Guild Wars 2

This is something that’s been brought up a few times in our guild, we’re not receiving influence anytime someone participates in Fractals instead of events, regular dungeons, etc. Our guild leader estimates that our generated influence has dropped by 5,000 since users have started participating in the FoTM. This is counterproductive to a guild that requires a lot of influence to produce buffs, banners, etc. This is a major flaw for easily one of the best designed (save the d/c issue) dungeons in the game.

So my questions are as follows:

Is this something that’s intentional giving no influence to those are representing a guild?
If it is intentional is it possible to get it changed so fractals give influence?

Is this some sort of bug that just hasn’t been noticed yet?
If it is a bug is there any eta on when it’ll be fixed?

If it’s merely an issue of not knowing when to give influence, I’d suggest that perhaps 1/3 (or 1/4 depending on level) of your normal dungeon influence be given after the completion of each fractal, this way when someone completes all three (or four, depending on level) they get their normal influence, but someone who completes one and gets disconnected or something isn’t left out.

I think it’s tied to the fact that fractals work like personal story, and aren’t seen by the game as a ‘dungeon’ in sense of game’s mechanics.

drkn.3429:

I think it’s tied to the fact that fractals work like personal story, and aren’t seen by the game as a ‘dungeon’ in sense of game’s mechanics.

Possibly, but personal story still gives influence upon completion at least according to the wiki . If it were applying that Story Line 2 Influence/Person it’d be nice if they could tweak that for the varying hardness of Fractals. Example Level 1 gives 2, 2 gives 4, 3 gives 6 etc. This way as people progress they’d be able to bring in more influence for their guilds. Possibly cutting off at 10+ which would give 20 or something like that.

Fractals are awesome and have to say the coolest dungeons in gw2 at the moment. The loot is good and everyone is really excited about them. But yeah the down side is that my guilds active time has sunk into fractals too and since we get 0 influence from fractals and I may add that the events in fractals do count in daily events . So we should get at least the 2 influence from the events there. So far we’ve lost 29k influence since friday and our buff upgrades are really dragging behind.

I understand the balance idea thou being it intentional or not. Fractals providing lots of loot and some exp, Dungeons 100influence per 5man party per route with 1g in just loot if you sell. Healthy daily mix should keep guildmasters and members happy with a decent influence flow to guild. At the moment I’d be more happier with getting the 2influence per member per fractal run. That way we would’ve got little below 1400 influence per day from just fractals.

Anywho thank you arenanet for greating awesome dungeons

As a guild master, i rly want to know the answers to the questions of GabrialDestruir.3915.
The influence of my guild drop from a estable 5-6k per day to 2-3k… we cant even pay the perma karma bost (3000) just because all guild are focus in FotM right now.
Please give fotm influence

Seems that there are no good answers as to why Fractals don’t give influence.

Fractals, and everything you get inside fractal-only (Ascended mats etc) is a personal interest, not resellable. So, no reason at all to give guild influence. If your guild do fractals all the day, amen. If your guild is big you will always have someone who still play normal pve growing that number. So, you can use the banner.

Fractals dont count as dungeons.
Some fractals have events which will gain influence, but IIRC only volcanic and maybe urban have them.

You could in theory ask your guild groups to return to dessa’s lab over and over until they start on volcanic, it doesnt take that long, and will ensure that your guild still receives at least some influence while people do FoTM.

FoTM is really pretty dissapointing. The fractals themselves are well designed for the most part, and quite fun. But the implementation, from the ascended gear, RNG, dc issues, influence concerns, hell just about everything that isnt the actual fractal itself was done horribly horribly wrong.