Guild Wars 2

UPDATE:
Well, I have slightly gotten what i asked for.

Looking Longer Term:
Our Fractals team is hard at work on a lot of updates for Fractals of the Mists in 2016. Some highlights to look forward to in 2016 include the completion of outstanding projects like the Fractal legendary backpack and our new take on fractal leaderboards. You’ll also see lots of additional polish, balance to existing fractals and rewards, changes and polish to instabilities, additional reasons to play all the different fractals, and most importantly, new fractals (yes, you read that right: new fractals!).

So basically the legendary backpack won’t see the light for another AT LEAST 3 months.

Edit: Added extra dissapointment and broken promises.

Greetings

Yes, it’s another post about the infamous legendary back item. The item that goes by the name “Ad infinitum”, roughly translated to “without an end” – Which might be named very cleverly because the waiting time seems to be without an end.

Most of the people baffled by this beautiful skin has since HoT gathered all the pages and spent about 700 gold to craft the precursor. Once you show this newly crafted precursor to the NPC, he simply tells you to bugger off and wait.

Most people expected the last two gifts needed to craft the back item to be released with the Wintersday patch as a nice Christmas present, but we have yet to see any clue to its existence. Now that we are getting even closer to 2016 without any info about this subject, I beseech a kind soul, dev or forum mod for any information about the legendary back item that we are eagerly waiting for.

- The skin is present in the game, as it can be seen in the wardrobe.
- The recipe has been datamined and is known.
- (Unbound, Gift of fortune, Gift of the fractals & Gift of infinity)
- There is a recipe for the Gift of the Fractals, but it is unobtainable at the moment.
- The Asura in the fractal lobby is wearing the kitten thing.

What is keeping it from being released?

TL;DR:
Please provide some kind information about the release date of the legendary back item. Any information – even something about how you are currently working on it will suffice and make me a happy Quaggan.

I will literally write a poem to the first dev that replies, with useful info, about how awesome you are.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year & Good Fortune to you all

~ Mighty Momo

There has been a few threads on this topic. I remember, can’t find it, Colin saying it would be out by the time you finish the pre. I started day 2 and even missed a few of the days for the pages and I finished it at the start of December. One of the components is tied to leaderboards and they have promised leaderboards in the past and look where we are. I don’t care for the learderboards but if it’s for the back piece then I care. That was the one item I wanted when hot launched.

+1 on post

Sadly there has been too many threads about this topic – both here and on reddit. I have been keeping an eye on them while desperately hoping for a response. Most people who were excited about the legendary back item is now sitting with a precursor, unable to progress any further.

It is highly unlikely, but if the recipe is in the game already, but just haven’t been discovered (Similar to Nightfury) then it would be much appreciated if a dev / mod could inform us of this – so we could actually start looking through possible recipes.

Hi!

I was wondering with all the updates on bugfixes and such recently, has there been any update on the status of the final step of the Fractal Legendary backpiece?

This was something that I expected to be in game at HoT launch, but here I am with Unbound and 74 extra research pages, and no idea when I’ll be able to progress further.

Would it be possible to get a status update on this? I understand that some part of it was supposed to be tied to Fractal Leaderboards, but at this point, two and a half months after HoT with no word (and fractal leaderboards being “on the table” for over a year now, even though we have no idea what they could possibly entail), I’d be more than satisfied having that part obtained through alternative means.

Also, is Unbound supposed to be floppy or stiff? Which physics is the bug- it being floppy on other players’ screens, or it being stiff on your screen? Was that ever answered?

There has been no update recently.

That’s disappointing. It would be nice to know what happened to the promised instability changes and updates that were promised on release as well.

For example, an instability that converted specific conditions on an enemy to boons will be replaced with one that prevents projectiles from being reflected.

To help you with these changes, we’ve also cleaned up the messaging on the instabilities so that the dangers you’ll face are easier to understand.

from https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-brand-new-fractals-of-the-mists-legendary-backpacks-ascended-salvaging-and-more/

Instead, we got enemies getting boons on crits with no internal cooldown.

Whatever happened there?

