Hats off to you anet. U can fix ppl bugging the arch driver but you cant fix the bug where the arm seals go crazy. Basically it becomes unbreakable or even after the health bar on it is gone mobs keep spawning. Its something thats kittened up after one of your previous updates so you cant clear that bug but u wanna clear something that has been around for ages. Seriously cant stop laughing at you guys.
Well done.
BS, they kittened it up about 2 months ago. Before that the loot drop was always awesome. This caused ppl to move away from other areas of the game into fractals. So basically what they did is introduce a heavy dr system to fotm and implement a better loot tables in other areas.
This is getting way too much been at doing 3 dailies for kittening 5 months and I still cant get a focus. Last bloody one week not even one skin. So stupid that frens of mine have 5 focuses and I cant event get one. Swear the guy who came up with this rng for fractal skins if a freaking kitten kitten
As Anet starts to put release more infused recipes, it will be inevitable that ppl would want to put fine infusions in their ascended gear.
However the cost of crafting fine infusions are off the top and put up against the increase in stats it gives, it just horrible.
At current market price offensive infusions would cost about 15g or so. Defensive infusions are even worst, 35g or so.
A rethink of fine infusions would really be good. To have some sort of bench mark, the most expensive upgrade one can put to any sort of trinket item for the exotic tier is only 55-56s.
Compare this verse the price of infusions plus the difference in stats and its quite an LOL. Now I know ascended already comes with a stat bonus so to speak but there is really nothing else I can compare infusions to.
Is it too much to ask for a fractal focus on my Bday? Been after fractal skins for 5 months and still cant get a focus when everyone else seems to get it easily. For heaven sake its an offhand which drops so often for other ppl but I cant even get one. So sad……
Would like to know if there are any prerequisites to enter this dungeon
I was wondering what build you guys use to farm. I used to play on my own zerker mesmer but I’m using my frens warrior not to play. So I have no previous knowledge of playing war.
Thus it would be great if someone could pass me a link of the optimum build for cof 1 farming.
If you are complaining about the method of getting the skins, you don’t deserve the skins. There are people who will climb and wait to get the skins they want. Not sure why Anet needs to change anything to cater to people who just want their skins now when they give no other benefit than looks. This isn’t ascended gear we are talking about here.
Uhh 4 months of 3 dailies and still can’t get the skins I want. I even finished legendaries is that time man but I still cant get the 2 skins i want. That is why the need a new method of getting fractal skins.
Initally I was thinking the same thing as well. But there is nothing random about this. I got 4 shortbows, a fren of mine has 5 focus and another dude i know(this one it the best) 6 spears. This problem has plagued my FOTM group and nearly everyone I do high lvl fractals with.
Ok if you still think my sample size is too small scroll back through this thread and see how many ppl have this problem. Once your done, scroll back through the previous threads about fractal skins drops and check there as well. Finally pay attention to the party chat after the daily chest drops.
Anyone can easily see that certain weapons drop much lesser then other.
Sampling bias. Perhaps the ones with problems tend to be vocal, whereas the ones without don’t say anything at all?
OH really? I do fractals with a large group of ppl, well actually its a guild of players who are 40+, fairly larget one as well and I as I mentioned I also do it with frens both real life and online. We always ping it on party chat if we get a fractal skins. There are so many ppl ranting that they got the same skin a few times over and that some skins almost never drop.
I know this sounds a bit off but for the last month of so I have realized that my loot drops gets vastly better esp off chests at around 12pm UTC. Sometimes I do play at around 4am UTC but the loot is complete crap. Anyone noticed something like this as well?
Initally I was thinking the same thing as well. But there is nothing random about this. I got 4 shortbows, a fren of mine has 5 focus and another dude i know(this one it the best) 6 spears. This problem has plagued my FOTM group and nearly everyone I do high lvl fractals with.
Ok if you still think my sample size is too small scroll back through this thread and see how many ppl have this problem. Once your done, scroll back through the previous threads about fractal skins drops and check there as well. Finally pay attention to the party chat after the daily chest drops.
Anyone can easily see that certain weapons drop much lesser then other.
