Guild Wars 2

Thank you for the double fractal daily. Today is one of the very rare days when i possibly will complete my daily.
Double fractal daily should be way more often.

Eep. I expect you’ll get flamed for this, but some people do like it. Like my guildmaster.

I personally don’t care for it, but it does get me doing things with the guild, so it’s more of a bonus than just a few chests.

And yet, double fractal is better than babyzone event completion or boss clockwatching by a mile.

I love Double Days it’s better then hitting a great Sale with Coupons in hands

Yes, it’s so convenient for the MAJORITY of players that have no desire to set foot in Fractals….(/sarcasm)

They seriously need another daily category for Dungeons / Fractals based dailies.

It should have been never.

You have to actually take part in content that is in the game or miss some rewards that clearly are not as important as your distaste for fractals. Oh woe is you.
Not like they are asking you to do something crazy like participate in 4 events on a random map or something.

Working for a reward, who’d have thought. Next you’ll want something for just logging in…

1. I disagree with rewards for just logging in, but they are effective at getting people to, you know, log in at the very least.

2. Fractals are not part of normal PvE and should not be lumped in with the other PvE achievements. They are welcome to create a Dungeons category, or even a Fractals category. But Fractals is no more a part of normal PvE than sPvP is.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

1. I disagree with rewards for just logging in, but they are effective at getting people to, you know, log in at the very least.

2. Fractals are not part of normal PvE and should not be lumped in with the other PvE achievements. They are welcome to create a Dungeons category, or even a Fractals category. But Fractals is no more a part of normal PvE than sPvP is.

“Normal PvE”

Am I misunderstanding? What the heck is that meant to mean? XD

It’s PvE. End of.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

1. I disagree with rewards for just logging in, but they are effective at getting people to, you know, log in at the very least.

2. Fractals are not part of normal PvE and should not be lumped in with the other PvE achievements. They are welcome to create a Dungeons category, or even a Fractals category. But Fractals is no more a part of normal PvE than sPvP is.

Pretty much this.

So what is normal PvE then? Daily Silverwastes Farmer?

Lendruil.9061:

So what is normal PvE then? Daily Silverwastes Farmer?

Probably, because this is Gw2 right?

Anything instanced is for those filthy elitest tryhards!

Amirite, or amirite? <_<

Yeh I don’t get it. It’s all PvE. lol

ScribeTheMad.7614:

1. I disagree with rewards for just logging in, but they are effective at getting people to, you know, log in at the very least.

2. Fractals are not part of normal PvE and should not be lumped in with the other PvE achievements. They are welcome to create a Dungeons category, or even a Fractals category. But Fractals is no more a part of normal PvE than sPvP is.

Its all about the metrics.

Login rewards make the player numbers look good for the bosses.

Double fractals make the rather low numbers of people running them a little higher. Though probably not much as a lot of us run off to WvW on days like this, or PvP, though I don’t like perpetuating the lie that doing that does.

You already have several options to complete your daily without doing certain other parts. All 3 types lead to the “Daily completion” by just doing 3 of the 12 options. You can go to EotM and knock out some WvW dailys, or do a round of PvP. None of these things are difficult for you to do, you simply don’t want to do it, which is not their problem.

Yamori.9781:

You already have several options to complete your daily without doing certain other parts. All 3 types lead to the “Daily completion” by just doing 3 of the 12 options. You can go to EotM and knock out some WvW dailys, or do a round of PvP. None of these things are difficult for you to do, you simply don’t want to do it, which is not their problem.

But what about PHIW? >: C

(I’m joking)

Lendruil.9061:

So what is normal PvE then? Daily Silverwastes Farmer?

Way back when, you had things like these:

‘kill x mobs’
‘kill 10 different mobs’
‘harvest 10 items’
‘kill 1 veteran’

Etc. Not saying in which location you had to do it, not saying it had to be mob a, b or c. Basically, play how you want, where you want. I much preferred it.

Choosing not to do it is part of playing how you want to play.

You DO know you can do daily in 15 minutes simply by playing one pvp match?

Khenzo.2465:

Lendruil.9061:

So what is normal PvE then? Daily Silverwastes Farmer?

Probably, because this is Gw2 right?

Anything instanced is for those filthy elitest tryhards!

Amirite, or amirite? <_<

Yeh I don’t get it. It’s all PvE. lol

It’s a subtle differentiation, one most people miss.

Fractals (and Dungeons) are group required content. It’s not that it is instanced that is the problem.
Furthermore it is scaled difficulty wise significantly differently, thus further signaling its separation from the rest of normal PvE.

Oxidia.8103:

You DO know you can do daily in 15 minutes simply by playing one pvp match?

You DO know some people would rather take an hour to do it in PvE than touch PvP right?

And have the same aversion to group required content right?
They don’t want to do the group thing, just run around on their own for a bit, explore, gather, etc.

Funny how the same people that claim that Fractals are normal PvE, when it comes to discussing Ascended armor, suddenly start saying that they are a side content that is purely optional. If anet’s going to keep the double fractal dailies, thus suggesting to all PvE players they should play Fractals, they should make the ascended gear to be more easily available.

Astralporing.1957:

Funny how the same people that claim that Fractals are normal PvE, when it comes to discussing Ascended armor, suddenly start saying that they are a side content that is purely optional. If anet’s going to keep the double fractal dailies, thus suggesting to all PvE players they should play Fractals, they should make the ascended gear to be more easily available.

How is this an arguement? Fractals are optional, just like Silverwasting, or doing dungeons or X or Y or Z bit of PvE content. It’s all optional, so it’s all side content..? I don’t get what you’re trying to say.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Fractals (and Dungeons) are group required content. It’s not that it is instanced that is the problem.
Furthermore it is scaled difficulty wise significantly differently, thus further signaling its separation from the rest of normal PvE.

A while back when a double daily fractal popped up, I decided that even though not a lot of my guild was around, that I’d go and do it. I grabbed a second player and jumped in. We made it through two and a half fractals before a third player came online, and I brought him in to finish off the Thaumanova Reactor and go on to finish off Jade Maw to complete the daily double.

Now, we’re experienced fractal runners who’d rather be doing high level ones rather than level 1s, as that daily required, but I’m not someone who’s ever gone and soloed dungeon paths. We did perfectly fine duoing the fractals, there were no wipes. And yes, via shenanigans we even managed to complete the laser room in Thaumanova with just the two of us, the third player only arrived in time for Subject Six.

If you want to solo a fractal for your daily, go into a level 1 fractal until you draw Urban Battleground/Ascalon, where you get NPCs to help you, and then fight your way through. You might be surprised at how easy it is. And hey, you’ll get champ bags! Who doesn’t like champ bags?