Lord of the Fire.6870 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 From the updates notes:Aquatic Ruins Added champions to guard the gates leading to the boss room.I wasn't in there until now but so far I remember there were always champion there and it was the hard part to go past them oft with 2-3 triesJust bad wording or what is there going on ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindcircus.1506 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 It means they made it harder to "farm". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 My guess is they've added the champs in between the paths and the boss room, so you no longer can depend on just one person making it there (and then the rest respawning). Haven't had the time to check that out yet, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of the Fire.6870 Posted August 14, 2019 Author Share Posted August 14, 2019 @Astralporing.1957 said:My guess is they've added the champs in between the paths and the boss room, so you no longer can depend on just one person making it there (and then the rest respawning). Haven't had the time to check that out yet, though.I fear that but this must be the path where you need to pick up this stuff to survive in the dolphin path this wouldn't make any sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 @Lord of the Fire.6870 said:@Astralporing.1957 said:My guess is they've added the champs in between the paths and the boss room, so you no longer can depend on just one person making it there (and then the rest respawning). Haven't had the time to check that out yet, though.I fear that but this must be the path where you need to pick up this stuff to survive in the dolphin path this wouldn't make any senseI mean in the corridor between the end of the path and the actual boss cave, not at the end of the path itself (because that, as you said, wouldn't make sense - at least for how it looked up till yesterday, they did mention adjusting stuff on paths as well). You need to swim into the boss cave itself to unlock the checkpoint - place a champ and a gate before that point, and suddenly you may need either someone to solo that champ, or the whole team getting through the path to deal with it.Unless they meant the short corridor before paths, in which case champs there are completely fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Forestman.4758 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 After you get to the end of the dolphin path, there's now several krait you have to kill in order to enter the boss room. You get your normal build, but it slows things down considerably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 @Aaron Forestman.4758 said:After you get to the end of the dolphin path, there's now several krait you have to kill in order to enter the boss room. You get your normal build, but it slows things down considerably.Can the rest of the team respawn there once first person gets through the path, or do you need to kill those kraits for that first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 @Astralporing.1957 said:@Aaron Forestman.4758 said:After you get to the end of the dolphin path, there's now several krait you have to kill in order to enter the boss room. You get your normal build, but it slows things down considerably.Can the rest of the team respawn there once first person gets through the path, or do you need to kill those kraits for that first?One person can swim to the final gate, get out-of-combat in a small cave, and the rest can /gg there.It's a minor fight, which mostly just prevents someone from soloing the path, as we were able to do last week, i.e. it literally does nothing other than slow things down at best.The boss fight likewise isn't much of an improvement, although I think if ANet had released the fractal with those mechanics, no one would mind much. It does mean folks need to pay some attention to their underwater skills, whereas last week, we mostly didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyninja.2954 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 What IWN said.The 3 enemies are just there to prevent people from swimming through solo (they are right before the boss room). Not of an issue for groups, but will take longer. Also some of the enemies now cross the ideal path in the dark area (where it used to be possible to bypass all enemies if one swam correctly in the past). Not something I find a great or fun change.The jellyfish boss is just as retarded as before but simply takes longer now. What I would have prefered: some kind of stacking debuff for pulling him into cages. What we got: boss turns immune ever 25% and the group is forced to clear 1, 2 and finally 3 adds. Again, not a fun change. Instead of rewarding clever play, people are simply forced to grind more stuff down.Honestly, I would have prefered them just changing the timer on rewards for this fractal to 30 minutes to prevent farming, but leaving it as is given these changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francisco.6231 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 The Underwater fractal is now more of a shore than before. 1 out of 10 fractal players may have a decent underwater weapon to even fight and ANet has stated they won't re-work the underwater fights nor content and pull off this stupid 180°. I have to say it's annoying they couldn't just find another way to make the fractal less farm friendly other than making it an annoying shore. If ANet would properly address underwater combat, I wouldn't be so annoyed at this change.I for one would rather ANet just remove the damned fractal instead.Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eramonster.2718 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 The fractal requires some polishing after the change eg. reduce the glitter of the final Luminous Plant near the Krait Champion for Deep Water path. Got unlucky with the champion krait as it swam next to it; the entire fight was blinding :lol:. ̶O̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶b̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶h̶i̶e̶v̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶O̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶G̶r̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶(̶k̶i̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶s̶)̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶w̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶?̶ ̶W̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶K̶r̶a̶i̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶J̶e̶l̶l̶y̶f̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶p̶a̶w̶n̶s̶.̶The Boss fight is still fairly easy(was T3 recs) but significantly longer. Underwater skills need to be tweaked. With some skills inaccessible eg. Class & "land" weapon's skills, it limits the distribution of boons and certain class traits from functioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 @"Eramonster.2718" said:The fractal requires some polishing after the change eg. reduce the glitter of the final Luminous Plant near the Krait Champion for Deep Water path. Got unlucky with the champion krait as it swam next to it; the entire fight was blinding :lol:. On another note, is it still possible to obtain the achievement Open Grave (killing all monsters) with the new change? What used to be Kraits, are now Jellyfish and they respawns.The Boss fight is still fairly easy(was T3 recs) but significantly longer. Underwater skills need to be tweaked. With some skills inaccessible eg. Class & "land" weapon's skills, it limits the distribution of boons and certain class traits from functioning.Open grave isent that solid ocean we got land jellyfishes there now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eramonster.2718 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Woops you're right :blush: got that achievement confused. Been wasting my time trying to solo it in the wrong fractal :bawling:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 @Eramonster.2718 said:Woops you're right :blush: got that achievement confused. Been wasting my time trying to solo it in the wrong fractal :bawling:.Np hope you get it soon mate =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWMO.4785 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 This fractal went from monotonous boring to obnoxious, "long" and annoying. Not difficult or mechanically challenging. just annoying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lare.5129 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 it means that now 'exp party' will kick pugs if they can't swim to place fastis means that now on t4 sometimes will be require link ascent aquatic weapon after fail nr 3it means that now on aquatic for 'non farmers' parties part of sugar run is stolenit means that now aquatic come aquatic Siriena NR2it means that now we see that aquatic skills not balanced and need updatedit means that you never can predict how to to better and be sure that not break current ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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