So, I thought they said fractals would give more gold when they nerfed dungeon gold but it appears that fractals actually give less gold now? Why do the devs want only like 1% of the population who play the TP all day to have gold and players who actually enjoy the content get shafted and can’t afford anything?
The money is decent. I agree that it isn’t as good as it used to be, but it’s not the doom and gloom scenario the OP is trying to paint.
The good:
They finally got rid of RNG for Fractal Weapons
They fixed a lot of issues
1 fractal per level is really good and the instabilities are great
The difficulty curve is at a good spot with the exception of Scarlet’s Fractal
The bad:
Locking non-HoT owners out of higher end fractals and rewards due to the mastery system is awful. Fractals are NOT HoT content. Period. They are base game content. It’s a lame move on their part. They shouldn’t have done that. Especially since they didn’t actually add any new content at all. Heck, even if they added 3 new fractals they would have locked them behind HoT which would have been terrible. Remember, we were supposed to get all this stuff in the “Fractured” release that happened 2 years ago before an x-pac was even on the table.
Some of the Fractals don’t play well with certain Mistlock Instabilities.
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The money is decent. I agree that it isn’t as good as it used to be, but it’s not the doom and gloom scenario the OP is trying to paint.
That’s not what’s being said. What is the issue here is that Anet said, that the dungeon rewards are getting moved to fractals and raids, and yet it seems that fractal rewards are actually lower now than they were before. Which begs the question – do devs intent to “disincentivize” not only dungeons, but fractals as well?
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The money is decent. I agree that it isn’t as good as it used to be, but it’s not the doom and gloom scenario the OP is trying to paint.
That’s not what’s being said. What is the issue here is that Anet said, that the dungeon rewards are getting moved to fractals and raids, and yet it seems that fractal rewards are actually lower now than they were before. Which begs the question – do devs intent to “disincentivize” not only dungeons, but fractals as well?
fair enough point. you can tell from my previous post that i do take umbrage with how they handled rewards too.
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Selling every fractal reward you get does not constitute liquid currency.
If you check the contents of the Fractal encryptions, they contain vendor trophies, which are worth 10s, 15s, 1g or 5g.
Considering how much people are playing fractals atm, I wouldnt be surprised if that is a good faucet of liquid currency.
A bit unrelated to fractals but as some people have been wondering, where the liquid currency is coming from after the dungeon nerf:
The Mystic chests, which are created by candy corn and t5 leather, also drop trophies worth 1g and 5g. I wouldnt be surprised, if they added plenty more of those vendor valuable trophies across all game content (collections, meta event rewards, pvp tracks), so thats where our gold is coming from these days.
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Not to mention that with preset fractals per level it is now possible to finish them INCREDIBLY quickly if you chain farm the same one or two. This is probably the fastest gold from FoTm in combination with selling the boxes (other than selling the 1 time achieve chests).
Not to mention that with preset fractals per level it is now possible to finish them INCREDIBLY quickly if you chain farm the same one or two. This is probably the fastest gold from FoTm in combination with selling the boxes (other than selling the 1 time achieve chests).
If you check the contents of the Fractal encryptions, they contain vendor trophies, which are worth 10s, 15s, 1g or 5g.
The average seems to be under 20s (which, btw, makes buying encryption keys from vendor unwise). While that indeed may be considered a “liquid currency”, it is also true it’s less than old fractals gave (and that’s even without considering that the boxes are locked when you get them).
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If you check the contents of the Fractal encryptions, they contain vendor trophies, which are worth 10s, 15s, 1g or 5g.
The average seems to be under 20s (which, btw, makes buying encryption keys from vendor unwise). While that indeed may be considered a “liquid currency”, it is also true it’s less than old fractals gave (and that’s even without considering that the boxes are locked when you get them).
I just farmed my fractal mastery to be able to buy encryption keys with stabilising matrixes, so i can buy both with gold now, keys and boxes.A key on the tp costs me 13.5s atm on the tp, at the vendor i have ot pay 20s and a relic.
But your right, they give back less vendor value than they are worth on the tp. But once you got a couple of aetherized weapon skins, its profitable.
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but that box is dropping fast on the TP.