Slog fractals that take faaar to fucking long:
- Siren’s Reef (everything)
- Molten Furnace (boss especially is a time waster)
- Deepstone (that stupid riddle room serves 0 purpose whatsoever but to waste time)
- Twilight Oasis (everything)
- Shattered Observatiry (everything)
- Sunqua Peak (fuck this shit)
- Silent Surf (hey this fractal is super short but the boss takes 20 minutes because fuck you gargle our arse)
Fractals that are fine to good:
- Aquatic Ruins (two “pre-rooms”, easy and quick boss, my favourite)
- Swampland (boss is a drag, but not half as bad as others)
- Uncategorized (two JPs and two pre-rooms, quick and easy)
- Solid Ocean (boss is a drag but at least you can have a wank on the side)
- Underground Facility (quick enough if people don’t suck so borderline bad)
- Urban Battleground (kill a boss, rush through everything)
- Snowblind (start is a drag but then you can just rush it, boss doesn’t drag it out too much)
- Chaos (I love zero waiting rooms to bore you to death)
- Molten Boss (so rushable I love it)
- Volcanic (start is slow but the rest is quick, so it’s enjoyable)
- Cliffside (so rushable, Mesmer Masterrace Portal Bitch)
- Captain Mai Trin (what Silent Turf tried to be)
- Aetherblade (so rushable, teleport through everything, do the puzzle and you’re already next to the boss)
- Nightmare (good balance between waiting rooms and bosses)
2/3 shit Fractals and the ratio becomes worse with every new one. AMA.
Players: we want content
Anet: OK here, finally made some
Players: ew I need to invest time for rewards
Imo silent surf is good. The boss lives for a considerable amount of time with enough repetition of mechanics that you can’t just brute force through. Bit on the longer side, sure, wouldn’t hurt if it was a little less tanky. If your number one quality of a fractal is how ‘rushable’ it is… Idk lmao. I guess I don’t farm them past dailies, I never had an issue. Twilight really isn’t long pre boss if you run correctly. Shattered’s sequence between Skorvald and Aartsariv takes maybe 2 minutes out of your day and the rest is just good bosses.