Aquatic Ruins Fractal - GW2

Aquatic Ruins

t4 Fractal

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September 13, 2023

Overview

Current Record	2 min 43 sec	by Discretize [dT]

Difficulties	Level 76 107 AR
Cycle	Day
Potions
Sigils
Consumables

This is an underwater fractal. Make sure you have appropriate underwater equipment with enough Agony Resistance. Make sure you have a rune equipped on your

and sigils on your weapons (these should be the same as on land). This will make the fractal significantly easier to complete, even if you dont have the right weapon or breather stats.

When adjusting your build for underwater, coordinate with your team and make sure you can cover Might, Fury, Quickness and Alacrity. There can also be large amounts of incoming damage on this fractal so we recommend making sure you have Protection, Stability, and plenty of condition cleanse!

Save the villagers

You can stack Might on the rack before entering the water. Kill the two groups of Krait and open the cages. Use /gg after the last cage to resurrect at the tunnel part.

(Trident 5)
(Spear 2)
Use both wells
(Shroud 4)
Shroud auto attacks until ~7k life force
(Spear 2)
Auto attacks until spear 2 is off cooldown
Repeat from step 1

You can stay Weaver for this fractal and trait Air with

and most importantly

or re-trait to Tempest. For utility, use

and

as Elite skill.

Rotate to

while swimming to the boss for

and use

(Air autoattack) and

(Skill 2). Then rotate to

use

(Skill 2) and

(Earth/Air Skill 3) use

(Air autoattack) rotate to

. Use

(Skill 2)

(Fire/Earth Skill 3) and

(Skill 4)

(Skill 5). Rotate to

use

(Skill 4) and

(Skill 5). Rotate to

use

(Air/Fire Skill 3),

(Skill 2) and

(Air autoattack). Rotate to

and start again.

Use your utility while in

when the vulnerability debuff is up (breaking out from the Jellyfish's belly).

You can re-trait to Tempest for this fractal as it is one of the best choices for underwater combat (because of cleave and vulnerability uptime).

Trait Air with

and most importantly

. For utility, use

and

as Elite skill.

As rotation, alternate between

(

) and

(

) and

and Air autoattack (

) to maximize DPS.

Path to endboss

In the next section, there are two paths available that change daily.

Dark Path

If you get this path, swim together and take the Luminous Plants on the way to protect you and nearby players from dying. If you are able to survive it, take the shortcut to the left after entering the larger cave. Use dodges or Invulnerability for the last group of Krait. If someone reaches the krait champion, use /gg to immediately resurrect there.

Use the plants to protect yourself from piranha attacks

Dolphin Path

If you get this path, spam Skill 1 during swimming to reveal nearby hidden Krait and keep to the right. You can use Skill 2 to create a distraction and Skill 3 to get Stealth. Skill 5 can be used to instantly revive nearby dead allies. As soon as someone reaches the checkpoint you wait for your party to /gg and spawn next to you. Kill the Champion Krait to get to the Jellyfish Beast.

As a dolphin, don't get caught by Krait by dodging twice when you anticipate a Krait attack.

Jellyfish Beast

The Jellyfish Beast does not have a breakbar since the rework. Instead a special version of Exposed called Weakened is given to the boss. Sadly the

does not work with this effect. Use

and

(Krait for the split phases) instead - when playing power based builds.

The boss always starts with an AoE stun-spin attack. Stability spam is recommended to handle this encounter gracefully. Every now and then the boss eats a player. To free themselves, the player will need to complete a guitar-hero styled puzzle by always clicking the highlighted skill. If you miss the right skill too often you die. An animation of this puzzle can be found on the right side.

Every 25% the boss gets Invulnerability and Elite Krait spawn. Kill them to continue the fight.

When the Mistlock Instability: Afflicted is present, it is highly recommended to bring some kind of condition-cleanse due to the ticking aura during the split phases applying conditions.

You've completed the Aquatic Ruins fractal inside the Fractals of the Mists.