Guild Wars 2

It really gets bothersome after awhile that all of the loot you get as a higher level Fractal player (That’s fractal exclusive loot) is effectively pointless. Shards of Crystallized mist essence for instance, you use it on two different things. A cosmetic only upgrade for a back item and to infuse rings.

But once you have your ring upgrade (or your cosmetic only upgrade if you go for that) you’re done with them, there’s no point to getting them anymore. The same goes for Pristine Fractal relics as well.

It might be okay if rings didn’t drop like candy from dailies, but the last five dailies I’ve done at 30+ I’ve gotten an infused ring! There’s no point in me spending pristine relics on a ring because they all just auto drop in upgraded form very often! And all this does is make it so Fractals are easier!

Why not have more cosmetic items made with the higher quality items like Shards or Pristine Fractal relics? Why limit us to only Rings or a back item? Fractals were supposed to be where we get the ascended gear, and now doing your dailies for laurels gives you a larger variety for less work than Fractals.

Even then that would be fine, but why not let us put the items we get to making an armor set or something? An armor set that doesn’t drop or anything, something we have to earn and that would allow people who run a lot of Fractals show off their work more than a back item (Which, mind you, can actually be made fairly easily without going that high, You only ever need one shard, and that’s just for the cosmetic upgrade).

Fractals are supposed to be the “End game” grind where you get rare or cool looking things, yet the only real stuff we get are a (potential) randomly generated weapon (again, cosmetic only) and a bunch of tokens for mostly non cosmetic items.

Maybe you are getting rings like candy. But the last 20 Fractal level 30+ Dailies I have done did not net either a ring or a skin. So yes those pristine relics do have some uses. However I would also love to see more uses for them since by now all my characters have their rings (Over 500 fractal runs so far).

Eldiora.5836:

Maybe you are getting rings like candy. But the last 20 Fractal level 30+ Dailies I have done did not net either a ring or a skin. So yes those pristine relics do have some uses. However I would also love to see more uses for them since by now all my characters have their rings (Over 500 fractal runs so far).

Right, even if you talk about them being hard to get, you’re talking at most 20 days to never again have to worry about rings. Once you get to the 30s, you can easily have it done by ~7 days.

Mutliple characters? Probably a ring every few days if only two or three.