Guild Wars 2

Ok so there is a challenge mode for each fractal. However the one in Nightmare is unique as the only one that gives additional rewards, is only available at level 100, and does indeed change the battles.
But I doubt Nightmare will remain level 100 forever, so then what? Will we get a challenge mode like that for each Master Tier fractal? Problem is that some of them appear more than once on each tier. Of course if we have 25 different fractals that would not be a problem, but I doubt we will get 8 new fractals just like that.
I think that a better idea would be a new scale unlocked for those that finished level 100.
And this scale would be the challenge mode, however unlike the other scales we would have to select which fractal we want to do.
So in other words all challenge modes for each fractal would be level 100.
While those required for Ad Infinitum would remain the same as always and on same scales as before.

But here comes an interesting question at that point – why?
Why do we need a CM for each fractal? The current CM is a means of getting the Bladed back items but what about the rest? If each awards Mystic Coins too I guess that would be nice, but that’s it?
What if we could get something nice out of doing CM’s like say Legendary Armour?
Obviously it would be a different set than the one from Raids, but it would be an alternate way of getting a Legendary Armour.

Now perhaps it could be done to get Legendary Trinckets, but the difficulty would be inconsistent with how we get Ad Infinitum. For it we mostly have to do fractals up to Tier 3, except the level 98 time trial.
Regardless there must be some greater purpose in doing CM’s on every fractal if that is the plan. And obviously more ways to get ascended gear in fractals would be a waste at this point.

So what so you think? Is this the solution for getting Legendary Armour by non-raiders?

i think eventually we’re gonna get a “challenge mode on randomly generated fractal selection until your party wipes” type of deal in future updates given the content of the next xpac

Rikimaru.7890:

So what so you think? Is this the solution for getting Legendary Armour by non-raiders?

Almost certainly not. At every opportunity, ANet has doubled down on their position that raid rewards should reflect the difficulty of the mode and are going to continue to gate the only design for legendary armor behind raids.

So far, they also don’t seem much interested in offering a legendary-lite type of rarity, in which only the stat-swapping feature is offered. My guess: they are planning something for saving and making it easier to swap builds. My hope: such a system will mean it’s far, far cheaper for most of us to stat+sigil|rune swap as needed rather than craft legendaries.

As for the idea behind challenge modes.

First, right now, only Nightmare has an important CM — it’s dramatically different for normal mode. The other challenges are (so far) one-time changes to difficulty or a timer; they don’t change the nature of the fight and therefore aren’t (in my opinion) worthy of different rewards.

I suspect that the other challenges were just an easy way to offer something specific for collections, without ANet having to implement new content. I think Nightmare was created to be special and maybe any new fractals will also see a challenge mote.

i wouldnt be surpised if they ended up adding a more elite version of ad infinitum (maybe a golden one like the golden fractal weapons which will require you to complete a number of (nightmare like) cm’s that new fractals will come with or even old ones (chaos ) and sink in another 1k to 500g into it for the more hardcore players ofc i would like that actually a golden ad infinitum also for the question if nightmare will remain 100 i think it will remain until we get the last fractal of the fractal story (the one that is currently running)