Guild Wars 2

I’ve been 2 weeks doing 2 daily dractals per day (28 and 30) without any ring or weapon skins. 28 total empty chests.

The drop rate was reduced or it’s just that fractals hate me? At the beginning I thought I was just having bad luck but after a few more days of the same I started bothering if I might be bugged or something.

Did this happen to somebody else?

I just started running 30 but before I was running 20+ on a daily basis and it does seem like the last chest has been nerfed. I say that because I used to get at least 2 rares or 2 cores out of the final chest and now I often get just greens and blues. I have yet to receive a weapon from the daily chest but I did get an infused ring yesterday. Probably just RNG being a kitten.

It’s 30 dailies now. Nothing.

RNG is going to be RNG, you can go years without a drop or if you’re lucky, you can get a drop every chest.

i vendor 1 infused ring almost every run, silly sin’t it ?

I was going to start a topic such as this. It’s pretty obvious in my eyes the loot has been nerfed. I used to do dailys at level 10 and get lodestones rares exotics. Since the last patch I worked my way up to level 20 and the ive been getting blues and greens in the end chest, ohhh i forgot, I got a filty pile of essence aswell. Seems weird that for a the amount of effort and time you get rewarded with useless tokens I dont need anymore and worse loot. I’m sure it will be ‘RNG’ but why would my fractal 10 drops be better than my 20??? Surely the rng will be more favorable the harder the fractal, if not whats the point in continuing?

Yeah, I don’t really get why people run anything higher than 20, other than for the prestige, I guess. The loot is all the same as level 2. The only advantage of 20 is the chance at Shards of Mists Essence and, ofc, infused rings/frac weapons. But why go higher?

They could at least put in a different token system. Like at 10 you get Pristine Fractal Relics, why don’t you get something similar at 20 that would allow you to buy fractal weapons or infused rings if the RNG screwed you? Instead you just keep getting Pristine Fractal Relics, which only buy rings that were a pre-requisite to doing 20 in the first place. With the final chest nerfed (I too used to get lodestones/cores but have seen none lately), I don’t feel like there’s much point in fractals anymore unless you want the weapon skins.

ZBeeblebrox.4928:

Yeah, I don’t really get why people run anything higher than 20, other than for the prestige, I guess. The loot is all the same as level 2.

There are three big reasons I can think of. Firstly, general loot quality (very slightly) increases as you go up in level, or so I have been led to believe. If you can run 28 as easily as 20, why not do it? Secondly, at 26+ all ascended rings that drop are infused, instead of only some. And then people run level 30 because they can get the daily reward chest twice by doing it in two different tiers.