Guild Wars 2

As the title says, im done with fractals

By upgrade materials do you mean like a vial of condensed mist?

Yes i never get stuff like that, i have tons of rings etc.

Maybe a good idea to let us salvage the rings for a RNG for upgrade materials?

Could not agree more.. I have plenty of useless rings and would love to salvage them for mats. Hell I would rather salvage it then sell it for 4 silver…

And today i see ppl showing their mats,,, some ppl have 60+ of all each.. and i get NOTHING in 251 runs!!! kitten offf

I got 2 in my first 9 fractals. I am usually on the other side of the RNG beast though so I know how you feel.

150 fractals, no rings, no materials, no significant drop. What’s not to love?

nothing for ages then I somehow got a vial instead of a shard on a lvl 20 jade maw fight, someone kill me

I get these stupid upgrade materials all the time, on the other hand I never get rares or exos.. so yeah im done with fractals for now aswell, Wish we could trade -.-

Silly question but, are you looting (and having other loot dropped by) the mobs you kill through the fractals?

Additionally, which class are you playing with which weapons?

I know I’ve seen a number of people who complain about poor drop rates on the various vial items, but found many of them kill as few mobs as humanly possible, and are often using single target damage builds. The combination of only a few opportunities for loot with the low rate of successfully tagging mobs means they don’t end up getting those items. It’s like playing nothing but swamp. It’s nice and fast, but you only kill 1 mob that has a chance to drop loot like that the entire run.

Syeria.4812:

Silly question but, are you looting (and having other loot dropped by) the mobs you kill through the fractals?

Additionally, which class are you playing with which weapons?

I know I’ve seen a number of people who complain about poor drop rates on the various vial items, but found many of them kill as few mobs as humanly possible, and are often using single target damage builds. The combination of only a few opportunities for loot with the low rate of successfully tagging mobs means they don’t end up getting those items. It’s like playing nothing but swamp. It’s nice and fast, but you only kill 1 mob that has a chance to drop loot like that the entire run.

this basically it, many teams kill virtually no monsters that give loot (not all mobs give loot)

Syeria.4812:

Silly question but, are you looting (and having other loot dropped by) the mobs you kill through the fractals?

Additionally, which class are you playing with which weapons?

I know I’ve seen a number of people who complain about poor drop rates on the various vial items, but found many of them kill as few mobs as humanly possible, and are often using single target damage builds. The combination of only a few opportunities for loot with the low rate of successfully tagging mobs means they don’t end up getting those items. It’s like playing nothing but swamp. It’s nice and fast, but you only kill 1 mob that has a chance to drop loot like that the entire run.

Well I believe this is actually a good question, not a silly one. As for the characters and builds i use, I run with a ranger with longbow barrage and axes, and typically hit everything in front of me. As for skipping mobs, hell I run with my guild mates, and we run fractals for money, so we will kill anything that moves and drops loot. And I almost rarely get any vials or globs. I mean I get drops, but nothing worth mentioning besides a few rares here and there. That is the main reason why I wish you could salvage rings, and get a chance for the mats to infuse it. Hell I don’t even want them to drop ectos, just some kind of metal and some chance to get a vial or glob.

Magnetron.5823:

Yes i never get stuff like that, i have tons of rings etc.

Maybe a good idea to let us salvage the rings for a RNG for upgrade materials?

or make them buyable with relics.

maybe kill something instead of skipping. i heard legend that it helps to get loot.

Yes i check my bank tab lol, i am a warrior with greatsword and longbow, and i always tag and kill monsters… i get around 25 miners bags from the dredge fractal everytime! So i hit enough monsters lol

And yes i ask my parties to kill all monsters on the daily bonus fractal, and im aiming at the walking crystals…

I know it is RNG but its not fun anymore :P

then you sir, deserve back luck brian award

I think the RNG element for vials, globs, and shards needs to not be the primary source of obtaining those. At the very least, the extra rings should salvage into one of those mats or a certain number of relics should allow you to purchase them. The best thing that those mats have going for them is that you can easily upgrade/salvage them to obtain the higher or lower tier.

