Guild Wars 2

Up until this most recent update adding Mistlock Instabilities, I didn’t pay much attention to Agony level by level. I knew I needed to stay out of 50s because I would die in boss battles if I got hit once, so I only played up to 49 and figured someday I’d be able to do more. I didn’t try to get more than 40 AR, though, because it’s a resource-intensive, grind-heavy endeavor that unlocks playability of only a fraction of the game’s content with very little equitable rewards in exchange since almost everything that drops there is soulbound.
Now, in level 40, I am hit with agony pretty much anytime something attacks me. That, I won’t argue against. I can skip that level if I want, no biggie. But it’s made me pay attention to how much damage agony actually does. At level 40, with 40 AR, it takes a huge chunk of my health away and is applied almost constantly in battle making 40 AR insufficient for a level 40 fractal.
To me, that seems counterintuitive. I just wanna challenge myself with higher-level content and I like the party-tray-of-fun-size-dungeons that is Fractals.
I am not mad that I’ve played over 200 of them and haven’t seen a precursor, or that I can’t use the dungeon’s most coveted unique loot, Fractal weapons, without spending real-world money on transmutation crystals, or that the rings presented as big-time loot are un-salvageable, account-bound and pointless to hold onto. I’m in no hurry to be a Guild Wars God. I just think AR level should grant near-immunity to agony within Fractals starting with the same digit. Currently, it seems like a broken and blatant gold/ecto sink. If a game mechanic is meant to prompt money spending, I think it should make sense.

So…your objection is that needing 15 AR (as opposed to 10) for every 10 fractal levels is just too confusing?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony

40 AR should be plenty up to level 39. For 40-49 you should ideally have 55 AR. The AR caps could probably have been made a little more intuitive than they are, but compared to a lot of other game math I think this is pretty straightforward.

By the way, fractal weapons were turned into regular skins in the Fractured release, so you no longer need transmutation crystals to use them.

I don’t see the point in making it something you have to calculate for no reason, especially when the alternative is so much easier.

And cool. I’m ambivalent about them, but I keep them around because everyone else says they’re awesome.

Well if +10 costs over 200g, them make ascended armor and place in it AR bought with fractal relics.
You will spend a lot less this way.

Septemptus.7164:

Well if +10 costs over 200g, them make ascended armor and place in it AR bought with fractal relics.
You will spend a lot less this way.

You actually do not need more than 3x +8 and 3x +7 to do fractals 80 when the amulet and accessories can be infused.

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

Septemptus.7164:

Well if +10 costs over 200g, them make ascended armor and place in it AR bought with fractal relics.
You will spend a lot less this way.

You actually do not need more than 3x +8 and 3x +7 to do fractals 80 when the amulet and accessories can be infused.

Maybe, but fractal cap will will go up and you will need more.
Many, many people who I did fractals with had the same idea.
Never use +1, sell them. It’s not worth it and I totally agree with them.