On the molten alliance ( sorry my spelling :’( ) with the fire trap the boss uses to coat most of the floor on fire, if that could use the ’ new ’ AOE circles it would be nice.
With the mossman, can you give him some sort of loud barberian shout when he throws his axe? Would make it nicer when doing this without reflects/destory projectiles
With the urban fractal ( the char one ) can we have a special banner with special skills like ’ wait ’, ’ follow ’ and ’ attack ’ for the npcs
Pick the first fractal
Rewards: This is going to be mentioned over and over. This is the real sticking point. The only thing that we have in game that counts as legitimately challenging team PVE content, and you walk out of nearly every single one poorer than if you spent your time doing explorable dungeons. There’s a 480 post thread on this very topic in the dungeon forums and it was covered ad nauseum in the CDI. Please, PLEASE improve the rewards. Even just bumping up the gold rewards in the daily until whatever reward you want to implement is in place.
Repeat rewards: Also a pain point for some players. I cannot corroborate these claims since I have not received a fractal skin since the Fractured patch, but apparently you can get repeats of unlocked fractal weapons. Adding insult to injury, they are unvendorable or salvagable. Also the recipes for runes and sigils from Fractals are bank-hogs.
Fractal Weapon evolution: Fractal Weapons are unique in that they are the only weapons obtainable exclusively from playing difficult in game content. While the acquisition method is still gated behind RNG, dedication can be uniquely rewarded through fractal relics and pristine relics with either purchasing skins and/or evolving existing skins. Showing off your skill with shiny gear is as old as MMOs, please give us more opportunities to do this.
Instabilities: An interesting mechanic that could use some refinement. Lots of great suggestions in the CDI, so I won’t retread that topic.
Snowblind: In the transition between melting the wall and reaching the elemental it can be a real pain to get out of combat and rally the team. A safe area (that doesn’t apply frostbite) far removed from the elemental would be helpful.
Dredge: is great. You guys did a wonderful job repairing this shard. Thank you.
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Also on cliffside when I carry the hammer and I switch skills , the hammer bugs away although the game still believes Im still holding it in terms of the debuff it provides. (I am a engi, havent had my friends try it on other classes )
Cliffside: The infamous Cliffside hammer bug. This has been around in different iterations for a while. If the hammer carrier falls while carrying the hammer it will remain on a nearly inaccessible murderous cliff-face and end your run. Progress has stopped and everyone has wasted their time. This was previously remedied by having the entire team suicide off the cliff, which would reset the hammer.
Molten Facility: When the team gets to the boss encounter if anyone walks into the room before Rox and Braham they may not trigger the dialogue to start the boss fight. Nothing seems to reset them, your progress is lost and everyone has wasted their time.
Rewards Chest: It seems like the rewards scaling is a little odd, but it’s difficult for players to really prove anything. What can be said is that at 50 scale we still get uninfused rings regularly. We still get vials of mists essence regularly. If we could get word regarding whether or not this is intentional it would be deeply appreciated.
Underwater: I don’t think this shard actually exists anymore. (At 50 I’m not going to complain. I doubt half the people I run with would have the requisite AR to run fractals if they were switched to their underwater weapons/armor.)
Urban Battleground: The NPC mob accompanying the players (at 50) tend to charge right into the very first pile of respawning mobs outside the tent and remain dead until your team wipes, since ressing them is suicidal. Typically they die immediately and you don’t see them again unless your team wipes on Captain Ashym. Not game-breaking, but irritating.
Uncategorized Fractal: If someone starts the fan before attacking Old Tom the team has to deal with the poison until the batteries drain. mostly an irritant, but worth mentioning.
Uncategorized: Invulnerable harpies. I understand why the mobs need to turn invulnerable due to potential LOS exploits and other shenanigans but with the frantic nature of these knockback spammers it would be helpful to clean this up a little on the approach.
Cliffside: On the subject of invulnerable, Archdiviner tends to turn invulnerable against the person he sticks in the go-go cage.
