Guild Wars 2

swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp all day erry day get 100 get gone swamp swamp swamp

you people sayin spam swamp needa hit up that reddit thread and keep an eye out for goremond

insanemaniac.2456:

swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp swamp all day erry day get 100 get gone swamp swamp swamp

you people sayin spam swamp needa hit up that reddit thread and keep an eye out for goremond

Basically using the same technique people use now for getting from 30 to 50

You join a higher level swamp party people are spamming.

You dont actually need to play your difficulty level to advance in fractals

Conski Deshan.2057:

1. Why would anyone run cliffside when swamp gives the same rewards (as far as we know) for 1/6th of the time.

They mentioned that longer fractals will have better rewards. That will likely still result in some fractals being the most efficient, but that fractal won’t necessarily be the swamp.

Conski Deshan.2057:

3. “you’ll be able to trade fractal encryptions with your fellow Tyrians” That’s a bad idea and devalues the rewards.

That depends. They also mentioned ofhand something named “encryption key” (without saying where the keys come from). It may be that the encryptions will be useless without keys.

Conski Deshan.2057:

I predict people blitzing swamp 50 times and being fractal level 100 by the first day/week. I’d be pleasantly surprised if it manages to take a month or more.

That is highly likely for serious fractal runners. Of course swamp will most probably not be tied to the level 100, so at least several last levels would have to be done using different ones.

Purple Miku.7032:

Prestige? Plz.

You can theoretically get all fractal skins in less than a month with godly RNG, and there is no prestige in RNG. The items do not reflect that you have played the game the longest at all. I know people who have done way more FotM than me and have never seen a fractal sword before, yet I have gotten 3 of them before, with 2 of them being within the same week. How is that prestigious? That’s just lucky (or rather, unlucky in my case since they were duplicates).

What is prestige then?

I mean gear/skins can only come in one of three ways.

1) It’s Crafted. Is this prestige?

2) It’s bought. Is this prestige?

3) It’s a drop. Is this prestige?

If we look at it as a drop then we have to weigh this as a guaranteed drop vs a random drop. And honestly I don’t know if this makes a difference. Because both amount to pretty much the same thing. Tokens? Having ran X content X amount of times equals the skin or weapon of your choice?

I will be honest at first I was pretty upset that something I had grinded hours and hours, run on top of run for was going to be able to be purchased. Even if the specifics are unclear.

Then oddly enough a good friend of mine who I run almost all my dungeons with messaged me about fractals having seeing the changes. She had never really show interest in fractals before, but now was considering it. And I thought about it a little bit as we talked.

Sure its gonna suck that every Tom, kitten and Harry has the ability to farm skins that many of us tried for years to get but haven’t been able to get.

Prestige is pretty much irritant, what one person finds awesome the next probably won’t. For example Sunrise, Twilight and Eternity, are very popular or prestigious skins, depending on who you talk to. I however don’t find them visually appealing, and even though I have the money to purchase them I won’t because I am hoping that when HoT comes out there will be a legendary greatsword skin I like better.

So in a sense I agree with you. But I think that saying RnG doesn’t equal Prestige is kinda funny, because in that sense is anything we get Prestigious?

All it really says is “Hey I did this content x amount of times.”

Nothing more.

The only prestige of worth is items tied to challenging achievements. RNG loot can be good as prestige. But it has to be done right. Which means it cant be accessible easily but it also cant be completely unrealistic to obtain.

So in fractal terms that would be fractal skin drops come in the form of a box where you choose the skin. The chance of obtaining this box is moderate. But its only available in the loot tables if you are fractal 50 and have completed fractal frequenter or some other challenging achieve that unlocks the drop. The point is that its not impossibly rare to get as a drop. But there is some significant requirement before you are even eligible for the drop.

Some basic feedback for this news though. I think progression should only be obtained by completing the relevant scale. This means you cannot skip scales if you want to reach fractal 100. No matter how well you balance the high level instability fractal combos there will definitely be one that gets put on farm by the community to carry bad players up to scale 90+ easily. So lets just avoid the issue entirely this time round and prevent this from happening. Right?

Looking in at this from a bit of an outside angle, as I haven’t done fractals in a long time (though I did farm up beyond 40+) the Weapons were more or less an indication of an experienced Fractal Runner.

- With RNG in play, even getting the right Fractal Skin to use on future Fractal runs was difficult. Those who run around with Fractal Weapons in their main builds more often than not got other lesser used weapons prior.

- They were also a sign of at least knowledge of many or all of the fractals and their mechanics.

…Honestly, the Fractal Weapons weren’t prestige. However, depending on the requirements for the Fractal Legendary Backpack, we might have something that actually is worth looking at.

spoj.9672:

The only prestige of worth is items tied to challenging achievements. RNG loot can be good as prestige. But it has to be done right. Which means it cant be accessible easily but it also cant be completely unrealistic to obtain.

So in fractal terms that would be fractal skin drops come in the form of a box where you choose the skin. The chance of obtaining this box is moderate. But its only available in the loot tables if you are fractal 50 and have completed fractal frequenter.

Some basic feedback for this news though. I think progression should only be obtained by completing the relevant scale. This means you cannot skip scales if you want to reach fractal 100. No matter how well you balance the high level instability fractal combos there will definitely be one that gets put on farm by the community to carry bad players up to scale 90+ easily. So lets just avoid the issue entirely this time round and prevent this from happening. Right?

I 100% agree. However, I think you should be able to do a 100 when at whatever personal level given you have the AR.

I don’t want friends cut off because they fell behind. Just we’ll need to go back to level them which I’m fine with.

And yes, that means I do want to see “wtb opener for lvl XX”

Yeah im not saying no you cant play higher levels. Im just saying it shouldnt progress your own level unless you complete each scale.

spoj.9672:

Yeah im not saying no you cant play higher levels. Im just saying it shouldnt progress your own level unless you complete each scale.

I am all for this. Gonna be easy enough to climb up the ladder without making it to easy. We all know alot of people didn’t do anything but get the AR for 40 and 50 and just farmed those for ranks.

The reward of smaller fractals have less reward. Or so says a developer on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3f6ei6/the_brandnew_fractals_of_the_mists_legendary/ctluxqt

But yeah also this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3f6ei6/the_brandnew_fractals_of_the_mists_legendary/ctm1mg5

Make your personal reward level the total sum of all tiers completed? You can run fractals with higher players, but continuously doing the same fractal will net just the end reward. Like the karka achieve in LA, there are 50 different karka you need, so have 100 different fractals(listed in an achievement) and your personal level is equivalent to the total number completed, if you do 1-40, 50 and 96, you’d sit at 42 personal reward. Unsure about how grandfathering would work.

Does anyone find it odd that the daily rewards are stacked at the easiest end of fractals, 1-20 and 31-50 have more rewards than 50+, and they are significantly easier, both currently and I would assume after the patch. Why not 1-30, 31-60,61-80,81+ or 1-40, 41-70, 70+