Guild Wars 2

In light of this thread (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/RNG-as-a-concept-Discuss/first) and the multitude of threads asking for something to do with ascended rings, I want to put out this suggestion.

Salvaging ascended rings:
When you salvage ascended rings, you have a drop table similar to that of an exotic trinket with 1 replacement: T5-T6 mats, essence of luck and mist dust. mist dust would have a similar drop rate to ectos (1-3, weighted toward 1).

From there, you can forge (or craft from level 500 if you wanted to make recipes available from fractal relics) fractal skins in the following way.

50 mist dust

1 jar of refined mist essence (1 vial, 1 glob, 1 shard mist essence and either some crystaline dust, some skill point item from the forge vendor or this item, if it is or is made to be obtainable repeatedly http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Empty_Vial)

100 mithril/elderwood (the color works out here so I didnt pick orichalcum) crafting components for the particular weapon (a greatsword would require greatsword blades for instance)

1 mystic binding agent.

The idea would be for the rings to be the limiting factor so, depending on how the drop rate of those are (I dont have a large enough sample size myself to know) The amounts might need to be tweaked Feel free to suggest a tweak if you feel it is too easy. but I’m putting this out there, again as a suggestion to go along with the RNG topic John Smith had started.

Would be great to have a lighter way to obtain Fractal Weapon skins.
After over 500 lvl11+ FotM runs, I’ve yet to see one drop for me.

As I understand that those skins are supposed to be Unique and not easy to obtain, I find it frustrating to even get one.

Also would be nice to put a decent Collection for them.

@Gaile, what do you think about it?

Tao.5096:

Would be great to have a lighter way to obtain Fractal Weapon skins.
After over 500 lvl11+ FotM runs, I’ve yet to see one drop for me.

As I understand that those skins are supposed to be Unique and not easy to obtain, I find it frustrating to even get one.

Also would be nice to put a decent Collection for them.

@Gaile, what do you think about it?

I want to clarify something. I have posted things like this before and received flack about supposedly wanting a easy route. I in no way intend for this to be an easier or lighter way to get these items, just something that is more certain and, in John smith’s words "Implement measures that counteract low-end outlier behavior inside of game design. "

With a very low drop rate of a given item, you have a very wide range on number of runs/acquisition. What this intends to do is to squish the unlucky side of the range back toward what is the programmed average.

True, and by lighter, didn’t mean to be easy.
I also am not the only one who after countless of runs, didn’t get anything – happens, I know.
As I know it’s a low chance, by far those weapons are actually too hard to get.

I am not a fan of complaining about difficulty of stuff, but at this moment, drop rate of those skins is on the same level as doing Yakslapper achievement in WvW.

Honestly, I would prefer the option to trade in 5-10 ascended rings to pick a ring you want.

only frac skins im missing are the dagger, GS, Shield and shortbow. I have done3-4 frac runs a day for almost 2 years. its absolutely absurd how long it takes to get these things. that is all.

Fractal weapons should drop in a fractal weapon box to choose from as well, I’ve got a friend that has dropped about 5 fractal swords despite missing weapons, getting a harpoon gun as your first and second drop is quite horrible as well.

I’m glad I dropped the sword a while ago, yet I want the scepter and focus