Guild Wars 2

Curious as to the drop rate of the fractal weapons and any factors that play into getting them, as i seem to lack whatever those factors might be.

Ever since fractals were given to us, i have hit them every single day, never missing a chance to get the daily chests. I am currently level 34 in fractals, and have stopped progressing at that point until more is released.

Everyday i run 26 and 30, for at least the past two weeks, and yet i have not gotten a single fractal weapon. I’m a warrior, and i collect greatswords. That’s what i have my eyes set on. But i dont even get weapons i cant use.

So, what is the general consensus on drop rates? Will i ever have a real shot at getting one? ANY fractal weapon?

rng is rng

I am at 31 and only have received a Fractal Rifle.
Done over 250 fractals as well

Zephyr Lee.2491:

rng is rng

I am at 31 and only have received a Fractal Rifle.
Done over 250 fractals as well

i hit the fractal 500 mark quite abit ago, which tells me i really should have gotten SOMETHING by now I dont care if it’s even something i can’t use, just SOMETHING to know i’m not bugged or something, like the neverending DR bug.

Use the flag option in the mail system (bottom right corner).

doesn’t matter how many fractals u have done. only how many daily’s u have completed that’s over lvl 20. but idd, rng is rng.

Your odds of getting a fractal weapon go up as you get higher in fractal levels. I hear level 50 has like a 75% chance of giving a fractal weapon.

I made this thread over a month ago

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fractal-Weapon-drop-rates

Inquiring as to how or why i wasn’t getting fractal skins. Since then, i’ve run the dungeon still, EVERY. SINGLE.DAY. Trying to get a skin. That’s over 60 times(26 and 30). To compare to other dungeons, that would be over 3600 tokens, almost two sets of armor and weapons. Not a single skin. I’m a warrior, i can use almost anything in the kittening book. But i get nothing. This isn’t fun. Why were fractal skins not made to be traded for relics? Hell you even made Ascended rings tradeable for relics.

Anet, please, change this as well.

RNG. :-\ I remember having that problem in Vanilla WoW. I was trying desperately to get my blue set for my priest… just needed the hood. It took almost 200 runs for it to drop. I saw every other type of hood drop 10-12 times each in that time. The RNG gods weren’t with me.

GW2: reminding players daily, despite our nostalgia goggles, why we don’t miss 1990s-early 2000s MMOs :-P

They’re ugly anyways.

toxianguardian.4850:

I made this thread over a month ago

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fractal-Weapon-drop-rates

Inquiring as to how or why i wasn’t getting fractal skins. Since then, i’ve run the dungeon still, EVERY. SINGLE.DAY. Trying to get a skin. That’s over 60 times(26 and 30). To compare to other dungeons, that would be over 3600 tokens, almost two sets of armor and weapons. Not a single skin. I’m a warrior, i can use almost anything in the kittening book. But i get nothing. This isn’t fun. Why were fractal skins not made to be traded for relics? Hell you even made Ascended rings tradeable for relics.

Anet, please, change this as well.

I don’t play fotm but you seem to have the worst of luck. But…..might be a bug. Report it.

I heard lvl 40 daily has way bigger chances, i dont know tho. I have got a few but not the one im looking for. Gotta agree, make them tradeable, or add a mystic forge recipe involving pristines shards other weps or w/e but get rid of the rng already.

On the worst case, considering how Anet loves this RNG and loves making people do effort for nothing as a reward, you could add a mystic forge recipe, involving 1 fractal wep, relics pristines w/e but the result would be ANOTHER random fractal wep, at least you can have higher chances of getting this.

I have heard people of getting two of the weps they were looking for in basically 3 or 4 dailies, it is just unfair, some people do over 100 runs and get nothing while others get everything in just a few, this kind of gameplay is totally unfair its worse than korean mmos.

The really crappy part is that i’ve been in so many parties where people will get them and be like “hey, another one”. My best in game friend has 4 daggers, 2 pistols,a greatsword, and a rifle. He’s an elementalist, cant even use them. Me?

I get nothing. Hate this. Bought dyes and everything to make my armor match the weapons(which i really like the look of).

Not fun, not fun atall…

hharry.1967:

I heard lvl 40 daily has way bigger chances, i dont know tho. I have got a few but not the one im looking for. Gotta agree, make them tradeable, or add a mystic forge recipe involving pristines shards other weps or w/e but get rid of the rng already.

On the worst case, considering how Anet loves this RNG and loves making people do effort for nothing as a reward, you could add a mystic forge recipe, involving 1 fractal wep, relics pristines w/e but the result would be ANOTHER random fractal wep, at least you can have higher chances of getting this.