There are 2 things I find peculiar about skins drops.
1. There always seems to be 1 or 2 skins that seems to drop over and over again for a certain char or account. In most cases these skins that drop repeatedly cant be used by that char class. Why is this so?
2. Main hand like sword and 2 hand weapons such as GS, rarely drop. Again I would like to as why?
Even if Anet does not want to do anything about getting skins, at least please make the chance of drop of all skins equal.
A plus would be to do something like once a certain skins drops, make that chance on that skins dropping again lesser then those which hasn’t dropped.
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Hello I think this would be a good time to make this post as quite a number of ppl have already got a full set of ascended accessories. Some of my question are directed to the Devs and some to players but all are welcomed to reply.
To the Devs
1. Are you going to give us sometime to gear our alts and secondary builds with ascended gear?
2. Would it possible not to use RNG or something attainable by only a certain group of ppl(aka GM) as a gating mechanism when releasing further ascended gear?
3. Would it be possible to make acquiring ascended gear insync with your philosophy of “play the game the way you want”. Meaning players who want to grind it out can possibly do so but casual players also do have a method of acquiring it?
4. Could you possibly incorporate the excess relics , ascended matts, ascended rings and unused skins into something related to procuring ascended armor or weapons?
To the player base
1. How do you see want to see further ascended gear being realeased?
2. Would you guys prefer releasing releasing armors and weapons piece by piece like what Anet is doing now or just release everything at once?
Personally I would like something like a 8 or 10 man raid system being introduced which gives a token that can be used to buy ascended armor and weapons. If coming up with a new dungeon is too much work then maybe introduce them to all existing dungeons, but at a higher token rate.
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Alright, its come up on 4 months of doing FotM everyday, and my will to play the game is completely broken. So, I’ve done 2 months of 24 and 30 every day, and then another 2 months of doing 48 every day. This has resulted in around 50-60 rings, and around 20 weapon skins.
Most rings cam from sub 40, though a few frustrating ones still came from post. About 12 of the skins came from post 40, meaning that there IS a better chance to get a skin at the higher level, even with the increased length.
Unfortunately, in this time, the Fractal Sword and Greatsword never dropped, so I walk away from this endeavor empty handed. I may still occasionally run this only for the friends I had made, but other than that, I’m done with Guild Wars 2 in any capacity besides the 10 min daily and possibly the living story.
Frankly alot of my frens who were mainly pve players(some from real life and the rest from in game) have left this game for this same reason. Of course there are other reasons such as the nerf/dr on fractal loot which Anet refuses to accept and also limiting the the doable fractal lvl to 50.
For myself I have been hunting for a sword for 4 months now but still have not got one.
Whoa it takes so much effort to implement a simple new system to get fractal skins right.
I got 18 bleeping skins 1 that I use all the time(gs), 2 underwater(spear & trident), 3 for my condition(staff, specter & torch) which i don even bloody use. BUT ALL I WANT IS SWORD, maybe a pistol and focus would be good but seriously. Been doing 3 dailies a day ever since November and I still cant get it.
Serious BS, the people that come up with loot concept, I swear……nvm
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Lol its gonna be one month since ppl started posting here and still no reply. Or even any form okittennowledgment from anet. Whoa I wonder if anyone devs even bother reading threads about fractals in general, anymore.
I don’t think anyone from Anet is even reading these threads on fractal skins. Cos if they did, they would have told you that there’s already an awesome thread on this issue. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractal-Skins/page/2#post1774460
And to continue the discussion there.
However let me do those ppl who think “FOTM is in a good place”, more like a specific someone , a favor and ask you guys to post your ideas over there.
OH and hell yeah, low lvl fractalers should not even have chance to get fractal skins. Frankly I think ppl who do the highest lvl possible should get them. Not just ppl doing the highest tier, cos thanks to anet’s wonderful idea of letting ppl do the fractal of the highest lvl player in your group, there are so many dim wits in 40+ tier now. Wanted to say that they were half wits but that will be too much of a complement to them.
