Guild Wars 2

rfdarko.4639:

I’d much rather they introduce new, pvp exclusive skins rather then add fractal skins into pvp. I like the fact that when I run into someone with fractal skins, I know he’s a veteran of fotm. It would also be cool if there was a set of weapons/armor that showed you are dedicated to pvp.

‘A veteran of fotm’

or…

A lucky kitten who lvl’ed to 11 in fractals and got a skin right away

If you want the best sword for yourself you need to craft it yourself and suffering in the process of making it. What you are asking is “I want to sit down and press one bottom and wait until my 3D Printer complete it for me.”

It’s interesting the idea to unlock Fractal track after X levels Fractals (for example 50) or another prerequisite.

Now Fractals are locked to 50 for pve, in theory there is a chest (for fractals 51+, when anet will open them, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Gear_Box ) where people can choose fractal skins from it if they drop this chest.

So, it could be a good idea introduce a fractal reward track for pvp with a guaranteed chest with one of these skins (same idea like ambrite fossil for maguuma pvp reward track) when there will be this chest in pve and fractals 51+ will be available in pve too.

Eyia Hellhide.7320:

KumaTazZ.8054:

That will make Fractal skins become common skin, So please don’t do that.

Yeah, just like Legendaries became so common now when we have the possibility to get a precursor from PvP chests. Do anyone actually have a precursor drop from PvP chest? Come on guys, don’t hide, wave your precursors.

Support for the idea for Fractal Tracks in PvP.

Not gonna lie, I got a precursor from a pvp chest. Was just about to write a thread on it. Never even thought of making a legendary until I opened a box and found Dawn. So I sold it and bought The Hunter. Was a great Hotjoin day today.

Orangensaft.7139:

if the reward track can only be done with real tournament games then yes

if it is possible with hotjoin too then no

anet should create a new type of reward track where you can only progress with tournament games!

but then again… it is the only pve exclusive reward that exists
and the only pve reward with prestige since it shows that you actually have beaten the only sort of hard content in pve…

God no. Soloqueue isn’t much different from Hotjoin due to everyone going there for rewards already. Last thing we need is for more Hotjoin players filling soloqueue just to farm rewards.

Jurica.1742:

Issue with the balthazar backpiece is that even a fly could get it. sit in a farming server for a few hours. I’d say that if you want things to be PvP exclusive, make reward tracks unlockable at rank 35-40 or even 80 and make ranks harder to get. Anyone can hop into PvP and get all the rewards with little to no effort, while if you want to come to PvE, you need an exotic armor set, expensive runes/sigils, food, learn how to play the part of PvE that you need for the item and then it takes a long time. Like fractals weapons. You need to do x amount of fractals to get to x level and each fractals takes 1,5h. Then you have a small chance of getting a fractals weapon and you need to repeat and repeat and repeat the fractals until you get lucky and get exactly the weapon that you want. It’s a lot of time all of us would prefer to spend PvPing.

Don’t think Ranks are the answer. Would rather just see players on the losing team get no rewards at all. Too many people do whatever they want in matches cause they know they are getting rewards, win or lose.

Looking at this it seems that the core of this is the original poster want the fractal weapon skins to become available from the activity that ‘he’ (going with masculine as gender neutral here) enjoys. If that is OK then shouldn’t the players that enjoy fractals (or wvw or whatever activity) then be able to receive those new pvp armor skins.

Shaogin.2679:

Don’t think Ranks are the answer. Would rather just see players on the losing team get no rewards at all. Too many people do whatever they want in matches cause they know they are getting rewards, win or lose.

That would just reduce the general spvp population to lose all the growth that the increase in rewards gained the mode over the last year. Also it would be to easy for someone to harass others by dropping match as 4 vs 5 would quickly become a waste of time. At that rate you might as well remove all rewards from spvp aside from team queue and then only on victory and put the nail in the modes coffin.

