I agree we could use more info in game. I do believe they inform us enough about how to play the mini games. A simple message on the screen and its up to you to figure out how to play. My opinion is there is nothing wrong with thakittens no different then entering a dungeon you have never been in. If your looking for more info its easy to find vids of almost anything from GW2. As for entering an instance and your unclear about when the instance is over, my suggestion is to understand the mechanics of instances in general. All you need to do is wait for the door symbol on the right side to flash and that indicates the instance is over. As for knowing where to go to vote and see the two candidates, well that to me was obvious since they were standing in the new area pre patch then logic would dictate that is where they are after patch. Simply zoning and checking map for the yellow swirl and I was set. Personally, I don’t do a lot of net surfing for my answers unless I am having trouble completing something then I just turn to Dulfy.net.
I went the opposite direction. All my trinkets and rings are either celestial or zerker with PVT armor. My opinion is 3000 plus power is something to go for without losing too much from your defense. My defense is at 1400. Build 20/30/0/0/30
The value of my time does not revolve around making money. I value the time I put into the game since I want to accomplish as much as possible in a short period of time. If I enjoy doing it, it would then be considered “rewarding”. If I wasn’t enjoying myself I wouldn’t be playing. You missed my point. Why waste time on a strategy that is not 100% effective. Completing the bosses quickly allows me to do more. It’s not difficult to understand.
T.T Really people? Who cares if you are being hunted by ghosts? It doesn’t matter. The worst players are the ones who camp thinking they will win if they survive longer then anyone else. That is not how it works. The game is designed so that points can be scored alive and when your dead. You are useless if your only good at surviving. Learn the ghost half as well and your points will sky rocket. I win more games as the ghost then being alive. This is not Hunger Games!
This is the exact reason why I hate the mist form. Death should be a punishment for failing at surviving because after all, it’s called Southsun survival.
So you have to survive the dead and living. Its still survival. Its good they added in the ghost aspect since players like myself, who hate to camp it out, have more to do.
I have 6 fractal skins that i worked hard for (so many runs!). My guild mate got a precusor in one run.
I have made 0 gold, he has made 600 gold from the drop of a decent skin.
There is no reason to not have fractal skins on sale, and they would be about 50 – 100 gold i reckon.
Your guild mate is just very lucky. A poor comparison unfortunately. This happens every where not just in fractals. I played in the karka event when Southsun first opened to us and at the end when we opened the big chest all I received was a bunch of rares and a karka accessory. Granted everyone got the accessory, one of my guild mates received Dusk. 0.o They will never put fractal skins up for sale. You have to put in the time and effort for them. It just sux that your time could be a lot longer then mine. Pure luck.
You can kill the AC path 1 end boss on the stairs and he can’t hit you. The damage is the same if you were to kite him around. I prefer that then to wipe multiple times and waste valuable time. Yes, my time is valuable!
Took me forever to get a skin. I had already completed the fractal frequenter achievement before I got my first one. So far Ive received the short bow and great sword.
approaching a bank tab of useless rings, never had a zerker ring. Ever
If you didn’t get the rings you want and have put in the time to have close to a bank slot full of rings then I have to ask the obvious. What are you doing with the pristine relics you have been getting? They are good for nothing but rings. Currently I have 96. Since I can get rings and amulets from laurel vendors and from other areas I found it very easy to reach max AR on several characters.
T.T Really people? Who cares if you are being hunted by ghosts? It doesn’t matter. The worst players are the ones who camp thinking they will win if they survive longer then anyone else. That is not how it works. The game is designed so that points can be scored alive and when your dead. You are useless if your only good at surviving. Learn the ghost half as well and your points will sky rocket. I win more games as the ghost then being alive. This is not Hunger Games!
ps +1, also making it easier to get ar on alts wood be nice
Its already too easy to get AR for alts. Do you want of my 50 rings in the bank? how about the 1500 relics for more back pieces? Now with the laurels stacking every day from rewards Im already sitting at 60. The badges of honor are stacking up as well which allow you to get rings and accessories from the WvW vendor. The list gos on…..I don’t think we need more ways to get AR for alts… just sayin.