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I do agree with the ppl who said fractal skins should maintain its rarity. Just look at legendary weapons, every casual tom, kitten and harry has it. I don’t even feel special carrying it anymore. There are too many ways of getting it, get lucky and it drops, using gold to buy it, going to gold selling website and getting it and of course there’s the waste time method of getting it the normal way(something i did as well). The best thing is you cant even change the stats on it as it will lose the legendary status on it.
In conclusion the only thing legendaries stand for now it a big fat legendary failure on the side of Anet. Now ascended skins are a way they can redeem themselves but leaving it to pure RNG is just stupid as someone doing fractal 20+ might just get lucky and get a skin they want, while on the other hand someone doing fractals 40+ cant get a skin he wants. This has been a major flaw that Anet has used as a basics for this game. If they feel they have to limit the amount of a certain item in game, they believe the only way they can do it is through RNG.
PLS TRY TO BE A BIT MORE CREATIVE.
MOST OF THE STUFF ABOVE THIS POINT IS RANTING SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ IT. BUT PLEASE READ THE STUFF BELOW.
Here are a few ways you can fix it.
1. As mentioned by Rising Dusk a fractal skin token which can be exchanged for the skin one wants is a good idea
2. Coming up with an exchange system of fractals skins between players who already own them would be another way. I have elobrated on this in the post below.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Fractal-Skins/first#post1696276
3. Another way would be to craft it as mentioned in the post below
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Fractal-Weapons-Attainable-and-Still-Rare/first#post1775138
However after doing all this you might also want to restrict the player base who have a access to fractal skins in the first place. I shall also state a few ways in doing that.
1. As zerotwo mentioned, have a achievement based cap. Something like doing 1000+ fractals. Before being able to acquire fractal skins.
2. Allow anything related fractal skins to be dropped in the top tier of fractals which is currently. Personally I think it should be only allowed to be dropped at the highest few lvl, maybe something like 45-49 but that’s up to anet’s desecration. Please make sure this can only be done if one’s personal lvl is at the required lvl.
3. Change the current system where players can do the tier of the highest personal lvl player in the group. Restrict them to their own tier aka lvl 20+ players can only do lvl 20-29 but of course if higher lvl player should still be able to help lower lvl players if they wish. For example lvl 40+ being able to do being able to do all other lvls or 30+ being able to do 20+, 10+ and 1+.
Frankly its sad that the player base can come up with better ideas then the design team but putting that aside there are alot of ideas on the forums. Try to integrate some of these ideas into a new fractal skins acquisition systems PLEASE!
Just take a look at http://gw2lfg.com/
What A-Net did is totally kitten up the dungeon system.
AC was a dungeon that was done by ppl who are new to dungeons. I mean come on the recommended lvl for it is 40. Yes ok there were ppl trying to farm it but what is the point of making the first dungeon anyone playing GW2 will most likely try.
On the other hand COF which is dungeon with lvl 75 recommendation, farmable.
To top it all off the made the tougher paths of a few dungeons which have a lvl 80 recommendation easier, making the dungeon master title almost pointless in having.
LOL what a failure by Anet
Lanser hit the nail on the head.
I’m starting to think A-Net has something fundamentally wrong going on with their developers. They can come us with a token system for skins in SAB but they cant do something similar for fractals. I was on the verge of saying something alot more nasty but i decided to hold back.
I mean come on players have been asking for a new system for fractal skins for months now, they don provide that but they come up with one for SAB???
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There is a bug I noticed with mesmer’s feedback here. How I use it, is by placing it spirits and also I got it speced to go off when i ress someone.
However what I noticed is that sometimes the projectile goes through feedback. Especially towards the the end the end of the up time of feedback.
It was obvious not just me as the ppl i was ressing and the ppl around question me on how the projectile went through. The only answer I can give them is that Anet kittened stuff up again.
SO PLS A-NET, FIX IT!
LOL Vayne what the hell are you going on about. Didnt you realize that GW2 has quite a large casual playing community? So frankly there is no real need to slow down ppl from getting the items they want. As mentioned Anet got our money already even if they taking a bit more time and comeing out with PROPER content should still be fine.
