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Hey Harper
I ran in the frac that you got that torch on – I am a veteran of thousands of fractal runs (increase the fractal frequenter cap Anet please!!!). I do almost daily fractal 10/20/30/40/50. I wouldn’t do fractals if I didn’t like doing them because the rewards are simply not there. I will often do additional fractal runs at any level every day for no bonus chest simply because I enjoy doing fractals (I’m the person people turn to in my guild when they need to learn fractals).
People complain a lot about dredge. I like dredge – even more now that the “shortcuts” were taken out. They need to make the other fractal dungeons in the same tier just as lengthy and frustrating for some. That being said – they need to adjust the final reward for completing a fractal to reflect the additional amount of work and potential amount of rage generated during that last frac – if I wanted a crummy gold for doing a dungeon I’d go do the easy PvE dungeon chain since I could make 10-20 gold in the amount of time it takes to do 1 fractal run if you get Dredge.
During the Fractured update the developers mentioned they would continue to work on fractals. Lately, it seems like Anet is definitely trying to lock down a product cycle where they release a new part for each of the GW2 game types every month or so. This is a good model to use; however, it tends to leave players that specialize and play in only one part of the game out of the loop for months until the cycle hits again.
I like that they increased the drop-rate on ascended stuff in WvW but by doing that they cleared out some of the higher tier fractal players that were only doing the 49/50 daily for a chance at a chest.
I also find the number of notes for real time updates to the game for WvW fixes after big patches to be interesting. I can’t remember the last time I saw an update go in for a progress blocking bug in fractals (yes, I’ve reported a few!).
There is room for improvement to the rewards system for fracs and I think Anet is heading in the right direction. It would be nice if they sped up a bit or gave us something to keep us interested in waiting it out though.
[AXIS] Praetorian Scipio
P.S. if any Anet employee is reading this: I’m pretty sure the hamster you got running the RNG wheel for my ascended chest drops is dead so please replace or rotate wheel off zero. kthx