Guild Wars 2

If my personal reward is 19 and I do a level 9, do I still get the chance at an ascended ring or fractal skin at the very end?

I guess I’m confused as to what the personal reward is for? I read the wiki, but it didn’t really clarify, unless it basically just determines the amount of karma you receive at the end of a run.

ascended chests and fractal weapons only drop after level 11. It’s also annoying that agony and reward scales are not the same. Agony tiers start at 10 and increases every 10 levels (10,20,30 etc..). Rewards start at 11 and go up every 10 levels (11, 21, 31 etc…).

You get a daily reward chest from each tier once per day. so 11-20, 21-30 etc… NOT 10-20, 30-40 etc… The higher your fractal level, the higher level you can open, but if you have the AR you could do level 50 if your reward level is 1.

Higher levels theoretically offer better rewards, but the droprates are totally kittened so don’t get your hopes up.

If your PRL is 19 and you do a level 9, you will receive the bonus chest for levels 1-10 which is generally a pristine relic and empyreal fragments. If you then do a fractal between 11-20 you will receive a bonus chest of that tier, which has then chance to contain an ascended ring or very rarely a fractal skin or ascended equipment box. (With a pristine relic and empyreal fragments).

vespers.1759:

Agony tiers start at 10 and increases every 10 levels (10,20,30 etc..). Rewards start at 11 and go up every 10 levels (11, 21, 31 etc…).

You should view X0 as a bosslevel.

x1-x9 easymode yolo
x0 oh kitten bossmode we agony now
y2-y9 slight increase in difficulty but still easymode yolo
etc

tldr wipe the concept of “agony tiers” from your mind and it won’t bother you because it really shouldn’t.