Talk:The Fissure of Woe

I spent 5 hours in FoW last night and did all the quests, but received no statue.

Possible Bug?
I sent the following to Anet this morning. Anyone else experience anything like this? I was in the Fissure of Woe this evening with a group of people trying to complete quests in order to get the Eternal Conqueror of the Fissure of Woe statue for my Hall of Monuments. We completed all of the quests except for Slaves of Menzies and The Hunt. The group traveled to the Burning Forest entrance on the side of the Great Battle Field. We cleared a few groups at the start of the area. We were preparing to fight the next group when all of a sudden we were all instantly killed and told our party had been wiped out. We had not engaged in battle. We were just standing there and this happened. My first logical assumption was that some npc died. The npcs from the quests we cleared were not in any range of any patrols or monsters. So what gives? What happened? Is it another glitch with the area? Please help! Thanks. Marisa 06:56, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm not too sure.-- §  Eloc   §  13:37, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe the slaved hero that u freed with the quet in forest died. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:87.15.149.190.
 * First of all,  please sign your comments when you post with four tildes:~ ~ ~ ~ (no spaces though).Second, Marisa, I imagine you missed an NPC. If it happens again, i reccommend contacting support. Otherwise, i guess you just have bad luck >_<--Raph [[Image:User_ Raph_ Sig.png|19px]] 01:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ralph, just use unsigned for people who don't use their comments.-- §  Eloc   §  02:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I know, but i didnt for 2 reasons:1. i forgot the template ><, 2. if they dont have an account on the wiki, will their IP be filled in automatically?--Raph [[Image:User_ Raph_ Sig.png|19px]] 02:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you can tell what their IP is by going to the History and just see which IP's are on the list. The just go Insert IP Adress Here.-- §  Eloc   §  02:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....hhhhhhh...hhhhhh....i see XD--Raph [[Image:User_ Raph_ Sig.png|19px]] 02:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * This also happens frequently when groups are near Fissure Shore...my best guess is there's some not immediatly visible roaming group of monsters that has a path leading directly to an NPC. -AyaStowar


 * I know this is an extremely late reply, LOL 4years.. but if something agros the Forgemaster in FoW and he dies, then thats game over, regardless of what Quests are complete. This is the only way I believe to fail at 9/11 if all other quests are completed.-- Nataliexxx 01:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Move
Yes. Do it. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  03:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Apparently ecto can be found here!
I found some ecto by the wailing lord. -- Ninja Dragon • Talk  •  05:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * True, they are dropped by the Banshees Arduinna  [[Image:User_Arduinna_Companionship.jpg|15px|talk]] 14:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Quest List and Order of Completion?
Could anyone tell me the fastest way to do all the quests? I have been there alot lately but i want to slim my time down a little if possible by doing the quests in the fastest order possible, It could really be added to the notes section too to help people. T1Cybernetic 01:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

How long?
So how long does it take to complete all the quests here in one sitting? --Burning Freebies 11:12, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, that depends on how experienced the group is that you're with, party size, and how much time people spend either AFK or waiting for mobs to move to res. Best-case scenario, it could probably be done in 2-2.5 hours with no stopping and a very experienced team. Normally, I'd say anywhere from 3-4 hours, including bathroom breaks and everything. --[[Image:User Tero Gein sig.jpg|19px]] TERO   talk  19:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Me and my team did it in 1.5 hours. Mostly ursans, 3 monks, and one splinter ranger.
 * Me a friend of mine and 6 heroes killed every single enemy in this area in 6 hours XD, with many breaks and i had a crappy elementalist hero, we had 2 spirit Master heroes, 2 monk heroes, 2 Ele nukers, me and my friend were both Dervish. --Demon Of Holy Fire 18:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1.5 hours. Even without that ursan + 3 monks crap. Just go balanced and stick with a minion master 88.134.246.44 13:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I frequently complete the quest chain in 1.5/2 hours with just a hero team :) me (necro) + sabs 3 necro setup and a couple of elementalists, Borrow your friends heroes and you are all set for a good couple of hours :p T1Cybernetic 15:00, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Myself and one other person with 6 heros did a complete clear of FOW in its entirety, including all quests and vanquishing, in 4 hours (including bathroom and food breaks, and we both DC'd twice) with complete ease. Used SS necro, splinter ranger, ZB monk, Blessed Light monk, HB monk, two SH eles and a terra tank.  --Special:Contributions/Killaya 18:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Wonderfull. Yseron - 86.64.70.44 11:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I did it in an hour and a half a while ago with my sin friend and myself as an ele. course with hero's. I used a slightly modified version of the Triple Necro Team, and he used vekk, Jora, and i think a monk. Materia user 22:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It actualy depends, if it's FoWsc it can be done in around 20-30 minutes, if not, hours. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 97.121.1.47 (talk).

