Guild Wars 2

Am I the only one that finds this to be a somewhat ridiculous setup, and quite frankly poorly though out “quest” design? I mean, why in the world, is the criteria in each stage of the precursor(s) Back Items, to make and upgrade the Fractal Back Item?

You are tasked with making a Back Item, while you are making a Back Item which you can wear in the meantime, consequently being tasked with making two Back Items—without necessarily even needing the second one. That is just silly if you ask me. It’s not even used in the recipe, it’s just.. fluff. Surely there must be better ways of filling out the collection.

Ok, sure, if you happen to not have characters with an Ascended Back Item, by all means, they could perhaps use it, but plenty of us already have decked out alts, and this requirement is just.. well, (to me) stupid. And even though I do see it as a relatively good “sink” in its own right, both through materials and time/effort, I think this should have been handled better;

Make a back item, in order to make a back item that you actually want to wear/use. It’s about as clever as Bags inside Bags. Oh right, ArenaNet has done that too. Never mind, what am I even complaining about.

It makes sense to me that the precursor for a legendary back item is a back item, and it also is very convenient that you can salvage the back item along the way to recoop tons of dark matter that you then use for the next step. Seems reasonable to me.

He is referring to the actual collection requiring the prototype fractal capacitor and it’s various forms.

So while making an ascended precursor backpack, you’re also making the fractal capacitor by default.

Ah, I see. I feel like that is acceptable given that ANet wanted to incorporate that previous achievement (the glowy backpiece) into the new legendary. It is a little semantically strange that you have to create another backpiece tangential to the legendary backpiece you’re making, but in principle I think it’s good to validate those people who made the old one.

In practice its odd, but given the legendary is tied to fractals it only makes sense at the same time.

I will note that this way you can have one geared for agony and the other straight stats. Or can do power/condi.

I like it, it gave making the old one a purpose.

Malediktus.9250:

I like it, it gave making the old one a purpose.

Agreed, you’d have no reason to make it post-HoT unless you just really liked the skin that much.