Guild Wars 2

I have to ask, why did you nerf the fractal relic drop rate so harshly? I always had an abundance so I didn’t mind spending them on extra stuff. But all of a sudden with HoT and trying to gear my alts for higher end fractals, I’ve burned through them all.

Some quick math, someone correct me if I am wrong.

There are 14 slots for for the regular +5 infusion and for higher levels you need the +7. You need to “buy” 14 of each, so 28 × 75 = 2,100 fractal relics. Normally not a big deal but now you only get 5-10 relics per fractal it seems.

On the low end you need to do 420 runs to get enough for a full set of +7s. On the upper end you need to do 210 runs to get a full set of +7s.

This doesn’t include the cost of potions, etc…that you can buy or the encryptions (which cost 1 per). Doesn’t seem like much at first but when you open hundreds and hundreds, you deplete your relics VERY fast.

My alts are not gated by the ascended gear which I crafted for them but by these relics which were nerfed into the ground. Why did you do this? This is killing fractals for my alts.

Am I missing something here? Is there a better way around this? Thanks in advance.

You get 5 for a super low fractal like 2, which takes all of 2 minutes. Alternatively you could do a harder-but-still-easy Fractal like 56 (Bloomhunger) and get 20+ per run. Encryptions also have a chance to drop 5. It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

You get 5 for a super low fractal like 2, which takes all of 2 minutes. Alternatively you could do a harder-but-still-easy Fractal like 56 (Bloomhunger) and get 20+ per run. Encryptions also have a chance to drop 5. It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be.

Just did a 69 cliffside, only got 10…so maybe I just have bad RNG? Either way I feel that it’s unnecessarily gated.

Roquen.5406:

This doesn’t include the cost of potions, etc…that you can buy or the encryptions (which cost 1 per). Doesn’t seem like much at first but when you open hundreds and hundreds, you deplete your relics VERY fast.

Have you tried not buying the keys or potions ?

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Roquen.5406:

This doesn’t include the cost of potions, etc…that you can buy or the encryptions (which cost 1 per). Doesn’t seem like much at first but when you open hundreds and hundreds, you deplete your relics VERY fast.

Have you tried not buying the keys or potions ?

Yes, I stopped buying potions and I buy the keys with the matrices now…

Post lvl 75 needs to give a serious amount more and they need to increase the amount from daily tier chests. Right now the only way to maintain a steady rate is trade in your pristines, forcing you to choose between other stuff and progressing your AR.

Update: A guildie told me they got a lot from the encrypted boxes. So I bought a stack (250) and opened them all using the matrices I had. I got less than 100 fractal relics. So yea…Guess I just have to wait a few months to get enough for my alts. Just a heads up to others at this point.

I feel really bad for anyone that didn’t farm the capacitor before HoT.

and now 51+ daily is gone what is going on

I got 19 fractal relics out of scale 99!