With a properly balanced team, 2 hours max and you should be dancing in front of the chest of woe 98.121.203.31 04:53, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Doing it now with a balanced team of me and 7 heroes, nothing special, nearly done and it's taken I guess a couple of hours or so, but at a pretty casual pace, didn't bring any running skills either etc. Could easily do it a lot faster. 86.23.36.100 20:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * sound's about right, I went through there earlier with just 7 heroes, Nothing special just a sabway and random warrior heroes and it took exactly 2 hours ;) I just wanted something to do so I wasn't rushing. T1Cybernetic [[File:User T1Cybernetic Glob of Ectoplasm.png]] 21:48, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Menzies... Your next!
Deep = Kanaxai. Urgoz= Urgoz. DoA = Mallayx. Sorrows = Iron Forgeman. ToPK= The Darkness. Various EOTN Dungeons = Various Boss-Like Foss. They all have a end boss. with this new Waiting game quest, we are waiting for Dhumm. Maybe Dhumm will become the Final Boss of the UW? and cause the chest to spawn. If they add a Final Boss to the UW, most likely FoW will be next. Maybe Menzies? --68.115.108.135 16:57, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

that would be soooo cool

Lord Taeres died but no failure
I've never seen this before. FOW in HM, Lord Taeres died. We did not get kicked out. Ramei Arashi 02:07, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A Lord taeres death does not mean your party will be kicked out. His death only matters if you have not yet taken the Tower of Strength quest. 98.248.90.248 07:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Possible Bug
I Did a FoWsc and beat FoW to get the trophy from it. However, when I switched characters right after beating it to add the trophy to my assassin's Hall of Monuments, I don't have any option to add the trophy. Is it a character based trophy or account based? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 97.121.1.47 (talk).
 * I guess you have to switch to character based to add something to HoM 194.2.20.67 13:03, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Background Information
Isn't there a wide background story to tell about FoW? like more information, background story's about fow etc? --Mr HaXx 09:39, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

About the bug note of the article and other misc things
- One one occasion, a shadow ranger was replaced with a shadow mesmer (i may still have the screenshot). - Players should not assume that the game is beeing unfair with them when they get no shards. Every player is guaranteed to get at least 3~5 shards (double this number for 4-men fows) at the condition that they dont just kill only quest related foes. Sometimes, the 3 shards that a player did not get will drop from the last 3 foes remaining in the fow. - Gloom seeds and umbral skeletal limbs always give 13~17 plant fibers/bones when salvaged, making resurection scrolls really cheap. Yseron - 86.209.64.238 16:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

PS: for knowledgeable people only - interrupting ~90% of the cave spiders "apply poison" is one the rare things that the game reward directly with incoming drops. Yseron - 86.209.64.238 16:44, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Why go here exactly?
Except for the items why go here? There doesnt seem to be much story here (based on the actual page) nor do I see reasonable or notable law behind it, just Balthazar and his blood lust. Can anyone enlighten me on this seemingly pointless place? I know there must be some reason for it as it's constently mentioned as leet end of game material. I also might be a noob for asking, but why else does one stop being a noob? -- Magican talk 06:59, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 words: Obsidian Armor--84.192.7.219 12:47, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Lore-wise, it is indeed quite bare. Which is a bit of shame. But hey, maybe it will get a UW-type revamp someday. Manifold [[Image:User_Manifold_Neptune.jpg|19px]] 15:03, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

What a disappointment
I've been playing Guild Wars now for about 4 years.I decided to give Quests in Fissure of Woe a try and maybe pick up a few good things.Well I got nothing more than I could have just farming or repeating secondaries in the "normal GW world".I do better In regular HM, what gives?Has it been completely farmed out so the newcomers there get nothing?Has it all ways been like that?Shouldn't it that the first time you do the Quests there you get something neat the next time you go its not so good.Maybe the drop rate should be account based or a time wait per character (maybe 30 days)like other locations in the game.Basically I'm saying it's just not worth the effort.(Indifferent Omnivore 02:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC))
 * It's more about the fun than the item getting, but in HM, you get more drops from the FoW chest, which can drop some pretty nice things. Vald [Citation Needed] User_Valdimir_newsigicon.png 02:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * You get a HoM statue for completing it the first time 83.160.29.246 18:48, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

random ghost?
why is there a ghost guy on the beach...as far as ive seen hes not part of any of the quests...is there something im missing or what?Auren X neruA 02:48, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * He's been there for ever, I think he's lost :D T1Cybernetic [[File:User T1Cybernetic Glob of Ectoplasm.png]] 09:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * If you mean the Admiral, poor guy's been around a while. There's a wreck nearby, maybe his? Although one might question the use of ships in the beyond ;) 66.170.212.17 13:21, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * was he randomly added at some point or has he been there literally since the games release?Auren X neruA 14:35, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * lol maybe hes like Jack Sparrow when he got eaten by the giant Krack'n and got stuck in Davy Jones Locker like in Pirates. - 74.171.163.219 11:57, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Auto-rez
Throw something in notes about it?litttlebeck 19:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * what do you mean? 74.15.199.138 19:56, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * On 11/11 you get auto ressed as with any dungeon completion. However also killing a dragon lich (only works once) will also res the team AFTER chest has spawned)-- Nataliexxx 01:15, 3 June 2011 (UTC)