I have heard people of getting two of the weps they were looking for in basically 3 or 4 dailies, it is just unfair, some people do over 100 runs and get nothing while others get everything in just a few, this kind of gameplay is totally unfair its worse than korean mmos.

Welcome to GuildWars 2. We don’t support grind. We just create it.

I have a Longbow, Rifle, Dagger, Torch, Sword, Greatsword, and Focus.

Just plain dumb luck. I recently had an 8 day streak of getting nothing and then BAM Greatsword and Sword in the same day.

Kumu Honua.2751:

I have a Longbow, Rifle, Dagger, Torch, Sword, Greatsword, and Focus.

Just plain dumb luck. I recently had an 8 day streak of getting nothing and then BAM Greatsword and Sword in the same day.

I wouldnt mind going 8 days without and then getting something. I’m working on 45 though, twice a day, so you COULD say 90 days, with nothing.

That i mind.

You might want to try moving up in difficulty. Don’t do 30. Do 38. I seem to have the best luck with the highest fractal possible in the daily tier.

Sometimes you have to wait because all the sheeple do the bare minimum, but it’s worked for me.

Dunno.

Don’t really have the desire to do the dungeon anymore. All my alts have their rings and a few have their backpieces. Only thing left is the skins i want, and that just isn’t happening. Get better money running CoF.

I want ANET to make this dungeon like all the others, and let me spend my tokens(relics) on the weapons i want.

Doesn’t seem an unfair request, since they caved for people complaining about rings and made acquiring those in line with other dungeons, buying with the dungeon currency.

Got my fractal dagger yesterday from 26 daily fotm level and a fractal shortbow today from 24 level after 50 dailies or so. RNG is the only way to stop people from getting stuff too often, such as precursors, so it taught me how to call Mystic Forge (Toilet) properly.

toxianguardian.4850:

I want ANET to make this dungeon like all the others, and let me spend my tokens(relics) on the weapons i want.

Doesn’t seem an unfair request, since they caved for people complaining about rings and made acquiring those in line with other dungeons, buying with the dungeon currency.

I wish ANET could read this and do the necessary implementations to the system already we are all begging to it.

What makes me laugh is that they are even going to do a conference and say how much they made comunity-based online game, when yet they have never added something asked from the comunity (duels, new game modes, less RNG, better rewards, no dr, and million more)
You can read it here: http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-game-director-to-speak-at-sinfo-conference-in-lisbon
" Building a Community Focused Game."

I have done 26-28 and 30-36 (one of each scale lvl) daily for well over a month now, the last 10 days have gotten nothing (glad not to get any rings already have 34 of them) but other than the last 10 days my luck hasn’t sucked. So far I have gotten Stafff, Spear, Trident, Warhorn, Axe and 2 Hammers too bad all I actually want is the GreatSword.

Nikon Justus.6902:

I have done 26-28 and 30-36 (one of each scale lvl) daily for well over a month now, the last 10 days have gotten nothing (glad not to get any rings already have 34 of them) but other than the last 10 days my luck hasn’t sucked. So far I have gotten Stafff, Spear, Trident, Warhorn, Axe and 2 Hammers too bad all I actually want is the GreatSword.

It’s posts like these, and the ’Hey, got another one" ’s from the parties i go with, that make me a sad kitty

Busting my kitten for one or two weapon skins, and folks are getting them back to back :/

To be honest I don’t know which is worse: getting nothing, or getting one you don’t want/can’t use.

CC Eva.6742:

Hello everyone.

As Shuguard has indicated, please, if you received a PM on these forums regarding this gold selling issue, proceed to press the report bottom inside the email so that gets to us and we can treat that user accordingly.

Thanks for your reports!

Wow Anet reply the one that is not even relevant to the topic at all.
How about response for the topic?

The problem can be solve by adding the function to exchange the skin you don’t want to another skin you want.

This can help ppl getting what they want but still keep the skin rare as normal.
I don’t mind if I don’t get the skin for like ages but when I get I want the one I want.

430 odd fractals completed and I’ve received two skins, both I can use bot not what I was hoping for. Reading these posts though I guess im one of the lucky ones.

Make the drops from all dungeons including fractals tradeable and a lot of the complaints would disappear.
Why they make this stuff account or toon bound is beyond me, other than to FORCE you to do the content that you don’t want to do in order to obtain the items you DO want.

at least they are skins without stats :|
so no problem for me….

hharry.1967:

toxianguardian.4850:

I want ANET to make this dungeon like all the others, and let me spend my tokens(relics) on the weapons i want.

