Fractals: The Best Gold Farm in Guild Wars 2! - Ultimate Guide
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- A couple months ago, I said in a video that the best gold farm in Guild Wars 2.. is the Fractals of the Mists. But how do you even do fractals? What even are fractals?
In this video, I explain to you how this gamemode works and how to get into it! And then finally.. I'll go through all 22 fractals currently in the game and explain them to you.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:07 Introduction to Fractals
5:13 Personal Fractal Level
5:48 Agony Resistance
7:15 Gearing Advice
9:27 Team Composition and Builds
11:33 Volcanic
12:36 Uncategorized
13:51 Snowblind
14:46 Urban Battleground
15:31 Swampland
16:39 Cliffside
17:38 Aquatic Ruins
18:47 Underground Facility
20:08 Molten Furnace
20:35 Molten Boss
21:13 Deepstone
22:38 Siren's Reef
23:44 Chaos
24:31 Aetherblade
25:17 Thaumanova
27:27 Twilight Oasis
28:58 Mai Trin
29:41 Solid Ocean
30:41 Nightmare
31:58 Shattered Observatory
34:15 Sunqua Peak
36:03 Silent Surf
38:05 Conclusion - Ігри
There's really no need to buy +9 agony resistance on the trading post! You'll get plenty of +1 just by playing and you can use those with a vendor in the fractal lobby to buy +9 (or whatever tier you want). You'll save about 1 gold for every +9 infusion compared to the trading post. That's also how you make a little gold off them later, when you've got all you infusion slots filled up - buy higher tier infusions from the vendor and sell them on the trading post.
Just to add to this wonderful video reply:
Wiki 'Agony Infusion' and right at the top you'll see a link titled 'Agony Resistance # Maximizing resistance.' This shows you the cheapest way to get max agony resistance. If you put +9's into every slot you'll go over the cap and it'll be wasted.
It's incredible that a whole gamemode fit in less than 40 mins. Quite literally nothing to add, 10/10 guide
This guide shows the intended path in the fractals. However, experienced group make use of lots of skips resulting playing the fractals vastly differently. Looking forward to an entire fractal skip guide compilation. There are some guides scattered across youtube, but perhaps Lara can make one big ultimate guide for fractal skips :)
Thank you! The veterans I play with frequently were of no help. Yours, and many other folk's, guides have helped me immensely. Especially after my introduction to the game being, given a level 80 ticket, first PoF mission, then my entire guild quitting the game in the same week. Feels good having veteran players around who want to help newbies.
WHERES MY GOLD LARANITY???
*Dunks head into toilet bow* WHERE'S THE -MONEY- GOLD
@@jonasw9287 they're nihilists, dude. They don't believe in anything.
WHERE'S MY LARANITY, GOLD?
Wow! This is an impressive guide! Not only for it's breadth, but for its brevity. Crisp & concise, these would make great note cards to keep handy.
I've been doing fractals for years but I watched all of it just because it was you. Love your stuff! 😊
Wow Laranity, you packed so much information into this video. This is so helpful for gw2 players.
Awesome guide, thank you. Shared this with all my noob friends. 10 of us left wow and are now all about gw2
Good stuff :) I've been skipping fractals lately but watching this made me want to hop back in again.
Fantastic video! I think you did a great job condensing your vast amount of knowledge into a short(ish) video 😄
Fantastic guide, much appreciated!!!!!
Thank you for sharing and stay well!!!
Laranity, you're awesome! I'm always telling folks to check out your content. This video is so helpful.
Just started the game, your videos are GREAT help. Thanks for the effort!
Great video!! I really appreciate your GW2 content.
Thank you for getting people into fractals! More people for my favorite game mode!
Insanely well made guide! This is really helpful for newer players like me. ty :)
Excellent guide as always!
One thing I'd add is that on Sunqa, once you talk to the third little water elemental buddy you can /gg. It's not necessary but I recommend it because losing aggro on the elements shooting at you can be a pain in the butt even if you've already made it to the rock boss.
I admit, I had NO IDEA the waterfalls were sometimes safe to walk across. I always just stab or blink across. Or cry in frustration when my build doesn't have one of those options! The more you know...
wooow 10/10 guide, excellent job lara
This is a really great guide!
this is the best guide i have follow in all mmos i had played
This is very helpful. Just needed to know what was in each fractal so I don't look completely clueless xD Thank you!
