Guild Wars 2

After hitting frac 100, I have no desire to ever do a high level fractal again. There is a core reason for it…. HIGH LEVEL FRACTALS TAKE TOO LONG TO COMPLETE.

I think ANET really needs to rethink how they go about doing fractals. Right now, as fractals increase in number, the difficulty is increased a bit, and the mobs/boss take longer to kill. That needs to be changed.

Key Principles should be:
1. A high level fractal should never take more than 2x the amount of time of a low level fractal. Ideally even 1.5×.
2. High level difficulty shouldn’t be focused around more HP/toughness for mobs/bosses.
3. High level difficulty also shouldn’t just be making enemies deal greater damage.
4. Difficulty should be instead added by: faster mobs, faster attacks, less places to hide from cannons/lasers/etc, more reflect type skills, new skills, etc.

For example, let’s take uncategorized and how it could be set up.
Low levels: same as today where harpies attack but that’s all (hp/toughness likely increased to normalize across all levels)
Low- Mid levels: add the knockbacks
Mid levels: faster, more frequent knockback attacks + hit with conditions
Mid high level: all of mid but faster + harpies have a reflect skill every xx number of seconds
High level: all mid-high but faster + periodic retal + immob/chill conditions.

Just an example to illustrate the point.

the problem with that kind of design is it takes more insight and effort. gotta do each level individually

vs just slapping on a scaling stats function. done for all 100 levels. pay one dude $50 to code it and you’re done