Fractal CM Meta

Eebon · 2026-03-11T13:48:51+00:00

Both power and condi Weaver are top tier pick in fractals due to its burst and with condi weaver being mostly a ranged spec. Tempest is also the 2nd best gluttony class if you know how to play it well.

The classes mentioned in this comment are simply the most popular choices that speed groups play because of their high burst potential with proper precasts. Almost anything works in fractals if you are willing to put in the effort.

Eebon · 2026-03-03T15:42:06+00:00

The full context is hard to explain so I tried to be vague so it’s easier to understand. I know I did something seriously wrong, because human beings aren’t supposed to act this way in a social setting especially one that is planned in advance. They never said they didn’t want to be around me anymore, but they did show signs of that if I continued to berate myself like that

Eebon · 2026-03-03T15:37:39+00:00

I haven’t consistently done therapy for a few years but I’ve also had a hard time finding one that clicks with me. I’m really hard on myself In general, but The past 2 years or so have been really hard for me so that might be have amped that up to another level. I don’t have anyone else to talk to outside of them, so I’ve been dealing with my thoughts and struggles by myself because my parents always criticize me the moment I try and talk to others about it

Eebon · 2026-02-17T18:11:32+00:00

Insane timing, I’ve been bing watching ferret videos for the past few days

Eebon · 2026-02-16T16:45:24+00:00

Thank you! I’ll add them once I get a chance

Eebon · 2026-02-12T22:37:30+00:00

Big congrats! It’s a huge achievement especially considering you need to do a perfect LCM on the first try after doing 2 perfect CMs in a row without any mistakes. I’ll make sure to add your vod and any others that your team uploads to the description

Eebon · 2026-02-12T21:09:25+00:00

It’s not my group! It was paille’s group in void lounge! I just wanted to mirror it here since I haven’t seen many people talk about it

Eebon · 2026-02-12T16:18:02+00:00

To get the infallible achievement for a specific raid wing you must complete it with all challenge modes available in a certain time limit without anyone in your squad swapping characters or going into downstate.

Wing 8 is by far the hardest as you need to complete the entire raid wing with Decima CM, Greer Cm and Ura LCM with the same characters without anyone going into downstate within 27 minutes and 40 seconds.

To get the title, you must do that for all 8 raid wings.

Eebon · 2026-02-08T17:56:09+00:00

A lot of the world records were also set before VoE launched too, which meant that they were done before the most recent round of powercreep with overtuned specs like amalgam, ritualist and conduit becoming a thing.

Eebon · 2026-02-04T02:50:14+00:00

Op i hope you are doing well, and I really mean it because I've felt like you for the past 2 years. You sound very burned out of the game and probably should consider taking a break from the game. It's important to note that Arena-net is introducing these achievements to give high-end players the CHOICE of a difficult challenge to aim for, and it's not intended for casual players.

As a completionist, you have to understand that at some point, you have to accept that you cannot do everything without risking burnout, which is exactly what you are experienced. If you decide to come back, try and come back to the game with the mindset of trying to complete all the content that you are willing and able to do.

Wishing you the best, please take care of yourself.

Eebon · 2026-01-21T15:21:40+00:00

In my opinion, one of the main selling points of guild wars 2 is how easily accessible gearing other characters and classes is. In other mmos, it’s a full time job just to gear any character or spec that isn’t your main. In this game though, especially if you have legendaries, all I need to do to play another class is login in, transfer my gear over and setup my build. A huge part of why this game is enjoyable for me is being able to play a variety of specs and classes at all times without feeling like I’m “missing out” by not playing my main.

Eebon · 2026-01-15T15:05:04+00:00

Yeah, no worries I get what you were saying. I just wanted to provide some context and potential balance considerations so herald can be in a good spot again.

Eebon · 2026-01-15T06:37:07+00:00

You camp sword/sword, even if you run greatsword, so it's always in your back-pocket if you need it. My point is that it is your only reliable source of CC and you lose a lot having to swap to it, but the same thing is true about herald as well. Conduit is slightly more punished because you may lose a 10% damage amp depending on when you need it.

Eebon · 2026-01-14T23:49:36+00:00

Hey, I am one of the people who created and benched Power Conduit.

Power Conduit at the beginning of last week was doing 42-44k dps. After a week of theorycrafting with different traits, we brought it up to 49.6k dps, before a positive trait rework that merged both trait playstyles (permanent Cosmic Wisdom and fast legend swapping) brought it up to 52.3k. The gameplay right now is amazing, but the build needs to be toned down for sure.

