Guild Wars 2

I appreciate that the back item dropped from Southsun is an actual functional item. Especially for fractals. However the grind to acquire passion flowers to upgrade it is way too arduous. Considering the back piece is a forced set of stats and also has no innate AR like fractal backs and most take a hit to use it for the fractal infusion slot or for looks the days required to get 100 passion flowers to upgrade it (excluding the outright buy from tp approach) is out of balance. Karkas are easy enough to get and the passion flowers should be more in line with them. With only 2 or 3 guaranteed spots for passion flowers that is farming every day until the end of the event with some lucky rng on normal passiflora to fill in the 10 to 15 extra.

Make a conversion system for passion flower from karka or globs in the forge.
Reduce the amount needed for upgrade.
Increase the spawn of blooming and decrease the timer for rest of nodes.

any of the above would make it more enticing to actually try for an upgrade. I got the back item because I thought it would have innate AR when upgraded and would be a feasible approach to gain more AR for fractals as I got my fractal back. I quickly learned that with the forced stats and no innate AR and the amount of time it will take to upgrade it without gold it was not worth it and went back to fractals.

I agree that there should be AR on it after it is upgraded, but I disagree that there needs to be more Blooming Passiflora nodes and/or increased drop rate from the normal nodes. Way I see it, is the Bloomimg nodes are on par with the Ori nodes in the area. The passion flowers prior to this patch were a lot harder to get, as there were no Blooming nodes to get them from. I believe this patch fixed that and it is acceptable now as is.

Edit: Plus there is now more reason to return to Southsun even after this event is over.

Shmee.8921:

I agree that there should be AR on it after it is upgraded, but I disagree that there needs to be more Blooming Passiflora nodes and/or increased drop rate from the normal nodes. Way I see it, is the Bloomimg nodes are on par with the Ori nodes in the area. The passion flowers prior to this patch were a lot harder to get, as there were no Blooming nodes to get them from. I believe this patch fixed that and it is acceptable now as is.

Edit: Plus there is now more reason to return to Southsun even after this event is over.

Did not know there was confirmation on blooming nodes staying around after the event is over. Good! Now I don’t have to feel like hunting for 3 every day this month.