Every difficulty level in FOTM from 1-100 will have it’s own personal fractal map (island), ok this will be different but nothing of real value has been lost but doing 4 maps like we do now will have a lot more zoning into dessa’s lab and back to islands than before. Also it cheapens the leveling progress to 1/4th of what it is now.
Raising the difficulty scale to 100. huzzah finally but I do have concerns abouts the required agony resistance that comes with those levels. A massive pay-wall from lv69+ would suck.
Giving more thought to group composition and build diversity with increased thoughness/precision at lv50+ has me concerned. Currently a full set of ascended gear is roughly 400g, depending on the armor class etc. My main problem is that even though we can now swap stats on ascended gear by using the MF (which is a huge boon, ty for that) it’s still a high cost mechanic that also destroys runes in the progress. If 1 gearset is practicly required for xx levels only to have us swap back to a different gearset at xx+1 level would be a huge blow to (my wallet) the FOTM experience.
Just a suggestion, wouldn’t it be more fun to see more abilitys/phases on a boss at higher levels instead of just increasing their toughness/precision/condi dmg which will simply force people into range? Congratulations, you survived a 15k hit with your pvt armor, now get a 2nd hit for 15k and grovel in the dirt like you are supposed to do. Although you want to create more viability for different builds, the way it’s discribed on the new pannel gives me the impression that this is not the way it should be taken to.
Specific mystlock instabilitys for specifics maps, ok looking forward to that. Multiple instabilities Im deffinitely looking forward to that.
[the final chest called a fractal encryption. – If you ever find yourself with extra (or not enough) boxes at the end of a run, don’t worry; you’ll be able to trade fractal encryptions with your fellow Tyrians.
Does this mean we get to sell these boxes on the TP or trade them with only our party members? Because if people can actually get FOTM rewards without doing FOTM would be complete nonsense (pointing towards weapon skin aquisition and then this lootbox).]
That fractal weapon skin crate at the vendor, is this a one time purchase? Because I can’t help but feel that whatever happens to fractal skins, it will devalue its rarity. But ok Im not losing any skins so this is just me being bitter/salty at spending over 6 months of doing 30-40-50 difficulty scale and still not receiving the hammer/warhorn.
The fractured patch, in all honesty, felt like Anet spitting in our faces. Had to be said and Im faily certain lots of players will agree with that.
The new weapon skins for prestige, Im ok with that and I need to let my bitterness/saltyness go. The current skins are so rare that they are worthless. A total newb could do a lv20 fotm en get a highly demanded fractal skin in his first try while others have farmed 2+ years and never have gotten it.
Ascended salvaging, always a plus.
legendary backpiece, expecting some massive collection crap, atleast a 1.2k gold sink + endless fotm farm so will see how this turns out.
Overal im excited but I still don’t know what the fractal masteries will be like, any post on that soon?
And sorry for the blogpost with meh tier English.