Ltomato.8649:

Also, is Unbound supposed to be floppy or stiff? Which physics is the bug- it being floppy on other players’ screens, or it being stiff on your screen? Was that ever answered?

Dunno but the BP looks incredibly clunky the way its is currently, I hope they fix the animations for it to give some float and flex to it.

I hope the legendary PVP BP doesn’t end up with the same issues, looks like it could be really clunky too judging by seeing it on the NPC vendor.

I hope the back will come with super cool glider skin to ( its f… legendary right )
i would loveeee to see all these stones fragment on my back expanding wehn you start to glide then they will reassemly again when i land DREAMSSSS ?

Maybe the recipe is just an super rare drop from inside the fractals, be it from a mob or a chest, or maybe an special NPC that appears after defeating a certain boss from a certain lvl or above a certain lvl, or maybe only at fractals lvl 100.

I guess we just have to wait and see if anyone ever gets it droped and posts about it. Problem is, most people do fractals now only below lvl 51 for the dailies, so it could take a while until one drops or finds out about how to acquire it if it indeed only drops at higher fractal lvls.

If it drops then we have no way of knowing, because when you finish Unbound the asura in the lobby tells you to wait for future releases.

We do know there are 2 upgraded gifts you can create in Fractals, the Lessons in Metallurgy and Lessons in Arbology, but we don’t know if they are actually used for the legendary or not yet. They don’t go in the mystic forge at all, so it’s like they’re used in a preset recipe.

Time to cross fingers and hope that the upcoming patch will not be another Ad-Infinitum-lacking patch.

It has been confirmed that the legendary backpack will not be released the first 3 months of 2016.

I wouldn’t care the least for the legendary backpiece if it wasn’t for the fact that it is one of the only sources of Sinister/Viper’s stats. Since the only other source is raids and I can’t do those.

It doesn’t matter anymore, fractals will be broken soon anyway, it’s better to just give up and not expect anything of it

Bump for justice.

PunisherxDKx.8306:

It has been confirmed that the legendary backpack will not be released the first 3 months of 2016.

LOL

Kraljevo.2801:

PunisherxDKx.8306:

It has been confirmed that the legendary backpack will not be released the first 3 months of 2016.

LOL

/sigh
I know- it’s getting painful to see all the QQ because their bowl of ice cream is a little late.

trub.1657:

/sigh
I know- it’s getting painful to see all the QQ because their bowl of ice cream is a little late.

A little?

The hold-up here is the Leaderboards, which were supposed to arrive back on November 26, 2013. They even reset a lot of people’s progress back then, to prepare for them.

After over two years of waiting, I think it’s more than a “little late”. The fact that the devs actually attached the big Fractals reward to these non-existent leaderboards is, honestly, laughable.

Palador.2170:

trub.1657:

/sigh
I know- it’s getting painful to see all the QQ because their bowl of ice cream is a little late.

A little?

The hold-up here is the Leaderboards, which were supposed to arrive back on November 26, 2013. They even reset a lot of people’s progress back then, to prepare for them.

After over two years of waiting, I think it’s more than a “little late”. The fact that the devs actually attached the big Fractals reward to these non-existent leaderboards is, honestly, laughable.

I think your in the wrong thread? These folks are talking about a “legendary thingy” that was announced for HoT??
I think your looking for the QoL thread? or the other threads about WvW?
holas!

trub.1657:

Palador.2170:

trub.1657:

/sigh
I know- it’s getting painful to see all the QQ because their bowl of ice cream is a little late.

A little?

The hold-up here is the Leaderboards, which were supposed to arrive back on November 26, 2013. They even reset a lot of people’s progress back then, to prepare for them.

After over two years of waiting, I think it’s more than a “little late”. The fact that the devs actually attached the big Fractals reward to these non-existent leaderboards is, honestly, laughable.

I think your in the wrong thread? These folks are talking about a “legendary thingy” that was announced for HoT??
I think your looking for the QoL thread? or the other threads about WvW?
holas!

No, it’s the right thread. Ad Infinitum requires something you’ll apparently get from the Fractal Leaderboards. Those leaderboards are not out yet, and are not going to be out until at least Q2. THAT is the delay mentioned in the very topic of this thread.