Guild Wars 2

Lets speculate how Arena Net will update FOTM this year.

Will drops be finally fixed?
Will we be finally able to salvage/exchange our unwanted Ascended rings?
Will they add new mini dungeons this year?
Will we be finally able to go beyond scale 50?
Will FOTM finally become hardcore PvE end game?

It’s all uncertain, however we can be sure about one thing, the 2014 FOTM update will somehow be tied to the Living Story.

Umm, what makes u think they are even going to bother changing anything in fractals this year?

Took them like 3 months to come up with new living story content even though thats their primary focus in the game.

Don’t expect/overhype yourself about anything for this year, at least this way you won’t be disappointing

Will drops be finally fixed?
A definite maybe, at some point. Near future? Probably not.

Will we be finally able to salvage/exchange our unwanted Ascended rings?
No.

Will they add new mini dungeons this year?
Yes, most likely revolving around LS or special content, as previous.

Will we be finally able to go beyond scale 50?
Doubtful.

Will FOTM finally become hardcore PvE end game?
Is there anything else?

Why assume there will be a FOTM update at all? As far as I know they have not mentioned anything about it.

It could however tie-in somewhat well with Rytlock hanging around in the Mists I suppose.

there will not likely be a fractal update this year

Nick.6972:

Lets speculate how Arena Net will update FOTM this year.

Will drops be finally fixed?
Will we be finally able to salvage/exchange our unwanted Ascended rings?
Will they add new mini dungeons this year?
Will we be finally able to go beyond scale 50?
Will FOTM finally become hardcore PvE end game?

It’s all uncertain, however we can be sure about one thing, the 2014 FOTM update will somehow be tied to the Living Story.

What makes you think there will be a fractal update?

Nick.6972:

It’s all uncertain, however we can be sure about one thing, the 2014 FOTM update will somehow be tied to the Living Story.

Anet recently hired a new Head of Narrative, Leah Hoyer. I like what I’ve seen of her. With a new person on Narrative, LS might not just be lazily shoehorned into everything like it has been up until now.

The fears of Taimi annexing Wintersday from Tixx, and the members of Destiny’s B-Team being hamfisted into everything might not be as warranted as before.

…

Anyways as much as I would love to see a good Fractal update, I’ve been there done that during almost all of Anet’s Fractal updates and pointless changes over the last year, so I’m used to being lied to, having the LS hamfisted into Fractals, and disappointment.

Add a “new” fractal boss where you have to fight the boss from (Insert recycled Living story instance here).

I’m most excited about the leaderboards!

Maybe they’ll recycle Marionette?
Correct me if I’m wrong but it had 5 lanes.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a “new” fractal boss where you have to fight the boss from (Insert recycled Living story instance here).

As unfortunate as this is, at least it would allow access to previous content that was removed. If the Marionette and the Battle for Lion’s Arch + final Scarlet battle could be turned into Fractals (and balanced to be challenging for a party of five, rather than just a big zergfest) that would be pretty nice. The only problems with those fights were 1) temporary content and 2) zergfests. In this case the poor story/lore logic can be pushed aside because that story aspect was simply used to deliver good content.

At least Anet has seemed to learn that temporary content is a terrible concept, especially for the specific market they’ve placed GW2 in.

Surbrus.6942:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a “new” fractal boss where you have to fight the boss from (Insert recycled Living story instance here).

As unfortunate as this is, at least it would allow access to previous content that was removed. If the Marionette and the Battle for Lion’s Arch + final Scarlet battle could be turned into Fractals (and balanced to be challenging for a party of five, rather than just a big zergfest) that would be pretty nice. The only problems with those fights were 1) temporary content and 2) zergfests. In this case the poor story/lore logic can be pushed aside because that story aspect was simply used to deliver good content.

At least Anet has seemed to learn that temporary content is a terrible concept, especially for the specific market they’ve placed GW2 in.

marionette wasnt really a zergfest, unless by zergfest you mean any content that involves a lot of people.

Nope. Or maybe after the leaderboards.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a “new” fractal boss where you have to fight the boss from (Insert recycled Living story instance here).

You make it sound like a bad thing.

You are aware that those added bosses were added due to community demands, right?

