Swamp is by far the fastest, and there is no loot compensation or anything for doing the other ones.
Best way to go around this is giving each fractal an amount of points, so that it always tries to even out your points (while still randomizing).
So lets say you roll swamp first, your chance to roll dredge next will be higher than.
That would be a good incentive in my opinion.
you get dredge almost every run anyway…. at least i been getting dredge every day past 3 weeks or so…lol
Maybe it’s already in place then
puts on tin foil hat
The plot thickens.
oh idk if they did… maybe i am just that (un)lucky, depending how you view it haha
me and a guy i run fractals with always compete in who gets more mining bags every run xD
Correct – you cannot do this.
You have to use 1x simple infusion AND 1x Agony infusion.
They are different infusion slots.
This is why the cost has gone up in a BIG way.
i guess i should be happy they only reset levels to 30 and not 55 AR we had …
still with simple infusions alone you can get around 40 AR, add ascended armor to it, i don’t think that + 1 are really that necessary unless you wanna run above lv 50
i know for fact i don’t…. simply because while agony does play a factor, in 99% of the cases you die to normal dmg from scaled up mobs
i get one shot by about anything above 40 if i don’t dodge it, i can just imagine 50+… or rather i don’t want to
“No because you use a +5 Simple infusion and a +5 AR one. Know what you are talking about before talking.”
I have looked at this extensively new “infused rings/ascended backpacks” no longer come with the inherent +5 AR. Yes – you can put a simple infusion on to get you +5 AR.
But you are still missing +5 AR which you used to get as part of the infusion process via the mystic forge.
This will now cost you approx an extra 5g/item. It’s documented and fully explained in the patch notes.
you basically can’t put 2 versatile simple infusions in 1 ring with 2 slots?
i am just confused by one thing… why do ppl even bother getting those +10 etc?
55 AR is easily reachable with infusions from vendor, ascended armor gonna have more slots mostlikely…so what is the issue?
don’t worry you won’t see any thieves after dec 10th
Anet made sure that all thieves either quit or reroll after patch just to pleasure lazy clueless QQers like OP
also, if they “fix” this, then every class should be able to attack only when they face target from front, otherwise they would do reduced dmg…just to be fair :P
you know what issue with traps is?
- too long to set up: hi guys please don’t kill me while i bend over and set up a trap here
- too little effect, other utility spells are more usefull
- locational, long CD
swamp: mossman can swim now; his wolves call more wolves, that call more wolves, that call more wolves and so on, untill you have huge mob of wolves following you
cliffside: fixed stacking bug
jade: camera doesn’t zoom out anymore….
aquatic: jelly seems to have new spell but i never got hit by it so idk what it does
From the looks of it the item rewards got better though.
I did fractal 30, 31 and 32 now and got 2 ascended boxes, 3 exotics and a few rares.
I wonder what 50 gives now
i got bunch of greens, few cores and 1 not infused ring from runs above 30 now… on the other side, probably over 2g repairs and 0 patience left
I beg to differ, my PVT minion Master necro does around 4 to 5k in a full cycle of dagger hits and minion smacks. With no minions up I still hit about 2k and some change with a full dagger rotation. 460×460×1280
None of this is counting siphon damage which is about 34 a hit, per minion and dagger smack. It’s also not counting stat food or bloodlust buff on my dagger being stacked
On top of that having 29k HP and 1.9k toughness usually means i’m the last one up and i’ve finished several bosses by myself after the group died, unlike a full berserker who has a stiff fart blow their way to topple them
not everyone has an option to play a bunker due to class mechanic restrictions..
look at pve, look at pvp
they keep making changes and adding content that pretty much forces you to play one, otherwise you are up to really fustrating gameplay
i honestly wish, wars and guards would be disabled for a week… so devs suddenly realize how kittened their game is now
Fractal chests seem to give better chances of giving rares/exotics than dungeon chests. The relics are useful for obsidian shards, 20-slot bags, ascended backpiece, and of course, ascended rings.
I actually do play fractals for the rewards. Dungeons are a source of gold only, but the RNG drops and just better loot overall keeps me coming back to FOTM.
i got greens and very few rares so far from all fractals i done after patch…and box gilded box of course = another green lol
Don’t forget the egregious bugs on the Mai Trin fight that imposes double agony without warning or ports you right into cannon fire by the door from random spots around the room. Or the lack of waypoint and/or method of getting back into the reactor on character death. Or the death with no matching animation or hit on the spinning lightbars in the aetherblade terminal puzzle.
