Guild Wars 2

OK, so I’m sure everyone has tried the new Fractals at least once. And it’s plain obvious that from tiers 1-9, nothing really changes. You don’t get extra Agony problems by going from tier 4 to tier 5.

Imagine if you were matched in sPVP based on your glory level. That means, players with Rank 1 Glory were matched together, players with Rank 5 Glory could not play with players with Rank 9 Glory unless the guy with Rank 9 Glory decided to queue as Rank 5 … THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON WITH FRACTALS!!!

I suggest to change the Fractal tiers into brackets. Each Fractal you do, earns you some extra points towards a new bracket. You could make it so that doing Bracket 0 fractals can only grant you points for the respective Brackets, so that a player cannot grind out Bracket 5 by doing only Bracket 0 fractals.

This would help group players together instead of fragmenting the player base. It is already implemented for sPVP, you actually have a working implementation of it in-game.

Yes.

I’m fairly low, but would love to gain a fractal level while helping a group at a level lower than me.

GW2 is great for having players who help other players, and for example, down-leveling encourages that. The current Fractal set-up means that not only are people not getting anything for doing a lower level, but they also have just missed out on moving up. You fall behind a level each time, so there are disincentives to helping others.

I’d just call the fractals what they are : level 1, 2, 3 up to 8. Always put a boss at the end and just let the agony check prevent people from going up. It’s basically what it is currently with a tiny grind in the middle used to disguise the real grind in the agony concept

I like this idea. It would require some changes to fotm, but it would really help with the current player matching issues. Would like to see this taken a little further into consideration. +1