No. We were hoping they would allow us to get over 50, as they said back then that “each new piece of AR gear is meant to allow you to progress to further fractal levels”.
But nope, 50+ is still impossible, and now it probably won’t change for a while, until the fractal patch where they’ll put the new fractal map.
Since january, it has been impossible to do a daily with fractals 50+.
Anet said that it wasn’t intended to go that far with the AR we had, so they changed it so 50+ was impossible to do anymore.
Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractals-past-lvl-40/first#post1384831
He’s not saying there will be tickets, he’s asking for this to be included in the fractal patch.
Many different posts have been made about the fractal skins, asking for a way to get the skin we want. Some people like Bart have asked for dropping a ticket to then use for the skin, some asked about a mystic forge recipe to change a fractal skin into another, …
As it is right now, you can only depend on your luck and go again and again in 48 to try and get the skin you want. And only depending on RNG is quite bad, especially with such a low drop rate…
Let’s hope when they finally give us the fractal patch we’re waiting since january, they’ll be updating the rewards (as the reward/time is right now really really bad, compared with other dungeons), as well as giving us a way to get the skins we really want, whatever that way is.
[Off topic] Btw Bart, stop taking all the sword skins in our runs, I still need some of them for my alts. If you do, i’ll let you get a greatsword instead of stocking them in my bank :p [/off topic]
They won’t be touching fractals until they release the reactor fractal which will probably be December
That would mean 11 months since the cap was put… That’s way too long.
Beside, the AR we now have trivialize the content. Before, you had to know how to dodge to do level 40-48. Now, with 55 AR, you can just take it and still survive. With 55 AR, agony hits, on level 48, for less than it did when we began at level 10…
Is that what Anet wants ? When they released fractals, I was hoping they would reward skill for progression, not force us to stack gear… The AR shouldn’t even be necessary, we can “easily” do higher levels fractals all the way to the roadblock that Maw is, as all other agonies can be dodged.
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I mean, you have like 80% uptime on reflects, Vigor on crit, and Blurred Frenzy.
None of which works on Maw agony. If he only has 45ar, a mesmer can’t survive maw agony on it’s own.
More than six month ago, Robert Hrouda posted on the forums that the cap that was put on fractals was because we didn’t have enough AR for it yet. His exact words were:
It was never intended that you could get higher without further AR gear that has not yet been released. […] Each new piece of AR gear is meant to allow you to progress to further fractal levels, which have increasingly better rewards compounding with higher scaling difficulty.
Since then, we got many new pieces of AR: amulets, earrings and now weapons. Yet, there’s still nothing said about finally letting us go to the fractals at level 50+, even though we now have almost twice the AR we had back then…
Having this content capped, doing the same levels we were doing back then, for so many month, is quite long, and I know quite a few players who completely stopped fractals, and gw2 for some, because of it.
Please, uncap the higher levels of fractals. We now have twice the AR we had back then, so higher levels of daily should now be available to us.
At the moment, Fractals is the less rewarding dungeon, given how much time a run takes (around an hour for an average run, but can take much more depending on which fractal you get (dredge for example……)).
If with this patch they upgrade the other dungeons rewards, but leave it as it is for fractals, the gap on rewards will be even more important…
I really hope they will upgrade the rewards for fractals at the same time, else even more people will stop doing it…
You can strafe endlessly on a platform to avoid almost all their attacks (some arrows will hit you, but the KB ball will never hit).
If you have a thief and mesmer, they can also bypass every harpy in the map with stealth, and portal you when they’re upstairs. At higher levels, when just one arrow from a harpy can hit pretty hard, it’s often easier that way.
Its so easy…
1 fractal weapon+5 pristine relics+250 fractal relics+1 shard = random fractal weapon
That would be pretty nice. Getting a skin would still be hard, but at least with this, with enough fractal time to get the other mats, we could change it, and change it again until we get the skin we wanted.
Each map has an allocation per server. So, using non-real numbers, EB can have 30 total players on it, 10 per server. If server A has ten people, they will queue regardless of how many Servers B and C have.
I don’t really understand this. Sometimes, we have a queue to enter a map, but when we manage to enter, we have the outmanned buff. How can it be ?
If each map has an allocation per server, and we have a queue, we should be at our max allocation, therefore how can we have the outmanned buff ?
if it takes you an hour to do dredge you’re doing it wrong.
It depends what level you’re doing. At highest levels, dredge is at least an hour long, there’s way too much adds with Rabsovitch.
Given the damage you take (around 200k each tick) and the rate at which AR reduce agony damage, you’d need at least 950 AR.
So it can’t be done until Anet change that damage per tick.
/signed
Really great content, quite fun, I’d like to see it stay in this world.
Same here.
We were gathering correctly a few minutes ago, then suddenly we only get wasted ressources.
Ice and Dredge will now require a thief for the first part of each (either as main in the group, or an alt which can be brought especially for this part).
Since last patch, it seems like the #1 skill on spear doesn’t work anymore.
Even when i’m next to the ennemy, all i get is “Miss”
If it is, it is a flawed reasoning.
I have 25 AR on characters that never even step a foot inside fractals, that’s well enough AR to do fractal level 30-39, maybe even the 40-49 (at that level, you get down if hit anyway, so…)
I’m only level 22 fract, so I don’t actually know. But couldn’t you push how far you can go by spamming heals? water field + blasts?