The new DPS requirements and incoming damage turned what used to be a sometimes frustrating but always fun and hilarious evening into hours of torture and final abandonment on the Mai Trin fight. My group wound up discussing the fact that levels are account-bound now and that we needed to give up our light and medium armor classes because the fractals are clearly only designed for warrior/guard groups.
I want to believe that this is growing pains and it will get better, but I don’t see ANet backtracking on this. We’ll get some bug fixes, but the push towards running all heavy armor groups has been obvious for some time. This last patch just sealed it.
I understand what you are saying I just think that its a bit funny from my perspective as our guild group ran through fractals 30 with 2 engineers, 1 ranger, 1 necro and a thief, and fractals 31 with the same party other than the ranger left and we got another thief.
there is absolutely no point running fractals unless you want weapons that’s it
kittenty rewards, even more time consumming, really frustrating… i am about to quit this game and i actually used to enjoy fractals to extend
idk wth they did to loot, even for fractal it used to be way better… now i get 3 greens at the end and that 1 gold… before i would get exotics and rares….
Fractals were boring as hell before. At least now there is some variety. Probably lots of bugs to fix but still better than running the same few crappy fractals over and over.
yeah except they made the maps that were ok actually worse now
- Swamp: hey let’s make Mossman spawn 100000 of wolves so they body block any non cleave attacks…. YEAH GREAT IDEA… right?
- Cliffside: still long, STILL no reward
- Dredge: i think there was more than enough said about this one already: BAD DESIGN.
- WHAT IS THE POINT OF RED CIRCLES ON THE FLOOR WHEN YOU GET HIT BY kitten ANYWAY REGARDLESS STANDING OUTSIDE OF IT?
- Molten: bring guard/war or don’t play.. srsly do you even tests this kitten on anything but warriors?
- Instabilities: why…. why?
- kittened camera at jade maw
- bugs…. so many bugs
Yes, content got harder but reward is still GARBAGE. Few greens for 2 hours run. GREAT IDEA YO.
Honestly, why touch what is not broken? (not talking about exploits) I actually semi enjoyed fractals… now I HATE THEM.
Please, don’t touch existing content anymore. This is biggest failure so far. I don’t have enough words (and probably would get banned) to express what i think about dev team and their ideas for this LS.
I like the bags/loot from the clown car too. Quite frankly I think the clown car is where this fractal should begin.
The switch room and door along with the rest are absolutely ridiculous compared to other fractals, especially when you couple in blind and reflect immunity. I’m not sure why after a year of the dredge fractal being universally hated, ANet decided “hey, let’s make it harder and therefor longer!”.
It was already way too annoying.
Edit: on-topic, how is this even possible without abusing stealth? The only thing I can imagine is to pull all enemies to one side (but don’t kill them or they respawn), then circle back around the other side?
how is it possible: run guardians and wars lol
i mean it is well known that people been abusing every possible trick and texture to get through that map as fast as possible despite mobs dropping loot
did devs ever ask themself why people hate that map so much? i mean it is not bad at low levels but at lv 48 it was absurd long and boring
I don’t think a player gonna have as much trouble crafting heavy armor as leather/light armor since metals can be actually gathered from multiple maps.
How do you farm leather/cloth though? This game doesn’t really have skinning in that sense. All you can do is keep killing random low lv mobs and hope they drop low lv armor.
I played quite few online games (LoL including). My impressiong from GW2 pvp system: not matured and still under development. It lacks many many things, like requirements to do tpvp or rewards etc.
We can just hope they work on it. I mean the game is only 1 year old.
I did 30, 31, 32 today and was fairly easy, except 4th map on 32 with the molten bosses wich are OP. The old bugs are still there, I wonder what did they “fix” … Oh, got a staff skin and a Momentum Sigil drop, + a lot of rares + few exotics, so at least from this point of view A Net improved.
you are lucky then
i got few blues, few greens, 3 rares, 1 ascended ring (not infused), that i obviously don’t need… no skin, no exotics, no recipes, nada… GG
i can kind of see where OP is comming from, player vs 3 necros+ 2 engis yesterday… not fun at all
but making restrictions like this would cause really long queues