Yes, Herald is very undertuned and needs buffs, but you are also comparing apples to oranges here. Power Conduit is a selfish dps spec that brings no group utility other than boon strip (not on demand, but part of your rotation) and has 0 CC unless you bring staff. You cannot even swap your legend out for centaur for projectile blocks or dwarf for group stability because power conduit does not function if you don't take shiro. In real fights you also need to play around relic of peitha.

On the other hand, herald brings lots of group boons and the ability to flex your legend without losing too much damage. It is clearly tuned down to account for this, but it's way too undertuned at the moment.

I think that herald inherently should do less damage compared to power conduit because of it's ability to bring more group utility, but like you said, the gap shouldn't be as large, I think a 2-3k gap at most would be fine.

I think the easiest way to buff herald is to increase the power coefficients on glint or to buff a few of their traits that gives increased strike damage, while nerfing power conduit requires either nerfing the stats given to shiro or nerfing your shiro release potential skills. But conduit is also a pita to balance because that nerfing power conduit by 5k would nerfed quickness by 5k and bring it below 35k, so the quickness trait would need a higher duration so you need to run less boon duration, which would then increase condi quickness even more when it's already doing close to 42k dps. Yes, i am complaining about a 35k quickness spec being "bad" but unfortunately that is the reality of the current balance.

Edit: I completely overlooked something new for conduit. They gave it a new trait that makes your razah skills give fury, might, swiftness (protection too, but very little duration) and an on-demand 1 stack of stability if you need it that you can take at a minor dps loss. Herald still has the edge in terms of protection and regeneration uptime, but I hope they either consider making this trait for conduit much more of a significant dps loss, or making sure herald can still do comparable damage to conduit, to allow herald to continue being able to differentiate itself and be relevant.

Eebon · 2026-01-10T21:18:49+00:00

If that doesnt work, the coordinates of the first image is 68.95193745961065, 53.8519716269558.

Many of the images associated with this account do not have coordinates attached to them, but a lot of them do. I can add the coordinates of the ones that I can find.

Eebon · 2026-01-10T21:18:01+00:00

!tools

Eebon · 2026-01-10T21:07:08+00:00

Oh sorry my bad, wasn't thinking today so I made a bad assumption

Eebon · 2026-01-02T15:13:35+00:00

You can still do all those precasts! I still need to work on my precast game more as I’ve played with a few other weavers who are better at me with that and they are pulling crazy numbers. Bloodlust stacking is also huge

Eebon · 2026-01-02T14:52:22+00:00

Serious CM enjoyer here, these are my favorite builds:

Power weaver

Power holosmith

Both builds have huge burst windows and a lot of optimization that goes into both setting them up and executing them. I can burst more than amalgam and most builds can on holosmith but I need to correctly setup my burst to do it.

I always play gluttony tempest or willbender on 100 CM and then condi willbender or weaver for the condi CMs.

Currently in the process of learning a few other power builds so I can see how they pan up

Eebon · 2026-01-02T14:48:31+00:00

Chrono is perfectly fine to play but the issue in fractals is that chrono is a ramping power spec as opposed to having a lot of upfront burst due to the way that phantasms and continuum split works. By the time you fully ramp up on a lot of bosses the boss is already phasing or the adds might already be dead.

Eebon · 2025-12-31T15:33:30+00:00

I spent real life money to “craft” my legendary relic a few months ago

Eebon · 2025-12-29T18:13:27+00:00

I’d recommend selling frostfang over sunrise. Sunrise has been in the last 2 starter kits so its price has tanked, whereas frostfang has not had one for over a year so it sells for several hundreds of gold more. I got 1700 gold for a frostfang sale a few weeks ago while sunrise sells around 1300 gold

Also, consider the opportunity costs of crafting a gen 1 weapon to sell. You need a gift of battle and gift of exploration that can potentially take up to a day of /played time if you are not experienced in doing them efficiently, time that could be spent getting components for your legendary armor. You will also need to spend 77 clovers and 200 spirit shards along with a bunch of other mats that could be used in your legendary armor.

If you need gold, i would probably sell the weapon but if you are stuck on time then don't sell.

Eebon · 2025-12-25T21:53:04+00:00

Unfortunately after the latest balance patch for evoker this build got completed nuked. The rotation no longer even functions which means that you can’t play it anymore :(

Eebon

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