Guild Wars 2

In the blog post today Anet essentially confirmed that they will no longer be updating dungeons, and instead will be reducing/removing the main forms of incentive for dungeon runners, essentially killing dungeons for the community. Instead Anet said the 5-man content that they want to be focused on updating is FotM. However, this focus on FotM has neither been shown, and is actually harder to implement with the updated version of fractals.

Although the older version of FotM supports easy implementation of new fractal “islands”, it becomes much more difficult to show this support in the newer version coming with HoT. This is due to how the fractal levels have pre-set mistlocks and islands, meaning that each level has a specific island mistlock combination. This means that if Anet ever wanted to add additional islands they would need to completely change the structuring or remove current combinations.

In addition FotM has had no updates for almost two years. Some may consider the rewards/island revamp an update, but the fact remains that their have been no islands added to the game since November 2013. This seems like a contradiction to Anet’s supposed FotM focus.

Due to these reasons I would like to ask Anet their current plans on how they plan to support their 5-man FotM content with regular updates, as well as how they plan on having people want to continue to play FotM several months after the revamp (once people have all the skins they need, will there be any monetary incentive, either from direct gold or an item that could be sold on TP that is applicable to a larger playerbase than just agony infusions?). The FotM blog post stated some of their plans, however, many specifics have remained open to speculation.

I would also like to ask the community what they think would be the best way for Anet to maintain support for FotM either through the implementation of new islands or through rewards.

why not both? but i doubt anything of that will happen..

oh.. does anyone remember the last time they supported fractals? where they did the fractal lvl reset? i still wait for the leaderboards

Ylvina.6749:

why not both? but i doubt anything of that will happen..

oh.. does anyone remember the last time they supported fractals? where they did the fractal lvl reset? i still wait for the leaderboards

Sorry, I guess I should clarify that I didn’t mean the question about new islands/rewards as an either-or question, but rather as a ‘what do you think would be the best way to implement islands or implement desirable rewards that will remain relevant after several months.’

GoldenTruth.2853:

Due to these reasons I would like to ask Anet their current plans on how they plan to support their 5-man FotM content with regular updates.

They will probably create some new island from time to time and replace the most farmed ones with it :P

They aren’t supporting fractals. It is a very clear lie.

Is it not personal story, big maps to farm and grind for gold, or PvP balancing? Then they aren’t supporting it.