Bran.7425:

Looking at this it seems that the core of this is the original poster want the fractal weapon skins to become available from the activity that ‘he’ (going with masculine as gender neutral here) enjoys. If that is OK then shouldn’t the players that enjoy fractals (or wvw or whatever activity) then be able to receive those new pvp armor skins.

Shaogin.2679:

Don’t think Ranks are the answer. Would rather just see players on the losing team get no rewards at all. Too many people do whatever they want in matches cause they know they are getting rewards, win or lose.

That would just reduce the general spvp population to lose all the growth that the increase in rewards gained the mode over the last year. Also it would be to easy for someone to harass others by dropping match as 4 vs 5 would quickly become a waste of time. At that rate you might as well remove all rewards from spvp aside from team queue and then only on victory and put the nail in the modes coffin.

True. Still, would be nice to see something implemented to separate Hotjoin and Soloqueue. At the moment the only diference is the queue time. Team queue is great, but not something I always have time to organize.

But for all that to happen, soloqueue would need to implement a method for balancing 4v5 matches. Then rewards for losing would need to be dropped. And punishment for leaving would need to be strong enough to make staying in a losing match a better option than leaving early.

Though I’m sure this is all way off topic now.

I support this. In no way should these skins become common, but right now they are way too rare. Sometimes it seems like I see more legendaries then fractal skins.

We have tracks for every dungeon so as long as they’re not easier to get than in Fractals, why not. You could but in some +1 infusions and fractal relics too, and veteran/champ boxes.

I’ve been doing 2 fractals a day quite a while now.
I do not find it hard to complete them, altho it feels like
a waste of time really..

too many peaople doing hotjoin just for the rewards…
well.. and you are doing fractals because its challenging? xDD cmon.. you also just want the rewards^^

nice idea with the +1 infusion in it.. somewhere

champs and veterans are plenty of there wont be a problem..^^

yeah making it available once u hit fractal level 50 sounds kinda reasonable

and i want to say this again because a lot seem to not read what im saying

WE WANT THE SAME CHANCE OF GETTING A (RANDOM) FRACTAL WEAPON
not a guaranteed of your choice

Magnito.6187:

I’ve been doing 2 fractals a day quite a while now.
I do not find it hard to complete them, altho it feels like
a waste of time really..

my point exactly. once you’ve reached level 50, it’s so kitten repetitive. even before 50, it’s a big *yawn*. the only challenge is bringing as less AR as possible. and to be honest, everybody crying about pvpers should do fractals etc, pp. to get their rewards: before april feature pack, every kitten dungeon was strictly pve. you could get a "worthless" pvp-skin from glory vendors and reward chests, but now, it’s a full dungeon set, weapons + armor. exotic, lvl 80 stats and all.
plus: fractals are just another dungeon, just more boring because it’s actually 3 completely unchallenging (because pve) mini dungeons in a row and in relation, even less rewarding. even since adapted rewards, the RNG kittens you every chance it gets, so no frac skin, no rings, no weapon box, no t6 mats and before the patch, it was even no gold for the whole crap. i had to do freaking 500 fractals to get ONE!!!!!!!!!!!! lousy ring. thank goodness i had so many fractal relics to buy them from doing fractals without getting ANYTHING at all. and yes, i did play high level fractals. we (guildmates) played up to 50 and then did every daily on a daily basis.
enough with the rant, i lost track a bit, sorry.

the point is, fractals are nothing more than a bit more time consuming and very boring, stupid dungeons, like the rest of not story based pve.
so WHY on earth should we actually not get a fractals reward track, since we already got every other dungeon PLUS even the dry top rewards, where probably no pvper will ever set foot again? you can either remove EVERY pve reward or give us ALL, every other solution is just stupid.

rfdarko.4639:

I’d much rather they introduce new, pvp exclusive skins rather then add fractal skins into pvp.

So much this. Hopefully the new armor set will mean more of this.