Guild Wars 2

According to some .dat mining, at one point Anet was considering having the upcoming Kiel/Gnashblade election give us either a fractalized Molten Facility or Aetherblade retreat added to the FOTM rotations.

It seems these plans have changed, and now we’re getting either something about Abaddon’s fall or the Thaumanova meltdown.

I really wish they’d hold off those changes until the underlying problems with Fractals are fixed. Of course two more new ones would make Dredge and Cliffside less likely to appear, but it’d be nice if the problems with those two were fixed. Also, the RNG for rings and fractal weapon skins is still horrible. We need something better to do with useless rings than vendoring them for 5 silver, and we need something better to do with useless skins than Right Click…Destroy. I’ll be marginally more attracted to running fractals with two new ones to check out, but as soon as I get a daily chest with naught but relics and bags of loot (or maybe even worse, another Lost Seal of Usoku), I’ll probably barf.

Broadicea.8294:

and we need something better to do with useless skins than Right Click…Destroy.

Noooo ! that’s not a lot, and not worth running fractals for, but you can salvage these useless skins instead of destroying. Don’t waste globs!

I haven’t actually done that since I’ve only gotten 3 skins. Good to know I can get something out of them if I ever get the point where some of you folks are (5 tridents, 4 torches, etc).

very good news …. i really feared aetherblade retreats could destroy fractal once and for all.
And possibly even molten facility considering jumping mechanic is a really bad idea in a difficult dungeon with the cossision issues/lag issues it had.

Mostly because you have to consider how it would turn out at fotm higher levels.

We are getting something new….but may i ask what abbadon fall is?

Also for cliffside they are fixing it soon finally….so will no more be a problem.
And they are changing rewards also…those are old news.

I’m guessing Abaddon’s fall is about the story in GW1 nightfalls where the sunspears kicked Abaddon in the face and let Kormir ascend to godhood.

But yeah, just got dredge fractal, I am reminded of why I HATE DREDGE. Can we just get rid of that garbage fractal? I mean I guess its my fault that I got myself into a pug where no one know how to dodge the champ’s shockwave. But everything from the VERY start to the rubbish truck make my stomach turn. The final boss’s mechanics I actually find interesting (except when you get pugs that doesn’t understand what clockwise mean but then again it’s my fault that I pug)

According to Colin in the live stream (and probably upcoming blog post), they’ll add the one that wins the vote as well as Molten Facility and Aetherblade Retreat. That’s kinda cool I guess, three new fractals at once isn’t bad. Really hope they get around to fixing the other problems we all mentioned, though.

Wukunlin.8461:

I’m guessing Abaddon’s fall is about the story in GW1 nightfalls where the sunspears kicked Abaddon in the face and let Kormir ascend to godhood.

You are guessing wrong.
It is about his actual fall, that takes place before GW1 when he is fighting the gods.

hmm if they are adding all these new fractals i hope they are short and not ridiculously long like dredge fractal. Also, they need to give other uses for pristine relics and mist essence. They are just piling up in my storage with no use =/

why are they adding new fractals when they need to fix the old ones first

Balistic.5782:

why are they adding new fractals when they need to fix the old ones first

Why assume they are not fixing the others before/at the same time as they add the new ones?

lordkrall.7241:

Why assume they are not fixing the others before/at the same time as they add the new ones?

Because it’s anet?

lordkrall.7241:

Balistic.5782:

why are they adding new fractals when they need to fix the old ones first

Why assume they are not fixing the others before/at the same time as they add the new ones?

Because no dev posts in this sub forum for like 7 months. Outside of Jeff Vaughn saying they’ll fix the chanter respawning on Cliffside eventually. Wanna bet whether or not that’s actually getting into the next patch?

Broadicea.8294:

Because no dev posts in this sub forum for like 7 months. Outside of Jeff Vaughn saying they’ll fix the chanter respawning on Cliffside eventually. Wanna bet whether or not that’s actually getting into the next patch?

So no post = not working on it?

Quite flawed way of thinking.
I for one would rather say it would be the opposite, if they don’t post on the forums that means they are busy working on the game.