Guild Wars 2

I know reddit is a dirty word around here, but there is a Fractal Leaderboard Poll up on Reddit at the moment. It seems the vast majority of the more casual do not care about the leaderboards. But in all likelihood, that is because the legendary backpiece is tied behind it restricting them from it. What do some of the more experienced players think?

Disclaimer: I am Fractal Level 100 and voted No on the poll.

I also voted no. I dont care about one. I doubt it will be implemented in a way that is meaningful for top players.

And i certainly dont believe it should be related to crafting the backpiece.

No one cares anymore simply because why would they? It’s been forever, if its going to happen it’ll be like “eh, they finally got it down after a bunch of years” and then, like spoj said, the way it’s implemented has a high likelyhood of ranking people after something silly.

No1 cares about fractalleaderboards. They are only good as a running gag for something that doesn’t get implemented anyway.

All you will see from a PvE leaderboard is more people excluding some professions and only wanting others to run with. I never understood the point of leaderboards anyway except for PvP. All it’s meant for is bragging rights and will make the majority of the people feel bad because they might be worse than their friends.

As an avid fractal Farmer/Runner who’s ran over 3000-4000+ Fractals (Pre-Hot) and a bunch more Post-HoT, 180,000+ Fractal relics collected(Spent half) I Vote no. It’s pointless and it’s just an ego-fest for a minority of the playerbase.

Don’t want, don’t need. Doesn’t add anything meaningful or significant (forcing legendary backpiece to be hidden behind it does not count).

And if this is really the delay for finishing Ad Infinitum they can go stick their leaderboard back in the recycle bin.

I agree with ThyShadowPaladin. I’m an avid fractal runner, you can find me in there everyday. But I don’t care about a leaderboard, I’m just excited about Ad Infinitum but the hype is dying. The legendary is long overdue and yet it’s still postponed. Listen to your community please anet.

I don’t see the point. Just make a 4th collection and be done with it.

I agree, I couldn’t care less about a fractals leaderboard. To clarify though, the devs mentioned a while back that Ad Infinitim was originally tied to the fractals leaderboard but they decided that they didn’t want that to be the case and so redesigned the recipe to remove that requirement. There is speculation about that being the cause for such a long delay in releasing. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed for a close release date….

I play PvE to relax. Why the heck do I need to be ranked with other people?

If they implement it right I’m totally up. I mean, why not? It would add another layer of gameplay which is always welcome, imho. And also might give more reasons to run other fractals other than swamps.

No. It is a huge waste of dev time.

How to say if wanted or not if we don’t know what is the base of the ranking and if there is something to earn from that.

Honestly I could totally imagine a week/month challenge of a preset lvl 100 path of Fractals (like before HOT) where teams competing should be the quickest to create a ranking and have rewards according to that.
Or the same Fractals repeating and becoming harder and harder where you don’t have the possibility to rez a fully dead guy.

Right now there is nothing to rank players on, no other score than Fractal level… which eventually will be the same for everyone. So far we have no clue of what they would like to do… and in fact they don’t have either. Tbh they had ambitious plans for HoT but the result was poor and they barely acknowledged it…

I’d prefer they scrap the whole fractal leaderboards idea and focus on providing more fractals, variance in rewards, and more functionality for fractals.

Eh… I actually like the idea of leaderboards for the same reason I surprisingly liked the GRift leaderboards in D3. I think they’re a good idea and I think they’ll add longevity to the gameplay (I could see myself competing with other groups within my own guild to see who can beat things the fastest).

What I don’t want is for them to delay the legendary any further because of leaderboards, nor do I want leaderboards to be eating into time they’d be spending on new fractals. If the leaderboards are their own team of people, fine, but not at the expense of new Fractal content.

Voted no. I could not care less about leaderboards in any game I play.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Eh… I actually like the idea of leaderboards for the same reason I surprisingly liked the GRift leaderboards in D3. I think they’re a good idea and I think they’ll add longevity to the gameplay (I could see myself competing with other groups within my own guild to see who can beat things the fastest).

What I don’t want is for them to delay the legendary any further because of leaderboards, nor do I want leaderboards to be eating into time they’d be spending on new fractals. If the leaderboards are their own team of people, fine, but not at the expense of new Fractal content.

Your second paragraph is kind of why i voted no. I dont really think they should be linked. And i dont care either way if we get them or not.

Why would I care about a leaderboard for content that’s been out for 3 years now?
Also content that is full of bugs?

Fractal leaderboards would have been a good idea 6 months after FOTM released. Pushing it with the 1 year fractured update – but still doable.

Right now? Nobody cares.

Hardcore fractal veterans are burnt out on FOTM and only do it for rewards.
Casuals don’t care – and FOTM has become very casual since the HoT update.

So who exactly would compete? The most hardcore players that care about instanced content strategy, capacity and ability are now focusing on Raids.

I just want my backpiece so I can just farm FOTM. And I don’t even like the look of it – doing it strictly for the functionality.

I would have voted no. What’s there to measure? Completion? Death counts? Kill counts? Personal Level? Are we all going to get a “fractal ranking”

Either way, I fall under the category of burnt out vet that just walks in to get his shot at the ascended boxes and walks right back out. The 1 fractal per instance was what really killed that aspect of the game for me. After years of the same content of course I’m going to go take the easiest/shortest paths to get my rewards. No incentive to do anything else.

Oh, and the Legendary backpiece. It’s shiny. I want it.