Really gear is not an issue with this part. PVT or zerker. Its not difficult to kill the chanters on a stack in the hallway. I do it on my own its so easy. The squishies all stand behind me and drop aoe or boons. Fror’s strategy is the most common when teams fail with the original plan.
From all these posts its clear that not everyone agrees with the OP. Even within a clan you may find that players will complete dungeons in a way you don’t agree with so it will always boil down to opinion. Just make it clear when joining a group that you would prefer to play it out and either you will get verbally bashed with a quick kick or they will agree with you.
So let me get this straight, instead of stacking against a pillar in AC Exp and killing the spider quickly. You would prefer to run around, get downed and hope that one of your team mates will come along to pick you up? Yes, your standing in the corner going pew pew. However, when a player gets downed the entire team is there to rez. It’s considered a strategy, not a glitch. Without working closely with your team your dead weight and cost the team on wipes when players try to pick you up. My suggestion to you OP is to start looking at what works well and saves time not what is a glitch and what is not. This way you will have more time to do more in the game and…yes, have fun doing it. Leave the Devs to decide what is a glitch.
Going for sunrise. I have the gift of battle, gift of metal, gift of ascalon, gift of magic, I have all my clovers and the precursor, dawn. My problems lies with how difficult it is to get charged lodestones. At almost 3 g a pop they are too expensive for 100. I also need 3 poi from EB for map completion. My pace has slowed since I found a Fractal GS.They seem to be more prestigious then legendaries but I think I will still go for my sunrise. Just not in a hurry ATM.
I agree with the OP. However, the rewards are just as good at lower lvls. The only difference is in the daily chest and what essence is dropped. Other then those mentioned, the drops are just as good if not better at lower levels. I do understand your complaint. I don’t want to bother running back to 48 with a different character either.
Um, the dungeons are called explorable since they give multiple paths. That is all and it isn’t difficult to understand. Lets focus on real problems, k?
If you look at the stats on the linked item they are the same as the item you purchased except that it has +5 AR. The difference is the way its displayed. The item you now have is exactly the same. Just get into the fractals and get yourself the 5 AR from the vendor for 75 relics.
Focus on getting higher up and get the shards. TBH, they are pretty useless after you infuse the back piece. Don’t bother using them to infuse rings since rings come more often then shards. At lvl 20+ the rings are already infused too. I have a pile of shards that just sit in my bank. Just another useless item.
Back to the original topic, I just don’t understand why the anet staff doesn’t just turn to a few of the best players in all professions + game modes. It would only make sense.
Playing a game to the best demands a lot dedications. Anet empolyees might have a head start but the bulk of expertise still demands a lot hours dedicated to playing the game. They better off to offer the known experts a job than to promote from within.
Or give us a place to upload vids to show bugs and have a team dedicated to fixing the known issues in a timely manner. 0.o Since I think players are already doing this its the delay from Anet that becomes the issue. If the employee was in our group for testing why not suggest that we help with it instead of putting us in a position where it would be difficult to recover. I actually think the player was just playing the game and that was all. MHO, they should drop the Anet tags and stay hidden.
So, instead of running cof 1 over and over we come up with a list of dungeon paths that are quick as well and you just run them daily. I don’t see a problem with that. Granted the rewards will not be the same….
That attack needs to be better highlighted and remove the circles since if your in its path your hit anyway. The aoe circles just make it more confusing.
Just like with Lupicus, too many circles and game engine just stops drawing them. It is quite similar attack and if amount of projectiles scales with level (doesn’t even have to be much) that might happen.
I don’t recall having this issue on lower levels.
That can’t be right. Look at all the circles dropped on the TA worm boss. Easily 50 or more. Perhaps its the type of attack that follows since the worms attack is instant poison and bloomhungers are the space that an attack will land.
Anew fractal would be great. I am more concerned about the 100 pristine relics and piles of rings that stack up. Can’t force myself to sell them for kitten . Yet they hand out laurels like candy and they have multiple uses. Go figure.
You don’t have to pug but even with 500+ members at the time I could only get 1 to join me. I was thinking that it was possible that he could have been testing out the issues with cliffside. It’s not like he could have reached that point on his own………SHHHH Pullnionter, no comments from the L337 peanut gallery.
