Guild Wars 2

A better option would be any 7 dungeon runs.

Players that don’t want to grind fractals are now effectively prevented from completing monthly achievements and getting the associated rewards. It feels like players are being dissuaded from doing any other PVE content but fractals. Can we please have non fractal options for monthlies?

… I don’t want to do dungeons.

Can you please make all the dungeons runs into events?

I feel that I am being forced into doing dungeons, which I don’t want to do. I feel that I am dissuaded from exploring the world and finding new, beautiful places in the world of Tyria.

Can I please have no PvP, no WvW and no dungeon options for my monthly?

I agree with the OP. Dailys, monthlys etc should be based on basic areas, not specialized areas such as wvw or dungeons. Make separate monthlys for those activities.

i agree with OP only for the simple fact that FotM lvl system is a “lfg grind” the dungeon itself isnt much of a grind and is pretty fun.

Olba.5376:

… I don’t want to do dungeons.

Can you please make all the dungeons runs into events?

I feel that I am being forced into doing dungeons, which I don’t want to do. I feel that I am dissuaded from exploring the world and finding new, beautiful places in the world of Tyria.

Can I please have no PvP, no WvW and no dungeon options for my monthly?

I realize this is probably an attempt at sarcasm, however you seem to be missing the entire point of monthly achievements:

1. Give short/mid term goals for players to achieve to provide incentive to keep playing.

2. Encourage players to experience different areas of the game to help keep areas populated.

Having fotm as the encouraged dungeon breaks that system. There is already so much encouragement (best loot etc.) to do fotm that it’s already making it hard to find groups to do other content. Which in turn makes the monthly a disincentive to playing because I have no choice and have to repeatedly do a singular dungeon to meet those goals.

A better option would to be remove dungeons and pvp altogether actually. Monthly’s shouldn’t be used as a means to force people to play a specific way of any kind this was supposed to be a game of choices.

" Monthly’s shouldn’t be used as a means to force people to play a specific way of any kind this was supposed to be a game of choices."
If you don’t want the reward, don’t do it. No one is forcing people to play a specific way.
You don’t have to do monthlies.

FQDN.2508:

Olba.5376:

… I don’t want to do dungeons.

Can you please make all the dungeons runs into events?

I feel that I am being forced into doing dungeons, which I don’t want to do. I feel that I am dissuaded from exploring the world and finding new, beautiful places in the world of Tyria.

Can I please have no PvP, no WvW and no dungeon options for my monthly?

I realize this is probably an attempt at sarcasm, however you seem to be missing the entire point of monthly achievements:

1. Give short/mid term goals for players to achieve to provide incentive to keep playing.

2. Encourage players to experience different areas of the game to help keep areas populated.

Having fotm as the encouraged dungeon breaks that system. There is already so much encouragement (best loot etc.) to do fotm that it’s already making it hard to find groups to do other content. Which in turn makes the monthly a disincentive to playing because I have no choice and have to repeatedly do a singular dungeon to meet those goals.

Well yes, I was being sarcastic. Guess I didn’t pour out enough of it.

Trust me, I am all for the monthlies having different stuff. I would have never tried WvWvW without the monthly. I would have never laughed my butt off at the sight of my Warrior hurling barf due to overdose of Candy Corn while on Swiftness.

And let’s be honest, the issues with the Fractals, such as people only doing Fractals, is more an issue with the playerbase and less the Fractals itself. After all, there will always be some place that is deemed as the “best”.

I don’t mind fractals being in the monthlies as long as it is not a permanent fixture. I agree with the people like FQDN and Olba that monthlies are there to make you try different things. So, as long as different things pop up in my monthly goals, I’m happy!

I agree that fractals shouldn’t be part of the monthly achievement only because they are meant for level 80 characters. I know it will scale up lower level characters but it doesn’t make them near as good as an actual level 80 character so not only will it be that much harder for a lower level character to complete the achievement but also hard to find a group that will take them along. Dungeon runs as part of the monthly isn’t a bad idea since they are a big part of PvE.

I’m impartial to having the WvW kills as part of the monthly as well since WvW is a PvP activity and there is a PvP monthly achievement as well so why not have this objective in there instead.

Give me a Roleplaying Monthly and You’ll never see me get off…

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Wabafet.9541:

I agree that fractals shouldn’t be part of the monthly achievement only because they are meant for level 80 characters. I know it will scale up lower level characters but it doesn’t make them near as good as an actual level 80 character so not only will it be that much harder for a lower level character to complete the achievement but also hard to find a group that will take them along. Dungeon runs as part of the monthly isn’t a bad idea since they are a big part of PvE.

It doesn’t take even close to a month to get to level 80. And with a guild and the upscaling, you should be fine.

I’m impartial to having the WvW kills as part of the monthly as well since WvW is a PvP activity and there is a PvP monthly achievement as well so why not have this objective in there instead.

Actually, for all intents and purposes, WvW is PvE. In case you missed it, the PvP achievement is all about sPvP. And sPvP is different, as everyone gets the same gear, same level, all the traits and skills unlocked.

Agreed, please remove Fractals specifically from Monthly. I’m predominately a WvW player, but I don’t mind going and doing a few dungeons for the month, but the FotM levels have already excluded a non FotM-spammer such as myself from finding a level 1 group.

The demand on doing that one instance rather than any of the dungeons is extremely frustrating.