Guild Wars 2

I don’t care much about fractals, im not a hardcore dungeon runner or anything.

Yet many of the issues raised here by people such as Nike, are legit.

I just feel so so deeply saddened by the lack of communication from arenanet onwards, this is your living story event, it’s almost past now, and you have communicated nothing concerning the many questions, doubts, bugs, and so forth about it.

I just dont understand how as a company you can justify this. I’m not calling names, or trying to be rude, I loved gw1, and I like gw2, but it should not be ok to create a living story update, receive some justified criticism for it and as response just stop all communication concerning this living story and “just let it blow over”.

It comes off as very disrespectfull towards your customers, and is just so unproffesional. (same thing with the massive amounts of posts about the wvw chests that remain unanswered)

the CDI took place last month, and we will only see the stuff that came out of it four months away from it.

Everything in between was already underway.

I’m also concerned with a lot of stuff that was said in the live stream up front.
That actually made the fractals look very promising. But a lot of the things they said were simply not true.

There was said to be a lot of feedback back and forth coming for the forums.
The lack of developers responding shows this was a lie.

Fractal weapon boxes were said to be in game.
They’re not accessible to us, so why even mention them for this update?

There were supposed to be balance fixes to make every fractal in the same category more in line with eachother, time wise.
They did not make any fractal shorter except for the uncategorized one.
They left the easiest fractal the same length. They only fixed exploits for the longest one.

I would not be surprised if ascended armor boxes will not drop in fractals (yet).

Leaderboards are a joke, just a bad concept all together.

The fractal money reward was supposedly going to be in line with other dungeons.
Seeing how Arah p4 (about comparable length to a fractal) gives 3 gold, this is clearly not the case either.

The meta reward was said to include ‘’materials you do not already have hoards of’’.
Seeing how they were exactly that… super disappointing.

The mystlock instabilities don’t live up to their potential because they feel wrongly fine tuned. There’s some that are extremely easy compared to some others. It was explained in the live stream like every instability would just be a bit more difficult for a team than the other. But for instance, the level 43 is extremely hard for certain parties (especially if you roll the wrong fractal). It’s not just ‘’a bit more difficult’‘. It’s near impossible for certain compositions to beat certain fractals there all together.

All in all I’m just super disappointed in what has actually been delivered, compared to what could have been delivered in this update.