Guild Wars 2

My List, I’ve put them in an order which I enjoy, I have had ‘success issues’ with some of my favorites, and I’m often loving and dreading the Molten Bosses at the moment depending on what my group is like. I’m lvl 50, run 47/49s mostly, I do not play in pick up groups, so these comments are based on a semi organised team, although our professions depending on who is playing can be pretty whacky!

Ones that I think are in a good place

Volcanic Fractal
Nicely challenging boss fight, and it’s not too long to get there, defending the humans for the small chest is also quite cool

Aetherblade Fractal
I love the traps and mechanics with agony throughout the fractal, more should be designed like this

Cliffside Fractal
This used to be one of my most hated, it tends to take longer than other fractals, but since they have tiered the fractals I no longer have any issues with this, the boss fight at the beginning could be removed to make this a better length for a fractal

Thaumanova Reactor Fractal
I like each of the rooms and different challenges, I think it could have been a bit more intricate in the design of the area with props and such, but in general a nice edition

Molten Furnace Fractal
I like the length, traps, and difficulty of this fractal, the pack after the tunnel can easily wipe an under prepared team in the higher levels

Ones I think could be improved

Uncategorized Fractal
This is quite low on my list, due to the harpy knock backs, although it makes for the epic comedy moments, it also can be super long. The updates to reduce the number of harpies is appreciated and moves above Urban in my list

Urban Battlegrounds Fractal
This is probably lower than most would rate it, I enjoy the fights and the length of this fractal, but I don’t like the reliance on the npcs / having them not randomly agro from the very edge of the boss area and manmode!

Swampland Fractal
This used to be really fun, however since the wolf changes on Mossman I’ve not enjoyed it as much, but Bloomhunger is always pretty cool

Aquatic Ruins Fractal
Boss fight is so boring, don’t have any problem with the rest

Snowblind Fractal
The constant knock backs during the first boss fights makes this tedious, although I do like the rest of this fractal, I think the knock back frequency should be reduced

Underground Facility Fractal
The endless clown car in the middle makes this unbelievably long, just have the boss in this room with a few adds and it would probably be a decent fractal, the boss in there actually has some good mechanics

Bosses
Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal
Nice length, the mechanics make this challenging enough but not to an annoying degree

Molten Boss Fractal
I love this boss fight because it requires a lot of dodge mechanics, however it does require your whole team to be able to dodge well, which can make this annoying

Solid Ocean Fractal
This is fine, but it is the least interesting boss fight of the three

Sidenote: #TheThingsKiritoDoes

From the other thread

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Sunrise doesn’t change. Only Infused Ascended Back Items and Rings are getting new slots.

This does say in the other thread “Infused” items, meaning you’d still have to pay the 250 ectos to infuse the ascended back piece, that’s how I read it anyway.

eekzie.5640:

The point was that people spent time getting their characters to a level to then enjoy it at that level. The leveling is the sucky part. Getting a character up to 50 isn’t that much of a joy to a lot of people, but doing level 48 fractals is. At least to me it is.

Even being reset the 20 levels myself feels like a kick in the groin.

IceVyper.6810:

Yes it is lot’s of fun playing and leveling with friends. And yes, you make a sacrifice entering fractals with a new character and getting much lower rewards 50 times, until you reach your main. It is a hard work and lots of dedication to make that second, third, fourth character, and it pains me seeing that now everyone gets to do that for free. Is it that surprising that people want to be compensated for that?

That’s a shame, I really enjoyed that part Each to their own and I respect the fact you are upset about it.

I never saw entering a low level fractals as a sacrifice, the rewards were pretty low regardless. I think that’s where our views differ, I never saw playing fractals as work or dedication, it was just fun with friends and what levels we did or rewards we got didn’t matter, I did many low level runs with my guild as well, most were funny and rage worthy but fun none the less.

I do hope you have more fun leveling up from 30-50 in the new fractals with the new mechanics. I know I will be

Just be be clear this is not specifically aimed at this thread or yourselves.

I’m not naive enough to say that I wouldn’t take compensation like a weapons chest or something for each character over 30 but people are generalizing all the players that have 49+ personal levels saying they are upset.

I’m just putting out the other side where actually I’m not upset about it, this was just the first thread I found voicing it, in fact I’m exceedingly excited about the new fractals, and the changes that they are making are a massive step in the right direction.

Just reading this thread through, and thought I’d share my view.

I really enjoy fractals and progression, however I did not do fractals when you could use res orbs or pet res on maw, and not knowing anyone above 50 my progression was capped there. I don’t think either of these were ‘exploits’ in the negative ban-able sense, but they certainly were not intended to be used, fractals was supposed to be hard capped by agony at 50.

I instead leveled alts. Do I think that I should be compensated for my level on most of my characters being reduced from 49 to 30? No.

Why?

I didn’t play the game for rewards, I genuinely enjoy fractals as content (if you didn’t why were you playing them?!), the fact that ANet are putting any time and effort into improving fractals and adding new mechanics is more than reward enough for me, I’m sure to be playing 100s more hours in fractals, and many fractal 50 runs in the future.

The many hours of fun with friends was, and is awesome, at the end of the day it’s a game. In my opinion if you are playing the game for rewards which will probably be gone in the next 5 years I think you’ve missed the point of gaming.

Guessing is always fun! The Mistlock stuff reminded me of the mission from Guildwars 1 – Dragons Lair with the 6 Facet and debuff that went with the area. I think its going to be a good update, but I do hope they give us something to do with rings and make weapons a ticket / skin.

Good videos. I’m quite aware this is solo q but it would be nice to hear more about how the team moves, and how you think the losing team could do better.

Any other tips on team play in solo q for players trying to work their way up the ladder would be appreciated.

Hopefully in the future we will see closer matches and it won’t put me up against the players in the top 500 ¬.¬