Guild Wars 2

Yeah, you’ve read it right. I’ve seen to much complaining about this whole fractals thing. The only thing that people do in this forum in general is complain about everything that is wrong, while often, it isn’t half that bad as people make it. I love the fact that there is a Dungeon that starts easy, but gets harder with every level. I also like that you keep needing higher infusion to progress. I’m at Fractals level 14 now, did the daily at level 10 a few times and I already got 3 rings, so the drops are all in all not that bad, but it might just take you a few days to get there. There’s not much fun if everything comes easy. Two other complaint I have seen over and over again are the following:

1) It’s hard to find a group.
2) Fractals tears groups or guilds apart because of the different levels.

Well, for the first, there’s this great site called GW2lfg.com. Really, over all the European servers together, it is definatly not hard to find a group that is looking for the same fractals. When I post something there, I usually get a response in a few minutes, or find a party there that is almost full. For the second part, seriously, be social. It are supposed to be your friends and guildies. What is the problem of re-doing a fractals once or twice to get your friend of guildy up to the level where the rest is. These complaints are not valid, and shouldn’t be the primary concern.

Of course, there are still some things that do need to be fixed, or would improve the Fractals Dungeon:

1) Getting back after disconnecting. This is probably the most important one, that might be the only thing that is seriously needs fixing with Fractals. Although it is very well possible to complete a level with 4, it just sucks that a disconnected player can’t get back and can even kick the rest of the party out. However, Anet is fully aware of this, and this will get fixed as soon as they found a solution.

2) Lacks of overflow server outside primetimes. Yeah, it is not so hard to find a group as most people claim since you can join together with other servers. However, getting together in the morning when there are no overflow servers can be a pain. Simple solution: make it possible to travel to an overflow server, and make sure there always is one up.

There’s one last thing that I would personally like to see, and that is that Fractals level become account wide. It might be nice to switch character if the team needs it. You won’t be able to join really high levels (if you haven’t played much) because of the lack of resistance items. However, this is not really something that bothers me that much, I just don’t really see the point in it being character based while the whole game is account based. I haven’t really found the answer for this yet.

But all in all, Fractals is the nicest Dungeon in this game in my opinion, and I have really enjoyed playing it so far! Keep up the good work!

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Still way to many posts flaming Guilds and what they do in my opinion.

If I look at the tactics that most players from Vizu en Deso keep to, it does not surprise me that Blacktide leading with such a great score. The constant backstabbing and rushing surely is annoying for us, but it is not getting any points or advantage. I’m not saying Blacktides tactics are always good, but overall a lot better than of the other two servers. Seriously, it seems that they just point to a spot blindfolded and decide to go there.

There is no tactics which will help you when you’re outnumbered 2:1 or worse 18 hours out of 24.
Smack talk is always easy when you’ve triple everyone’s else numbers. Let’s wait until a server with similar or better coverage comes, then you will have a more interesting fight on your hand.
Honestly, it’s a bit of a bad taste considering all the transfers to BT concentrating the biggest WvW alliances of 3 servers into one. It’s cheap to talk NOW…

It’s not cheap talk, it’s true. Yes, often the borderlands you are outnumbered, but on EB, you aren’t 9 out of 10 times. Your players should only spend half as much time and effort in capturing and defending points as they do in camping the jumping puzzle.

Still way to many posts flaming Guilds and what they do in my opinion.

If I look at the tactics that most players from Vizu en Deso keep to, it does not surprise me that Blacktide leading with such a great score. The constant backstabbing and rushing surely is annoying for us, but it is not getting any points or advantage. I’m not saying Blacktides tactics are always good, but overall a lot better than of the other two servers. Seriously, it seems that they just point to a spot blindfolded and decide to go there.

Also, if Vizu and Deso would actually stop camping jumping puzzles for a sec, they might score a few points here and there (especially Deso, who often seem to have up to 30 people in EB Puzzle).

I was excited to go to Tier 1, but honestly, I had a lot more fun the past 2 weeks in Tier 2. This is a joke.

The whole ranking and tiers of servers are made to prevent huge differences in servers. The current point system in WvW is fine if you ask me.

The only thing that might be broken, is the server hopping that occurs, that’s what might imbalance the servers strenghts.

This already exists.

It’s called PvP.

Hey all,

I’d like to say something about the monthly achievements as they are now. Last month we had 3 open achievements, and 1 that was marked with “???” and therefore unknown for quite a while. Of course, there were rumors quite early already, that it had something to do with Halloween, which it eventually did. Personally, I’m a big fan for dynamic achievements like this, but the problem here however, was that players only had about a week to complete this.

The Monthly Achievements were made as “medium-length goals”. Personally, I did not have a problem to complete this achievement within the week, but I know that some people have. Some weeks are just busier than others, and the nice thing about the monthly achievements, is that you can do them anytime during that month.

Which brings me down to this months achievements. Currently, two of them are marked as “???”. I have no idea when they will be announced, and how long we have got for them. I don’t think that the time span given for these achievements should be changed.

It is still called Monthly Achievements. Leave them that way. The event based achievements fit perfectly in the “Special Event” or “Activities” tabs.