So If Fractals Are The New Dungeons
If fractals are the new dungeons then they’ll add one more new fractal to the game (while removing another to make room for it). Then they’ll completely abandon the content once their next new shiny project comes along.
They’re going to abandon it once they realize they can’t fix it. That’s why they abandoned dungeons. That’s also why they gave up on GW1.
What Anet does is they make something cool that works pretty well, then the players find some abusive, degenerate strategies and it needs to be fixed. Anet attempts to fix it, but they always fail at this point. They don’t have a deep enough understanding of the issues so they end up missing the mark, usually making it worse in the process. After maybe a few more attempts to fix it, they throw their hands up, declare the content fundamentally flawed, and abandon it.
Once Raids are deemed a failure they’ll move on to GW3 or another IP.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the first raid and I’m sure I’ll love the next ones but eventually players will break them and Anet won’t be able to fix them, like always.
And raids are going to be continually updated with new content, when are we getting new fractals to play through? Since not all of us are hardcore enough to play and be successful at raids.
Since they haven’t announced a road map, I would imagine that new fractals will start to appear around the next living story, which couldn’t be sooner than 6-9 months after HoT launch in my opinion.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
If fractals are the new dungeons then they’ll add one more new fractal to the game (while removing another to make room for it).
At first I chuckled. But then I realized with the new structure where the specific level has a specific fractal I could actually see this happening.
Why more fractal IF people only do swamps and molten boss? They would run it 1 time then meh…lets do swamps cuz its faster
Why more fractal IF people only do swamps and molten boss? They would run it 1 time then meh…lets do swamps cuz its faster
Why not take a cue from renown hearts—different fractals scale the progress towards the daily at different rates. Also scale the end chest rewards with the difficulty and time duration of the fractal. Make Swamp and Molten Duo worth like 10% of the daily. Stuff like Urban Battleground, Uncategorized or Snowblind can be 33% as usual. Aquatic can be worth 100% because underwater combat. Now they don’t have to worry about making all fractals equal—they can just tweak a knob and make the rewards roughly balanced across the board.