Guild Wars 2

So as we know from the power of datamining, there will be fractal masteries added, but “the details are obscured by the mists”. What do you guys speculate these masteries will do? Do you think they’ll include some way of obtaining the elusive fractal skins, that are hard to collect without religiously running fractals? Do you think they’ll open up levels 51+

This was sort of being discussed in the dungeon forum section, but I think its relevant here, so what would guys like to see from fractal masteries?

There is a possibility of replacing agony infusions, but I doubt people would be happy about that

I’m hoping for some sort of increased chance for fract. Weapons.

I would love to see them replace agony infusions. It kind of sucks having to waste that slot just to run fractals. Now this is just my dream, but i hope it leads to some interesting level 500 jewel crafting. Because let’s be honest who would want to craft acended rings and ect. when you could just buy them with a little fractal running or ectos(and logging in for the luarals). I would love to see crafted infusions hopefully to replace boon duration or condition duration.

VentiGlondi.9830:

There is a possibility of replacing agony infusions, but I doubt people would be happy about that

As a person that has sold 3 +10’s and has 100 of them atm, NO I will NOT be Angry at all, I actually would LOVE no more agony Infusions and I would LOVE account Bound Agony.

I would love to see a way to get fractal skins as well. I ran 1-2 complete fractal runs ever day for over a year. More on weekends. Before that I ran them not as much but often and I have never gotten a fractal skin. I know how those people who have never gotten a precursor feel.

I’m not QQ’ing about it because that is just the way the game goes. However, I would love to get a chance at some of those skins I want badly.

I want

Account bound agony for 2 reasons, 1) In my mind 500 Jeweler will let us make infusions (like +condi and boon duration for example) thus fixing the problem that some are facing in trait losses. And 2) it’ll let me use alts without having to get them to 50-70 AR.

A system that’ll let you buy/earn fractal skins; not just a straight % increase in drops. Maybe open up a vendor to sell them for pristine relics, or maybe some kind of similar tone downed “precursor scavenger hunt” for fractal weapons, but I can’t really think of what they could do inside fractals for that.

I also suspect one or more may deal with the instabilities, making them weaker or being able to eventually ignore them or something.

nearlight.3064:

So as we know from the power of datamining, there will be fractal masteries added

Also anyone who played the Beta would know as well.

I have been praying that ANet adds new infusions that give more than just +5 stat and 5 agony. Something that would be cool is to tie in 500 jewelcrafting with fractal masteries and be able to craft better infusions as a means of “progression” even if its marginal

i would love to see the following 3 changes:
1.) account bound unlock dungeons (no more rerunning story path)
2.) account bound agony resist
3.) more pve combat that actually forced us to utilize class specific abilities rather than stack and spank. All classes being able to do all combat just means that all combat is shallow.

Now leveling your alt is rewarding, and you don’t have to waste time with all the boring parts.

Why not both?

You can level up the mastery for built-in agony resistance, AND slot it into your gear.

If you don’t have the mastery leveled, you can rely on your gear as it is now, and if you DO have it maxed completely, you’ll have enough built-in AR to not need ANY of it on your gear.

So at mid levels, you might have say… 30 AR, and if you want to run higher level fractals, you either grind your mastery some more OR slot some AR gear to make up the difference. It will give you more choices for how to go about getting the needed resistance.

(ooooooor, they can kill the agony mechanic to begin with because it’s stupid. )

One of them will likely be an enhancement to your AR (I think one of them was called agony channeling?) possibly with a positive side effect.

One or more will likely connect to collections similar to the legendary ones.

Otherwise, dunno there coudl be a few.

I like Arioso’s idea quite a bit.