Originally posted by jakin

Originally posted by BlueLantern

Originally posted by Anthur

"The second run-through would have been a different story, and since the dungeon won’t reset for a week, if you beat the Maw once, the difficulty will remain boosted for the week."

Man, Anet is really trying hard to seperate the community with this new content. Add fusions as a new gate mechanism and than also freeze the difficulty you acheived for 1 week. So no going back to lower dificulties to help others or even join them if they missed the first run.

So the spam in LA will look like this the next weeks:

"LFG fractals level 1"

"lf2m fractals level 3"

"Anyone fractals level 2?"

"lf1m fractals, level 5, full ascend only, got guardian."

and now for the truth. you can set the difficulty scale when your group enters based on the highest common attained level of your group members.

 

http://www.guildwars2hub.com/guides/basics/complete-guide-fractals-mists

Anthur is correct.  Because the difficulty level is based on the lowest difficulty achieved in the group you will absolutely see people LFG with certain difficulty cut-offs.  People looking to progress will not be keen on continually running through the early difficulties with new PUG members.

As with most dungeons, this mechanic favours setting up a group that's willing to run a few evolutions in a row together, either on a static basis or at least a one-time commitment.  Hot-join PUGs will be tougher to form.

Anthur is correct, but you might also see the opposite happen.  Once a group has reached upper tiers of difficulty and cant progress anymore (without expensive repair bills) they may want someone who can get them back into tier 1 so they can earn more of the special tokens etc..

Originally posted by Tawn47

Originally posted by jakin

Originally posted by BlueLantern

Originally posted by Anthur

"The second run-through would have been a different story, and since the dungeon won’t reset for a week, if you beat the Maw once, the difficulty will remain boosted for the week."

Man, Anet is really trying hard to seperate the community with this new content. Add fusions as a new gate mechanism and than also freeze the difficulty you acheived for 1 week. So no going back to lower dificulties to help others or even join them if they missed the first run.

So the spam in LA will look like this the next weeks:

"LFG fractals level 1"

"lf2m fractals level 3"

"Anyone fractals level 2?"

"lf1m fractals, level 5, full ascend only, got guardian."

and now for the truth. you can set the difficulty scale when your group enters based on the highest common attained level of your group members.

 

http://www.guildwars2hub.com/guides/basics/complete-guide-fractals-mists

Anthur is correct.  Because the difficulty level is based on the lowest difficulty achieved in the group you will absolutely see people LFG with certain difficulty cut-offs.  People looking to progress will not be keen on continually running through the early difficulties with new PUG members.

As with most dungeons, this mechanic favours setting up a group that's willing to run a few evolutions in a row together, either on a static basis or at least a one-time commitment.  Hot-join PUGs will be tougher to form.

Anthur is correct, but you might also see the opposite happen.  Once a group has reached upper tiers of difficulty and cant progress anymore (without expensive repair bills) they may want someone who can get them back into tier 1 so they can earn more of the special tokens etc..

I agree i like this system alot because saying noone will go back a level to help people is like saying people wont do story mode cause i doesnt help them but huge numbers of players will do story mode with people for a change of pace or to help them.

AS poorly thought out and ran as this past weekends event was, I have little faith in the gameholding me with any update anytime soon.

Originally posted by Ciccero

AS poorly thought out and ran as this past weekends event was, I have little faith in the gameholding me with any update anytime soon.

 

Don't let the door slam your ass on the way out. While I continue to collect for my Legendary. Finished up my world Completion. And spearheading Fractal level 26! Lot's for me to do and look forward too. I have 500 hours invested into this game and have plenty to look forward too from Arena Net.