Even if ppl finish current content fast but they know that each time Anet comes with a new patch, there is going to be good content in it, I am very sure ppl will come back. This is something me and my friends were doing until they introduced a hefty DR system. We don’t have time to come on everyday but we do have lull periods where we are very free and can play alot.
Anet does not make considerations for these kind of players. Which is a smack right in the face for the concept of “play the game the way you want” idea.
And IMO the last good patch with nice new content and consideration for players from all walks of life ended in December.
My question is why make lower lvl dungeons harder and higher lvl dungeons easier. For eg what the did the AC and Arah. Anet states a recommended lvl for each dungeon, then why not let the difficulty follow that?
Whats the point of making the first dungeon any will try complicated? I usually done by a group of pugs and some of them can be really fresh to dungeons.
On the other had why is the world did you guys go make Arah easier. Now so many ppl have the dungeon master title I don even bother using it anymore. This is the one which is usually done by more experienced players or guilds. So making this harder would make sense.
Also adjust the loot according to the difficulty of the dungeons. Whats the point of of doing arah if the chest loot or the body loot doesnt allow me to make more gold then cof farm?
For once can you guys think abit before doing something pls…………
Something, just do something that allows us to get the skin we want. Buying it with relics, a batter system between players who have skins they don’t need , increasing drop rate of ppl who hit a certain number of fractals or come up with your own idea. Whatever ANET JUST DO SOMETHING!!!
Ppl have been mentioning this for about 3 months now and no response about it. Actually anet doesnt bother replying about any fractal threads as far as I can see. Unless the answer to the thread is something bloody obvious.
I really wonder how much longer we are gonna have to wait for a reply………sigh
PLS don there are enough china farmer and botters.
Is it possible to get a slight change in concept for temple of balthazar so that smaller guilds can attempt it as well. The 3 routes for the pre event which needs to be done for higher chance for success is all good and fun but the problem comes about at the last stage before running up to the temple.
The thing is before all 3 routes are ready some random player(who is not a guildmate) activates the npc at Rally Waypoint and this is usually done the minute 1 route is ready. For smaller guilds have no other choice but the post on gw2lfg or shout on map chat for more ppl for the route as we really need more players.
Hence I would like to ask if it is possible to have some kind of mitigation for this problem. Of course the easier ways like reducing the number of mobs and nerfing their damage. Or increasing the health pool of the pact npcs and the morale.
But I would like to suggest something which keeps it current difficulty lvl. One way would be to make it compulsory for all 3 routes to be activated before heading up to balthazar. Another way is to give some kind of activating key or item to the ppl who start the pre event at Fort Trinity. So that only they can activate the final event to the temple. Of course it would be wise to add a limited time period each person hold onto the key, in order to no allow players to hog the event.
Kindly consider my suggestion Anet.
Thank you
The number 1 thing ppl have to do is stop posting this questions in any forum.
OK now I am even more sure that there is a DR system in place for FOTM and it resets everytime there is a new update. Until yesterday I was getting kitten loot and suddenly yesterday the loot was a bit more decent. Gonna keep doing dailies at 20s, 30s and 40 for a few more days and post again when the loots starts to get kittenty.
If anyone one else has the same experience pls post them here.
Personally I think getting a fractal skin I want is worst then getting a legendary or precursor I want. You see these can drop from any dungeons or mobs which are lvl 75 and above. Also if one decides to go to mystic forge for a precursor, the number of attempts he has on the getting that precursor is only limited to the amount of gold he has. In any case if he gets a precursor or legendary he doesn’t need, he can sell it in the TP and buy the one he wants.
On the other had when it comes to fractal skins. People are limited to only a few tries a day and that is dependent on their fractal lvl. Even worst if they get a skin they don’t want, they cant do anything about it.
When you look at it this way, you can see how much more lucky ppl who sort after fractal skins have to be compared to those who are after precursors and legendaries.
I did suggest a solution to this problem here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Fractal-Skins/first#post1696242
Hope they look into it and try to come up with something.
Currently there are quite a number of ppl with fractal skins they don want.