We all know that MOST players watching guides for fractals are veteran players who already know how to run it. The ones who really need to watch guides don't :D
So, even with high agony resistance, one needs to have very high troll resistance when pugging. Fractals lfg tests your patience every day. I rarely do fractals after my regular party stopped playing gw2.
A thing for Urban Battle ground, when going clockwise and killing the spwaning groups of enemies, ignore the last one, that one dies anyways from the fire ball that the shaman launches! does change that much but maybe good to know
When its time to wait at the middle always do /dance to finish the ritual faster.
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This is such an awesome video, thank you.
This was sooooo helpful. Thank you so much.
You're really out here carrying my gw2 experience 😂. Ive watched essentially every guide on your channel for gw2 multiple rimes
wow Laranity, this is super helpfull ty so much!
17:43 definitely not me still having a lv42 yellow weapon on most of my characters 😶
thank you for this guide, it's very useful :)
awesome guide !
As a one month in player I wish I had watched this before I jumped into fractals. I heard T1 is great for learning but apparently people still expect you to immediately know what was going on because earlier I had this group of level 300+ veterans immediately leaving me alone after seeing me being clueless not knowing what to do and constantly dying on a certain level 😂
As a guardian main, this bothers me quiet a bit... erm.. mostly cuz I'm the one calling out new players and i have regrets >.>
I learned that a good way to avoid some flaming is to admit that you are a new player to fractals and the tone towards you dramatically shifts in your favor.
the biggest reason i call out players is selfishly to get fractals moving faster and having someone purposely slacking off can get tedious extremely quickly for me...
@@Covolsky i always call out that im a new player before going in anywhere
I actually enjoy teaching new players how to do stuff. 👉🏻👈🏻
If they're willing to listen, that is.
@@Kaltsukka id love to be guided and would be listen every step through the way
If there were people saying something that is. The first few i did were mostly carriable but then theres this stage i think with the dredge and gates where i had no clue what to do but the others were like "wtf u doin" and left immediately 😭
@@ra6765yeah its always good to say that you are new very early so if you group up with seasoned player they tell you what to do,i remember be called stupid because i dont know where to bring axe at cliffside fractal at tier 1 and being laugh at and left alone because i failed to dribble the ball at fractal 98,but dont be fret my man,we are all have that momment but i didnt give up,i just watch video like this so i know what to do,dont rush up the fractal level,many people rush their fractal level end up being dead weight at higher tier, and another thing i would say is learn your class,this is the prefect time to learn your class well,since at lower tier expectation are low so used it to learn what skill do what and effect what,many player event at tier 4, OH MY GOD!, that still doesnt understand their class and their skill build for
important point; you will somewhat regularly get ascended equipment from just doing fractals. Rings, sometimes armor and rarely but eventually even weapons. You will also get a bunch of Agony Resistance that you can use at a vendor to upgrade into all the resistance you will need. It takes some time but is cheaper than buying from the Black Lion
I love this!!! Now I want one for raids!!!
Saved. This will be useful in future
Might also be useful to mention that the last boss in Chaos has a shield that gets removed by him standing on the platforms that light up.
Nice Guide
oh i didn't know about the ring upgrade option. neat!
Woah! Thank you
GOLD! GOLD MAKING VID IS HERE! 🎉🍾
Thank you!
Nice work :D I made it to T4 not long ago and its actually not so bad compared to T3 because most players there play fractals for years and its smooth to run along
Yeah honestly, T4 runs tend to be smoother than T3
It is really important to unlock the Fractal Masteries to open encryptions. Otherwise you should not open them
Lets GO! Just started playing GW2 3 days ago. I'm still on free account so fractals are accessible and enjoyable for me. Thief is kinda hard to play pve tho :D
Thief was my first class and has been my main ever since! Thief can seem difficult, due to the single-target damage many of it's skills and weapons focus on, but it does have access to some good cleave options that really help in PvE. Also never underestimate the Acrobatics and Trickery trait lines, it adds a lot of survivability to Thief if you're struggling (and is good for offensive and/or support options on some builds too)
Dagger/dagger is nice for condition (damage over time) based builds (though you need to buy Vipers gear off the TP for it to excel with it in f2p, which can be expensive) especially due to some traits you can slot that ramp up your condition damage a lot.
