Guild Wars 2

Scrolling way down you see the fractal daily reward brackets are:
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_Mists

Question:
My personal reward level is 50. Today I ran a level 49 fractal and got a daily chest. I then ran a level 40 fractal, and got no daily chest. Why is this? I am positive those are the only two fractals I did. If I run a 50, and then a 40, I get a daily chest. It does not coincide with the known brackets of fractal runners (which also matches the wiki). Has anyone else had this happen? I would try again after reset, but I am not sure I want to run another level 49 and 40 to get nothing again from the 40.

Did you happen to finish a 31-40 shortly after your daily reset?

No, I have only done two fractals this entire week, a 49 and then a 40, both this afternoon.

The “chest tiers” and the “loot tiers” don’t exactly match up. The list from the wiki is the list from the quality of loot in the chest, not the tiers at which you’ll get the chest. That is 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50. So if you do a 40 and a 49, the 40 is in one lower “quality tier” and the 49 is in the higher one, but they both count as your daily chest for the “40s”.

Confusing as hell, and why they have it set up this way, I have no idea. But it is what it is. It’s been this way since the Fractured patch.

Dakota.4591:

The “chest tiers” and the “loot tiers” don’t exactly match up. The list from the wiki is the list from the quality of loot in the chest, not the tiers at which you’ll get the chest. That is 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50. So if you do a 40 and a 49, the 40 is in one lower “quality tier” and the 49 is in the higher one, but they both count as your daily chest for the “40s”.

Confusing as hell, and why they have it set up this way, I have no idea. But it is what it is. It’s been this way since the Fractured patch.

My guess, based on the Wiki page’s “Notes” section, is that the bonus chest is tied to the agony tier, not the reward tier:

Reward tiers start at 1, 11, 21, etc., while Agony tiers start at 10, 20, 30, etc.

Which means a possibility of 6 chests per day (1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50) – even though the 1-9 fractal chest is useless.

I have had this happen as well, but don’t have an issue if I run a 38/39 and a 50. My assumption is that the daily chest from 40-50 is linked so people don’t run a 49 and a 50 for the best rewards.

Those best rewards being a whole extra uninfused ring.