Guild Wars 2

There is something very sad about people who think having a higher fractal number makes them a better player.

Anyone who makes it to level ten, has seen the complete difficulty of the Fractals, agony mechanics only pop on a few extra moves for the mobs, and it is negated by gear not by player skill.

This isn’t a raid dance.

Nothing in the game other than agony resist gear, aka ascended gear, mitigates agony.

Arenanet has yet to detail if that low level fractal player will be targeted for agony or not.

I think this is the biggest question to answer, and hope they answer soon.

It is a fix, and a welcome one.

But I’d still change it’s base design.

FotM really changes when you reach lvl 10 and then lvl 20 *(never got to lvl 30 so I dont know).

Those inbetween levels are just filling.

What I’d honest change, to push out the grind feel, but still let it be a scaling dungeon, would make this way:

Fractal 0-9 is now called level 1. You get in fractal and as soon you finish all 9 (with a break for repairs and resupply every 3) you’d promoted to fractal level 2.

Fractal 10-19 is now called level 2.

And so son, all the way to lvl 30. (wich would be now level 3).

It seems like a half-baked fix to two problems that really shouldn’t have existed.

For starters, the fix to DC’s in Fractals not letting you back in is coming two and a half months after the Fractals were released, when the other dungeons that pre-existed the Fractals didn’t have this problem.

That is…not encouraging.

Why they chose a different system for Fractal connections vs every other dungeon in the game at that point is beyond me, but that decision seems a very bad one.

The increase in level for everyone will be nice, assuming the highest level isn’t too far ahead of everyone else, or is fine with karma farming. Depending on how much karma one can gain from this, it’s unknown whether anyone will see this worthwhile as a karma farm.

Still no mention of Ascended gear coming from anywhere else besides the Fractals – which is bad. It wouldn’t matter AT ALL that Ascended came only from Fractals if, other than Agony resist, the stats were identical to exotics, but these rings are still the best rings (provided you have the ones you want) for any activity in the game.

And they are only available in Fractals.

Which was admitted to being a mistake.

And isn’t getting changed before the end of January?

Fractals are likely still to be kind of reliant on being in an overflow to some degree even after these changes, and also reliant on a 3rd party website as well.

The level range idea is much better (although seemingly not going to be implemented), and account Fractal level would be much nicer, as well.

These changes will make trying to get a group to run Fractals less awkward, but it’s still going to be plenty awkward compared to other dungeons in GW2 and pretty much any dungeon in any other MMO.

But I’m still kind of in awe that it’s going to take 2.5 months to fix the DC issue.

Cactus Brawler.7415:

Anyone who makes it to level ten, has seen the complete difficulty of the Fractals

Not by a long shot.