Personally I have said or seen a chat sequence to this effect so many times. Person who got a skin " look I just got a Fractal Greatsword but I cant use it cos I’m a necro", the other ppl in the party " OMG kittenING GOD I WANT THAT SKIN!!!".
Of course there are obvious ways of getting around this situation like letting ppl craft or mystic forge ascended items for their fractal skin but maybe Anet does wan RNG to be the only way of obtaining these skins.
My suggestion would be to allow ppl with fractal skins to exchange it with each other. Maybe come up with an new npc in Dessea’s Lab specially for exchanging skins and even rings. 2 players would have to interface with it and each of them have 1 empty slot where they can put the skin/ring they want to exchange. Only when both slots are filled and both players and clicked confirm can they exchange items. Now I strongly believe this should be allowed only for account bound skins or rings, not soulbound ones.
Kindly give this idea some thought as the current method of getting the fractal skins one wants is more ridiculous then getting a precursor or legendary.
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Well here is what MR Robert Hrouda thinks of FOTM
As for FoTM, there isn’t much I can say about it. Yes we have plans to keep doing stuff for it like new fractals, and more agony resistance will be released in time… aside from that there’s really not much to say. FoTM is in a good place, and ever since we resolved the reconnect issues with it, there hasn’t been many complaints aside from that players can’t get to high scales as easily anymore, which is something we intended in the first place but that players found exploits around.
Seriously guys you tell me is that the only major complaint about fractals so far. Does he just pick and read post which he feels he has an easy answer to????
There are so many things kittened up with FOTM now.
Lets start with the normal bugs. The one where kraits go into the ceiling, that hasnt been fixed. The lava pits that randonly fill up during the Grawl Shaman encounter some times fills up but the visual graphics isnt there. Just the debuff shows up and you start losing health. In kitten Harpy fractal the harpies can hit the players but the players cant hit back from range cos the kittening harpies become invulnerable. There is even one at the start of the ascalon fractal, where the mobs don follow the group at all. They just spawn at the starting point and stay there. When are you going to fix them?
Then there’s the chest loot. Its either dam good with quite a number of rares/exotics or its just complete trash drops. Nothing in the middle and I can swear there is some kinda of DR, as I have explained in this post.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/FOTM-and-DR/first#post1665600
Ever since I have never got a fractal skin from the 3 dailies I do everyday, just some trashy rings I don want.
Now coming to the topic of rings. Players have countless rings, relics and crafting material and nothing to do with it. This has been a question that has been asked since December and anet has failed to answer.
Finally skins. I have done my fair share of fractals as I have 127 pristine relics. Lets say a quater of that I got at low lvl fractals aka anything below 30 (which I don think is case cos I was already above 30 before the pristine relics system was released), the rest are from high lvl fractals. Keeping in mind each comes from a daily which also have a chance on rewarding fractal skins. I only got 1 skin that I really want and out of the remaining 6 i can only use 2 from all those dailies. Every other weapon can be crafted or bought is some way. Why not fractal skins? How does a kittenty rng system being the only way of getting it make any sense to you? At least precursors has a chance of dropping from mobs/chest or from mystic forge. But fractal skins only has one pathetic way.
Also I see a very strong relationship between the kind of chest loot your get and the daily reward. When the chest loot is kittenty, the daily rewards usually gives nothing or maybe some crappy ring which ppl don even need anymore at lvl 30 and above. But when the loot on the chests are good, its likely that there is a skin drop waiting. This is just my tin foil hat theory but this is what I have experienced with my account.
SO to a certain specific someone…….THE SOFT CAP YOU PUT ON FOTM IS NOT THE ONLY ISSUE. Stop shoving the real issues aside and deal with them. I know the point about loot and the correlation with chest loot and chance on getting a skin are theories based on my experience but the rest are not. If your not willing to look into the those fine, at least take a look at the rest.
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For the past 3 to 4 days my guild members and myself are facing some MAJOR LAG and the best thing is, the lag is getting worst. What is Anet doing, maintaing the server or making it worst. I usually do high lvl fractals and the game is making it almost unplayable. I am from Singapore and my guild is mostly from south east asia. We play on Crystal Desert(NA) Can there fast fix to this issue.