I also think they should make the weapon skins from fractals something that is on the vendor also, they are a transmuted item and nothing that any WvW peeps should be crying about if we are able to buy them so i dont see why we can’t buy them, they never drop anyway.
If they can implement a farming code then they can put in a code that makes it so that certain items dont keep dropping over and over and over again on the same account, I run a 20 and 30 daily everyday and if i get anything its always the same freaking ring. YAY, 4 more silver.

Today 4 fractal runs!

lvl 10 x2
lvl 20 x2

Putted MF gear on 120% ( or so )

Gained again no upgr. mat, and the ppl in my party get shards, vials and they use no magic find lol

Saulius.8430:

maybe kill something instead of skipping. i heard legend that it helps to get loot.

Trust me when I say this. When I go into the fractals, I go with guild mates. When we are done with fractals, everything that was there, except to constant spawning creatures seeing as there is no end to them, is dead. I don’t like skipping things in there due to the fact that, the one thing I decide to skip, could very well hold what I need. My problem is that it just doesn’t happen.

Tiderus.3861:

Saulius.8430:

maybe kill something instead of skipping. i heard legend that it helps to get loot.

Trust me when I say this. When I go into the fractals, I go with guild mates. When we are done with fractals, everything that was there, except to constant spawning creatures seeing as there is no end to them, is dead. I don’t like skipping things in there due to the fact that, the one thing I decide to skip, could very well hold what I need. My problem is that it just doesn’t happen.

More anti-skipperist ideology. Never understand these ppl. RNG is RNG. OP STILL could have gotten nothing even though he killed everything in all his fracts runs amounting to spending the time equivalent of 50-100 more fracts of his 250 fract runs.

That being said, MF food helps a lot I find. And if you are really, really, really desperate for vials/globs/shards, I suggest solo farming in swamp with full MF gear/food/buffs etc. Usually 1 pops after 1/2 to 1 hr of farming.

Alternatively look for farm parties whose sole purpose is to farm for mats, and roll specifically for Ascalon and Dredge.

Ye guess i have to try that.. 5 runs so far and only get useless rings

Make a group of like minded people that want the fractal mats and farm dredge. Don’t even need to finish the fractal. Just kill lots of stuff, exit, repeat.

It won’t take long.

Yesss!! found a vial of mist thingie from lvl 9 fractal!!

Can anyone tell me where the shards drop? or is it random too

Supposed to be:

Vials up to level 9
Globs from 10-19
Shards from 20+

Not always the case though.

Hmm where you find this information? Or is it just based on personal experience.

From December 14 patch notes:

•Vials of Condensed Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 10.
•Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 20.

You can check the wiki for each mist also. Drop levels are listed as 1-9 for vials, 10-19 for globs, 20+ for shards.

Have experienced vials dropping 20+ though. This is not supposed to happen, however.

They couldn’t just let us buy them with Laurels…no that would make too much sense..

Man this game is backwards..

I hate to say it, but there where come a point where you have way too many rings, way too many vials, way too many globs, and way too many shards and nothing to do with them.

I’m happy to see a mist essence drop still, but I’m like.. great.. what the heck am I supposed to do with that? Store it with the rest?

I have no clue of what to do with all my rings too, but im saving them cause people are probally going to complain about them beeing useless, and maybe Anet makes them salvageable in the future..

And when i throw them out now i probally going to regret it later

Finally i found my shard!

I had 120 MF on, all MF buffs etc.. and i get nothing!

I put my normal armor on and with a total of 0 magic find, i get one.

MF = Waste of gear?

EDIT * 1 fractal later i find another with no magic find -_-

EDIT *2 Now i joined a party from lvl 26 ( im at 23) and i got an infused ring! Wohoo happy haha