

(Mind you, this is ignoring the reward aspect. So I gave them a go.įrankly, I must applaud the post-HoT fractal changes. Fractals and daily fractals stood out as something I hadn’t touched post-HoT. Job well done, in just one hour.īack again in Tyria after another round of naps, I started scanning the achievement and collection lists.

In order not to waste the boosters, I turned my attention back to Pact Mastery 2 – at a more modest million or so xp – and managed to get that bar to completion too. I ended up finishing that rather quickly. Sometimes, loving things other people loathe has its advantages. So I popped some boosters, and ran around Cursed Shores (long time no see), Southsun Cove and ended up settling in Frostgorge Sound under the quiet, dark and deep waters killing all the things. The most peaceful and still fairly efficient method of filling up the mastery bar that I know is solo killing of xp-laden ignored mobs. (Well, that means I kinda need to have a basis of comparison and try out opening at least a few chests now.) Like topping off and completing the Fractals 3 mastery I’d been working toward steadily, given the news that Fractal rewards were getting tweaked a little in the future. When sleep was finally impossible because the brain kept insisting it was time to wake up, I decided it was time to head back to core Tyria and catch up on stuff I’d been ignoring there. “Also, I’m nursing a headache and I don’t think I can withstand staying upright for 2 straight hours of middling ordinary play to razor-sharp focus right now.”Īll the above ran through my mind and before you knew it, I’d dropped the taxi and ended up mostly in bed napping. “This is wasting too much of my time when I could be doing other things.” “I could be doing this with much less frustration and failure a month or two later when more of the player population actually knows what to do.” “If it’s the weekend crowd, chances are likely their first few goes at it are going to fail anyway, given the learning curve and all that…” “Eh, let’s give other people a chance to experience it and not hog a slot.” Having spent a few too many days playing through two-hour long map meta events (sometimes, only to reach bitter failure), this weekend I found myself making only a few desultory efforts to taxi into an organised map before giving up.
