Guild Wars 2

They’re aware of the issues surrounding these dailies:

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

The team is aware of the issues with this daily and they’re looking into it. Thanks.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Combo-Killer/first

Edit: On a personal note, I had trouble completing the ‘combo killer’ daily, I was with a ranger who used their Bonfire combo field and I used my Whirling Wrath (guardian) finisher, sometimes it worked and most of the time it didn’t. Managed to complete it though

Thanks for the replies

I think my gear is actually kinda sucky, still got some bits that are level 46-50 which is pretty horrific, I just haven’t come across any replacements yet unfortunately. I’ll just have to get some guild mates to take me on some runs with them or something, I’ll figure it out eventually I guess.

Thanks again for all the tips, I’ll write them down so I don’t forget what to look for in a fight

kelman.9451:

I never run a dungeon yet, I wanted to try one myself I hope they aren’t all where you need to study a guide to get through it.

Well I’ve only done a few and I had a friend with me who told me what to look out for, but I managed to get by in some fights

If you can’t be bothered to read about my situation in great detail, I’ll write a little TL;DR version at the bottom of this post somewhere.

I hit level 80 a few weeks ago and I figured that a good way to get some money and better gear would be to try and look at doing some dungeons. Since I play quite casually I never really bothered to run any dungeons during my levelling process as I usually just ran around exploring, completing hearts, doing my story and such at my leisure. However, I feel that not running dungeons was a bad mistake because it never gave me the chance to adjust to the new mindset that there are no dedicated tanks/healers (I played a lot of WoW in the past).

Basically, dungeons in Guild Wars 2 stump me. I don’t know how you’re supposed to play in a dungeon. It feels like I’m just going to die a lot because the monsters just hit too kitten hard, there’s only so many attacks that I can avoid, there’s only so much I can do to help whoever is getting beaten down and sometimes I just don’t really know what’s going on. I’m AWFUL at figuring out boss fights for myself, but if I can read a quick guide somewhere on what the main mechanics of a fight are, I can usually get by.

I’m too scared to try another dungeon after trying out fractals recently. I got the uncategorised fractal with the ‘Old Tom’ golem and our group just wiped a whole bunch of times. We managed to get him down to a tiny fraction of health once after we realised that there is a fan in the room which clears the poison clouds, but we still couldn’t figure out the best way to deal with the spinning poison darts of death thing. We tried healing/dodging through the damage, standing behind walls, on top of boxes and at the very edges of the room to live through the poison darts, but then someone would just be spontaneously 1-shot with a lightning bolt of doom.

TL;DR – what’s the best way to find out about encounters beforehand? The wiki doesn’t seem entirely helpful sometimes, particularly for the Old Tom encounter that I described above. Also, what should be my general mindset when fighting in a dungeon? I’ve tried switching out my 7-0 buttons with abilities that would purely benefit my group. I just get really confused because it all seems so hectic.