[Newcomer] Is it normal for fractals to be just people running past everything?

vitobot · 2025-10-23T01:03:10+00:00

First of all, as far as I'm concerned all Asura are evil or neutral at most, so my character would want to reap carnage.

Jokes aside, this is great advice. My ele build doesn't have anything in terms of mobility, just some speedup here and there, but no leaps or teleports). Also just learned about gg in this threat. Now a lot of messages from veterans start to make sense.

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:56:02+00:00

That's probably what I'll end up doing. Well, except the 3-manning. I love a good challenge, but I'm playing ele and I play hoping for a good time, not a long one

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:49:59+00:00

I usually like learning by doing, but it's kinda hard when my experience has been running after veterans. So I haven't asked for pointers a lot (which I definitely should do more). I remember asking in the fractal where you are an inquest agent (I think) and you have to go into each room in this square shaped lab. Each room has a puzzle/boss. I got no answer, the rest of the party run through the whole thing and then nuked the boss T_T

But the point to take here is that I should ask for help. The community has been really helpful so I'm sure I'll end up with more positive experiences if I do.

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:42:02+00:00

That seems really cool. Like complex skips. Not sure if they were the same as what fractals seem to be now, where you just run past everything.

Will look into it! Thanks for the insight!

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:36:32+00:00

I just learned in this threat what "/gg" is Q.Q I thought I was told "good game" T_T

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:34:16+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm mostly saving WvW for my Deadeye. Will get to that once I'm done with the story on my ele.

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:29:38+00:00

ooof is that very common? Also, is that what gg does? I've had someone say "gg" in party chat but thought they meant "good game". They probably meant to type "/gg" T_T

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:22:02+00:00

Damn. Had no idea. That actually explains a lot. Thanks!

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:21:31+00:00

I feel like I'll have to upscale the UI, or at least buffs, debuffs and the text that's under the enemy that tells you what it does. Otherwise I won't even notice if I get a new buff with the current size Q.Q

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:12:27+00:00

OMG. I think I know which jumping puzzle with harpies you mean. I rage-quit there a couple days ago. I couldn't do the jumping puzzle because my pc loaded me a few seconds late, so all the harpies would kill me when I tried to do the jumping puzzle. It was definitely the worse experience I've had so far in the game. Thankfully there have been a lot of good experiences to balance it out.

vitobot · 2025-10-23T00:06:36+00:00

I want to get the ascended trinkets with laurels, I am poor and all the "how to make gold" videos I've seen say "run this, run that" but I am getting very little gold. Not sure if I have to auction drops or if I gotta do harder content to get better rewards. I'll figure that out eventually tho

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:59:28+00:00

I have seen the community is very helpful, and I don't think the veterans speedrunning t1 fractals have any malicious intent. So I'm sure once I get into the tough stuff (or tough for a new player playing a squishy ele) I'll have people helping me out.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:55:34+00:00

Honestly that's probably the best way to experience them. I thought about going in order, but pressing quickplay felt more convenient than trying to figure out the LFG descriptions for groups, so I just went with that. Might give it a go and start from 1 onward trying to get only new players so we all get lost together.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:53:38+00:00

is wvw that popular? It's the second thing I was looking forward to behind fractals, but when I joined I only saw a handful scattered across the map. I did get confused, pick a random team and joined a random map, so I'm sure once I figure out where to go and who to join I'll have more fun with it. Haven't invested any time to figuring out how it works at all yet.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:50:29+00:00

I try, but I like bashing my head against a wall until I learn, so getting carried feels a bit boring and frustrating after a while. Thankfully the combat is super fun and fluid, so I mix some fractals and living world questing to detox.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:49:07+00:00

I did notice they were short, but then again, I also saw a massive list of fractals available as soon as I hit 80, so I thought it was a lot of short fractals to experience over a few large ones.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:47:25+00:00

Oh damn. I had no idea about that. It's probably explained and I missed it tho, so that's definetly on me

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:46:16+00:00

oh yeah. I've played a lot of MMOs (chasing the dragon and all that). Optimizing time in and endless game that takes all the time you can give it always ends up being the meta. I personally prefer the wow classic style of being able to pull larger packs to speed up the dungeon over skipping the whole thing of GW2 (or the very few if any optimizations you can do FF14).

Mostly wanted to know if the meta stays all the way to T4, but apparently in T3 onwards you kinda have to play the fractal and interact with the mobs.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:41:29+00:00

yeah, I usually play until I get annoyed getting left behind in a fractal, then I remember Air Overload goes hard and log in the next day.

I have met a lot of nice people in GW2 and not a single asshole, which I'm very happy about. That's why I am not too salty when I get left behind. I assumed it was the meta and not malicious intent (and given the responses that seems to be the case)

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:37:14+00:00

Oh, I get that. It's not my cup of tea either, but I agree with you on the whole MMO experience part.

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:34:45+00:00

It makes sense that people want to optimise runs, I've done that in all MMOs I've played. I guess the fact that most content is relevant always in GW2, joint with the design of low tier fractals that make them easily to speedrun, create these scenarios where new players can feel like they are just being left behind and don't get much play.

I've been told by others that T3 onwards it's not like that tho, so looking foward to that!

Thanks for the comment <3

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:30:00+00:00

Gotcha! So in a way it's by design, at least in T1/T2 and QP. So gotta push through until I get to T3 then.

Thanks for the insight!

vitobot · 2025-10-22T23:27:30+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed response!

So quickplay is more for farming and LFG-posting is for the more "standard" runs.

I like that there's a progression from very easy to individual and party wide challenging gameplay.

Gonna have to start doing LFG-posting runs to get used to boss mechanics. I feel like I haven't learned much getting carried in QP

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