Guild Wars 2

The reason they aren’t available cause just like you said there isn’t much to do at 80. If you got the skins quickly then you would get bored and quit anet doesnt want this so they made it pure luck

Roll a theif and spec burst its stupidly easy to play and if you fail you can escape very easily. They burst me down to 2k health within 2 seconds and im full toughness if I dont use distortion blink or decoy im pretty much screwed

Most of the stuff about fractals you said were untrue

official.4658:

Forget about the balance
forget about the new maps
Forget about everything except for population and something to strive for in pvp

they clearly care more about pve then pvp
which is just to please the fat man upstairs

coming from a game thats sole focus was pvp based esports this game is starting to look more and more like a Diablo 3 Let down

after this last patch in february ive lost all hope in pvp

why dont u get real and just tell us that pvp is only going to come in the next expansion with another likely false esports advertisement

I was looking forward to gw2 pvp because I played pvp primarily in gw1. I really don’t know how they expect to achieve esport status when there is barely any attention given to pvp and i know a game doesn’t become an esport overnight

Simple because there is no punishment such as a deserter debuff/ban

Put them into the forge

Yep, I keep getting matched against premade teams that are rank 30-50 while my teamates are around 0-20 sounds pretty fair to me (not like rank matters though). My random team got destroyed by a premade team who started talking big then he said dont talk unless youre at least rank 30 lol.

Like the other guy said barely anyone plays spvp so during off hours it’s not even worth playing unless you want the other team to farm you for easy points which drives some players away

I got it a couple months ago by walking up really early. It will be even more difficult to get since the patch…

I can’t even go to my own server to kill dragons yet players from other servers can guest to my server while i get put into the overflow. There should be priority on players from the home server over ones guesting

Why do these still not have icons i really don’t see how implementing this is a difficult task

snowywonder.2496:

I think this is purely luck, just ran FotM lvl 20 for the second time and got a GS fractal skin. Although I was wondering if not eating MF stuff really helps, I usually get better loots without those MF (which means less quantity, but higher quality).

Anet stated many times before that magic find has no impact on chests

Players who play many characters get hit hardest with the way ascended gear is obtained

I wouldn’t have a problem with this if anet didn’t lie and had ascended gear available through fractals/wvw/laurels/guild from the start instead it seems they are focusing on rings/back through fractals accessories/amulet through laurels and i’m guessing armor/weapons will be wvw….

Lanser.8520:

LordByron.8369:

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Instead as i say, its the last sign of appreciation to those players that still PLAY the game rather than farming like bots to buy a legendary, because CoF1 is far more rewarding that a 1+ hour fotm daily.

The thing is, because of Factals and the way it works, I don’t play the game and am stuck farming fractals like a bot three hours a day while getting no closer to my goal. I can’t play how I like because I have to farm. I want to WvW or run around in low level zones with my friends, and I can’t because the reward system is insanity (no need/want/pass system either).

While I’ve never payed attention to skins for more than “you look really pretty and have a general understanding of the game, especially in an Arah set”, fractals has made me hate other fractal players if they have the skins I want. I don’t think about how great a fractal player may be, I think about how stupid lucky they were to get their skin. Why? Because a level 20 can run it once, get lucky and get their skin, then be done with it without needing to learn fractals. Meanwhile, someone can run hundreds of 48s and never get her skin, even though she knows everything in and out.

There is less prestige in this system than there is luck.

Yes these are extremes, but they are very much possible, and the latter is a very disheartening extreme. And all the time you spend getting to the Maw to roll a d100 dice is wasted time you can spend with your guild, friends, and family.

Don’t get me wrong, the weapons should be hard to get, not simply with daily tokens, but they should not be impossible because the game decides so. Rewarding high level players with progression on top of the RNG removes the total frustration while keeping the weapons for those who take the time to learn the ins and outs of stupid powerful enemies.

Something that uses daily tokens plus a new mist essence, like Mist Cores, can be combined to craft the weapon of your choice. You have to work for it with significant knowledge of fractals to reach your goal.

And one day they might be able to actually play the game the way they want to, looking the way the want to, after signficant toil. Currently, signficant toil gets you nowhere.

I was leveling up my alt through fractals and we had one of those players that declares himself the leader. He kept linking his Fractal Greatsword constantly like it meant he was a skilled player.

Lanser.8520:

LordByron.8369:

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Instead as i say, its the last sign of appreciation to those players that still PLAY the game rather than farming like bots to buy a legendary, because CoF1 is far more rewarding that a 1+ hour fotm daily.

The thing is, because of Factals and the way it works, I don’t play the game and am stuck farming fractals like a bot three hours a day while getting no closer to my goal. I can’t play how I like because I have to farm. I want to WvW or run around in low level zones with my friends, and I can’t because the reward system is insanity (no need/want/pass system either).

While I’ve never payed attention to skins for more than “you look really pretty and have a general understanding of the game, especially in an Arah set”, fractals has made me hate other fractal players if they have the skins I want. I don’t think about how great a fractal player may be, I think about how stupid lucky they were to get their skin. Why? Because a level 20 can run it once, get lucky and get their skin, then be done with it without needing to learn fractals. Meanwhile, someone can run hundreds of 48s and never get her skin, even though she knows everything in and out.

