Guild Wars 2

OK, I get that you want them to be account bound so that you can’t just buy one. I think that’s cool – you actually have to play the game to get items. But why the random system now where you can get a fractal weapon you can’t even use, or get the same fractal weapon twice?

It feels like I’ve stepped back 10 years in terms of game design. This is what tokens are for. You can even keep it random if you want to for some reason – have a token drop randomly in the daily reward instead of a weapon, and then you can redeem that token for a fractal weapon at the merchant.

Can the developers please explain their rationale?

they want them to be rare

it’s fine that they are rare, but I’d at least like a choice of what I’m getting! I cant use the dagger I got on my guardian after 250 fractals

Maximillian Greil.1965:

they want them to be rare

Did you read what I wrote? You can still make them rare with a token system. Make it the exact same drop rate, except instead of a weapon it’s a token so you can choose your weapon type.

I would love to see the Fractal Weapon skins added to a token vendor. Make it something like 2 or 3k tokens or 20 of the daily tokens. But seriously my luck is really bad last night i got all greens in 3 runs over 20. The boss chest dropped 2 greens and 1 putrid essence…

I know I will never ever get one of the Skins I really want (Sword for my Mesmer and Hammer for the guard) Even if i run the instance 1000 times I probably wont get the skin. So we cannot trade them, at least give us the option to earn them instead of kitten RNG.

No, you must grind and grind for it, it’s the only way.

Good idea. Also, if they don’t change the system somehow, they should enable using fractal relics for Vials of Condensed Mists Essence (not coagulated or shards, since you can make them in the mystic forge with vials). Placing 1000+ price on a weapon and 150-ish on a vial should be ok.

I just put it down to, fractal = for the super hardcore and leave it at that!
Yeah kittenty, but there’s people that only do fractals, and people that will be kitten But even now I’m sick of seeing twillight all over the place, I think this way will make each frac weapon more unique

I agree with the OP; the “grind until you hate the game” mentality is absurd. If they insist on making them random, I totally agree that you should get a new and unique token that you can turn in to a merchant instead of a random weapon. What we have right now is not fun, it’s just a grind. If you enjoy running fractals repeatedly day-in and day-out, removing the grind wouldn’t hurt your enjoyment at all because you could still do that to get even more rewards. Furthermore, FotM is a profitable dungeon if you get cores and rares and the like, so people would repeatedly run it anyway. There is no downside to removing the grind.

I like the “grind until you hate the game” mentality

and no I didn’t read your post

Zogyark.4597:

No, you must grind and grind for it, it’s the only way.

You can still have the grind with a token system.

It seems like the only reason to use an RNG drop system over a token system is if you like screwing over players by giving them weapons they can’t use.

Yeah, but then when u actually get it you might want to be “done” with fractals, It’s obvious they want everyone to grind fractals and declare it a huge success.