Guild Wars 2

For the past week or so, I’ve been working on moving up in fractals. I’m in the mid 20s now, and I have to say I’m not impressed with loot drops. It’s probably just bad luck on my end, but I wanted to check anyway. How good is the loot in higher level fractals. I’m talking 40+. Is it really “raining rares and exotics” as I’ve had one person describe it?

Honestly, I feel like my loot drops were better in the lower levels, but, as I said, it’s probably just my bad luck.

SteepledHat.1345:

For the past week or so, I’ve been working on moving up in fractals. I’m in the mid 20s now, and I have to say I’m not impressed with loot drops. It’s probably just bad luck on my end, but I wanted to check anyway. How good is the loot in higher level fractals. I’m talking 40+. Is it really “raining rares and exotics” as I’ve had one person describe it?

Honestly, I feel like my loot drops were better in the lower levels, but, as I said, it’s probably just my bad luck.

40 is hitting some rares—-it’s not raining. I’ve heard from my friends 50+ you tend to get some exotics and rares a little more frequently.

In already feel that I get better loot in level 20’s than in Fractals below level 10. Of course, the drops are still random so you might be more lucky in one run compared to another.

I doubt it will ever be “raining rares and exotics”, but there’s definatly a better drop rate in the higher level Fractals.

Honestly I haven’t noticed a difference.

I’m at level 26, and it seems to me I get better loot running level 10 dailies vs running a level 20 daily or level 26 run. If not, the loot really isn’t that much better.

I know it all RNG, but the increased level of difficulty and increased time requirements to finish a higher level doesn’t really seem to be worth it.

Heck, I had a vial of condensed mists drop during a level 26 run two nights ago. Really?!?! I felt so… robbed!

Yeah, a guy in one of my lv 24 groups had a vial drop for him too. I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen.

im on 33 fotm and im pretty sure i get better drops from a ~10 daily than i do from 33 (Fractal weapon skin chance aside)

Im at 31, and the diffrence seem so small that it can’t really be measured.. when I was running 1-10 I was averaging 1-2g a run, now I average 1-2g a run.. fractal skins is the only reason i bother with fractals anymore.. if you want loot fractals is not the place to be.

There was a time when it first came out that it was raining rares and exo’s but just like everything in this game anet put an end to it, sucks because lets face it.. this is just a game so why does it matter if they were dropping all the time? who knows. Its kitten now though, i find level 10 daily way better than the higher levels simply because you can breeze threw the 10 daily’s. So its more money per time spent just doing the lower levels to be honest.

If your looking for money which it seems like you are from your post then do cof p1 speed runs before it gets nerfed, or if your smarter then most, just invenst in molten cores/stones and be set for life after the nerf

SteepledHat.1345:

Yeah, a guy in one of my lv 24 groups had a vial drop for him too. I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen.

Then he was on a character thats lvl 1-9 fotm. The essence drops are scaled on your tier as well.

dosnt mean that at all lof, i’ve had vials drop for me in 28+ with 31 reward lvl, crap drop in high lvl fracs to

my best run in fract 20 included:
2 dest lodestones from the dredge fractal bags
7 rares
1 corrupted core
1 charged core
2 molten cores
ralena’s band.

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

dosnt mean that at all lof, i’ve had vials drop for me in 28+ with 31 reward lvl, crap drop in high lvl fracs to

Ever since they patched it (1.5months ago I believe), you could only get vials from 1-9, globs from 10-19, and shards 20+. Unless they reverted it at some point, I’m pretty sure that info is outdated. All the guildies I have that do 30-40+ have yet to complain they got a vial at any level past 20. When i run lvl 20-30+ fractal on my lvl 1-9 alt, I still get vials only.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-14-2012

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

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

Im at 31, and the diffrence seem so small that it can’t really be measured.. when I was running 1-10 I was averaging 1-2g a run, now I average 1-2g a run.. fractal skins is the only reason i bother with fractals anymore.. if you want loot fractals is not the place to be.

