Guild Wars 2

“These fractals are slices of the Mists, fragments of time that have been stabilized by the intrepid asura researcher Dessa. Some of these vignettes from history may be familiar to original Guild Wars players, while others will represent previously unseen events.”

- Blog Post

Now, perhaps these one time events are too recent or such and such and may mess with the lore and this and that, but I’d really like to see some one time events remade into fractals.

This not only gives players the experience of doing an event they may have missed, but also gives ANet some possible redemption by fixing and changing around mechanics of each event. Each dungeon seems to focus on a gimmick of some type and a boss at the end, which is actually perfect for the two one time events that people missed (Obviously, the one time loot would have to be changed to normal Fractals loot, but let’s not dwell on that).

The Mad King dungeon is a pretty good length for the Fractals. Of course, as stated before, there appears to be a gimmick with each fractal, so if there was to be one, I’d say that the Mad King Says game would have to be constant within the dungeon. There’s also room to fix some bugs (such as the Mad King’s teleport from the bottom to mid rock, which appears unintentional).

The one I really would like to focus on, however, is the Ancient Karka event. It is clear that with the many complaints of lag, disconnects, and getting hit by things you can’t see, that many people did not experience the event to how it should’ve been. ANet can rebalance, change the length, and overall improve on the whole event for 5-man parties. The highlight of the event was having to move the Karka back to its nest, which in itself had some pretty cool concepts. The only problem is that it might need a different gimmick (I’m tired of the word gimmick, aren’t you?) for it to be placed into the Fractals. The idea of the Geyser was pretty nice. Kitten, maybe destroying different objects while avoiding the boss’ attacks is a good enough device. “But 5 people didn’t take down a giant Karka!” you say. That didn’t stop them from making the attack on Ascalon, did it?

The point I’d like to make is that ANet can really redeem themselves if they add these former one-time events into Fractals. The possibility of having to experience that event as it should have been is really nice. After all, the fractals are supposed to be a part of history. If history as far back as a time from GW1 can repeat itself, why not an event so near?

Would love to hear thoughts of others on this.