There is less prestige in this system than there is luck.

Yes these are extremes, but they are very much possible, and the latter is a very disheartening extreme. And all the time you spend getting to the Maw to roll a d100 dice is wasted time you can spend with your guild, friends, and family.

Don’t get me wrong, the weapons should be hard to get, not simply with daily tokens, but they should not be impossible because the game decides so. Rewarding high level players with progression on top of the RNG removes the total frustration while keeping the weapons for those who take the time to learn the ins and outs of stupid powerful enemies.

Something that uses daily tokens plus a new mist essence, like Mist Cores, can be combined to craft the weapon of your choice. You have to work for it with significant knowledge of fractals to reach your goal.

And one day they might be able to actually play the game the way they want to, looking the way the want to, after signficant toil. Currently, signficant toil gets you nowhere.

I was leveling up my alt through fractals and we had one of those players that declares himself the leader. He kept linking his Fractal Greatsword constantly like it represented something…

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Geotherma.2395:

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Shuguard.7125:

The sample sized used in the video to determine ecto’s from rares is way too small. You need way more than 5 salvages(about 30) a trial to actually have actual statistics.

That’s exactly what I was thinking, but still…is this a coincidence?

Coincidence indeed. If you randomly roll dice 30 times in a casino and win $1000 does that mean that the next 30 dice rolls will win you $1000? Small statistics are small.

Obviously coincidence is a huge factor, but magic find has absolutely nothing to do with salvaging?

Pretty sure magic find only works to increase the rarity of the loot you get not sure how people are drawing the conclusion it works with salvaging

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Just trying to get ahead of the QQ. Tomorrow we get an update (which I’m excited about), and inevitably, people will be posting all day, inquiring about what exact minute it will go live.

From past experience, Anet does not release this, as it takes time to push the update live. So please with hold raging until at least 5pm PST, the end of their work day (typically its live before they leave work).

Sorry but making a post about this is pretty pointless. You really believe the players that make the posts asking about the release time of the patch will read this? They are the same players that don’t read stickied/search posts so im not sure why you expect them to read yours and suddenly stop posting about it

I only enjoyed the racial start missions after the orders were introduced I really wasn’t interested anymore especially with traherne..

Wasn’t surprised that there would be classes that overall performed better than others because I played gw1 where the discrimination also existed. Rest of the post I can’t agree with especially evolved destroyer taking 30mins…

CoF was always cliche since release people were farming it easily because of bugs

Patch is on the 26th? I heard 28th?

They said they want people to progress as they introduce more AR gear. So when they introduce another piece they will raise the level

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractals-past-lvl-40/first

There’s a reason this fractal is rolled first… If you have trouble go in alone and roll swamp first and practise jumping over the trees

George Steel.1804:

I know there’s an upcoming patch the “size of an expansion” but I would like to know if we’ll ever get some real difficulty.

There’s something about overcoming insurmountable odds with friends and mates that creates a great memory and camaraderie.. something I haven’t felt too much in GW2.

There was a slight buildup to Lupicus, as I’d read so many rage posts about him before I fought him myself, but he turned out pretty easy… (killed by multiple professions solo)

Simin the same – Completed it with my buddy and 3 pugs from gw2lfg.com .. first time ever attempting it..

What I want to know is – Will we ever get some real difficulty? Content that is intense yet rewarding, and something not everyone will be able to finish? (That is based on real player/team skill, not DPS race or stupid Agony scaling)

I love dungeons.. I love playing with my team. But what else does someone like me have left to do? Is there anything on the horizon?

Doubt it. My reasoning behind this is if they implement something too difficult the casual players will complain that they can’t do it and it will eventually get nerfed

Well for me I only do fractals to get the skins i couldn’t care less about other drops. If someone wants to kill i dont mind but if its a group where we wiped in the previous fractals over and over i would run.

Jakar.3685:

It is actually possible to do 40/48 without a ranger or res orbs, because you can have one person run in and die and all 4 others just keep running in and doing a tiny bit of ressing. After 5 or so min that one person will be alive again to res everyone else that jumps in. Do that at each agony phase and you’re good to go. It’s a hassle but very doable.

50+ has a hardcounter to that tho, because you ll get agony again after you res up.

Niila Nuppunen.9875:

progress without pet ressing or 99%, etc

Darkdanjal.3401:

All I ask is a way to actually farm the precurser and yeah to actually work for it…. I can hear the flaming already omg I cant get money anymore out of the TP as all the precursers are down in price….same with the one time Karka event….

and yes when precursers dropped in the karka event I bought several precursers that I sold for a much higher price….

what Im saying is a shout to casual players who cant even come close to a legendary because of the prices now on TP

Nobody forced you to put all those daggers into the forge you could have sold them and easily bought the precursor. What is there to argue here?

