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Posted by: Cameron Rich

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Hello Players!

In preparation for the launch of the new fractals system alongside Heart of Thorns, we’ll be disabling the Fractals of the Mists instance for a short time period on Thursday Night.

From 11:00pm PDT on October 22nd until the moment Heart of Thorns content becomes available, Fractals of the Mists will be inaccessible. Anyone already inside the instance may be removed from the instance at that time.

Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players.

As a reminder, we will not be resetting your player scale, so you may play the new fractals starting from whichever scale you had previously achieved.

We’ll see you in game!

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inbe4 infinite petty complaints from minorly inconvenienced players.

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Posted by: Rising Dusk.2408

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Thanks for the heads up, Cameron!

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Posted by: Ludovicus.7980

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I’m still baffled by how little downtime GW2 has. You guys can even rebuild a whole system without putting down the whole game.

Thanks

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Posted by: Invictus.1503

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I’m still baffled by how little downtime GW2 has. You guys can even rebuild a whole system without putting down the whole game.

Thanks

I’d imagine it is because they build it separately and then simply upload that copy (with new build) to be live. In this case it is pretty big so will require some additional testing once live. That’s my guess anyway.

That said, I share your amazement as the Anet team has always been on the ball for this type of thing and work very fast.

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

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Posted by: Noxty.5089

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So just out of curiosity Cameron, will fractal daily rewards reset after HoT launches?

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Posted by: Exciton.8942

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Can we finally know how much AR we need to push beyond 50?

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Posted by: Belorn.2659

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Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players.

Please say that this mean new fractals as well, not just updates to the rewards.

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Posted by: Paradox.1380

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Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players.

Please say that this mean new fractals as well, not just updates to the rewards.

There are no new fractals at the moment.

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Posted by: Fox.3469

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Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players.

Please say that this mean new fractals as well, not just updates to the rewards.

It means new lvls, not new fractals, you would know this is you had read the blogpost

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Posted by: Noxty.5089

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Hm if the pattern continue then 51-60 should be a totally new personal daily chest, awesome! Here comes the fractal weapon chest boxes!

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Posted by: NovaanVerdiano.6174

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Hm if the pattern continue then 51-60 should be a totally new personal daily chest, awesome! Here comes the fractal weapon chest boxes!

1-20, 21-50, 51-100 are the new tiers afaik
rewards are bound to dailies now iirc, you’d have to check the blog post

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Posted by: Exciton.8942

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Hm if the pattern continue then 51-60 should be a totally new personal daily chest, awesome! Here comes the fractal weapon chest boxes!

I think it is not divided to every 10 levels. Check that blog again. I think all 100 levels is divided into 3 categories.

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Posted by: Nevets Crimsonwing.5271

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Hi Cameron, thanks for the update! When you guys announced the HoT fractals update you stated the following:

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Are you guys going to follow up on this?

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Hi Cameron, thanks for the update! When you guys announced the HoT fractals update you stated the following:

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Are you guys going to follow up on this?

The fractals legendary backpiece was originally tied to the Fractals Leaderboards, I believe, and now that that has been pushed until after launch I imagine the backpiece has as well.

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Please dont let it turn into fractal weapon boxes all over again. Announced and then we dont see them for 2 years. Legendary backpiece was something i was quite looking forward to simply for the stat swap.

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Hi Cameron, thanks for the update! When you guys announced the HoT fractals update you stated the following:

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Are you guys going to follow up on this?

Colin posted a few notes on this here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Handful-of-HoT-Notes/first#post5624038

On Heart of Thorns release, you’ll be able to earn the precursor backpack. Some of the components for the legendary will become available with a future fractals release… when it’s ready™

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Posted by: spoj.9672

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Im sure you can understand how nervous we are about that regarding fractals. Especially considering what happened with fractured. :P

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Posted by: Lunar Sunset.8742

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Hi Cameron, thanks for the update! When you guys announced the HoT fractals update you stated the following:

“The one final step of taking your precursor and transforming it into the legendary backpack is called Ad Infinitum. However, we’ll come back to discuss how that component works—and how it ties into our next steps for the Fractals of the Mists within Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns—in the future. For now, though, I can tell you that just like existing legendary items, players will need to collect components from all over Tyria. To craft each stage of the precursor backpack, players will need to obtain a new salvage item from ascended equipment. And that leads us to our next topic…”

Are you guys going to follow up on this?

Colin posted a few notes on this here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Handful-of-HoT-Notes/first#post5624038

On Heart of Thorns release, you’ll be able to earn the precursor backpack. Some of the components for the legendary will become available with a future fractals release… when it’s ready™

I was hoping the fractal capicator would be the precursor… Tell me it’s at least a component.

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Posted by: Mollock.4091

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Can we finally know how much AR we need to push beyond 50?

My bet:
50-59: 70AR
60-69: 85AR
70-79: 100AR
80-89: 115AR
90-99: 130AR
100: 145AR

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

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I’m still baffled by how little downtime GW2 has. You guys can even rebuild a whole system without putting down the whole game.

Thanks

I’d imagine it is because they build it separately and then simply upload that copy (with new build) to be live. In this case it is pretty big so will require some additional testing once live. That’s my guess anyway..

That’s true actually.

Their testing server is completely separate and the client that they use for it has a different .dat file. It requires a whole different installation and there are a lot of things that don’t exist in the live game. Pretty nice if you compare it to for example archeage which has like 20-22 hour uptime a day at the very most… lol.

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Hello Players!

In preparation for the launch of the new fractals system alongside Heart of Thorns, we’ll be disabling the Fractals of the Mists instance for a short time period on Thursday Night.

From 11:00pm PDT on October 22nd until the moment Heart of Thorns content becomes available, Fractals of the Mists will be inaccessible. Anyone already inside the instance may be removed from the instance at that time.

Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players.

As a reminder, we will not be resetting your player scale, so you may play the new fractals starting from whichever scale you had previously achieved.

We’ll see you in game!

Why does " Once Heart of Thorns is available, the new version of the fractals instance will become available to all players. " scare me the most out of evertthing said >.<

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Rally to me Ascalonians!

Fractals of the Mists is now inaccessible in preparation for the Heart of Thorns release.

See you… soon™.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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Thank you, thank you very much for all the fix and polishing in Fractals. Toast to ArenaNet!

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Nevets Crimsonwing.5271

Please fix wep achievement and I will be super happy