Well, a lot of answers were given to a lot of players, but given that the titles of the topic mostly don’t say anything, I’ll be clear and ask legitimate questions. Most have already an answer in the various topics, but not all.
Rewards and fractal-specific items
- Do we lose the karma mechanism?
Before it was possible to get karma based on this formula 6400 + 8 * (min(10,<personal level> – <played level>)) * <played level>
This is one of the last places where you can get decent karma. This was not wondrous, but non-neglectible as well. - Does the fractal weapon skin drop chance change?
It was stated (rather surprisingly) that fractal weapons already dropped from level 10. Do you change the chance? Because if they drop in level 10 as often as they do now, I’m fine with it. Also, for higher levels, do you change the drop chance? (Please no) I read that a box will have a chance to drop so we can choose the skin at higher levels. Has this a correct chance to drop? I mean something between 1:2 and 1:4 regarding skin drops. - Besides infusing, can we spend our stacks of Shards of Crystalized Mist Essence?
Shards are only used to infuse rings. Not even the backpack. One answer was that the new rune and the new sigil were craftable using the vial, globs and/or shard. But hey, I stacked on them for months and I’d like to craft something that will be useful to me as a fractal player, not some random toughness-based boost. - Will we be able to spend our pristine fractal relics on something else?
This is also a no-brainer: they stack, they stack and all our characters have ascended, infused rings. So there is actually nothing we can spend those on. - Will I still be able to buy +5 AR infusion from BUY-4373?
I’m quite sure these will be removed, but we never know. - What will I be able to buy with fractal relics?
Well, some people have piles of those (well, not anymore since they are in the wallet, but you get what I mean). I have all my pve chars filled with 20 slot boxes and ascended capacitors, I still need something like 40 AR total accross all my chars (that’s 3k relics, which is a fraction of what I have), that leaves me with nearly nothing to spend my fractal relics on. What can I buy with them? - Do we finally get some XP as well?
Well, we barely got half a bar of XP for a whole run of fractals in 40+. Does this change? Can I finally get skill points for playing fractals? - Why did you change the daily reward to account-bound per 10 levels?
People are crying everywhere about the alt-unfriendlyness direction of the game in both PvE and WvW. Why attack the fractals as well? To make them like other dungeons? Ok, but why do you do that with dungeons in the first place? I’d really love an answer to this. We love our alts, you apparently don’t.
Running fractals
- What are the fractal tiers you thought of?
I would say that tier 1 is Swamp, Underwater and Snowblind. Tier 2 is Ascalon, Volcano, Uncategorized. Tier 3 is Thaumanova, Underground Facility and Cliffside. Boss is Jade Sea, Molten Facility and Aetherblade. What can you say about this? - Why are we limited to 50?
It seems that we can get more Agony Resistance, then why limit the fractal level again to 50. You already know that we will get back to that level in no time. Plus you add leaderboards, so I don’t see why you limit them now. You stated somewhere in the forums that you will open levels above 50 in the future, but why wait? - What do you want to achieve with the leaderboards?
Well, this question has not found any answer anywhere. So I’m really wondering. - Did you reduce the length of Underground Facility?
This fractal is unnecessary long (not hard, but long). Did you finally revamped it to shorten the time?
Future of the fractals
- When can we expect more levels?
You know we will get to 50 in no time. So when can we expect to go higher? This way, well… we can meet some challenge. I welcome the idea you implemented to go from 30 to 50, though I dislike the idea that the difficulty and AR requirements will be lowered. But as of today, this doesn’t feel enough to keep the usual fractal runners interested. The community takes this as a serious nerf. - Can we expect a whole lot of new fractals?
Currently you baited us with 3 new fractals, but 2 of them are actually bosses. I’m a bit disappointed, to be honest, as I would have loved to play the 3 new fractals in a row (randomly, yes, but still ;-) ) plus we go from 9 to 12, so there are still a lot of times where we will meet the old fractals. Granted, the fact that we have boss fractals make the chances higher that we will get a new fractal amongst our run, but that’s quite meh. I’d seriously have preferred something like 7-10 new fractals.
I know all those questions won’t find an answer, but thanks for any answer we can get!
Frór (yes, with the accent!)
