Guild Wars 2

you should let us trade pristine fractal relics for ascended mats or even the weapons themselves

wait no wall of text? how can this be op.
jk
anyways this wont happen, it should have but it wont because as we all know ascended weapons arent for fractals there for the grind. I like this idea and i think most people do but anet doesnt really go back on significant decisions they make.

inb4 someone gives a list of things they changed: thats great hope at last oh lord hope at last

outside of rings, these are useless, which kills furthur desire to keep doing fotms

In the first place they were only there to reduce the frustration of not getting the ring player wanted from fotm.

FateOmega.9601:

In the first place they were only there to reduce the frustration of not getting the ring player wanted from fotm.

And now you’re able to get weapons sometime. Maybe it’s time to broaden the usage of relics.

Add Mists Essence to the list of “initially appealing but soon became useless” stuff you get.

Anyone who frequents fracs for a reasonable number of cycles, which presumably was the original intent of the game designers, discovers this eventually. At first rings are “wow, gz”, but before long you have two or more for each char. Then pristines, as has been pointed out, allowed you to get the ring of your choice (good idea of itself since how frustrating would two bank tabs of rings with no yakkington’s have been). But again, past the first ten or maybe twenty relics – no longer useful in any way. Next, vials, blobs and shards are the “wow gz” element. But it now turns out that all they can do is infuse the rings you bought with pristines [‘cos mostly you’re getting infused drops anyway] and give a little help with your backpiece. So those stacks start to build up.

Logically rings should be salvageable, and could easily have been without affecting the economy at all, just look at what you have to do to get one versus what you do to get 2-3 rares at a world boss event. Pristine relics should be able to be used to buy something else, and logically Essence should have a role to play in ascended weapons and in ascended armor. Probably Dark Matter should have been Shards of Essence truth be told.

If Anet do in fact read these forums, which their posts don’t seem to indicate, they can consider doing something about this before the introduction of ascended armor later in the year.

Fractals players unite.

Can I request a forum moderator change the title to ‘Pristine Fractal Relics and Shards Essence’ please

Yes, I want my Fractal Rifle skin! 2 guildies got it and yet I get OTHER skins (mace and focus).

Anyhow, while I like the idea because I too sort of run out of thoughts on what to do with my pristine relics, I also worry on how they (you knw who) tackle such matters. I distinctly recall another ‘currency’ that players had lots and lots of and were asking for something they can use it for and now said ‘currency’ has been so nerfed it’s really hard to get lots of and most are surviving just because they stockpiled it pre-nerf.

I just find it odd that Anet has placed each section of ascended so far in places trying to get players to play that content, but have limited the one place where you actually need those pieces.

I also find it the whole laurel thing kittened. Why wasn’t fractal relics the going currency for that stuff. You do more fractals, you get your items faster. Do just the daily/monthly, get them slower. We didn’t need the extra currency.

It’s like Anet is looking through coke bottles and cannot see the game as we see it. Fractals should have been the sure fire way of obtaining every piece of anything ascended with everything else being the alternative.

Dr Ritter.1327:

you should let us trade pristine fractal relics for ascended mats or even the weapons themselves

You running low on Bloodstone Dust?

Can I please just buy a backpiece with my pristine relics? I don’t need any more rings… even with 10 alts I don’t need more rings!

I’d like the ability to trade 100 pristine relics for 1 fractal skin.

Wanze.8410:

Dr Ritter.1327:

you should let us trade pristine fractal relics for ascended mats or even the weapons themselves

You running low on Bloodstone Dust?

hahaha yeah very low almost 30 stacks