A player offered to sell me 20 charged lodestones for 40 gold. In trade he didn’t bother sending the stones. I reported him but will I ever see my gold?
Forestgreen, you assume too much. You can’t play a pug group and think that everyone will know what to do. That is why I EXPLAINED everything first. Granted at 48 you would think everyone would know…..
I never die on range. Stand by the tree, stagger back and forth and take out spirits. LOL, just realized that sounds like a drunk standing in the park but it allows for range and easy kill. If we tank we just circle the hungers butt or stack for buffs from guards. Obviously in this case the group I was in did not want to melee. As for the Anet dude, he just failed at it and I wasn’t going to waste time rezing or downing others to get him.
So you’re mad about an arenanet employee wanting to do the dungeon the way it’s SUPPOSED to be done? I mean seriously, it’s designed to be a challenge. It’s a dungeon, not a level 3 story quest.
I clearly pointed out the strategy we were going with. If anyone objected then they could have right there. Yet all players agreed and so we started. You can complete it any way you want but at high lvls killing all chanters will cost you more time. Since the posts on here are all about getting it done as soon as possible your argument is moot.
Granted Bloomhunger can be meleed, I choose to range simply to avoid rezing or party wipe. If this was a clan group it would be different. As proven many times pug groups can be shifty.
and he made everyone rage quit!! We were on cliffside and I targeted the chanter and asked everyone to leave him be. I even showed them how to lose agro and avoid him if he was to follow them into the hallway. Everything was going smooth and I had come back into the hallway and dropped the hammer in time to see the ranger and his pet killing the marked chanter. before I could type “STOP” he was dead. The group decided not to continue on and surprisingly enough there wasn’t any verbal bashing since the player was showing his Anet tags( red symbol to the right of his name) Im not posting the player name since I am not looking to bash him but thought it was really funny afterwards and it should be posted.
I dont like alot of the new skins and already there is a huge amount of players using them. It seems its more important to have that “prestige” weapon. I was trying for Sunrise but ended up scoring the fractal GS. Which is much more rare then the Legendary weapon. So, why bother…
I can survive agony with 40 ar as a thief without using water fields. All I need to do is haste and pistol inside shadow refuge and shoot for free heals. I won’t stay up but if I do that with some minor heals from a shout warrior or a guard I live and if there’s 1 other person in the same state as me, one of us will get up with the invis I provide. If I dropped the gold infusion for agony, I’d be able to survive easy solo. Probably could survive solo if I put 30 in sa but that’d be dumb and make me worthless during the rest of the run.
Pro-tip. Vitality gets you killed in fractals. The lower your total hp, the more your heal skill does for you. Since I have 11k total health, 100 heals are twice as effective for me as they would be for a warrior.
As a warrior with 24k health and a healing ability that nets me 9k health every 40 secs I very rarely get downed. Usually its when Im picking up a thief but thx for the refuge just the same.
You need a good balance between PVT and zerker. I am not running full zerker but my attack is still over 3100 and I crit 55% at crit damage 80% without any buffs. Using full pvt gear with zerker jewels and all items lean towards zerker. I survive fractal 48 and still do a considerable amount of damage. As long as your defense is around 1400 all is good.
My build is 20/30/0/0/30. Duel axe/GS.
Using others to complete objectives is the whole point. Someone is offering to help you complete something you could be struggling with. Until ports are nerfed or devs post this is considered an exploit, I don’t see the problem. If you think its cheating and don’t support the use of ports………then don’t use them. I have not seen anyone brag that they have completed all the jumping puzzles and they a l337 or anything. Your prestige should come from events, dungeons, pvp and wvw, where you have the opportunity to work with others and show what you are capable of. It shouldn’t be based on your completion of jumping stuff.
I suggested this in another post and thought that it might not get read by the right ppl. I am not sure if this has been suggested before and I did search for it. That being said, I see a growing problem with the current dungeons. The lack of interest after a player has completed all paths. It seems the only reason players will go in is for running in order to build a profit. I suggest that Anet changes what the token merchants carry. Have new armor and weapons available would revitalize the dungeons and spark a lot of interest.
