Guild Wars 2

Can we have some clarification please?

Firstly, thank you so much Anet for recognizing the problem with people crashing out of fractals and not being able to rejoin their party. When you release this fix for this allowing people to rejoin the instance, you will make a lot of people very happy, myself included

Now for the new mechanism designed to help lower level people form parties. I like the idea in general but am not sure if Anet have covered all the possibilities in their given example based on all players on an odd number fractal.

1) Why would I as a higher level player want to help out lower level players, when I would not progress my own level and only get Karma which in the current game is a totally redundant currency?

Surely it would have been better to allow all players to progress their level, which would in fact encourage me to help out lower level players.

In the example given, the level 53 player does not progress.

Or is this just a bad example, meaning if the level 53 player started the game at level 53, all players would in fact progress their levels?

2) What if this example was a mixed set of players, some on even number fractals and some on odd numbered fractals.

So assuming there were 3 players on odd numbers and 2 players on even numbers. The highest even numbered player starts the game at level 54 and the other even numbered player is on level 22.

When the first 3 fractals are complete, does an even number bonus level kick in.

If so does this mean after completing the bonus level that there will be no chest for the odd numbered players who would not be eligible for the bonus level or would the bonus level not kick in at all, meaning the even numbered level players lose their bonus level for having odd numbered players in the party?

NOTE saying Karma is a redundant currency is certainly true for me and quite a few players I know as there is nothing available for Karma that we want or need in the game. We all have a massive amount of Karma stacking up on our accounts (ever increasing) that we simply do not use. So please people do not start raging at me over this and keep this thread directed at it’s main concern which is how the new fractals mechanism will work.

Just to illustrate my point in (2) surrounding the scenario where the odd players may leave if they do not get the bonus level chest.

I know of one occasion where one of our regular daily party members crashed out after the 3 required levels on an even numbered fractal run were complete.

The remaining party went on to complete the bonus getting the chest and bonus.

The next day we assumed our party would have to do the previous even numbered level again to allow our party member that crashed out the day before to catch up but much to our delight they had progressed to our level, presumably because they had completed the 3 required fractals in the previous days run.

Hence, I am concerned that in my scenario in (2), the odd level players would see no benefit in doing the bonus fractal and hence leave, meaning the even numbered players would not get their bonus level and daily bonus chest.

This would mean again that players would be reluctant to form mixed level groups.