Guild Wars 2

So – we all know dungeon rewards are getting nerfed.

Part of the purpose is to incentivize people to participate more in the content we support, which at the moment is fractals. – JohnSmith

Source:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ogusa/the_guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns_economy/

While this is a controversial decision I can understand their point of view – they want to push fractals – fine.

But fractals better have decent rewards with the expansion or the player base is probably going to be mad – I know I will be.
Ever since the fractured update ( which made loot worse for a significant period of time) fractal rewards have been terrible – I cannot stress that enough.

Not only RNG based (although this will be changed) but the gold reward for doing a FOTM 50 run is very very low.

So what I’m asking for is this – all that gold that’s going away from dungeons? give it back to the community with fractals – otherwise all this was just a senseless nerf.

I am sure that some of the gold will be used to beef up fractal rewards. The main question is how it’ll be done, and in which amounts.

Possible ways:
1) Once per day per unique fractal you get a bonus reward, similar to dungeon path. That is doing Swamp for the first time each day will give a bonus reward.

2) The daily rewards (3 tiers) will have significant gold boost, once again, once per day.

3) Flat buff to monetary rewards for doing a fractal.

I suspect it will be either 1 or 2 (or a combination of both) to prevent people from farming the fastest fractal for gold.

Also the gold nerf from dungeons is very much meaningful from a number of standpoints as I’ve outlines here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeons-less-gold-less-people-for-LFG/first#post5605156

It’s very possible the dungeon nerf is part of a bigger plan to starve, of gold, those players who only have the core game… “incentivising” the purchace of HoT.

If so, they have no reason to increase fractal rewards.

If so – why would people do fractals then? Many who run dungeons do it for the gold but a lot of those who run dungeons don’t run fractals because they don’t care about FOTM skins.

They should just remove gold from the game and bring in trades lols sorta like a flea market thing, so people just trade whatever they want for whatever they think it’s worth with other players. But there will still be account bound items ofc so some items can remain exclusive. All items on tp will be given a notice that the black lion tp will be going bankrupt and players have a chance to remove their listed items. All items not removed will be fed to zomorros and he will convert it all to silk scraps and spew it all out. Gold is such a hindrance, I don’t want to be earning money in game when I’m already slaving out of game to earn money.

Zach.2618:

They should just remove gold from the game and bring in trades lols sorta like a flea market thing, so people just trade whatever they want for whatever they think it’s worth with other players. But there will still be account bound items ofc so some items can remain exclusive. All items on tp will be given a notice that the black lion tp will be going bankrupt and players have a chance to remove their listed items. All items not removed will be fed to zomorros and he will convert it all to silk scraps and spew it all out. Gold is such a hindrance, I don’t want to be earning money in game when I’m already slaving out of game to earn money.

Worst decision ever. The very idea of removing the TP is nuts. Not to mention gold. That’s like saying:“I’ll stop paying my rent and that will make my landlord not want the rent.”

Zach, I’m not sure what age you are, but from your posting history it shows that you have little to no knowledge of markets, currencies, behavior paterns or economy in general. I’m not saying this to offend you, rather to tell you to please read up and educate yourself. Some of these ideas are beyond borderline stupid.