Guild Wars 2

Heya,

Am i the only one who is quite sick of the RNG regarding fractal weapon skins? The drop rate is already low enough but then you have to be lucky to get the desired skin out of the 19 or so available. It is really frustrating.

Why not make them purchasable with Pristine Relics? I dont mind a high amount like 30 or even 50 but atleast we can be sure to get the desired items. With the current system you could do 200 dailys and get 5x harpoons or some kitten like that.

Opinions?

In a way yes, but in a way no. FotM skins are some of the best in the game (Aside from legendary ofc). To me, it should be “Hard” to get and very limited.

Do I want one? OFC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do I deserve one? Apparently Not.

It needs to be harder than just pristines, but easier than do 5,000 level 20 dailys.

I’m as conflicted as JJ seeing as how the rng gods hate me, perhaps i should sacrifice something..

No, I don’t want every new FotM player running around with one.

No lies. No cover. That’s why.

Turning in 3 weapons you don’t need for one you want would be cool.

Nihilus.3015:

Turning in 3 weapons you don’t need for one you want would be cool.

Something like this would be well appreciated too !

SteepledHat.1345:

No, I don’t want every new FotM player running around with one.

No lies. No cover. That’s why.

You know with current system, someone who just done fractal daily 20 for the first time could be getting the skin he wants, while someone who did it for the last 3 months never got the desired skin, rite? He could have gotten 3x harpoon + 2x speargun or some crap like that.

So the “new” fractal player will be running around with the skin he wanted while the “pro” fractal player gets wrecked by RNG… because thats how the current system works my friend.

They need to put a mystic recipe that use 3 fractal weapons and one random white weapon type. The result its the fractal weapon of the white type. And all can be happy
(Except maybe designers that need to configurate the “white random” weapon in mystic forge recipe :P )

Please make them buyable with Pristine tokens. I have almost 20 and I’ve seen people with 50++. =/

They added pristine because people complained about the RNG system of rings never dropping, they were level 20 and never got a ring etc… Now the same people complain they have nothing to do with the pristines. Kinda unfair to Anet to have to constantly work to fix things that players ask for.

I just wish we could get to higher level so we could have the higher chance to get them without AR kittenblocking us atm.

100 pristines should get you a weapon skin imo.

I’ve done, countless dailies. I have a bank full of infused rings. 20 shards of essence and I’ve been lucky enough to recieve ONE Fractal Skin, which was a Trident, and I accidently salvaged it. (They have no confirmation window.)

RNG is ruining my fun, entirely.

They need to add it to the merchant. I can’t progress toward a goal of getting one, where as EVERY OTHER CONTENT IN THE GAME I can.
I want an Ghastly Sword? I know exactly how many AC runs I need to do to accomplish my goal.
I want Twilight? I can grind queensdale for a year and even make some headway.
I want a Fractal Sword? Fruitlessly repeat level 28 and 38 Fractals, and pray to the RNG. Which I’ve been doing almost every day.

I’d add 40s into the mix too, if I had the laurels to buy an Ascended Amulet. (You know, that piece of gear meant for content, not actually found in the content it’s for.)

Fractals are the worst content in the game, with the worst reward system. They need to be revamped, entirely.

thetarot.8246:

I’ve done, countless dailies. I have a bank full of infused rings. 20 shards of essence and I’ve been lucky enough to recieve ONE Fractal Skin, which was a Trident, and I accidently salvaged it. (They have no confirmation window.)

RNG is ruining my fun, entirely.

They need to add it to the merchant. I can’t progress toward a goal of getting one, where as EVERY OTHER CONTENT IN THE GAME I can.
I want an Ghastly Sword? I know exactly how many AC runs I need to do to accomplish my goal.
I want Twilight? I can grind queensdale for a year and even make some headway.
I want a Fractal Sword? Fruitlessly repeat level 28 and 38 Fractals, and pray to the RNG. Which I’ve been doing almost every day.

I’d add 40s into the mix too, if I had the laurels to buy an Ascended Amulet. (You know, that piece of gear meant for content, not actually found in the content it’s for.)

Fractals are the worst content in the game, with the worst reward system. They need to be revamped, entirely.

Want to split on buying a chicken to sacrifice to the rng with me?

Folk.2093:

thetarot.8246:

I’ve done, countless dailies. I have a bank full of infused rings. 20 shards of essence and I’ve been lucky enough to recieve ONE Fractal Skin, which was a Trident, and I accidently salvaged it. (They have no confirmation window.)

