My primary reason for doing fractals has always been the ascended chests. while I wasnt at level 50 reward level for too long before the expansion, those chests were a great incentive to both level up my reward level and engage in the content. I enjoy the content itself, but those chests were, again a primary incentive.
Since the expansion, drop rate of those chests has been awful, I am in a guild that will have at the very least 1 party running 51+ dailies every day. I feel confident saying at least 60 champion chests of the mists were earned since launch, and I dont recall anyone saying they have gotten a champion chest. Besides that, xp rates are low for the time spent, mobs seem to drop far less and the liquid gold that was to be moved from dungeons to fractals is missing. That said, I never payed attention to the liquid gold from fractals, it was always about getting ascended chests, the gold was a bonus.
The following is, based on the new encryptions, keys, etc, and prior drop rates# what I would have expected loot tables to look like.
A champion chest of the mists has a set of guaranteed items. Often, there is nothing more than that, however, aside from those items, I think there should be a 100% chance to receive another item on a loot table that may look something like this (lowered numbers compared to pre-expac are due to fewer fractals per daily chest, though, of course, I would have preferred the same rates)
- 45%: a ring of some kind, almost all infused
- 3.4%: ascended weapon box.
- 10%: ascended armor
- 9%: fractal skin
- .1%: fractal tonic
- 5%: golden fractal relic
- 2.5%: golden fractal skin
- new to the list? - 10%: bonus 10 stabalizing matrices
- 10%: Tome of mastery, consumed on acquire, grants either 5 spirit shards or 75k xp toward masteries if you are currently training a mastery.
This comes to 95%, I am leaving 5% for any items I dont know about
Now there are the fractal encryptions which have also proven to be very lackluster
If the trash from these items were to replace the liquid gold from dungeons, their values should all be doubled. Granted, I dont know what liquid gold raids may bring, I understand the economic need for keeping liquid gold in check, and I, personally, dont mind getting loot items over liquid gold, but as it stands the other rewards in the encryption boxes just arent worth much either.
T5 materials, these drop everywhere, the TP price of all but the blood is currently around 40 copper each, and that is HIGHER than middle last week when they were barely above 30c. They arent worth the cost of the spirit shard to upgrade them, and there isnt a decent use for them at the moment as far as I am aware except the old, make/forge or sell rares, ie TP Wars. Unless there is a use for all these lower tier fine materials coming with raids and legendary armor, they are going to become vender trash. Suggestion: for the encryptions, instead of 5 T5, make that 2-3 T6 or 1 lodestone.
The other items currently in there are fine.
Some additions that may be nice
Mystic coins.
Mystic salvage kit maybe
ascended salvage kit
20 slot box claim ticket (from a vender somewhere, various versions of 20 slot bags to choose from)
spirit shards
unidentified dye
black lion key
some more fractal bosses as minis
(edited by That Guy.5704)