Staff is a a great power based cleave weapon, but unfortunately that's locked behind an expansion since it's a weapon for thief that needs special "training" to use (originally tied to the Daredevil Elite Specialization from Heart of Thorns, though you can also get that weapon training from the Weaponmaster in the newest expansion). There might be other options but honestly I love Staff too much to consider the others (I use it on every class i can lol)
@@Vidiri thank you for recommendations! I'll buy at least HoT and PoF expansions. First I wanted to wait for sales but I think I cant wait that long to get my hands on all the things locked behind expansions :D
@@entropywastaken I bought HoT/PoF last week and having a blast, really nice to enjoy the game's content without rushing to Skyscale/Dragon's End/Strikes etc.!
Top tier content
First of all, thank you for the video! It has been super helpful.
While watching the video, a question arose (it's possible you mentioned it at some point in the video but with so much information, I might have missed it XD).
Are the difficulty tiers of fractals simply the same fractal but more difficult? or do they add any new mechanics?
Potion Seller! I'm going into Fractals, and I want only your strongest potions!
Friendly reminder: Always Attune rings before salvage, as infusion and attunement give 1 extra roll for stabilized matricies!
You mean attune no? Cause infuse is incredible expensive xD
@@pandaemonaeonaeonYep, fixed it
thanks for this, can you make a guide for all the fractal CMs?
21:32 you can maneuver out of the tornado (by simply moving/dodging) without the help of other people if you're quick (i.e. before it pulls you over the ledge)
Holy shit the PTSD of swampland from my early T1/T2 days....
If your a longbow ranger in Silent Surf Long bow can hit the bros on other platforms if stand on edge of center platform i do it all the time on my untamed main.
leet thumbnail skillz 😊
THAUMANOVA TIPS:
I played in EU server for awhile and switched to US after. And this is my experience with Thauma Tier 4...
In EU people will fight the Green Ooze Boss (North) first before going down the line. In US they do the Shield Maze (South) first.
Shield Maze (South):
People will usually say in chat which number they'll run to (1,2, or 3). For number 3, you can hit the two switches by yourself, just stand in the middle and button mash like in the Flame Room.
Flame Room (West):
If a character has blinks or methods to go far very quickly. They usually do the fire room by themselves. So they only need one cooling rod or if they're a true gamer, no rods.
Final Boss:
People will type numbers in chat on which order they'll put down their special action key similar to the Shield Maze ("1" "2" "3" and so on...)
If your dps is pog, then you'll only need 1 or 2, but still keep your order in mind just in case.
In EU, Tier 4 players do this 100% of the time. In US, we still get a couple of headless chicken players 60% of the time. 😂
I had no clue NA did the rooms in a different order! That's super interesting
As soon as I clicked on this video Dessa mailed me 100 gold. Thanks Lara ❤❤
"To all the veteran players watching you know I'm right." Absolutely true, I had a static group for a while and 90% of the wipes were us not paying attention and taking way too much damage from having boons or all of the DPS noticing the vomit and collectively targeting the healer. The instabilities normally didn't matter, but when they do you can really tell.
Omg today i learned how to target Amala. ❤
28:23 never knew about that i always waited until the animation to distinguish them
I always used the border around the picture to find the real one. Real Amala is the only one with a legendary border, so purple
I want to see a cm video!
I love Fractal
19:41 ...insert it over here, than walk through the mist to your right to stay stealthed and go back to grab another bomb
you are awesome
You forgot the most important thing to why you should run recommended fractals: Lego backpack!
33:46 dont go into the aoe, dodge through the orb when it is in the corner of the aoe field with you and hit it
31:50 the red balls hurt a little, the red aoes hurt a lot
Wow 😂 I'm so jealous you can do those circle orb things in night mare without downing like me 😂
As a WoW player formally, I am so used to having guide vids for all endgame content so something like this is fantastic. being a new 2024 player you just dont want the 10 year player to look at you and just think tf is this noob XD. So I am dropping the hint of guide vids for all endgame pls ;) knowing theres 25 fractals in 4 modes to me sounds very exciting when im done enjoying open world which could easily be this entire year and dungeons next year xD
To be fair, after playing WoW on-and-off at a reasonably high level for 16+ years, I've found GW2 players to be much nicer than what you might find in WoW. GW2 players are also more willing to help newer players learn the ropes. As long as you're honest and tell people you're new but willing to learn, you'll find loads of players that will want to help you out.
