Arvinthir

Man, I wish I had these half a year ago! It would have saved me some frustration

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The 4th point is already in there Tharaqon Thank you both for your input, I have updated the guide. Seems that a few things slipped my mind when I was getting this together at 1AM

I am one of those psychos who actually like fractals, and as such am quite often getting questions about their main characteristic, Agony. So to spare any of you, who are looking to get into higher scale fractals, the effort of researching and asking around about this, I have decided to make a guide on it. In this guide, I will be covering what agony is and how it is fought. I will also provide information on how to equip yourself with agony resistance as efficiently as possible. The cold, hard facts: First off, this guide was created assuming you have the Heart of Thorns expansion. Some merchants/items are inaccessible to you if you do not have it. What is Agony? First, we need to be clear on what Agony actually is. Agony is an effect that we only encounter in Fractals of the Mists, scales 20 and higher. This debuff is applied through boss attacks, traps and sometimes even when simply entering an area. Agony reduces the affected player's health by a certain precentage every second and reduces healing by ~50% per stack. It is also not affected by condition removal and its effects can only be mitigated by agony resistance. Agony Resistance As mentioned before, agony resistance (AR) is the only way to combat Agony. But how does it work? Agony resistance is a stat that is found in Infusions. The way it works is that every point of agony resistance reduces the health loss (caused by agony) by 1.2 percentage points, to a minimum of 1% health lost per second. However, the higher the scale of the fractal, the more damage one stack of agony does. Therefore you need more agony resistance the higher you go. A complete table of this can be found on the wiki. The useful stuff: Infusions Now, an Infusion is an upgrade component (much like runes and sigils) that can only be put into ascended equipement, legendary weapons and some non-ascended back items (e.g. Elegant Armorsmith's Backpack). Not all infusions grant agony resistance, some provide a combination of it and something else, some provide completely different stats (e.g. magic find). For any interested, here is a full list of existing infusions. For our fractal needs, we will only be focusing on two types of infuisons: Versatile Simple Infusions (masterwork), which provide us with 7 AR Agony infusions, which can provide up to (and more than) 20 AR How to get these infusions? Versatile Simple Infusions (masterwork) can only be acquired by doing the following: First, we need to get a Versatile Simple Infusion (fine), which can be bought from BUY-4373 for 75 Fractal Relics and 64 Copper. He is located in FOTM. We will then to talk to this guy: (requires HoT expansion) He will take us to another island, where one of Dessa's Krewe will trade our Versatile Simple Infusion (+5) and 75 Fractal Relics for a Versatile Simple Infusion (+7). Agony Infusions are a completely different thing. Agony Infusions can be found in different versions, each telling us how much AR it holds. (e.g. +1, +2, +3, ..., +19, +20) Each next infusion can be made by the artificer proffesion from two previous ones and a Thermocatalytic Reagent. For instance, a (+2) agony infusion will require two (+1) agony infusions and a reagent. A (+5) infusion will require two (+4) infusions and a reagent, etc. A (+10) infusion will therefore requre 512 (+1) infusions and 511 reagents. If you do not have the artificer profession leveled to 100, the forementioned merchant will exchange agony infusions at the same price as crafting. (requires HoT expansion) (ty Tharaqon) Agony Infusions (+1) are a common drop from fractals, therefore if you often do them, you will end up with a nice amount. However all agony infusions are tradeable and can be bought from the Trading Post. Where to put the infusions? Versatile Simple Infusions can be put into any infusion slot (offensive/defensive/utility), which can be found on all ascended gear. However, they cannot be put into agony infusion slots. Agony Infusions can only be put into Agony Infusion Slots. Only infused and attuned ascended rings/backpacks have these. How to gear up for fractals: Each fractal scale has a recommended amount of agony resistance. This is the amount required for agony to only make you lose 1% health per second (per stack). At scale 100 (highest level), this amount is 150 AR. This means that the maximum amount of agony resistance, you will need, is 150. The most effective way of doing this is to: Put Versatile Simple Infusions (+7) into all armor, both weapons (two-handed weapons have 2 slots), all trinkets, rings and back. You will need a character fully equipped with ascended gear for this. This way we fill up 14 offensive/defensive infusion slots. Doing this, we're up to 98 AR. We still need 52 AR. This we get through Agony Infusions. The cheapest way to do this is to get four (+10) agony infusions and one (+12) OR three (+10) and two (+11). We put these into agony infusion slots in our backpack and two rings. For this to work, the backpack must be infused, the rings must be infused AND attuned. Note! Agony Resistance is counted for the items you are currently using! That means if you weapon swap to a weapon that does not have any AR in its slots, the AR in the other weapon will not count towards your total AR. This means that you will probably need to get infusions for the other set as well. Same goes for aquatic weapons and aquatic headgear. With the new fractals, ascended aquatic headgear has been introduced for that very reason! (However, for the highest aquatic fractal, you'll only need 106 AR, so if you have enough AR everywhere else, you shouldn't have to worry about that). Getting infused/attuned gear: An ascended backpack or a ring can be infused by using a Gift of Ascension (and some other stuff) in the mystic forge, along with an uninfused version. List of recipies. Now for the rings. Most people consider it a waste of resources to infuse rings as infused rings often drop from fractals and daily fractal chests. However, you will have to attune at least two rings. For that you will need an ascended ring you wish to attune, Agonized Essence, a (+1) agony infusion and a Philosopher's Stone. Chuck them into the Mystic Toilet and voila, an attuned ring. (requires HoT expansion) Note! Your ring does not have to be previously infused if you wish to attune it! You can attune any ascended rings. (ty Tharaqon) Note! Attuning rings WILL destroy any infusions they may have. For safe removal of them, the Dessa's Krewe member can sell you the Infusion Extraction Device. (This is also useful if you ever mess up your infusions or want to relocate them): This concludes the guide on agony and agony resistance. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! See you all in fractals! Honorable mention goes to my guildmate Aesha, for teaching me about this stuff.

Hey there Dew! Welcome to the forums ^^ Man, runescape, I have so many good memories about that game. How is it now, with the EoC and all that?

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Hello there, fellow trainee! I gotta say, the thing that caught my attention was the mention of symphinic metal! Which bands do you listen to? If you happen to see me in TS, poke me and we'll talk if you feel like it. PS: Don't apologize for the length of a forum post that's not even over 1K words

Hello people ^^ I'm a 19 year old computer engineering student who spends most of his time in front of the computer screen doing anything but schoolwork. Lately, more and more of that was Guild Wars 2, but other multiplayer games include the famous LoL and cs:go. However, my passion lies with RPGs, Dragon Age and Mass Effect being my favourites. A portion of my time is also consumed by series, movies and anime. Something I usually mention is my love-hate relationship with sleep. I love sleeping but usually feel like it's a waste of time. That's why you might find me on TeamSpeak at odd hours Right now I'm a trainee commander with Open Community, hoping to become a full commander sooner or later (also here's hoping I'll finally save up for an actual commander tag instead of having to rely on the "discount commander" one). Anyone who might actually want to talk to me can call me Arvinthir (Arvin). It's my usual ign, so if you ever see the name, it's probably me. Hope to see you all ingame/on TS!