Doesn’t seem an unfair request, since they caved for people complaining about rings and made acquiring those in line with other dungeons, buying with the dungeon currency.

I wish ANET could read this and do the necessary implementations to the system already we are all begging to it.

What makes me laugh is that they are even going to do a conference and say how much they made comunity-based online game, when yet they have never added something asked from the comunity (duels, new game modes, less RNG, better rewards, no dr, and million more)
You can read it here: http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-game-director-to-speak-at-sinfo-conference-in-lisbon
" Building a Community Focused Game."

Anet never introduced anything players asked for? Really? Never?

The fractals were introduced because people asked for them. Probably the wrong people, but that’s not to say Anet didn’t listen. Anet also introduced laurals because people wanted these items without doing fractals. Anet has implemented a lot of things asked for over a long period of time.

Originally they announced there’s be no walking. People complained and there’s walking. Originally they announced you wouldn’t be able to change your eye color and people complained and now when you make your character you can select your eye color. A lot of people weren’t so hot on the Sylvari and so the Sylvari got redesigned. I think Anet listens just fine.

The difference is Anet doesn’t just release something in two days because you ask for it. Solutions, particularly programming solutions take time. They talk things over, they make decisions, then they implement the programming.

The game’s out six months and you expect them to listen to everything everyone wants. Okay, here’s a question. What if one segment of the population wants one thing and another segment wants another? Then who do they listen to.

I think you probably don’t have a clue what Anet does and doesn’t listen to.

BlackPaw.5948:

The problem can be solve by adding the function to exchange the skin you don’t want to another skin you want.

This can help ppl getting what they want but still keep the skin rare as normal.
I don’t mind if I don’t get the skin for like ages but when I get I want the one I want.

Very Good Idea, ANet should add this function as fast as they can, even with ascended rings

Fractal weapon skins are account bound, right? So they can be passed to an alt if it’s not the desired skin?

bout 40 runs 3x/4x dailys i got fractal GS, hammer, shield, and a dagger.

dagger, gs, sheild from 4x, hammer from a 2×.

considering fractal GS is about 50x rarer than a legendary atm, im not really inclined to work towards mine.

im biased now and prefer to keep them the way they are so i remain cool and unique in a video game.

azmodeus.3409:

bout 40 runs 3x/4x dailys i got fractal GS, hammer, shield, and a dagger.

dagger, gs, sheild from 4x, hammer from a 2×.

considering fractal GS is about 50x rarer than a legendary atm, im not really inclined to work towards mine.

im biased now and prefer to keep them the way they are so i remain cool and unique in a video game.

Except that the fractal GS is fugly. I have one and won’t use it over my transmuted Ebon Vanguard blade.

Anet why not try this;

1. Allow relics to be exchanged for fractal weapon skins… Make the exchange three times more than rings.
2. SLIGHTLY Decrease the already insanely low fractal weapon skin drops BUT make the drops trade-able.

Killing multiple birds with one stone.

First it gives players who play tons of fractals a way of obtaining skins without RNG.
It also provides players who hate fractals an extremely expensive alternative to getting them.
And lastly It gives more incentive to farm higher fractals (drops that equal gold are always good for player motivation).

If this was implemented this thread would look completely different = ‘Played over 500 fractals, got all the skins, rings and AR gear i want…. Havnt had any skins drop yet but since there like 200 gold in the TP im very happy to keep grinding away in the hopes of acquiring one….. Still need that precursor after all!’

I think drop rates are just fine. I got my first fractal weapon drop a few days ago, and it’s not even something I plan on using (pistol). My personal level scale is 27. That said, I’m, the kind of person that really doesn’t like the concept of tokens for gear. Bad RNG luck is bad RNG luck, but tokens are nothing but pure grind.

Why they have to mess up my threads, i’ll never know. The old one was long dead, and on any other website, posting in them is ’necro’ing and shouldn’t be done.

whatever.

Glad this is getting abit of attention, in any case.

Satakal.6971:

I think drop rates are just fine. I got my first fractal weapon drop a few days ago, and it’s not even something I plan on using (pistol). My personal level scale is 27. That said, I’m, the kind of person that really doesn’t like the concept of tokens for gear. Bad RNG luck is bad RNG luck, but tokens are nothing but pure grind.

You honestly think some of us running this dungeon for almost 2 months, every single day, and getting nothing is just fine?

And that Bad RNG is better than Tokens?! At least with tokens i know when my grind will be over.