Yeah i hear alot of that to and when i get into it i'll go all in. in the wow days i was a purple/orange parser on logs so i need to be humbled and become a student again for gw2 :)@@Silent002
wanted to say now finally doing fractals! using your vids did 1,2,3 and many more dailies being carried by probably some vets! these vids made me feel less dumb :D
I sight audibly everytime deepstone is daily lol. that frac has no right to be so long!! :D
36:43 you can aim for the stalactite? will try that next time
I've been playing T4 dailies and recs for over a year but I never got an ANet dev in my team.
Is it worth it to open the chests in every tier? I lost like 4 gold opening 20 of them with the deeply discounted ones on the first tier. Are the tiers change tthe content of the chests?
I've been playing since day one and I've done like 10 fractals. It was with an IRL friend and his guild, but now that they've stopped playing, I'm back at playing full solo. I'm not a "play with randoms" player (excepted for events), had too many bad experiences in other games. Still, it's an epic video you've done here, well done, and very helpful I'm sure.
Lol, if ur good with ur champion and know every fractal mechanics its really ez. Silent surf t4 takes ages tho. Dont be shy, just lfg and ur gucci
Sorry to say but playing with Randoms here is the same with any MMO experience you had before.
She wasn't kidding when she said that fractals make you a lot of gold. Started a week ago and got a lucky gear drop that was worth 80g
Went full O_O when I saw the trade price.
I have a ranger build. I want to play the core Power Ranger.
Which of the Elite Specializations shall I use.
My brain is leaking out of my ears now. Talk about overload, but it was perfect. Kill mobs, run, jump, get crystals and press F. Got it!
I did fractals only once in my entire gw2 life 😂
i was kicked from the group😂
Thank you SO much for this video. I'm literally just getting started with Fractals. I've done, exactly, 3 of them so far.
Like, I thought you needed Agony Resistance right from the start. lol.
The first one I did was the hammer one. Cliffside. And I thought that Agony damage was killing us, because people were holding the hammer too long and dying. I was SO confused. I'm just a total noob at all of this, zero clue.
But, now, I do have a clue! Thanks to you.
I just do t2. It's like t1 with an effect but no additional mechanics. It gives little less g than t3 but 10x easier.
Now that you did the best Fractals guide on youtube, do you think that one day you'll do the same kind of guide for Raids ? :D
I dropped a like just when u say it “idk why i did this but yeah, i explained all 22 fractals”
Also… WHERE IS MY GOLD LARANITY??
Wow never knew there was a hidden fractal, always thought there were only 100 of them. How do I join this Fractal 101 ???
Laranity Tech promised an electric car by the end of the year.. Where's my electric car Laranity!! 😂😂
I really fell handless doing cm, until now I think I just have done one CM, even doing fractals since 10 years ago.
Great guide, but too bad nothing was said about the LFG "slang" and some unspoken rules.
For example at 5:32 it's really hard for someone new to figure out, what "Ad inf 3 - 21 CM+8" should mean.
Are there any good resources about those abbreviations and what they mean?
Yep! There's a page on the wiki with every acronym and abbreviation used by players. Just do '/wiki Lingo' or '/wiki abbreviations' in-game, to go there.
what a fancy thumbnail though needs more emojii
i hate fractals so i do eod meta everyday (which in stats give more than t4 daily+recs) plus doing eod meta not only give u gold but also gives u material progression for crafting gen 3
I know this is not consistent with the discussion but I approached GW2 in the past having a lvl 35 necro and now I started again as engeneer and I was considering buying path of fire. The real question that I'd love to be answered is if it is still worth to buy just the path of fire dlc which includes the 1st dlc and maybe wait a bit before buying the others or if it's useless to buy only the patch of fire dlc without the others? Because i don't want to be forced to pay 100$ worth of dlc and i don't want either to waste 30$. Ty
In my opinion, if you're enjoying the game, then the smart thing would be to pick up the entire Elder Dragon Saga at once and save money. I wouldn't jump straight to PoF though, even though it has the mounts, since you'll enjoy the story a lot more by playing it all in order - so Personal Story, Season 1, Season 2, Heart of Thorns, Season 3, Path of Fire, Season 4, Icebrood Saga (Season 5), End of Dragons (and then buy and play Secrets of the Obscure to get caught up to us!). There are hundreds of hours of content there if you want to play through everything at least once, so I can guarantee whatever way you buy, you'll be getting your money's worth; it took me almost a thousand hours to do all the content in the Elder Dragon Saga, and I've still got thousands of achievements left to complete.
