Guild Wars 2

Currently, I’ve been rolling fractals every couple days.

We’re talking a pool of eight maps on rotation, I’ve done each literally ten times over and there are those that have done many more than me.

More maps may be incoming but I wanted to talk fractal rarities.

When you jump into a fractal, the first one people usually re-roll until they get an easy one.

Group things into three categories:
1. Common simple fractals (these initial 8 maps we have)
2. Uncommon harder fractals with better rewards
3. Rare difficult fractals with great rewards

What I’m proposing is that when you jump into a fractal, you have a percent chance at a common, uncommon, or rare fractal level starting up adding to the flavor of the whole experience.

However like I mentioned before, people re-roll the first fractal all the time until they get one they like. How do you stop them from rolling until they get a ‘rare’ fractal?

Simple:

First fractal level is just the common rarities. Re-rolling does nothing, you’ll always get a common.

Second fractal level on completion of the first gets you either a common fractal or a low chance at an uncommon fractal level.

Third fractal level on completion of the first two gets you a chance at a common, uncommon, or very low chance at a rare fractal level.

This idea of fractal rarities and the addition of uncommon and rare maps with better rewards in addition to just adding a bunch more ‘common’ rarity maps would be a great change to mix things up.

This same concept applies to the new bosses of fractals. Can’t keep doing the Jade Maw over and over and over.. add a few common bosses, two or three uncommon, and maybe one rare that is a treat for those that stumble across him.

Rarities can also be introduced by levels. Uncommon fractals not appearing until 30+, and rares not appearing until 50+ for example.

I find grinding out to 30 takes about 80+ runs making it an almost even 10 runs per fractal. 30 would be the point to start adding the uncommons and again rares at 50+ makes the higher level fractals more fun.

What loot could a 50+ rare fractal boss drop? Let’s put the best stuff there.. my bank is full of way too many ascended rings even with 8 alts..