Guild Wars 2

Zephyric Reaper.3049:

For those people who often have buddies to party with or are lucky enough to find a good party, it goes just fine. People know how to dodge, the mechanics, don’t avoid the wisp running phase, etc. It turns out to be an encounter like any other except you have to be on your toes and not get hit.

For the others who are not as lucky…
For me at least, I have no problem soloing any other fractal boss, but this one, I can’t. If the party wipes then it simply resulted in a glorified chase to get OOC. Now that that has been patched then it’s just go die and watch the party wipe again for a long encounter.
So in most parties it just ends up being a gamble of getting competent people in the party finder, otherwise it’s pretty much not going to happen and is going to be a time sink. This just encourages me to only play with certain people and actually discourages the use of LFG for this single encounter.

That is actually not a bad thing in the general aspect, seeing how there is some content that is made for certain people, however, it should have it’s own place to be. Fractals used to be very PUG friendly but it’s slowly drifting away from that. So in conclusion, the swamp fractal is simply NOT tuned for your average pug; again, it’s not a bad thing but as it stands now it’s a very weird and awkward difficulty spike that is turning people off because in general, people don’t like difficulty spikes.

[MASK] is a fun, casual guild. We have members of all ages and experience levels. We love to run dungeons nightly and fractals on a regular basis as well. We have TS3 and use it regularly. We have a facebook page for our members to post things about the game, their character, or get updates on guild activities. We’re continuing to build a fun community. Feel free to message me in game for more information.

I was in our guild’s private arena this morning with some guildies and didn’t get points toward my reward track. We’ve had fun matches before that earned us points. Is this a bug? I know I haven’t reached a max. I don’t go in that frequently.

I too have witnessed the newer accounts getting better drops than those of us who started our accounts with the start of the game. I have a couple of RL friends who have recently purchased the game. One of them has done Tequatl fewer times than I have. She has received 5 ascended chests from the Tequatl runs. I’ve received -0- ascended chests. I run dungeons, fractals, boss chests on a daily basis and still, no ascended drops. It’s frustrating and discouraging really that all these people who have obtained newer accounts are getting the better drops. I’m not the only one who has witnessed this in the guild I’m in. We’ve all noticed the difference in the newer vs older account drop rate.

I’ve had a couple of people I know purchase a GW2 account. Upon character creation, they were unable to join the same server that I’m on. It was “full”. I’m left with a difficult decision… do I abandon my guild and friends on my current server to play with them on theirs? I did see on the GW forms that if I switch worlds I can’t go back to my original world for 7 days.

I read a lot of information regarding “guesting”. It would really be nice to have that function available, or to have the option to return to your current home world and not have the 7 day waiting period.

Any response regarding the “guesting” feature would be appreciated.