Engineer bundle bug, possible exploit. Devs: Message Nevets Crimsonwing.5271 for details
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Hi guys. I’d like to propose we start a fractal feedback thread to assemble the bugs, the issues, and opinions on how it should be changed. I do not feel that reward based feedback is really for this thread, unless there is an inherent bug with drop rates. Also, recent and up to date compiled data from fractal rewards would be helpful, just as a point of fact, but things like “moar gold” and the like is probably not what they meant by feedback…
So I’ll have a few reserved posts below this for lists of up to date bugs. Please list them so I can keep track and make sure they are as up to date as possible. Please do not discuss exploits or how to do them.
fractal game breaking bug: cliffside hammer bugging and disappearing if the person who has it falls and dies.
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… despite my disappointment…. I would like to help with the thread per dungeon. If we want to have specific dungeon threads for forumers to be responsible for, I’d gladly do the TA and fractal one and manage it how I can.
Regina, it would be helpful if you gave us a template or some sort of example on how you’d like this kind of thread to behave and look like.
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Unfortunately the asura light t3 shoulder bug has been in game forever. On females, they don’t show, and for males, they show without having them. They’re basically attached to the chest piece and there isn’t a way to get rid of them.
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Yeah. You can probably find good leggings with the Cabalist chest piece as a Human. Here’s one of my eles. She is using the Cabalist chest and heritage leggings, which could be swapped with… human t2 legs? Iirc.
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Its cooldown means you cant really use it for every boss fight. Ignoring a skills cooldown is stupid. Cooldowns are incredibly important when deciding whether a skill is good or not. Compare black power with well of darkness for example.
Well depending on the boss of course, a long stability isn’t really needed for most bosses. But it can be used as a “utility” skill for skips and such, which doesn’t really need a short cooldown.
This said I’m all for buffing it.
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well, i’m not in a super hardcore guild like Ren or DnT, but i must say, this is going to make me quit my elementalist. i understand why Arenanet finally got around to it, and i know they’ve been aware for a long time now, but i suppose they decided it was time to make everyone hate eles again, and good job. time to main my warrior in dungeons again, since their nerf to GS is no where near as extreme as the ele nerf.
Oh come the freak on. Eles will be fine. Don’t give up on them so easily. They have several things going for them without FGS
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I rarely ever saw most of my groups use them properly, so this change doesn’t really hurt me at all. However, I’m hoping that these changes will allow them to add more dun- just kidding, that won’t happen.
Please fix the mesmers’ one-year-old bugs while you’re at it, ANET.
Arenanerf only nerfs, they never fix
I like the change WAY more than if they had required a target tbh…
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Yeah I mean there’s still icebow. It’s no where near fgs, but for fractals that 4 is great for the structures (ice, bloom, molten tests, molten duo, maw life steal, anomaly, ascalon, etc)
Frost bow is op as all hell. Better than fgs IMO since you don’t have to get targets to a corner/wall. Won’t be long before the qqers start on that. It also has that freeze attack.
Terrible on fractal 38, SOMETHING I NEVER REMEMBER…
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Yeah I mean there’s still icebow. It’s no where near fgs, but for fractals that 4 is great for the structures (ice, bloom, molten tests, molten duo, maw life steal, anomaly, ascalon, etc)
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Ty for quick response, I still can’t believe that dungeon selling is legal.
There’s nothing wrong with it assuming no exploits are being used. Highly skilled players should be rewarded for being able to solo legitimately. That’s my opinion (and Anets).
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It is possible that it’s because of AP as I don’t really care about Achievements that much. I have about 3000 AP.
I don’t think AP is a good metric for judging a player, but it is possible that for Arah some or most pugs have high AP standards. I’ve seen groups asking for 10k, but I thought the typical was 2k. So if you’re at 3k, I’m not sure.
