ectos + odd chance of getting insignias/inscriptions at this point. Averaging around 8-10g per run so that’s reward enough for me

In conclusion,
-DB is being pushed into T2 due to SoRs fallout
-DB will not have fun in gold league, and will be destroyed.
-DBs main WvW guilds will likely leave after the season is over, or during.
-FA is being pushed down to T3, and will destroy silver league.
-T3 guilds may leave after the season, or during for better tiers.
-FA will become bored in T3
-FA WvW guilds may transfer to better tiers for more action
-All this may cause another fallout, and mess with balance in tiers even further
-With only 1 matchup left until season 2 starts, it is pretty much impossible for these events not to happen, unless DB decides as a whole to deliberately fail this week.
-All due to some guys deciding that winning fights was more important than PPT in Rall.
-ANet needs to do something Q_Q

I’m sorry That’s a known bug, which has been in game at least pre-Fractured patch. If you get him to zero before the colossus phase is over it can bug and not give you the bonus and boss chests. Why the hell they haven’t fixed it, probably lies on the fact that they spend 99% of resources on the meh living world content. No love for dungeons/fractals aka non-casual, non-Zerg content.

I’m on DB, Ankh has 300+ players and is an awesome guild. Add me @Kingteranas

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

Nope, it was me, I bought them all to hand out to the poor needy children of Lions Arch who lost their homes when Scarlet attacked.

Ooo can I be a poor and needy orphan? :P

Just for fun, I’ve spent 1500g on guardian and 200g on thief. 4500 fractal relics, 680 skill points, 270 Obsidian Shards (unliquidated currencies). Current gold isn’t worth mentioning xD

Rank 6+ in WvW will have regular loot in the chests (usually greens and siege, occasionally a rare or Exo) I’ve gotten 4 ascended weapons within 3 days of each other (a Tonns from WvW, Zoijas, Assassins, and Anchus from Fractals 50). Before that I got an Occams a couple months back, so fractal drop rate may have been boosted during Fractured. Or my luck is just strange lol. I know that a guild tested FOTM 48s pre-fractured and got 2% drop rate for a weapon chest. It seems much higher than that to tell you the truth. WvW chests are apparently very rare, I got mine at rank 60 or so.

Thiefs at 75 currently, it definitely provides great group support for dungeons and whatnot. SB is your AoE weapon, with conditions dealt on every initiative skill. Thief can be overwhelmed if there’s multiple opponents, but there’s enough blinds and stealth out the wazoo to get out of any situation. AOE isn’t as strong as some other classes, since their Melee weapons don’t cleave. They are really useful in dungeons, especially Arah where you can stealth past mob patrols. Pvpers worst nightmare, stealth and backstab someone for half their hp, blind and go for the kill.

Got full Ascended, 1500g earned, and 1200+ hrs logged on my guard – so time to gear up my thief! Game is literally endless, lots of things to do.

For terms you might see in map chat or whatnot: dungeons are abbreviated AC (Ascalonian Catacombs), CM (Caudecus Manor), TA (Twilight Arbor) SE (Sorrows Embrace), CoF (Citadel Of Flame), CoE (Crucible Of Eternity) HOTW (Honor Of The Waves), and Arah (Ruined City Of Arah) Dungeons range from lvl 30 story mode 35 Explorable AC to 80 Arah. FOTM (Fractals Of The Mist) is a special dungeon that increases in difficulty as you get to higher fractal levels. EBG stands for Eternal Battlegrounds in WvW, SMC stands for Stonemist Castle in EBG. DBbl is Dragonbrand Borderlands. AR stands for Agony Resistance, which you need for running higher level fractals. No need to worry about that, can only get AR from lvl 80. LA is Lions Arch. GWAMM is a special title from playing Guild Wars 1 and unlocking a bunch of titles on that. All I can think of atm, add me Kingteranas if you need help getting into the game

Played a game before this in which lvl 60 (endgame) took more than 100 hours to get. Leveling speed in this game is much better, about a lvl/hr on average for me. I would recommend just exploring the world, running the champ train for a bit, then go on with personal story etc. 80 can easily be gotten in a few weeks playing a bit every day. Working on second 80 thief atm, just doing Personal story, living world has gotten me to 70 in a couple weeks time.

