Guild Wars 2

Im at level 40. Just did my first run after the patch (Was away on vacation). The whole run I got one rare drop, which was a level 77 rare with a major rune. One other person got a rare similar quality.

We got our Relics, and daily pristine couple got infused rings, myself included to add to the 10+ other worthless ones sitting in my bank (yes I know Alts can use them) but I don’t need them, they cannot be salvaged, or TP’d and they sell for like 4-5 silver.

I have fully upgraded backpeice with two infused rings with 10 AR each.

So the question stands, what’s the point of doing FotM?

- Laurels used to purchase Ascended Amulets come form completing your reguglar daily, and have nothing to do with FotM.
- Relics, or Pristine Relics are not currently needed/wanted (sure can load up on 20 slot boxes I suppose).
- The drop rate appears to have been nerfed, based on my experience and querying the 20 some odd other FoM friends I run with who have concurred the drop rates are a joke now.
- You don’t get much in the way of Gold/Silver (other than TP’ing Mats).
- We all know how useful the plethora of blue/green drop items are.
- In about 40+ Fractal runs post lvl 20 I still have yet to get a Fractal Weapon skin, which I don’t really care about anyway because they are all mostly ugly to me anyway.

So what am I missing here? I enjoy the challenge of FoM but not if there is no reward for the efforts…Will the Relics be useful towards Ascended weapons/armor? I’m not trying to be negative, but has anyone else thought this post patch?

I agree that the drop rates are terrible now for some reason even though a Dev confirmed it is still RNG..

Pristine should also allow us to buy fractual weapon skins. I am starting to do less and less fotm runs now since trying to get a USABLE skin to my main is starting to be a PITA.

Groups I’ve been in generally agree that the drop rates on the chests have been nerfed very hard. Previously I’ve been able to get 4-8 rares with 1 or 2 runes, but now its only the 2 rares with runes that I seem to be getting. Mob drops look fine though.

Interesting note, I seems to be getting more greens with proper suffixes attatched to them, instead of just saying “trident”, compared to pre-patch.

Getting weapon skins are still a pain because it is based on stupid frustrating RNG, and I hope they bring fractals in line with how rewards for every other dungeon are done. You know, with the really nice token system they build so they didn’t have to have rewards be RNG based.

As for ammus, I’m fine waiting a month for these to show up in the FotM vendor, because then it gives those who don’t run FotM time to get their ascended stuff and get them caught up to those who have a million relics, and I’m hoping it will also be added to WvW for badges as well (of which many WvWers have thousands).

There is definitely something screwy with the drop rate, aside from the pointlessness of fotm now over some other much much faster easier dungions, as stated, I am getting vials of mist essences past lvl 26 now, this was changed not to long ago before this resent patch so that 10+ no more vials, 20+ no more globs only shards. A lot of very problematic bugs are still in place and all the “tricks” are always patched out. I’m fine with fixing exploits but they ALWAYS seem to take priority over real play level bugs. I would like to think play quality would be a priority for anet, but it seems they only care about fixing exploits and banning gold farmers.

Small rage on my part, I loved fotm until the drop rate went to zip, no amulates in the fractals store (the only place one needs ar) and nothing to do with tokens. Plus since all the “tricks” are being removed there isn’t any point to fotm since the reward/difficulty(time) is way out of wack.

I mean come on since when is pulling a boss away from his minions an exploit? This whole game is about kiting/dodging…..

Well, getting Infused rings for me is a waste, just don’t need anymore. The final chest yielded not one rare/exotic on my last daily run at 40. Only got the one Rare the whole run where as before I would get on average about 3-4 Rares and maybe an exotic.

Everyone Ive been talking to in game has pretty much said they haven’t gotten anything good loot wise either.

I think its safe to say, SOMETHING changed in regards to the loot tables, and to be honest I personally see no need/reason to even do FotM now if this is what we can expect moving forward because other dungeons take way less time, yield much better reward for your time invested.

Wonder why ANet felt the need to nerf the loot… <shrug>

@Hamish, I agree completely. I started doing fotm as something to do with friends/guildies where I could make money comparable to what i could make on the tp because i don’t want to have to sit at tp watching prices in order to make enough gold to pay for legendary, exotic skins etc. i have yet to find more than 2 rares in a fotm run and have nvr found an exotic. I would like to see that change

Lanser.8520:

Groups I’ve been in generally agree that the drop rates on the chests have been nerfed very hard. Previously I’ve been able to get 4-8 rares with 1 or 2 runes, but now its only the 2 rares with runes that I seem to be getting. Mob drops look fine though.

Interesting note, I seems to be getting more greens with proper suffixes attatched to them, instead of just saying “trident”, compared to pre-patch.

My guild’s observations have been consistent with this. Rare/exotic drop rate seems vastly lower for reward chests, and non-prefixed/suffixed weapons seem to have been… fixed?

That said, there’s a dev post on the subject.

No changes were made to loot in fractals what so ever, they will be covered in release notes if changes of that nature are made.

Without delving into syntactical minutiae, I can’t explain the difference between what we as players seem to be observing and what ANet is reporting.

For loot? Last night I got 5 rares and 3 cores. Last week I got 3 exotics in 3 runs.

I know I know, small sample size. But I can’t help but imagine confirmation bias playing a role in people’s perspectives on their loot. Unless MANY people actually kept records of every loot they got every day since fractals were released, I find these “loot rates nerfed?” threads pointless, especially when the devs have disavowed these accusations already.

Anet.. are you SURE you didn’t screw with the loot?

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