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Yeah, it's definitely not an out-of-combat thing for me. This happens when I'm in combat. Does anyone know if this is a more recent bug or something that's been going on for a while now? I might change to different sigils if it's a bug that's been around a while and unlikely to get fixed any time soon.

Hey, I've been playing Mirage and I have a Superior Sigil of Energy equipped on both my pistol and my torch. I don't have any sigil equipped on my axe. I can't figure out why, but the sigil only activates some of the time when I swap weapons. I'm also not swapping them too quickly for the cooldown. Does anyone have any idea why it might be happening?

Hey! I know this is a few days late, but I just wanted to reply and say thank you to everyone who responded. There's a lot of useful information for me posted here and I also feel more confident about getting into that first t4 run some time, after reading these replies. Thanks again!

Hey! I just came back after a long hiatus, and I'm incredibly rusty and forgot a lot about the game. I have a heal brand in full ascended with 150 AR (I have no potions, I think that's what I was last working on getting), but I'm so out of touch with the game that I'm a bit nervous to jump back into T3 pugs and mess up the runs for people. Does anyone have advice on where I should start or what I should do to get back into the swing of things with fractals? Should I just jump into t2 pugs for a while or something? Oh yeah, I'm also using full harrier's, but a video I watched was strongly suggesting minstrel's instead. Could anyone provide some additional insight on that?

I came back to update everyone who has helped me. I went into T4s again with a group for all of the dailies and the recs. It only took us ~42 minutes and no one was downed the entire time. The group was extremely friendly, tried to stick together, and I noticed people using a lot of utility skills to protect each other. It was really nice! @thrag.9740 & @melandru.3876 I wanted to clarify since you two asked:Yes, it was the third door, sorry. I was frustrated at the time and thought of it as the bit just beyond the second door, so I worded it awkwardly. Stealth sounds helpful, I'll look into that and try to remember to ask if other people in the party have it available. Thanks! Edit: I also wanted to say that I have carefully read everything everyone has posted. I just don't respond to everyone because there's a lot!

I saw some other players request a return of the Zodiac armor skins, and I wanted to add to it as well. I'd really like to see these come back!

Wow, I didn't expect so many replies. I appreciate all of the insight! A lot of what you all have said has been pretty helpful. I think I mostly needed encouragement, so this has been really nice. There were also some new tips for me here, and it's nice to learn about one of the several classes I haven't gotten to yet (necromancer). There are a lot of replies here and I don't know what to say to most of them, but I wanted to show my appreciation to the people who continued to add to this. So thanks!

Thanks so much! Your post really helped me understand what was happening in that fractal and I feel really relieved. I do run staff and almost always have Mantra of Lore instead of Merciful Intervention, as I usually don't have issues healing other people. I completely forgot about the staff 3-2 combo field; that'll really help me stop chewing through my first 2 Lore charges so much. I think I'll try running Force of Will for a while as well since I find myself mostly healing people through targeted abilities and mace auto attacks (people often don't stand in my symbols, understandably at times) and the bonus vitality seems nice. Again, thank you. You really helped me!

Scale 81 (Underground Facility)No Pain, No GainVengeanceAfflicted I'm a support firebrand using full harrier's and delicious rice ball / bountiful maintenance oil. The rest of the group was an alacrity renegade, tempest, reaper, and daredevil. We didn't get past the second gate. My main issue was that trash would 1-2 shot me with regular hits or strong condition damage. I felt totally helpless even trying my best to dodge/heal. As for the group's behavior, there was a lot of dying/straggling and people rarely sticking together to try to get to objectives. Not sticking together seems normal from everything I've been through in T3 though so I'm reluctant to blame them. It feels like maybe I just wasn't good enough to deal with catching up to everyone on my own, and I felt extra guilty about other people dying because I couldn't be there to heal them. For what it's worth, I typically load in last because I have an HDD (not SSD) and I'm usually left behind while trying to catch up and ready my mantras. In hindsight, I should probably ask people to give me a few seconds when we get in but I don't know if that's frustrating for them? If someone could explain some things to me, that would be great. As it stands, I'm really embarrassed and discouraged and how upset some people were when they left had me feeling awful.