Got Anchus, Zoijas weapon boxes from fractals 50 and Tonns from a WvW rank chest within 3 days. It’s just luck I guess, last weapon chest was a Occams 3 months prior.

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I have been doing frac 50s for months now, and I usually see a few blues/greens, the rewards from fractals are really bad ^^

No Arista… It can’t be!! But yea, the final chests are usually bad, only a few times where I’ve gotten lodestones/exotics from them. A couple more gold for 50 would be nice too ^^

Arah p4 bugs/exploits
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Some of the Priest/Priestesses can be pushed into their altar stones, which bugs them and prevents them from attacking. Depending on where they are pushed etc., they can be bugged for the entire fight or partially. Balthazar and Lyssa are ones I can confirm.
Simin, Risen Priestess Of Dwayna has a bug and exploit. The exploit allows you to completely skip the 2nd phase where she stealths and you have to kite the sparks to the middle. If the devs (or Lilith for submitting to devs) need to know the specifics they should pm me. Also, a common bug is the sparks spawning during any of her phase 2 burn phases, allowing the team to burn her down without having to kite sparks if they have enough DPS to do so.

Considering that ANet resetted 30+ fractal levels and then never released their promised fractal leaderboard, I wouldn’t bet on a legendary statistics chart any time soon.

I personally roll my fractals before starting LFG – or a friend starts it. If you kick me, you lose also. If you don’t follow my LFG guidelines – bye bye.

Would’ve killed me to not know how far in the fight I am lol

Rampage is situational – in the thaumanova fractal a warrior can solo the lava room with it. I suppose it could be useful as a last resort gtfo card – the tripled base hp would allow you to survive any situation. Melandru is a racial skill btw – seems more backline support than anything. You can root enemies, give protection and healing to allies – WvW functionality is great. The drawback is its lack of offensive capability, so it has little to no means of self-defense.

Blasto.3652:

Danikat.8537:

(Incidentally if the skin was originally one of the consumable skin items with no stats, like the Dragon Wings or Quaggan back packs then what you’ll get back is that skin on random blue stats.)

hi. random blue stat on skin or on infused back? the skin will be soul or account bound?

Blue stats on the skin, ascended backpiece will have the original ascended stats as it already had those stats before it was transmuted. Skin should be account bound, as all skins are originally account bound.

MAD CAT.9321:

Just have us start personal story all over again, problem solved.

Just reset all your dungeon completions.. If your personal story never happened then you never defeated Zhaitan in Arah – why not just take away dungeon master while you’re at it. You’re funny

Haven’t seen any “positive” fixes, just more dredge irritation.

cmud.5689:

Hi all,

did a Fractal for the first time yesterday and after doing that / reading the wiki I found a couple things I do not understand / need help.

1.) I did 2 fractals with the group and than had to leave due to time reasons, does this mean that the next time I go for a FOTM run I have to run 2 more fractals to get into the “boss fractal” of my current tier, or do I actually need to make the full run of 4 fractals with the last being the boss.

2.) As mentioned above, as I will progress to higher difficulties, I can also imagine that the difficulty of a “full run” will be more and more time consuming. Should I prep. myself for lengthy and time-heavy investments?

3.) Similar, does the daily fractal chest drop after succesfully completing 4 fracs in one day? (I guess yes, but oh well…)

4.) any tips appreciated, like “do not sell +1 agony infusions” or whatever

PS: should anyone be interested, we rolled swamp first followed by cliffside. All were newbs like me with no proper exp beforehand. We did well. I did not felt doing anything forced and we figuered out the mechs at a decent rate. + no wipes.

thanks!

