Guild Wars 2

Hello,
As the topic says why play fotm at higher difficulty? i can just get the rings @ lvl 10 and be done with. I have my rings. I use to play fotm a lot(i am casual player so 5/week is enough). I use to get 5-6 rares each run which made me want to do it. that is when i was doing 2-8 levels.

recently i wanted to progress above lvl 10 so i did about 5 this week. I got 1 rare. fotm never rewards any money like dungeons and now no good loot. I DO KNOW it is not rgn or i am unlucky. i could be unlucky once twice but not 5 time to get big fat 0 rares except 1 time(i got 1).

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[So, i recently calculated the cost of running fotm. since i run pugs, sometime death will happen. I calculated i get about 12s from selling all the junk i get and 6-8silver goes to repairs. Total profit on average was 5silver.
This is if i donot use any food. i use about 1silver of food. total profit after food is minus is 4s.
On average time it takes a pug to finish fotm on lvl 10-15 was 1hr 30mins. that is no one goes afk or take breaks.
so my point is 4s/1.5hrs is the reward. if you are pro you my max it to 12s/1.5h. if you get lucky you may get a rare and sell for 35s profit giving total of 45s/1.5 profit.]
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COMPARE THIS TO ac or cm or cof or any other easy dungeon. for example i can run ac all 3 paths, in 1hr 30min and end balance of 1gold 30silver. +plus i get token for sweet weapons, armor and what not.

SO am i missing something? is there a special minipet i need to have when playing fotm? or the Chance at a rings should be more then enough reward for me to repeat the mists. I know daily give me 1 token and after 10 i get ring. lol spending 15hrs for ring? what the heck is this?

clearly i must be missing something that i am not seeing here or i am just stupid to write this?

PS do not response it just my luck. i know what is luck after playing mmos for yrs now. trust me.

There are some things in higher levels you can get like fractal weapons skins etc. But, yeah, i don’t think its really worth the effort. There are not enough things you can buy with fractal relics at present, if there were more things you might want to go higher so you can do multiple dailys to go bonus relics. Also drops are increased very slightly the higher you get, but not substantially.

The idea of fractals is really the same as the idea behind Orr…

It’s there to do, if anyone feels like it, but there are better options everywhere…

Viking.3158:

Hello,
I DO KNOW it is not rgn or i am unlucky. i could be unlucky once twice but not 5 time to get big fat 0 rares except 1 time(i got 1).

How could rng prevent you from being unlucky more than once or twice? I’ve seen runs myself in which I got 5 or 6 rares and 2 exotics and then I can easilly do 10 runs without ever getting more than 1 or 2 rares and no exotics. That is EXACTLY what rng is about. 5 runs is way too few to do a statistical analysis on.

If you’re only getting about 10S worth of drops you’re probably salvaging everything that drops? From a bad run I got at least 10 greens worth close to 2 silver each and kittenloads of blues worth anything between half a silver and a silver. At some point I always need to pause and salvage everything worth less than a silver cause my 3 20-slot bags are stuffed beyond use.

Apart from that, I really believe one should mainly do fractals because it’s fun to do and gets more challenging at higher levels.

Because it can be fun to challenge yourself?

I have no idea how you’re making such little money in fractals. Even when I dont get rares make way more than my repair bill. I salvage every rare I can for ecto anway so I dont make money off of that. Plus I just find them fun. Sure I make more money doing quick dungeon runs but I like to challenge myself with higher fractal levels and the experience with friends or learning new techniques from pugs. Not to mention being able to gear my alts with rings and upgrading my back piece.