Guild Wars 2

I am sick of doing 999 fractals and not getting my most desired skin in the game, I want to have a guaranteed reward

if you are making fotm anet,i suggest, skin box at the end of the track, and can only be done once per account. and takes one week to complete

I wouldn’t mind a Fractals of the Mist track that rewards tokens and fractals of the mist crafting materials with a final box as a choice of backpiece.

I just want one sword. One sword and I won’t get it by doing the dungeon, because the reward system regarding FotM is completely broken/bad. Okay hammer skin is alright as well but it’s optional for me. Besides, how can a full 24/7 PvP player obtain fractal skins without being forced to do pve stuff? :/

I’d like to be able to get some ascended gear in sPvP, so all plus for this!

I agree. Some people just like those weapon skins from fractals and are willing to work hard for it. At least they would not need to rely on false luck.

Probably because filling a Fotm reward track is much easier and faster than getting the skin in Fotm. Making Fotm skins available in pvp would remove any point for doing fractals imho, unless these tracks take at least 20x as long as the current tracks.

The reason why I don’t do fractals isn’t because it takes a long time… it’s because there is no guarantee I’ll ever get the skin I want.

Even if the track was 20x longer than normal, I’d much rather do it in pvp for a guaranteed skin.

I would say deal with it. I did 500+ fractal runs and only got 4 fractal skins, none of them I like.
Its part of their charm. If there would be a guranted way to get a fractal skin, let alone one of your choice, they would loose all prestige.

Malediktus.9250:

I would say deal with it. I did 500+ fractal runs and only got 4 fractal skins, none of them I like.
Its part of their charm. If there would be a guranted way to get a fractal skin, let alone one of your choice, they would loose all prestige.

I don’t know if you are in the game for a long time, but let me inform you these skins have no prestige as before 2013 november update, fractal weapon skins vere pretty common and I dropped bunch of them as a casual fractal runner with ~30 personal level at that time. None of them I wanted (mostly staves, scepter and warhorn), but they dropped pretty often.

Just look at my signature lol. I played fractals since they came out, but still only 4 skins. RNG is RNG. And I realize that they are more rare now than before. All those 4 skins were pre the fractal update.

I would be open for a one-time non-repeatable track for 1 skin, but the bulk of these should come from FoTM, else, why even have it. I like the idea of exclusive skins associated with a specific portion of the game (just like PvP now has an exclusive back-piece). I would also be open to making the FoTM reward track system become repeatable at max cap (lvl 50).

I think each part of the game should have exclusive skins to keep them interesting, if there are several to get one item people will take the path of least resistance and possible make content obsolete.

Sublimatio.6981:

I don’t know if you are in the game for a long time, but let me inform you these skins have no prestige as before 2013 november update, fractal weapon skins vere pretty common and I dropped bunch of them as a casual fractal runner with ~30 personal level at that time. None of them I wanted (mostly staves, scepter and warhorn), but they dropped pretty often.

i keep reading this since fractal release… ._.
Maybe because it wasn t so easy.

From release date of fractal took me 1 year of 2 daily fractals to get the skin i wanted.
I guess it wasn t “so easy”.

You want it balanced?
1) Put AGONY in PvP….so everyone without 70 AR dies istantly (gold barrier+timegating+forcing annoying dragonite grinding).

2) keep the track as they are and give 5% to get a fractal weapon as reward.

3) give the same random access to rank finishers in fotm.

There you have your balance.
P.S. prepatch was about 18% at max level of a random statless fractal weapon that needed a trasmu Crystal to apply.
Also it was way harder considering the AR wasn t enough, meant 1 agony attack would kill anyone mostly.

Why are you talking about skins/fractal prestige ?
Rank/Skin had prestige in PvP and probably more than your fractal skins and look at what the wardrobe changes did. You used to pay token to participate in rakned games and now you have PvErs doing soloQ. . .
At this point I see no reason for you to keep your ‘PvE elitists skins’ to yourselves.
Fractal reward track need to be added.

Nobody told anything about prestige….

Your prestigious farmed ranks are no different.

What changes is the effort needed.

You want pve staff for free but you don t want to give up PvP stuff in Exchange… easy as that.

i want a reward track that guarantees ascended weapons and armor.

i.e. i only want the stats.

a fractal reward track that gives you some token in the last reward and 10 of them can be traded into a full fractal weapon this token would ofc also implemented into the daily reward chests 50
would solve pretty much all problems and would give pvpers access to fractal weapons (as well as rising the fractal weapons people get from doing high fractals)
i dont like that there are so less people that run 50 because the reward is the same if u go 49 or 50 just that 50 requres 70ar and ar is somewhat expensive..so why even the bother…
well with these fractal weapon tokens youd have a guaranteed fractal weapon after doing 10 times fractals 50 which would ecourage some pvelers to get ascended armour weapons or the higher tiers of agnony resistance infusions..

whilst pvplers would have the option to get fractal weapons as well..

(ofc you could change it t u need 20tokens u get 1 through reward track and 2 through 50daily chest…. )
or something like this

or add u need to have personal fractal level of 10 to actvate fractal track so that even pvplers with exotic gear had at least 1 time felt agony
without making it tooo hard of a grind

i do think even 10 might be too high since therefore u need to do 9 times 4 fractals
which is clearly longer than ANY storymode dungeon..

LordByron.8369:

Nobody told anything about prestige….

Your prestigious farmed ranks are no different.

What changes is the effort needed.

You want pve staff for free but you don t want to give up PvP stuff in Exchange… easy as that.

I don’t see your point, mind being clearer? ? ? ?

What PvP stuff do I not want to give up ? Everything has been sold out lol.
- Ranks are easily farmable now thanks to PvErs whining.
- Wardrobe is shared in PvE/PvP and this as been favorable to PvErs.

Right now everything (but rank) you get in PvP you can get in PvE while you cannot get legendaries in PvP as you need map completion and this is fair enough.

Fractal reward track need to be added for things to be fair.

PS : Please develop your argument about “effort needed” this will probably makes things interesting

I’d return to FOTM if they added this. I quit last year when I realized RNG hates me nearly 300 fractal runs later and not a single weapon skin dropped for me or anyone else I partied with. But then I hear about people who played 20 fractals and got exactly the skin they wanted. WTF?

I also think they should add a similar ‘Rewards Track’ to WvW!

No. No matter how much I want the fractal sword and the stupid RNG won’t give it to me and insists on shields and harpoons, NO.

If you want fractal weapons, go do fractals. Same as with PvP finishers – if you want shiny non-gemstore ones, go do PvP. A lot.

But, to be fair, PvP should have its own rare and prestigious weapons/armor skins, stuff that is available ONLY through PvP. That lame backpiece is a start, but it’s too little, too ugly and waaaay too easy to acquire. Not to mention it wasn’t bound so people could buy it on the TP; fortunately, they fixed that, but some damage is done. And, again, it’s way too little.

BulletNG.7069:

I’d return to FOTM if they added this. I quit last year when I realized RNG hates me nearly 300 fractal runs later and not a single weapon skin dropped for me or anyone else I partied with. But then I hear about people who played 20 fractals and got exactly the skin they wanted. WTF?

I also think they should add a similar ‘Rewards Track’ to WvW!

Can you post a pic of your 291 pristines?
its nearly impossible to get 0 skins from 300 runs if at proper level…
Unless you start dividing them in 4 (4 fractals = 1 run) and then remove 9 +40 with lower chances.

That would made something like 21 level 50 runs.

Its quite common for players to look at their fractals completed number and forgive they are not “Whole runs” and then complain about receiving 0 skins.