Fractals: The Best Gold Farm in Guild Wars 2! - Ultimate Guide 

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.

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 :)

*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?

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

When its time to wait at the middle always do /dance to finish the ritual faster. 👀

Yeah honestly, T4 runs tend to be smoother than T3

You mean attune no? Cause infuse is incredible expensive xD

@@pandaemonaeonaeonYep, fixed it

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.!

I had no clue NA did the rooms in a different order! That's super interesting

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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She only plays PVE and instanced content

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 !

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.

I heard there's a really useful guide on RU-vid that answers this!