Guild Wars 2

I’ve been doing fractals almost every day for quite some time now. I used to run 48 daily before the Fractured update, and now I run 49 daily. I know my sample size isn’t huge, but it seems as though the fractal weapon drop rate has significantly decreased. Pre-patch I would often see at least one fractal weapon drop from the daily chest. Now? After doing 49 roughly 5 times, I have seen 0 weapon drops. Not a single fractal weapon . For those of you who want a percentage, thats 0%. 0/25. Before the update the drop rate seemed to be roughly 15-20% chance that SOMEONE got a weapon. Not only that, but now I’m getting non-infused rings? At level 49??? If you’re not going to give me a weapon, the least you could do is infuse the ring for me like it was pre-patch. But I’m not here to kitten and moan, I’m wondering if anyone else has noticed the decrease in fractal weapon drops?

I got 2 weapons on level 30 and 31 right after the reset when I dropped only 1 until then

Your team just was unlucky. The drops doesn’t seem to have changed, just your luck. It’s all RNG after all.

i got a ascended box and a spear skin for playing 1 30 daily every day, sometimes with 20 daily. since the update ofc.

Pre Patch:
1,5 Bankslots with Skins,
2 Slots Rings
3 ASC Weapon Box
~1k Runs 18-48

After Patch:
- ~5 Non infu Rings mostly on 4x+
- 40-50 Runs 30-50

Lvl 30 folks have been reporting better loot than lvl 40, it seems. On my one 30 I got a wupwup chest……. But there are lots of higher levels who are getting un-infused rings. I feel like something might be screwed up, honestly.

I think the decreased drop rate at higher levels for the individual skins is probably intentional, considering that they added the containers that allow you to pick which one you want. Between the two possible drops, the drop rate is likely the same as before.

However, I’ve read that there is suspicion that the containers may not actually be in the game at this point (Reddit). So, IF that is the case, the overall drop rate might seem much lower than is actually intended, and will likely be fixed when those containers are actually added to the drop tables.

That, of course, is assuming the data-miners’ information is accurate, so take it for what it’s worth.

Vick.6805:

I think the decreased drop rate at higher levels for the individual skins is probably intentional, considering that they added the containers that allow you to pick which one you want. Between the two possible drops, the drop rate is likely the same as before.

However, I’ve read that there is suspicion that the containers may not actually be in the game at this point (Reddit). So, IF that is the case, the overall drop rate might seem much lower than is actually intended, and will likely be fixed when those containers are actually added to the drop tables.

That, of course, is assuming the data-miners’ information is accurate, so take it for what it’s worth.

That does make sense. I got my dagger at 39 and an angchu chest at 29 post patch, so if the weapon chests aren’t even in the pool yet then that could yield a lower drop rate at higher levels

Don’t know about the chest, but ring drops are definitely bugged. I keep getting uninfused rings at 30+, which are beyond worthless to me at this point, gg, they somehow were able to make fractal rewards even worse.

I do level 20-30.
pre-patch: ~600 runs resulted in 2 skins
post-patch: 20 runs resulted in 1 skin
my post-patch rate is 15 times higher than my pre-patch rate

Weapon chest is rumoured to not drop at all (according to datamining it didn’t make it into the game and there’s no mention of it in the patch, it’s in the data but not available).

Got my second fractal weapon doing a 10 or 20 but the overall look does seemed to have gone down a lot. Stinks when you did fractals on a regular basis, always had to salvage or use a vendor, and now I can make it through without doing so.

The first run I did after patch I got a fractal dagger and an ascended weapon box. Fractal level 26. Done quite a few runs since then, but no more weapons or boxes.

14th run, personal lvl 44, no fractal weapon.
Thankyou Anet for destroying fractals for me.

Well, in our guild we have the same experience as the OP. We mostly get non-infused rings or nothing at all.
Fractal skins seem to drop less than before as well.

Oddly enough we seem to get more ascended weapon chests.

But to actually confirm this is tricky, since our sample size is still a bit small-ish as well.

Why would they go and make fractals rewards worse? We been complaining for almost a year about this, this is why people didnt run fractals in the beginning because people said it took to long and wasnt worth the rewards and they go and make the rewards worse, nice job guys. I was almost about to start running fractals again after months of not being in there, glad I got the fractals skins I wanted a long time ago cause if they are making drops worse I dont want that grind again.

B4 patch ive never got a skin at all now after patch I got a hammer skin from doing a level 12 fractal

I just done my first ever level 20 fractal and got Axe

I think the drop rates are currently bugged or something similar Ive not had a farctal weapon drop for any of my teams sense patch done about 40-45 runs so far before the patch id see at least 3 or 4 drop in those amount of runs and all of these runs have been on 30+ Im fairly disappointed in this update I hope they fix this on the 10th

drop rates are really bad
i have same story as OP, ran lv 48 every day, got weapon every 2-3 runs…. since patch i saw only 2 skins…