You can do that if you’re close to survice, like on level 30-38 with only 25AR. Even with 35AR and spam heal, it’s almost not possible to survive Maw agony on lvl 40-48. You’d need multiple guardians with their tome, and for them to activate it in sequence. Given the cast time, it’s extremely hard to time it right (which is why nobody do it that way).
As for level 50, it is 8 ticks of around 180 000 damage each, on someone who has around 15000 health max (that’s more than 10 times what’s needed to down you for each tick, how can you expect to survive that ? and by the way, invulnerability skills don’t work on this damage)
Given the actual rate of resistance AR gives (agony deals -6% of your base health every 5AR), we’d need about 970 AR to resist the damage on lvl 50 Maw. So it’s obvious they’ll nerf it when they want us to do level 50-59.
kinda glad i held off then
so it takes this wvw reward (accessories?) to do 50?
You don’t even survive Maw agony on 48 with 35 AR.
Level 50 Maw agony hits for WAY higher than that (about 180k per tick), so no, you can’t do 50 until Anet nerf the damage.
Yeah, i noticed it too.
I think it was introduced on 28th january, but not sure.
Arenanet doesn’t know how to make encounters challenging enough without artifical gear gates. It took Blizzard awhile to pull it off.
Pretty funny comment, talking about a game where most raids have at least one gear-check boss, if not several…
You forgot one point: sometimes, you get hit by the knockback and are immediatly defeated, not downed. That’s pretty frustrating, and can really be bad for your amor in the long run (well, now that we can repair in mid-run, it’s less of a problem, just a loss of time…)
Also, since the last patch, harpies often get invulnerability, which is really annoying.
Most often, especially at high levels, the group i am with try to completely dodge the harpies, to prevent some useless broken armor (mesmer portal with either thief stealth, or order of whispers kit).
No, you’ll get a level 2 daily chest reward, so no pristine relic.
Yes to your first question. There are multiple dailies, one for every 10 level. So you can do the same day the daily for 1-9, for 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49.
However, concerning multiple characters, you only get access to the daily that character has access to. So let’s say you have a character who has access to level 20, and an alt who has access to level 1 only. You can do 3 dailies with your main (1-9, 10-19, 20), and only one on your alt. Even if you do a level 20 on that alt, you’ll get the reward for a level 2 daily, as he only has access to that range of daily.
There is no real limit to fractal level (as far as anyone know yet). However, you can’t launch a fractal higher than level 80. Therefore, if you want to progress further, you have to launch 80, finish it, then continue without exiting to level 81, then 82, etc.
After the last patch, there is a AR cap though, as it seems you can’t rez someone on the Maw map at 50+. Couldn’t test it as i’m not 50 yet, but it seems that even if you rez someone, he gets agony on him again, so it’s impossible to survive.
What would be the point of salvaging ?Vials and shards are completely useless. You only use them to infuse rings, so once you have your 2 rings (should take 2-4 shards at most), all shards dropped are just going to go in your bank without ever being used.
Actually if any content in the game required you to buy something from the cash shop to progress past I’d quick GW2 instantly, and so would a lot of people.
You didn’t need rez orbs to go to level 50+. You just needed a ranger (pet rez skill), or a well timed 99% rez. So no need to buy anything at cash shop.
I’ve done the same thing recently. Changed from a 20/20/0/0/30 to a 0/20/0/20/30.
In my opinion, the dueling branch is much better than the domination one. Clone on dodge, alone, has saved me countless times, not counting the added burst for shattering.
Also, on your illusions traits, you really should consider the n°11 instead of 12. It’s really usefull to be able to use distortion even if there’s no clones available. It can protect you from agony when you know it’s coming (for exemple, when rezing someone at grawl shaman, you can distort if he targets you with his flaming arrow).
As for the 20 inspiration, after taking it, I’m a bit disappointed by it. The reflect on focus skill is nice, however, the fantasm can’t be put where you want. For exemple, sometimes, it appear behind the ennemy, so it doesn’t protect you at all. As for the skill 4, unlike the wall from the guardian, it doesn’t reflect everything well. It’s like there’s a height cap at what it can reflect. If the projectile is too high, it won’t get reflecting.
So it can be usefull, but to me, it’s not as great as it sounds.
I have the same problem with right clicking to move the camera which change target. It’s very annoying and it would be pretty nice to change this.
Please, don’t put Magic Find as a necessary stat for dungeons !
That’s what it will be if some loot is awarded based on that. Then people will start going in dungeons in full Magic Find Gear, not caring at all about their group success, only to get their own loot.
+1 to an OUT OF COMBAT switch.
And some people here should really learn to at least read the OP post, not just the thread’s title, before replying…
Right now, it’s possible to do a server change and then go in WvW, even on servers you are actually facing.
This is used by some to gain unfair advantage over the opponent (telling false information in chat, seizing a siege weapon so it cannot be used, etc.). There are some posts about that already on the WvW subsection. But even if not actively doing acts of sabotage, the simple fact that an opponent is on our map is already disrupting the match. Just being able to see the “team” and “map” chat gives knowledge on where the opponent is, and this intel can be instantly given to guildmates either by guild chat (which Anet can see and so control), and ventrilo/mumble/ts (which Anet has no control over).
When the server changes will stop to be free, we can expect this to happen less often, but with gold to gems transfer, it will still be doable by most guilds.
To prevent this, you should tag a player on a server at the beginning of a matchup. For the entire duration of that matchup, he can only go to WvW for that server. If he decides to change server, he then cannot go to WvW until the matchup change.
That is, in my opinion, the only way to stop those acts of sabotage that are completely ruining the fun of everyone in WvW