Maybe they’ll give us 20 new levels to work on… 31-50. #fractalresetneverforget

i want to fight undead rurik

lordkrall.7241:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a “new” fractal boss where you have to fight the boss from (Insert recycled Living story instance here).

You make it sound like a bad thing.

You are aware that those added bosses were added due to community demands, right?

Of course….. but think about whats actually happening…

Anet – “Guys….. limited time stuff happening right now in guild wars 2!”
Players – “We want permanent content”

Anet recycles old content for future update
Players – “Thanks!”

(Anet smiles an evil smile as they are praised for reusing old content instead of giving us new content)

Nick.6972:

Lets speculate how Arena Net will update FOTM this year.

Will drops be finally fixed?
Will we be finally able to salvage/exchange our unwanted Ascended rings?
Will they add new mini dungeons this year?
Will we be finally able to go beyond scale 50?
Will FOTM finally become hardcore PvE end game?

It’s all uncertain, however we can be sure about one thing, the 2014 FOTM update will somehow be tied to the Living Story.

Fixed? Fixed how? Different people see different problems. Some people want skins, some people want gold, some people want ascended, some people want dragonite.

There is no problem with ascended rings that cannot be solved by selling the excess to a vendor. All problems gone.

Probably no new dungeons of the same type as AC, CM, etc. My hunch is that we will see some new group content that is a bit like a dungeon but also a bit different.

Probably, seeing as they’ve already promised us good fractal loots only to later promise them above level 50.

Fractals are already the top PvE group content. Gearing up with AR is already hardcore.

Amazing changes are coming! But were gona need another reset to everyone’s hard work before them.

… What? … Compensation? Let’s just reset people anyway …

They could always bring back Forward/Up from TA as a fractal.

Scarlet has been dead for a while now, yet we still have Caithe chasing Scarlet’s shadow in TA. Wouldn’t hurt to turn Aetherpath into a Fractal and restore TA to a dungeon with three proper paths instead of two paths and a massive pain in the donkey.

Pandaman.4758:

Scarlet has been dead for a while now, yet we still have Caithe chasing Scarlet’s shadow in TA. Wouldn’t hurt to turn Aetherpath into a Fractal and restore TA to a dungeon with three proper paths instead of two paths and a massive pain in the donkey.

Zhaitan is dead and we’re still hunting him in Arah.
Galeron is dead(twice) and he’s still trying to become a god.
Aetherblades are disbanded and they’re still in EotM.

Rytlock is supposed to be MIA but he’s still sitting in Black Citadel.
:D

Pandaman.4758:

Scarlet has been dead for a while now, yet we still have Caithe chasing Scarlet’s shadow in TA. Wouldn’t hurt to turn Aetherpath into a Fractal and restore TA to a dungeon with three proper paths instead of two paths and a massive pain in the donkey.

Dungeons are locked in time.

Them leaderboards, bring ’em boards.

edit. but reset first too.

Hunter.4783:

Took them like 3 months to come up with new living story content even though thats their primary focus in the game.

It would blow my mind if the next installment to LS2 was actually developed in the last 3 months. These things are generally worked on for quite a bit of time before they’re rolled out…the duration between releases isn’t necessarily the time it took to make that content.

Tao.5096:

Zhaitan is dead and we’re still hunting him in Arah.
Galeron is dead(twice) and he’s still trying to become a god.
Aetherblades are disbanded and they’re still in EotM.

Rytlock is supposed to be MIA but he’s still sitting in Black Citadel.
:D

lordkrall.7241:

Dungeons are locked in time.

Fair points, but thing about dungeon paths is that they’re pretty much locked in a specific time: namely around the time of our Personal Stories. The Aetherpath is the exception to this and thus is a bit out of place (particularly since you still get mail after completing TA story mode about three nightmare court bosses running into TA), but would have good company in FotM with the Molten Furnace, Thaumanova Reactor, and Mai Trin fractals.

jucca.8219:

Them leaderboards, bring ’em boards.

edit. but reset first too.

They need to keep things fair for new players.

It won’t happen. The whole budget of the balance team spent on upcoming balance changes and tooltip fixes so no fun for a while again.