RNG is ruining my fun, entirely.

They need to add it to the merchant. I can’t progress toward a goal of getting one, where as EVERY OTHER CONTENT IN THE GAME I can.
I want an Ghastly Sword? I know exactly how many AC runs I need to do to accomplish my goal.
I want Twilight? I can grind queensdale for a year and even make some headway.
I want a Fractal Sword? Fruitlessly repeat level 28 and 38 Fractals, and pray to the RNG. Which I’ve been doing almost every day.

I’d add 40s into the mix too, if I had the laurels to buy an Ascended Amulet. (You know, that piece of gear meant for content, not actually found in the content it’s for.)

Fractals are the worst content in the game, with the worst reward system. They need to be revamped, entirely.

Want to split on buying a chicken to sacrifice to the rng with me?

if it will help zomoross over at the MF, i’ll even chip in a Dolyak.

I don’t think they should only be buyable for pristine, but instead be spread across both tokens and also require Shards of Mists (especially if they add salvaging mechanics to ascended gear).

Something like 2000 fractal relics, 20 pristines, 10 ectos, and 5 shards would make sense. If you can salvage vials, globs, and shards from other things, you could work towards a weapon without RNG woes, but it will still take a long time and rewards doing high level fractals.

I wrote a full post on the suggestion forum.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Fractal-Weapons-Attainable-and-Still-Rare/first#post1439489

They need to add some sink for fractal relics and pristines. There is nothing in there for me to buy that I don’t already have. I don’t need obsidians or rings or 20 slot bags. Probably the only usable thing in there at present is the skill point purchase, but I have hundreds of SPs I have no use for at present anyway.

How about instead of dropping the weapon, it drops a token which you can exchange for the skin of your choice? That way, fractal weapons will still be very rare, but you still get the skin you want.

What I’d like is a method to convert one fractal weapon to another. I’ve gotten a few weapons I can’t use on my engineer (I just really want a rifle!), so perhaps adding a ‘Fractal Inductance Chassis’ as a drop (instead of fractal weapons) could be a solution, and players could take it to the mystic forge! 250 [weapon component 1] + 250 [weapon component 2] + [Fractal Inductance Chassis] + [gift of ascension] or something = boom, fractal weapon! ‘Cause I want a rifle. Super bad. I can’t use a dagger. I can’t use a sword. I can’t trade them. I could give them to alts, but uh.. I just use them to run CoF 2 more times each day. Or maybe my suggestion, but instead it’s a reforging? Turn one weapon type into another. Idk, but something!

Kamahl.3621:

What I’d like is a method to convert one fractal weapon to another. I’ve gotten a few weapons I can’t use on my engineer (I just really want a rifle!), so perhaps adding a ‘Fractal Inductance Chassis’ as a drop (instead of fractal weapons) could be a solution, and players could take it to the mystic forge! 250 [weapon component 1] + 250 [weapon component 2] + [Fractal Inductance Chassis] + [gift of ascension] or something = boom, fractal weapon! ‘Cause I want a rifle. Super bad. I can’t use a dagger. I can’t use a sword. I can’t trade them. I could give them to alts, but uh.. I just use them to run CoF 2 more times each day. Or maybe my suggestion, but instead it’s a reforging? Turn one weapon type into another. Idk, but something!

This is actually a really good idea.

The current system is just very flawed, you could be running fractal daily for months and not get the skin you want. It’s frustrating.

it could be raining skins at 40+ tbh. it’s random and account bound so might as well

250pristines + 25g sounds fair ^^

Titan.3472:

250pristines + 25g sounds fair ^^

i could accept 250 pristines but not the golds…

Fotm skins are the only cheap good skins for poor players….
A player with 250 pristines is poor by definition because instead of running cof and stuff he run lot of fotms and before few days ago fotm were awful as rewards….

(it possibly really DR system affecting it because first four 38-40 runs i got decent drops but they lowered next runs……but may be rng also).

>.<

At the very least drop Fractal Skin Tokens so you just get 1 token and can get what weapon you want and significantly increase fractal wep drops at 48.

I like the 3 weapon forge recipe idea. I do however feel they need to add something to do with pristines as well. One last thing…….why oh why do they require a fine trans stone? Oh nice a weapon skin drop that I need to pay an extra 1.1g to use……if that’s not an obvious push to gems idk what is.