#daily t4 fractals

[amnyatas]

siren's reef would be my favorite fractal if not for that last boss. one time i had someone experienced on t4 come and help, and even they couldn't succeed, and all the pugs got mad and would leave when it was too hard(or if we tried to strategize at all. it helps to use cleave there, for instance). it was hours of trying to get it for daily and i gave up eventually and i never did it again

a shame bc the sunset before the last boss is absolutely gorgeous

[commander-alsciaucat]

pugging fractals be like

T1: Very chill and easy. No need for group cohesion, everybody brings their open world builds and it's perfectly fine. You will either be doing a lot of learning or teaching mechanics, though.

T2: Still pretty chill and easy, though you can generally expect people to know more of the mechanics, so it's smoother than T1 even though it's nominally more difficult. Occasionally someone will get sniped by an instability, but it'll be more funny than anything. At least one guy will want to organize their inventory after every instance, though.

T3: The difficulty has started to ramp up, but also somehow people have forgotten all the mechanics. Everyone is constantly dying to instabilities. Nobody has enough agony resistance and needs to be scraped off the floor by their half-dead comrades. Everyone is talking mad shit, party chat has actually developed antibiotic resistance. Nobody is playing healer, quickness, or alacrity, but everyone blames everyone else for not playing support. Nobody is rezzing but everyone complains when they are not rezzed. At least one sudden quitter per group.

T4: Much more numerically difficult, though everyone is somehow now magically cohesive again. Everyone in the group can play at least 2 support roles. Dailies and recs get done with astonishing efficiency. A well-oiled machine of fractal stabilization. Everyone signs off afterwards with "gg ty" or some variant.

[kutscene-kestin]

I haven’t had anything to do in GW2 for so long, except for the occasional holiday achievements. I just can’t bring myself to go back to pugging t4 fractal dailies like I used to before PoF, and to be real, my guild isn’t coming back to life any more than its leader is. So I’m eager for the expac to give me something to do for a while.

Someone new followed me a while ago and their blog looked interesting so I’ve been meaning to browse through it. Maybe I’ll do that soon. Get myself back in a GW2 frame of mind.

I’m so tired. I vaguely remember when this game and its fandom gave me life. Why is everything temporary?

[basic-mesmer]

The baby "two of us just scraped together enough AR for t4s YAY" learners group from one of my guilds: knocked out t4 swampland and volcanic, then did daily recommended 40 and 12. Zero wipes, but Bloomhunger did almost kill us real good and make us reset the fight.

The experienced fractals group from the same guild: had to drop difficulty to t3, ended up clearing zero fractals.

[eyfari]

Toxic Guild Wars 2 Fractal Community

Man this is my first OG post in a while, using this as a temporary platform to rant I guess. I encountered a very ‘friendly’ person in my T4 + recs today, I did my darnedest to heal and keep everyone buffed as a Druid and we completed them successfully. The daily recs come around and I was tired and stupidly ran into some room I wasn’t supposed to, and my Mesmer from the previous t4s says “Ah wouldn’t surprise me, they did all kinds of stupid stuff like that in my previous T4 group” ????? This Mesmer only chimed in to say “zzzzz just dodge the circles it’s not hard” or similar comments to my previous group and was super condescending.... why tf are people like that. People like him are the reason I’m losing my drive to even play the PvE side of this game anymore. I can’t stand toxic fractal people...

They think their shit smells like roses

[senterya]

Convinced myself yesterday to log in to GW2 and try the new fractal.

It's a really pretty one with mechanics that some people will consider fun and some others will consider hella annoying for sure (I personally liked jumping over cliffs and dodging through waterfalls, but they might get annoying when people just want to quickly get through their dailies). I loved the overall aesthetic and that they used the elementals to create differently themed segments.

The bosses require a fair amount of mobility so going there with a banner warrior wasn’t the best experience due to not having any ranged options on my default banner build, but it was manageable. Despite playing on T1 difficulty, we needed a druid to be able to get the boss under 50% hp (and eventually kill it), because most of her attacks hit hard and you have to know when and how to dodge. I personally liked the difficult boss at the end, she is challenging but not as annoying as Captain Crowe or Mai Trin (but we’ll see how doable she is on T4 with certain instabilities like Hamstrung, Mist Convergence or No Pain No Gain...)

[khorren]

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[cerus]

day two - in game jerks

OH BOY. there have been a couple but here’s a recent one which is kinda funny:

-me and three guildies are doing t4 fractals, we end up getting a pug as the fifth-

pug: *human female chrono meta™, has at least three legendary weapons, legendary armor, several ghostly infusions, “I’m rich, you know”, max mastery, map completion, called “Hot Cashier Chick”, repping DnT*

guildie 1: alrighty kiddokes lets go

-first up is swampland, goes pretty smoothly but the pug hasn’t said a word even tho we’ve been trying to talk to them. no biggie, pugs are like that-

-thaumanova is next-

guildie 2: okay so if you give me swiftness and regen i should be able to solo the room of death (they’re on a reaper)

me: okay ready, three two-

pug: *one shot triple blinks it*

guildie 1, 2, 3, and me: ...k, that was pretty sicc but would’ve been nice to get some notice

-uncatergorized is the last daily-

pug: *actively using feedback/the mesmer focus trait that reflects projectiles to try and stop the harpies knocking us back*

pug: wtf no wall of reflect???

me, the guard: um no lol its just harpies nbd

pug: *leaves*

[kutscene-kestin]

I would like to say I’ve missed doing fractals. I’d be lying. T1s are still refreshing though compared to the scar-like memories of doing T4 dailies on the regular.

[gossamer-scraps]

Here’s something kind of scary: agony infusions serve the sole purpose of allowing one to do high-tier fractals. If done daily, these are quite good money...

...but my account has a total of 1800g of infusions for the privilege. Have I made that much money from t4 fractals? I have absolutely no idea.

(I haven’t done significant amounts of fractals in over 5 months, so I’m definitely not getting any value out of them lately. I also have a bit over 150 pieces of ascended gear, but the vast majority of those are drops, so I’ve spent very little on them. I’ve probably only crafted like 10 pieces.)

[kutscene-kestin]

Tried to remember when I stopped doing t4 daily fractals on the regular. Figured it was probably when PoF came out. I took a break to focus on the new content, and never found it in me to go back. It was good gold, my only real source, but I just can’t shove myself through that anymore. Maybe if I started it again, I would remember why I liked it, but...*sigh*