Pls do your job and actually MAINTAIN THE SERVER PLS
Thanks for the feedback, Strifey, but let’s try to keep this thread on topic. We’re well aware of people’s feelings towards the Maw chest and RNG with it, and we are monitoring it closely.
Thanks a million, finally at least we know that someone is looking into it. This is what we were hoping for. Kindly let us know about your findings.
Anecdotes are worse than useless for trying to track alleged changes in RNG as people will only ever comment when things are going poorly. Of course all your anecdotal evidence is from people having poor luck, they wouldn’t ever bother to comment otherwise. It’s like interviewing people leaving a bar and freaking out that almost everyone you talked to had been drinking.
This pretty much sums things up. People rarely comment when something is working properly, and usually only bring things up in a positive light if there is a discussion about it and they feel provoked to do as such.
For instance, we recently made it possible to join and reconnect in fractals. Prior to that patch there would be a new thread nearly every other day about how bad fractals were because of disconnects, and those threads would be the most popular. But since fixing it there hasn’t been a single thread about it, or any comments. It’s just the general nature of people to happily enjoy things instead of taking the time out of enjoying something to exclaim that you are enjoying something.
I know this is old but I really gotta say this. If ppl are not complaining about something means its working fine. How hard is that comprehend. Hell this (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation/first#post1462956) would not have happened if not for the complaints. Now there seems to be alot of talk about DR and loot tables in fractals. When are u guys gonna take a proper look into it instead of just writing it off as “that’s how RNG works” again.
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OH WOW yeah sure they care about the game. They care so much about it, that they have not commented on 3/4 or more of posts about FOTM. I have to go back through a few pages before I can see them commenting about even one post on fractals. Even then devs only do it when they are closing the post or if its to say “I don care how skillful you and your team is but I don want u guys to go over lvl 49 in fotm”, well of course it was phrased is a more polite way. LOL how can they care much about the dungeons when they cant even give proper replies on their latest dungeon.
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Ok guys try this. Do about 3 or 4 fractals(of different tiers if possible) for about 4 or 5 days in a row. After that see if you start getting kittenty loot. Pls try it and post your results here. If your doing just 1 or 2 a day, even if its it higher tiers, don come here and say that is how RNG goes cos from what I see ppl who do a small amount of fractals in a week don’t get affected by this ‘DR’ problem.
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Just out of curiosity is anyone having extra luck with a specific lvl and stat combination of items which you throw into mystic forge for precursors. Like four lvl 75 exotic berserker or 4 lvl 80 rare rampager or something like that. Even if there’s one I don know if anyone is willing to share but as i mentioned I’m just curious.
I stopped playing this game for a while and started playing again last Tuesday. There are some stuff I noticed that I would to share with the community. Currently I’m at lvl 49 and have been doing my dailies at 28, 38 and 48 ever since Tuesday. Maybe I help a few of my guildies lvl as well too. So in a day I do about 3 to 5 runs.
What I have noticed is that my loot was great esp when it came to skins and chest loot on the first 2 to 3 days(maybe 4) but after that it started to suck rather bad. The frequency of chest I got without even a single yellow went up drastically and the daily chest didnt even give me one skin. Maybe 2 rings but that’s all.
So now I’m left wondering if it could be just RNG? How could it be the case if, when i started playing the loot drop was awesome but a few days on it starts to suck. That is why I am guessing that Anet has came up with a strong DR system for FOTM. In light of all their recent moves to discourage ppl away from FOTM, is this another one of them?
UHh what the hell are u on about. I am saying that all ascended gear should be available in fractals, because only ascended gear can be infused to give AR. And AR is unique to only fotm. So it doesnt make sense that its available through laurels or guild missions but not in Fotm itself. They should be made available in all 3 places so that ppl who are just regular players have a chance to get it but still hardcore fractlers can get it faster so that we can progress to higher lvls of FOTM.
Whoa now the ascended earrings can be bought with laurels and guild commendations but not by fractal relics? WTF Anet?
