Guild Wars 2

For a player that comes on GW2 only to do FotM, I have to say my interests and enthusiasm to continue playing have dropped rock bottom. In fact if it wasn’t for the release of FotM I don’t think I would’ve stuck around. FotM was intended for those that enjoyed a challenge with its ever increasing difficulty scale. However, what challenge is there when with this update we can no longer progress past 49 given that the agony from Jade Maw is simply not survivable with whatever prior methods were used. I suspect that the original plans for FotM were to level cap players based upon how much resist they had on and to stop players progressing any further until further ascended gear were added to increase AR. This assumes 39 was the practical limit that players could reach with 30 AR and to progress any further more resist would be needed.

Considering this, that “Fractals of the Mists! … offers players unlimited levels of challenge!” (Nov 15th 2012 notes) how then can we enjoy unlimited levels of play when we have no way of surviving agony from Jade Maw at these high levels? And in all honesty I have never understood this final fractal. The mob and boss encounter seem trivial to the predecessor fractals both in terms of challenge and skill. For one, it offers no real challenge thus negating any required skills. Second, what is the purpose of agony striking during phase transitions when it is unavoidable. This seems futile to the heart of running a dungeon. Too many conflicting ideas have made this a poor design of a dungeon.

Secondly, and this is what has disappointed me the greatest, what has been the purpose of introducing ascended gear through FotM when now new ascended gear can only be had through dailies and monthly achieves? I have spent hours playing FotM and have accumulated 8k+ Fractal Relics and 86 Pristine Fractal Relics as well as all the rings and some back pieces and now I find that these tokens are as useful as a pogo stick in quicksand! I’m afraid that if no changes come to address these two issues I will be a ghost in GW2.

Agree aswell. Maybe they wanted to avoid people getting that amulet ASAP when its out and add it to daily achivment. However, only instance where agony hits is FOTM. Why add only to daily achivment, why not add to FOTM aswell. We all worked hard for our tokens. And ftm, with them we cant do anything exept delete them since they take a lot slots in bank.

This almost feels bugged to me. The gear is specifically designed for fractals yet is currently, since no one has reported it, not found in fractals. That seems far too self contradictory and bizarre to be intended. I can see two options: its bugged, its got a tiny drop rate, or someone done messed up. I’d imagine we’d get more answers within the next few days as this seems most bizarre.

• 10+ Rings
• 20+ Infused Rings/Skins
• 30+ (one would assume) Amulet
• 40+ Infused Amulet

Is what would make sense.

I mean, i would do daily in any case, not depending on amulet, but i would love that amulet so i can progress into fractal, now im FORCED to wait 20ish days for it….

So much of policy " we want our players to be free to do whatever they want"… sure…

Sanel.5603:

I mean, i would do daily in any case, not depending on amulet, but i would love that amulet so i can progress into fractal, now im FORCED to wait 20ish days for it….

So much of policy " we want our players to be free to do whatever they want"… sure…

Well that’s why I think its bugged. They said they’d add MORE ways of attaining the loot, not shift it to a different and completely unrelated NPC while not adding more ways. It seems perfectly fit as a drop at 30+ and, honestly, should be added as a Pristine for several times the price of Rings but I can understand that they don’t want instant amulets everywhere from all of us who have hoarded p.relics. I don’t mind, in particular, as I’m happy using the p.relics for alts that will never set foot in Fractals.