Guild Wars 2

The last time we saw a Fractal Leaderboard concept, it was based on Fractal level.

Going this way would mean that we could expect level resets and Fractal “seasons”. However, we all saw how badly people reacted to even a partial Fractal level reset.

Since a Fractal Leaderboard is still on the list of upcoming features for Fractals of the Mists, here is a suggestion to avoid that type of drama :

Make the Fractal Leaderboard daily, like the Adventure boards, and based on a team score per “island”.

The score would be based on multiple things, that could include :

• Time taken
• Amount of kills
• Damage dealt
• Healing provided
• etc.

But, most importantly, score would be modified by the Fractal level; meaning the score potential would be higher the higher it is.

Like Adventures, you would have 3 levels of daily rewards – Bronze, Silver and Gold – for each island, not level. You could get all 3 for Swampland island in one run by doing the highest level version, but doing other levels of Swampland that day would yield no further rewards.

Daily Fractal achievements could be changed to require completion at a certain reward level. For instance, requiring to get 3 Bronze Champion Level Fractals or 1 Gold Champion Level Fractal instead of simply completing them. This would force players to play 3 different Fractals or reward them if they are exceptional at one of them.

As for the “Dungeon” in the title? Well, I think this system could be extended to the Dungeons to replace the current crappy rewards and make them more interesting again.

Also, Dungeon/Fractals Guild Teams could be a thing in order to track progress.

What do you guys think? Am I the only one to think this could have potential? See any big problems this could cause? At the very least, it should make running something else than Swampland more popular, no?

My take on the three different fractals for the daily was just to change it to three unique fractal maps rather than by fractal level. If they’ve done swamp then it won’t count again.

In the end it’s not that big of a deal to me as I can just create a LFG if I want to do something different that swamp. I actually did fractals (52-54) the other day because I wanted to do something different.

First of all: I doubt anyone was ever considering to create fractal seasons with resetting levels and players having to work their way up again.

About the leaderboards: I dont care about any leaderboards, but the score beeing based on kills, damage or anything like that would just lead to people farming kills or anything instead of actually playing. There is always an exploit in systems like that, always! You would rather base them on a couple of hidden bonus objectives, beeing a mix of things currently included in achievements, challenges or new stuff.
Like: the time you needed to clear a certain boss, if you got hit by molten berserkers shockwaves, if any of your party members got downed…

Finally: if I leave aside the leaderboards for a second: the idea of considering the rewards seperately for each fractal, but only based on the highest you’ve played is purely awesome. It would highly promote high-level fractal gameplay, wich is pretty dead currently, instead of running that kittening swamp 8 times a day, people might consider to play the challenging fractals after they claimed rewards from the easy ones.
Im beeing serious! This might not have been what you wanted to say, but its genius.

I know somoene who has just cleared levels 1-50. He’s been playing for the last 3mths or so.

He would be so effin kittened if it got reset right now, I wouldn’t even like to contemplate it.

I sincerely hope that ANet drops the idea of leaderboards. I’ve always liked the fact that PvE in this game is strictly “versus environment”.