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Its not that they enter and leave after we wipe 60 times (exaggerating) its that they enter I say hello and they leave, my is LFG is canceled and I start from zero (its not a problem as much as it is annoyance as there is no message about it and sometimes I find myself just standing alone for few min). I am level 80 guardian, I name my LFG entry “open for all 80” . I don’t do zerker speed runs.
I understand and understood.
How much AP do you have? Sometimes (often) pugs avoid any players with <2k AP.
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Secondly: people joining your party then leaving has nothing to do with dungeon sellers but probably more to do with either your level, achievement points, or a lack of communication.
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seriously people some of u you happy whit that info from mike ? he doesn’t say anything its basically the same thing we are getting it over and over it me as mmo player need to know how much to invest in the game and for that i need to know the future of the game and the road is taking but this , here is not good for me and not good for many of my friends whit respect give us what u working on expansions new content stuffs SOMETHING pls whit respect
Some of us who have jobs in a similar industry understand that communication is a tricky thing with clients. This little bit is pretty nice, especially since we now know when CDIs are starting.
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1st Place: Howell Qagan.9752 . I mean… You really stole it. You were ninja like in your theft of this contest, but I honestly can’t find a better winner. The whole samurai thing, wow. Just wow. Thank you for entering. I will now steal your look and attempt to make a female version.
Wow. I can’t believe Thanks! And congratulations to the others.
Lemme know what you want for 600 gems btw ^^
Oh, totally forgot XD I’ll take the Belinda’s Greatsword Skin please.
Will send after work!
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Mike, what boggles our minds is, how you say you want to work with the community but you don’t do it. I didn’t read every CDI in its full entirety but did any of the features you “liked” ever see the light of day?
When you ask us for suggestions, we expect you to try and work on these.
People like this are the problem. The fact that you are so self centered that you feel you speak for the whole community says a lot about your misconceptions.
As well, they get tons of extremely varying suggestions at times. Which ones are they supposed to implement, and which ones should they not. What gives one persons suggestion more value?
Prove me wrong.
Also, you’re clearly missing the point. It’s not about favoring a suggestion, it’s about not stagnating and chosing to do nothing instead.
If you really want to argue they didn’t fix the scoring system because they couldn’t decide for about 2 years which fix was the best, you are as naive as ignorant.
I have to agree with them Coglin you can’t fanboy this one away. The fact of the matter is this. Their Feature Pack 2 is addressing 0 of the concerns players have almost unanimously in the forums. It shouldn’t take that long to reach a decision about things the people you’re making the game for are having trouble with. Many of these requests are very simple from a programmers pov, I know I’ve checked. For example, Hobosacks.
0 of the concerns? We’re only 1/3 of the way through their blogs. And their first third is stuff that not everyone WILL care about because it’s pvp and wvw based. Come on.
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1st Place: Howell Qagan.9752 . I mean… You really stole it. You were ninja like in your theft of this contest, but I honestly can’t find a better winner. The whole samurai thing, wow. Just wow. Thank you for entering. I will now steal your look and attempt to make a female version.
Wow. I can’t believe Thanks! And congratulations to the others.
Lemme know what you want for 600 gems btw ^^
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Also where is Danicia btw? With Allie’s absense, it would be nice to have the other two CC’s left show their face sometimes. Only one i (very rarely) see, is Mark. And leaving him alone for CC is a bit to much to ask i’d think.
To many absenses maybe escalated the problem?
Temporary absense: Chris Whiteside
Unknown absense: Danicia
Permanent Absense: Allie
90% Occupied with other stuff absense: Mark
Not that I want to play your boss or so, but it’s an observation. This might be leading to even more frustration and the escalation that resulted in this thread.
Danicia is no longer with anet. However she’s amazing and doing well.
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Still kinda sad I didn’t even get a mention, but that’s okay. Grats to everyone!
I’m sorry! It’s hard to get mentions for everyone who truly deserves them. There were so many fabulous entries! I did my best to recognize as many as seemed appropriate, and I do hope you participate in my next contest ^^
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