Guild Wars 2

So everyone hates the Dredge fractal. Most people want it to be shortened. However, it doesn’t seem like Anet has the time (or wants to spend the time/effort) to shorten it.

So an alternate “fix” would be to increase the rewards for this fractal. All Anet would have to do is adjust a couple numbers to implement this.

So what’s your price? How much of a gold reward would you need before you’d be ok with getting the Dredge fractal? (Of course, you can give different gold values for different fractal tiers.)

Horrible idea. Just god awful terrible. No.. how about they FIX it instead of leave it exactly in it’s current terrible form and just say “Hey, if you guys want to play some terrible content we’ll give you 100 gold.”

I don’t think people play fractals for the money or they would be doing something else. Dredge has so much opposition, because it’s so tedious/boring and needlessly time-consuming. People do fractals for fractal skins or just for fun, I think. And in that light a not enjoyable fractal like dredge needs a tweak, there’s not really a way around that.

If they have time to fix the pressure buttons and adjust the terrain, then I think they are also able to just unlock the doors so you don’t need the buttons anymore and reduce the respawns on the clawncar to 3 spawns or something. Even that would show their good intent.

Just my two cents… I am only fotm lvl 35 at the moment, so don’t take me too serious on the subject of fractals balancing.

Andrew.4506:

Horrible idea. Just god awful terrible. No.. how about they FIX it instead of leave it exactly in it’s current terrible form and just say “Hey, if you guys want to play some terrible content we’ll give you 100 gold.”

The point is that they are unwilling to do any real fix so asking for that is a waste of breath. This however, can be implemented in seconds so it has a nonzero possibility of being implemented — and players will at least get something positive out of the awful experience.

They should completely remove the dredge fractal.

Rezz.8019:

They should completely remove the dredge fractal.

This is the only solution I would be happy with.

Lord Kuru.3685:

So everyone hates the Dredge fractal. Most people want it to be shortened. However, it doesn’t seem like Anet has the time (or wants to spend the time/effort) to shorten it.

So an alternate “fix” would be to increase the rewards for this fractal. All Anet would have to do is adjust a couple numbers to implement this.

So what’s your price? How much of a gold reward would you need before you’d be ok with getting the Dredge fractal? (Of course, you can give different gold values for different fractal tiers.)

The fractal takes around 30 minutes at most on average to complete. A lot of the more skilled and efficient groups can clear it in much less time.

I also disagree with the comment about most players want it to be shortened. Have you surveyed most players in the game about this?

Auesis.7301:

Rezz.8019:

They should completely remove the dredge fractal.

This is the only solution I would be happy with.

I’m for nuking it like TA f/u.

How about splitting it into two?

First part has a buffed Rabsovich as a boss, while the second part can have the IceEle/Dredge Suit.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

How about splitting it into two?

First part has a buffed Rabsovich as a boss, while the second part can have the IceEle/Dredge Suit.

Rabso becomes new end boss for dredge fractal, ice elemental/dredge powersuit become bonus fractal bosses. Problem solved