I guess when RNG favors you, you dont mind it.

toxianguardian.4850:

You honestly think some of us running this dungeon for almost 2 months, every single day, and getting nothing is just fine?

And that Bad RNG is better than Tokens?! At least with tokens i know when my grind will be over.

I guess when RNG favors you, you dont mind it.

I run fractals daily too, the reason I’m only 27 is that my friends haven’t gotten that high yet, or sometimes I go with an alt. I try to have as much fun as I can, and for me, the possibility of an exciting drop is very much part of it. I think it’s so disappointing that you can run a dungeon in this game and be 100% certain that you won’t get anything interesting out of the chests (unless it’s CoE because it has charged cores in the chests). I don’t think RNG favors me, but I think the possibility of it finally hitting me is much more exciting than collecting boring tokens.

i’d prefer the chance to use our pristine tokens (or even laurels) to just Exchange a skin with another.

P.S. also forum bugs prevent us to report often…

What I see in this thread is the things that killed wow. “why cant i just buy stuff?” “why isnt it just given to me?” etc. The fractal skins are so popular because they’re hard to get. Its a goal to play for, and I personally hope they never change the drop rate or add a vendor for it. I found one fractal focus in level 20 and thats all. I want the staff really bad and i’m going to keep trying till i get it, but please guys lets not complain that the game actually requires us to play and doesnt just give us stuff.

Got mine dagger about two months ago, didn’t know these skins are so rare until i’ve seen a lot of topic here.

Hi got same problem lately doing 28 , 38 and recently 40 and well no drop of skins.I think there is some kind of bug or smt .Its just impossible how bad drops of this are.I actually would see exchange system for those and that would be at least fair.I got drop eventually i exchange it for skin token or smt like that and buy skin i want.I would still need to farm random skin but it would be 100000000000% better than trying get skin you need with 0,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance. lol

I’m well over 800 fractals(the vast majority were 20/30+) and I’ve received:
1 short bow
2 hammers
1 rifle

So yea, the drop rate is utter kitten.

I’ve been doing 20+ fractals almost daily since they were introduced and I’ve gotten:

1 Pistol
2 Longbows
1 Greatsword
1 Harpoon

My warrior is basically rolling in the skins but I have yet to get a rifle for my Engineer (who is my main), but such is RNG

I know I’ll probably get flak for this, but I very much like the rarity of these skins. It’s nice to know that there is at least something in this game that as a casual player, I have the same chance to obtain as someone who is able to spend the time to grind for a legendary (which I gave up on a long time ago).

That said, I would still like to see some way to work towards one that isn’t completely dependent on RNG. Either some combination of a large amount of regular/pristine relics (no RNG), or the ability to throw 4 infused rings into the forge (some RNG) for a chance at one.

On another note, I hope at some point in the future we can upgrade these to ascended quality as the skins seem to fit the category… for a cost, of course

I got my first Fractal Weapon last night at level 30.

It was an Underwater Speargun.

Dungeon tokens are an extremely good idea to keep RNG to a minimum.

Acended Rings both dropping with RNG or exchanged with Priestine Relics are also a very good idea to use both systems.

Then we have Fractal Weapons available only thought RNG, which is very very frustrating. I have 300 fractal done, with at least half of them lv20/30, and got a single weapon. A friend has 150-200 done and got two. Another friend is standing close to 500 and still has to receive the first one.

If you really want to keep the randomness on Fractal Weapons, you could use a hybrid between tokens and RNG: every lv20+ Fractals you get one or more Splendid Fractal Relic tokens; when you have X turn them to an NPC (or Mystic Toilet) that gives you a random Fractal Weapon… but at least you are guaranteed you’ll get one after N runs!

(The same frustrating RNG concept applies to precursors… but that’s another topic)

I’m very upset at the RNG approach to Fractal weapons too. I’m currently blocked at 50 and am still unable to get the Fractal weapon that I want.

Please give us a way to buy these weapon skins with Fractal relics. Grinding 2+ hours a day for a chance at the wrong weapon skin is not fun.

I hate RNG on fractal weapons. I’ve run over 600 fractals….got two skins. Neither of them were skins that had any value to me. :-/

3 Harpoon Guns, 3 Shields, 2 Warhorns, 2 Staffs, Mace, Pistol, Dagger from my 3 months of daily fractal lv28/38/48.

It is near impossible to gather “correct” data on the Fractal Skin drop rate from forum.

It is best we just ask for another way to acquire skins from fractal.(i.e. change to token base mix with shards or put 4 skins into mystic forge to get an random one)