Seriously isn’t it getting more and more obvious that they are trying to screw over ppl doing fractals and get us out of it.
Its ridiculous how your screwing up the one of the more sort after dungeons in GW2 with exception to AC and CoF.
Anyone knows how long it will take to get 12 commendation medals?
Hello I’m making this post cos I feel Anet is getting ridiculous with fractals.
First lets talk about what they did with the current update.The cd on spykits was directly targeted at FOTM I would say, as no other dungeon requires this. Esp on dredge its gonna be slightly harder for inexperienced groups or one without a thief. Although its gonna be harder at higher lvls ie 30+, its not impossible, for groups who are not very experienced or skillfull. Before the patch I would rather not go pug higher lvl fotm if my group wasn’t online. After this HELL NO, pugs will take too long. Also for ppl who pug them I forsee ppl asking for specific classes. So does Anet take all this into consideration before making changes?
Second there are still a few frustrating bugs in Fotm such as the Kraits getting stuck in the ceiling, which has been around since Fotm started but Anet can’t fix that? I know its not a huge bug but still shows how much commitment they have to making the dungeon better rather then harder. This can be also seen in the case of the legendary grawl shaman and the mossman. Lower fractal groups have alot of problems with them and what does Anet do about it? NADAAAAA. Actually i’ve seen higher lvl groups having problem with this as well, another reason why I usually don pug.
Thirdly why in the world would be give ascended gear in rewards systems which have nothing to do with fractals? Ok I know there have been kids crying about ascended gear being available to only ppl only doing fractals. Then just introduce the amulet and any new ascended gear to the fotm vendor and leave the rest in the laurel vendor. That way everyone has a chance on getting it. What the hell happened to playing the game the way you want it to. Takes way to long for doing lame dailies to get a freaking amulet, as I mentioned is previous post in that 20 days it take to get a amulet, I can get 2 rings and 1 capacitor using fractals.
Fourthly why is there still no recipe to infuse the amulet yet? How long do you want us to be be stuck on 49? Also I was reading the forums and ppl have been posting that they can’t infuse rings with the new stats released on the update. I can’t confirm it as I haven’t bought them but if its true, then its just a bit kitten
Fifth the dumb system of allowing players in a group to the highest lvl of the person in the group. Cos of this there are so many derps on higher lvls, everyone is so paranoid or doubts of pugs. All you guys had to do is restrict players to their own tier, eg 1-9, 10-11. Another mark taken away from pugging.
Sixth, there is still nothing that can be done with all the excess relics, rings and crafting materials. So many patches have passed since this was brought up, but still nothing.
Finally to those ppl reading this PLSSS take a few more mins to take a look at the previous post about Fotm. You guy would realise something. NO ONE FROM ANET REPLIES TO ANY TO OF THEM UNLESS THEY ARE CLOSING THE POST OR IF IT ABOUT ANET NOT CHANGING THE LOOT DROP IN FOTM . I went back about 5 or 6 pages to confirm this. WHY DOES ANET NOT REPLY TO ALMOST ANY OF THE POST ABOUT FRACTALS????
From all these there are few conclusions that can be derived.
1 – They released a dungeon which is unpolished, unrefined, full thought out and simply ill conceived.
2 – Due to their failure in fore sight, other places in the game are losing population size, thus they are trying to force ppl away from doing Fotm.
3 – The guy/team incharge of developing fractals should be fired as they have clearly failed in the creation of this dungeon and mitigation of its problems.
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I use a mesmer with about 20k hp(not exactly sure how much). The ground stomp doing damge has been around since fractals for first made, so yes I know about that. And as I mentioned I do lvl 48 fractals so its a given that I do know about saving 2 dodges for it or having blurred frenzy ready for it. Though I have to admit I didnt bother about it since it was only lvl 12. However as far as I can recall I didnt see anyone else dodging it as well.
But my qns is why is everyone else hp at the same lvl as mine. There was another mesmer using full solider stats gear which would give him a similar health pool as mine and same result have hp, actually a bit less then half for him.