You must run 3 fractals+the boss fractal in a row to receive a daily chest for that tier (1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50) The daily chest you receive is based on your personal reward level (running a level 11 fractal at personal level 1 will only award a level 1 daily chest.) The time investment gradually ramps up as you progress (each tier increases agony and enemy difficulty). I categorize the levels into 3 difficulties (1-19 is beginning level, 20-39 is intermediate, 40-50 is the most difficult. Level 50 fractals shouldn’t take more than 2 hrs maximum, with a good team. Agony infusions are useful, once you have infused ascended items. Agony Resistance is only useful in increments of 5, save the infusions for later. The fractal mats you need to infuse items are found from 1-20+ so it’ll be a while before you can infuse items. Also, do not return to the lab if you need to repair, that will reset your fractal progress. If you need to repair, return to character select and reenter Lions Arch.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I used to buy Arah p2s for levels but now they all require me to help kill Brie.

Yea, they changed her so that if you don’t have enough DPS and burn her down quickly enough you’ll be ported back a wee bit past the boat. Still, I ran it a couple days ago and after killing her and getting the daily chest got teleported regardless. No time to loot the champ bag . They need to revert these annoying and useless changes – I can live with the Alphard instabomb since you can just stack and range him down, but the loss of a valuable waypoint and Brie being effed up is dumb >.<

Another DM title down, this is still active btw!

Arah boss models have variety – 50ft wolf dog lol

Been running 49 fractals daily for awhile now, 30% of the time I’ve gotten nothing, another 60% I’ve gotten rings (all seemed to be infused at this lvl for me.) rest of the 10% includes 1 Zoijas Weapon Chest, a couple fractal tridents, fractal short bow and long bow, fractal dagger, and a fractal sword. Pre-Fractured I’ve gotten an Occams Weapon Chest and seemingly a lot more fractal weapons than post patch.

Lexandro.1456:

A bit short for a Norn imo. But a good effort none the less. Commander tag as I understand was set as char bound from way back before Anet decided to make changes to items. It may become account bound at a later date, it may not.

I dunno where you live, but the women here aren’t nine-feet tall

Awesome job on the cosplay ^^, I agree that commander tags should also require badges of honor, and while it would be great if they were account-bound there are folks who’ve bought several of them for their different characters already – doubt they would be getting refunds. Maybe a “commander discount” where each subsequent tag you buy is 20g off the last tag price? Down to 60g so that it doesn’t get too low; not a perfect solution but hey, it’s a start.

Social<LFG<Arah<Create Listing<“Arah path x”<Minute or two later, voila.

Now I don’t see what could be so difficult in that, do you? Lol

Took 3-4 months between my first and second weapon chests to drop – at least 3 dailies per day. Occams and Zoijas fractals are too RNG-heavy to come close to dungeon loot output.

I’m just trying to get 3 +10s for lvl 50 70 AR, no point in going any higher.

Have a lvl 9ish ranger along with my 80 guard, so pretty flexible. You can add Kingteranas, im on daily.

Running fractals usually nets me at least 5 gold each run (You can sell the +1 infusions for around 30s each, plus the 1g reward and rares/exotics you get)

Pugging is just so random lol, did a 36 fractal earlier and noticed someone with low AR off the bat. We get to the third fractal, Aetherblade, and someone asks his AR. He didn’t know what AR meant and turns out he had 2 AR lol. We let him stay, since he was new to fractals and didn’t know to start at lower lvls. He was like “If you want me to leave I can” We could’ve easily finished the boss fractal and be done (4-manning it) and he could’ve got his chest too. Instead he leaves after about an hour or so of doing the fractal run. It’s good that the new update is bringing in new fractal players, but there’s a lot of confusion surrounding AR and the difficulty scales. A short introduction to these concepts would help fresh runners.

Yup, and the rings you do get tend to be uninfused no matter what lvl you run in my experience. I don’t see how this encourages new runners let alone veterans to do FOTM.

Only infused rings have 2 infusion slots.

Why would they be? They aren’t nearly as rare as Ascended boxes, and it takes a lot of time and gold to craft one. That would be just giving away them..

Got another uninfused ring from FOTM 33 today, this is just sad.