Guild Wars 2

I’m more curious about this than anything else, but since there are Living World updates directly affecting Fractals of the Mists now, is there any chance that these updates through the living story will increase the difficulty cap that we can progress to? L48 is fine and dandy, but everyone really wants to push higher and higher for both bragging rights and better rewards (and while we’re at it, please fix fractal rewards to not suck!).

Do we have any information on this from reliable sources, or is this something that an ANet developer can touch on a bit?

I’m sure the first thing on ArenaNet’s mind is how to progress the game forward so players like you can flaunt and have bragging rights over being at higher level fractals. I’ve been in a 30+ group and it’s nothing but skipping every mob pack and skipping some fractals entirely. There’s nothing to brag about.

Oh and to the original question I have no idea.

I hope they add the ability to infuse Amulets/Accessories with Mists Essence, would give the ability to do another 1/2 tiers legitimately.

Mkalafut.1273:

I’m sure the first thing on ArenaNet’s mind is how to progress the game forward so players like you can flaunt and have bragging rights over being at higher level fractals. I’ve been in a 30+ group and it’s nothing but skipping every mob pack and skipping some fractals entirely. There’s nothing to brag about.

Oh and to the original question I have no idea.

Don’t assume that the only level 30 you’ve done is the only way to do it. I run 38s and 48s, and we only ever restart if Cliffside is first, because it takes forever and gives no loot. We do it if it’s 2nd or third, simply because at that point the minor inconvenience of doing it isn’t worth starting over.

We also kill most mobs we pass, although that’s more for fun, not for loot, because honestly the only reason you do fractals lootwise is for the Fractal Weapons and free Ascended Rings, which at level 40+ you’ve surely got more than enough of.

The reason you notice people skipping mobs and fractals is because at that point they’ve seen everything there is to see in fractals, and there’s not really much sense looking at the same thing again, every single fractal. “Oh look, cave bats in the cave that stand still and drop Chipped Fangs 99% of the time. I’ve only seen this hundreds of times before.”

Mkalafut.1273:

I’m sure the first thing on ArenaNet’s mind is how to progress the game forward so players like you can flaunt and have bragging rights over being at higher level fractals. I’ve been in a 30+ group and it’s nothing but skipping every mob pack and skipping some fractals entirely. There’s nothing to brag about.

Oh and to the original question I have no idea.

You have been in 30+ group, saying it like that is inferring that you don’t normally do fractals but just tagged along which is weird that a group would take you since at lvl 30 you’d die from agony and your usefulness would be nill…

Makes me doubt your statement completely.