How can it be RNG when I did my lvl 48 today again and its back to blues and greens. Gonna do one fractal in tier lvl 10 or 20 and report back my findings
Hi I found something weird and would like to know if other ppl had this same problem. I have 35 ar and I doing a lvl 12 fotm. Got the above stated as the final boss for the dredge fractal. I noticed that ar was hitting me for half my health pool. At lvl 12 with 35 ar, that doesn’t sound right does it? I was running this fractal with my guildmates and I know for a fact that all of them at between 10-15 ar. Funny thing is all our health pool went down to the same lvl. They even started asking me if I was sure that I had my ar gear on and wasn’t running MF gear, which I was not. So I don understand what’s really going on here.
Another thing I would like to mention is that I usually only do lvl 38 and 48. And for a good 2 days i was getting mostly greens and blues from the chests. However when I did lvl 12 on that second day, all the chests gave me mostly rares and the chest on maw gave me all rares 1 loadstone and 2 cores. The daily chest gave me the red ring of death which i didnt ever get before. Mind you I have one bank tab full of ring which are not soulbound(I sold away the rings that I have no use for and are soulbound cos they are taking up too much space). How does this make any sense, can’t be just RNG. Is Anet forcing me to go down and do lower fractals. I really just don’t understand it.
Frankly that post is nothing but a big bunch of bull crap. Not intended to hit higher lvl fractals? UHHH HELLO I DON THINK DUNGEON BOSSES AND ELITES ARE MEANT TO BE SOLOED AS WELL BUT ANET OFFICIALLY CONGRATULATES THEM WHEN SOMEONE POSTS SOLOING BOSS VIDEO.
So wtf why cant u just can’t you just send a grats our way and leave it at that. OH wait wait I know why cos u want us to do other lame dungeons which give no good loot or go do other open world events right? Come on its so obvious they wanna force ppl out of fotm after they hit a certain lvl.
And this crap about being able to do the higher lvl of the player in the group, any one who’s a half wit could have seen this coming. How hard is to limit ppl to their own tier, like 1-9 or 10-19. Sigh cant believe the player base has better ideas then ppl designing the game.
Wait the best of them all the question of fractal relics, rings and crafting mats. Everyone wants to know what they are doing with it. Just take a min or 2 to go back and check. There are a ton of post on this issue but, NO ONE FROM ANET EVER REPLIED TO ANY OF THEM.
The biggest joke of them all in how long it takes to get one freaking ascended gear with the laurels system. 20 days for amulet and 25 days for ring. LOL MAN IN FOTM IN THAT 20 DAYS ONE CAN GET 2 RINGS AND A BETA CAPACITOR IN THAT SAME TIME.
Next time you wanna come with a new dungeon or new set of gear. Try to think it through first.
I’m looking for such a guild as well. On NA(cd) server now don mind switching. Got a mesmer and guardian.
Hi i’m looking for an experienced guild which is asian/oceanic that does high lvl fotm (lvl 30 and 40 tier), do the harder paths in dungeons(coe path 3 & arah path 4) and clears temple events. Also would want one that will be doing the guild missions consistently when its up. Currently I’m on Crystal Desert but I don mind changing. Not really into spvp or WvW. My main in a lvl 80 mesmer with full exotic/ascended gear.
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The WORST thing is the dam fractal skin. After playing this kittenhing since it was released till now,(At lvl 44, i admit my lvl is not really high compared to some), I got a shortbow and I’m a freaking mesmer who’s working has a guardian alt. Don have time to work on another alt, so there’s another thing which just takes up space.
Guys trust me all anet is trying to do is push ppl out of fotm into doing other stuff the game has to offer.
I mean with making AR hit so hard, making the mobs hit harder, making the loot suck(esp loadstones) and with the introduction of the laurels system what else can they be trying to do.
Which kinda sucks big times but, hey the real kitten clowns are the ones who kept crying fotm killed the game cos no one is doing anything else.
Funny thing is 2 of the 4 monthly and 2 or 3 of the 5 dailies can be completed just by doing fotm. Even helps in event completion but not the ideal way of getting it done.