Issue with the bolded part as it is better than everywhere else.

fractal loot is better then everywhere else? where do you get that info from? you can run cof p1 6-18 times in the time it takes to finish a fractal, I don’t know what kinda loot what you are getting from fractal but im at 30 and my last run i did the most valueable item i found was a armored scale (28) earned a total of 40s in 90 mins.

loflux, I dunno what patch notes said 2 months ago, I do however know that I’ve seen both globs and vial drop during my 30 daily, especially at jade maw it happens alot.

Like everything else in the Fractals, the increase is very subtle.

There’s certainly a noticeable difference between 10 and 30 but it’s hard to quantify.

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

fractal loot is better then everywhere else? where do you get that info from? you can run cof p1 6-18 times in the time it takes to finish a fractal, I don’t know what kinda loot what you are getting from fractal but im at 30 and my last run i did the most valueable item i found was a armored scale (28) earned a total of 40s in 90 mins.

loflux, I dunno what patch notes said 2 months ago, I do however know that I’ve seen both globs and vial drop during my 30 daily, especially at jade maw it happens alot.

So out of the entire game the you compare one bad fotm run to the most abused farm? What about the rest of the game?

hardly, that was just the worst of the worst.

At average I get about 1-2g, regardless of the fractal level.. I have run well over 80 fractals in the last week, and that has been the average, with the highest being 5g.

Even the 5g run would come short compared to most cof runs per hour.

If CoF wasnt there to be farmed there would just be somewhere else, infact fractals fall short even compared to just grinding lodestones in frostgorge, or hell even farming grawl in the tunnel.

And yes Dee Jay the Fractal reward diffrences are VERY subtle, the difficulty diffrent from 1-30 however is far from subtle.

Depends. I want lvl 38 and got 2 named exotics and around 5 rares.
One time I was in lvl 46 and had no rares. I ended up getting a vial of mist essence.
So rng is rng.

I do get slightly better stuff (at 49 ATM) but it’s hardly any different than what I was getting before.

im lvl 36 and i’m sure after 28 jan update they nerfed the drop rate from all path and from the last boss chest!!!! 4 daily 34 and got in total 0 ring(daily), 0 weapon fractal (but this is normal) 3-4 yellow and 0 core/lodestone!!!

Did level 26 yesterday and got absolutely nothing.
No Cores, no Vials/Shards, no rares/exotics, no ring, no T6 mats, nothing!
In the end i had about 5-6 greens, valued at around 10s, and a bunch of blues for salvage.

My feeling after 170 runs, youre luck is predefinded before you start them.
If i have a very successfull run the day before, i know i shouldnt play fotm the next day, because loot will be non-existend.
I dont see any reason to progress any further to be honest.
I would much more like it if they would spread the rewards across all runs, not just some lucky ones followed by extremely unlucky ones.

Also, the whole system with infusing rings and backpacks is – how can i put this mildly – not well thought through.
In order to infuse your backpack you need 250 ectos, which is an absurd number, and you only need the added +5AR to progress further in fotm, nowhere else in the game.
BUT to get my invested 250 ectos back, i would have to play a lot of fotm or hit a major loot streak, which is never going to happen.
So unless they pump up the rewards on higher level significantly, i really dont see why anyone would bother farming 250 ectos just for this.

For now i keep playing fotm because i like the challenge and the overall design of the maps, but i can already see myself not wanting to do them anymore, because reward to time ratio is out of whack.

Ioflux.4369:

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

dosnt mean that at all lof, i’ve had vials drop for me in 28+ with 31 reward lvl, crap drop in high lvl fracs to

Ever since they patched it (1.5months ago I believe), you could only get vials from 1-9, globs from 10-19, and shards 20+. Unless they reverted it at some point, I’m pretty sure that info is outdated. All the guildies I have that do 30-40+ have yet to complain they got a vial at any level past 20. When i run lvl 20-30+ fractal on my lvl 1-9 alt, I still get vials only.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-14-2012

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

Jade maw’s adds only drop vials, regardless of scale. Probably not working as intended.

^ This probably explains my vial of mist drop.

I’m was level 25 or 26 running a level 26 fractal run and got a vial drop. Pretty sure it was from add on Maw.

Had a guy get an uninfused ring from level 26 last night, though it is entirely possible his reward level was lower than 26.

I agree with the 250 ectos to infuse a backpiece.. definately not worth it. The +5 AR to get higher in fractals which leads to either no or minimal gains? No thanks.