Lucky.3298:

why only pets? I found armor skins, except gloves, even worse…

That’s subjective whereas pets being weaker isn’t

Probably because after viewing it for the 1000th time it gets old and most people don’t start the client to stare at a login screen

I’m guessing your characters name is x noob x? Seems you got into a confrontation not sure what you expected especially when playing with 3 memebrs from another guild

I try to bring null field to remove his protection buff. He doesn’t take that long to kill it’s the insane amount of adds that take quite some time. It takes around 15minutes just to kill the waves of adds at level 40 in that time you can complete another fractal.

The champion ettin and flame legion shaman also take a ridiculous amount of time

angan.6572:

x per fection x.2096:

and if i see someone using MF i try and kick them and most of the time someone will kick with me but sometimes im forced to drop the dungeon on everyone by leaving the group.
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lol how can you see if someone is using MF gear ?

Usually sigil of luck is a dead give away. It shares the same skin as some armors so you can narrow it down a bit

You also forgot about objects that you seem to get stuck inside when using blink spells probably because they are hollow inside this is especially noticeable when doing the water fractal and krait get stuck in the ceiling…

Asura models have an advantage because it is more difficult to see certain cast animations compared to a big norn. How are you suppose to react when you are at a disadvantage. I chuckled at the idea of this game becoming an esport because of small things like this

JJBigs.8456:

Kirbyprime.2645:

I’m really only posting to say,

Bloom is actually easier at melee range, this coming from an ele.

How? My guardian (Suppsoedly the most survivable class) dies to it at like 15+. In 10, I have a 50/50 chance of melee not killing me.

What people fail to realise is guardians aren’t tanks by speccing a tank build you will be able to take maybe 1 extra hit from certain attacks. This game is about mitigating(aegis/invul/etc) damage or dodging it

DeathPanel.8362:

SynfulChaot.3169:

Yes, it is considered griefing/scamming. Yes, you should report them.

The main problem is you lose all group chat log when you are kicked from group, so unless you remember perfectly the names of the people that did it there’s no way for you to even report them.

What makes it worse is that ANet has taken no official stance on this so technically it is not against the rules.

I posted about it before they told me to take a screen shot and report them. I its kind of difficult like you said all party chat logs disappear after you get kicked…

1 of the reasons I stopped playing theif was because of all the bad theives out their who give decent ones a bad name. Also shadow refuge is pretty easily replaced by ash kits and order of whisper kits

The only problem I have is the bug where you fall and hit nothing on the way down and end up dead. There is also an animation bug where the harpies shoot the ball and it goes somewhere completely different than the red circle indicates. There is also a bug after the old Tom fight when falling you sometimes end up back at the start

Ya, I get paranoid when playing with a group of players from another guild

here you go

15char

Wolfheart.1938:

I support your cause Thorquist :P I’m level 39 in FoTM and have enough laurels for an amulet, but holding off as I do not want to waste 1 month worth of dailies on an amulet with stats I don’t really like. Getting gouged 250 globs for +5AR on the backpiece is also not an option for me. So I’m basically being artificially prevented from playing what I’d like to, and don’t tell me to do lv 40 with 25 AR because no party will accept me.

Can some devs tell me when they are coming or at least why they aren’t implemented in the first place? It is mind boggling to me and I’d suck if they weren’t in the 26th february release, so much that I might consider holding off on gem purchases for a while.

Wait how do you have enough laurels for an amulet?

1 of the reasons i bought gw2 was because it had no subscription. If it was subscription based it would probably get larger updates and more frequently

hharry.1967:

Make them tradeable just like legendaries and add a level requierement of fractals lvl 30 to be able to use it. You still need to work hard, still a lot of RNG like Anet loves to add to everything, but also skins are now useful and its easier to obtain the one you want by trading.

Also assuming drop chance of a wep is 10% and every wep has the same chance, and 12 weps (including under water ones), chances to get the item you want would be 0.08%?? (0.1*(1/12)). Means in average you need to do 120 runs.

I think there are 19 weapons

I noticed this mostly during the final missions

I think they didn’t make them tradeable/purchasable was because they know some players want the weapons and with the current setup its near impossible to get the 1 you want so you have to either run it a lot or get very lucky.

I’ve got 11 weapons now and around 100 pristine. So I’m guessing the chance to get a weapon is around 10%. I also have 47 rings so I’m guessing it’s around 40-50% chance to get a ring. ya I know my sample size is small and I’m not sure if the drop rate increases with the fractal level I’m only up to 49 but I feel it doesn’t differ

Chorel.1720:

I think it’s funny how they made rings obtainable in two ways but kept amulets only obtainable through the laurel merchant. I’m sure it will change in the future but just think it’s funny.

They will eventually add amulets to fractal vendors. My guess why they didn’t add them at the start they dont want fractal players getting a headstart…

Arosa.2647:

If fractal progression should be account wide, then rewards should be too.

They should let us salvage ascended rings to get vials, shards, etc at least u_u

I don’t think i need anymore fractal mats as i have 70 shards that have no use

Most players seem to be farming cof. Never tried it but i heard friends make 10g an hr there depending on speed and drops

top is beta

15charr

JJBigs.8456:

If you play melee, you cant always dodge in time since the projectile only has to go 1 foot to you.

Don’t play melee then? Let’s face it gw2 isn’t a melee friendly game if you want to melee you will have to take on the risks that come with the benefits