13:14 charging batteries to power a fan?? didnt't know there is more to this fight than cc and dmg...
Spent 4 hours fishing with 510 power.. got about 4g 😂 back to fractals and metas 100%
As someone with Fractal God who does CMs, T4s, and Recs daily, you're severely underselling the value of Recs. The Daily reward chests for Recs don't just give potions for T4s, they also give Fractal Encryptions, where the bulk of Fractal gold is made. With all 4 Fractal titles, Recs give just as many Encryptions as T4s at 30. They'r every much worth doing.
Oh, don't get me wrong- I said in the video that the rewards from Recs are still pretty alright! I commend you for doing those too every day 😛 But without titles, it's about a third of the profits of T4 dailies- so if you're skipping anything, skipping Recs is your best move.
@@LaranityRespectfully, you mention multiple times in the video that you skip Recs. I don't think that kind of attitude is something you should convey to new players who are trying to get into the game mode. I know this is a "gold making" video, but there are a ton of reasons to do Recs, even if the rewards "aren't as good."
For starters, the individual fractals themselves might only give 1/3 of the rewards, but the daily Recs chests give encryptions too, and bring the gold value up to 2/3 of T4s. Just looking at today's fractals; with no titles, T4s give 24 encryptions and Recs gives 18. That's 42 encryptions total, and with the 12 free keys you get from T4 rewards and the 30 you can buy, you can open all of them every day.
Second is fractal potions. Yes, you mentioned that you can just buy them, but why would you when you can just do Recs and get them for free. People do expect you to have those potions by the time you get to T3s. If you're doing T4s and you don't already have the Omnipot, you should be doing Recs first for the potions.
Lastly, and you don't mention these at all, are Fractal Research Pages. These are required for the Legendary Ad Infinitum collection, and outside of CMs, Recs chests are the only place to get them. I know you didn't mention the Legendary, but it's something that players will encounter, so I think it's worth mentioning. Pages are probably the single most important reason why new players do Recs, because they're working on that Legendary collection.
I want to reiterate, I know this is a gold making video, but it's missing just a bit of information on Recs that I think was worth mentioning. Recs are very much worth doing, no matter if you're new or if you're doing CMs and T4s every day. Even if they bring down your gold/hour, you're still going to end up with more gold overall if you do them rather than if you skip them. This comes from a place of constructive criticism, because otherwise the video is great.
You should know that I have a fully charged diaphanous diffraction randomizer.
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If they rework it they will make it much longer, more annoying like the other ones the reworked (Aquatic ruins, for example)
What do you mean fun it is torture for me especially when that dps doesnt know how to dodge stuff or not to stand in DOT fields and then they'll end up complaining where's the heals.
wtf the last fractal is insane xd
Fun Fact: Kanaxai's teeth stretch when he talks.
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Guys im new… Where can find groups for dungeons or Fractals??
Press Y or the "Friends"-button. On the left side of pop up is a Looking For Group (LFG). Select "Dungeons" or "Fractals" and select which dungeon or Tier you want. For Fractals, start with the 1-25.
@@Kaltsukka thanks mate !
Can you make a WVW Guide??
She only plays PVE and instanced content
@@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu she does play world v world some but not as much she just doesn't really talk about it
bet youre proud of that monty python clip
Your teams are too competent if you think the spawns try to reach the shaman in Volcanic ;)
What is fractal Laranity ?
I heard there's a really useful guide on UA-cam that answers this!
some mistakes, and some vital information missing. General rule = stack for green aoe so dmg is shared, dump red aoe outside the group. On first boss of shattered observatory make sure the orb does not reach you, bash it away. On last fractal (silent surf) interrupt the boss then use your nukes, he takes more dmg after you interrupt him save cc for then its at every 10% of his health. The add you jump to YOU have to do, no one else can see them, it happens at 66 and 33% of his health.