Guild Wars 2

This all sounds amazing and all… if you’re into fractals.

What if you aren’t into fractals though – like me and many others? I doubt they’ve included alternative methods to obtain all these great sounding things (which would be another slap in the face to the ’play-how-you-want motto from day 1 of GW2).

I’m seriously hoping there will be rewards like this, for WvW and EOTM. Or at least a reward track or SOMETHING rather than just a new WvW borderland map with no new rewards.

I wish I could be really excited about the news today, but it all sounds very fractals-exclusive, and I just don’t like fractals. I hope there are alternative methods to obtain these legendary backpacks and all the other things, but I doubt there will be. So unless there’s confirmation on alternative methods to get all this stuff, it’s just another thing that won’t be obtainable for those of us who don’t like fractals, and we won’t truly get to ‘play how we want’.

Maybe they’ll surprise you with an announcement of a new dungeon in Maguuma Wastes/Jungle.

I’m so glad they’re not resetting personal reward levels. Once HoT hits, the lower level fractal scales are going to be a pain with all the newbies.

Ayrilana.1396:

Yeah. What’s to prevent someone who has completed the highest fractal level of swamp from advertising a service to host it so everyone can do it repeatedly to progress their fractal levels? You can easily reach 100 in a day at that rate. I’m also pretty sure that swamp would be used for the daily tiered rewards as well.

That’s assuming that :
- swamp ever shows up between 50 and 100
- the underwater fight exploit isn’t fixed
- their fight isn’t rebalanced to be more in line with same level fractal difficulties

stof.9341:

Ayrilana.1396:

Yeah. What’s to prevent someone who has completed the highest fractal level of swamp from advertising a service to host it so everyone can do it repeatedly to progress their fractal levels? You can easily reach 100 in a day at that rate. I’m also pretty sure that swamp would be used for the daily tiered rewards as well.

That’s assuming that :
- swamp ever shows up between 50 and 100
- the underwater fight exploit isn’t fixed
- their fight isn’t rebalanced to be more in line with same level fractal difficulties

- You can be sure that it would show up several times.
- It’s not a requirement to fight him underwater and he’s not the only boss you could end up fighting.
- Possibly.

>.< I like the ascended changes, but I’m not so sure about the fractal changes… That backpack is BEAUTIFUL though….