The Fractal Weapon Boxes still have not been addressed. They were used as a bullet point in the release of the “Fractured” Update and still are not in months after release. I try to not press stuff that is in the works because I know you all don’t like talking about stuff til it’s ready, but these were listed as being in and then were not and that is frustrating as a player and doubly frustrating when there is no update as to when they are going to be in. I hate being the “Negative Nancy” here, but it’s hard to want to discuss future things when things that are supposed to be currently in the game are not and have not been addressed as to why they aren’t. Sure, this goes with the rewards section of your summary, but my feelings on it are that they should be added post haste before discussing future implementations or at least addressed to the community as to why they aren’t in the game right now.
Thanks for all your hard work Chris and ArenaNet. It’s really and truly appreciated.
This summarizes my main problem with fractals right now, namely the extreme rng nature of fractal weapon skins. The simple fact that I can sink so many hours into fractals without the weapon skin I want is ludicrous. I have over 200 daily fractal 49s clocked in both before and after the update, and the sword skin still eludes me. It felt much better before the update because I felt as if I had a realistic shot at it, after the update… not so much. It feels like because I didnt get the skin I wanted before the update (not for lack of trying I assure you) I am now sol, and its made me not want to run fractals at all, and not log in nearly as much as I did before. The rng aspect of fractal weapon skins needs to be addressed.
having 1 every 2 or 3 runs that’s very lucky and rng likes you. doing daily a couple of runs but never got like that. yes i got even 3 in a row but then had like 15-20 runs with just rings. for me it looks the same. friends i’m playing with , the same. doesn`t look like a bug or drop nerf.
Oh the sword, probably the only reason why i still make myself endure the pain that is high level bugtals fractals. I’ve collected quite the amount of longbows, rifles and tridents. As from this week, the only skin I’m still missing in my collection is the elusive one handed sword. Yet the only thing that seems to be dropping at least once a day is Solaria, Circle of the kitten.
Yes, droprates have changed drastically. Probably because of the addition of ascended chests. The thing that really hurts like a backstab on a zerker ele though, is getting uninfused Solarias on a 49 daily you worked so hard for.
Let us not even speak of the moment we get out of fractals and visit our bank. 200+ pristine relics just staring at us, mocking us, alongside of tridents, uninfused rings and [Fractal Air].
I’m with you, brother. May we endure the horror that is fractals and never give up until we have our sword!
I agree, the drop rates really need to be fixed. I chose to go after a fractal sword instead of a legendary and over the time it would have taken to make a legendary I am STILL no closer to my sword than I was on day 1.
I rarely got rings back before the fractals patch in 40+ fractals. Maybe rings are taking up space in the rewards causing less fractal weapons. I wouldn’t be surprised since it seems like this happens with all rewards in the game. Whenever they want to add a special event reward to something it loses another reward.
It would make sense.
Either way something is very wrong unless they actually intend the drop rates to be this bad, in which case its a slap in the face to someone who has never seen a sword drop in over 200 dailies. “Didnt get the skin you wanted pre-patch? Too bad you will never get it now”.
The drop rate for fractal weapons are bugged, I used to get 1 every 2 or 3 runs, now I have run over 30 dailies after the patch and have a warhorn to show for it. The story is much the same from all of my guildies, many report never seeing a fractal skin after the patch. It also appears un-infused rings drop quite a bit at 49, which is obviously a bug as well.
40% drop rate of fotm skins at level 48 so if you don’t have them I contest you aren’t really trying. Some one 2/5 in party always get skins. Im at 1k fotms
So over 100 48’s isnt really trying? go crawl back in your hole, some of us have terrible luck
I have been running 48 dailies for months on with 90+ pristine relics to show for it. I have been looking for the mace, dagger, longbow, sword and scepter. Care to guess which ones I havent been lucky enough to find? If I see another staff, greatsword or shield I may break something. This rng stuff has gotta go, I agree with the op.
One quick note regarding thieves,
1) You say that you want to buff survivability of acrobatics, but the proposed buffs are to two talents that no thieves in their right mind would take, while simultaneously nerfing vigor gain. It seems to me like this is a straight up nerf to acrobatics survivability and makes the tree even LESS desirable, which I dont think is the intended effect. To be clear, assassins reward is far too high in the tree with far too little gain even with the buff, and hard to catch is terrible because you cant control it at all, like you can the sword 2 ability.
The craftable shortbow “aether” which comes from the mystic forge is incorrectly placed on my characters back. It is far too high up and is inconsistent with other bow skins of the same type, and inconsistent with other guardian spirit weapons which sheathe correctly. Moving it down and to the left would correct this nicely.
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Thief
If you need anymore information please let me know, I spent a lot of gold and a lot of time making this bow and I would really like this corrected!
I would appreciate if these were added to the game as well, I did quite a bit of research to find that the stalwart legs are a drop from the personal story, only to find out they are the generic karma level 10 set and not the ones I was looking for.
Any changes to the length and annoyance of fractals is welcome, but please, PLEASE, for the love of all thats holy take a look at the absolutely asinine rng to get fractal skins. Running 200+ fractal dailies at high levels to only have a trident and spear that I cant even use is completely ridiculous. A good fix would be to allow you to gather shards or something to work towards the weapon you want, or straight up drop a box that allows you to choose.
Would you consider moving the warrior warhorn trait to tier 1 and leaving the shout cd reduction where it is? This essentially serves the same purpose of buffing shouts while simultaneously helping with condition removal
Would it be asking too much to have the fractal frequenter achievement award a fractal skin of your choice at certain milestones, and make it infinitely repeatable? Maybe something like 250 fractals guarantees the skin you want? This would give something concrete to work towards instead of slamming your head against the unyielding wall of rng and would reward people that run the content.
I liked the look of some of the fused weapons and tried to get one, 50 keys later I am utterly disgusted with this system. I have supported this game monetarily through the gem store and have agreed with almost all of the decisions made, but these rng boxes are bullcrap and is something I expect of the garbage that is swtor, not from gw2 and arenanet. Let us buy these skins directly, or make them available on the ah like the Halloween skins, systems like this leave a bad impression on the players that have supported you thus far. In short, do not misunderstand my purchase of keys as support for this system because it has very likely soured me on purchasing anything from you ever again. Do not underestimate the power of consumer goodwill.
It makes sense to port old guild wars 1 armor skins over to gw2. Anet already owns the rights, it would not take a lot of re-designing, and the potential for profit is massive with some of the more highly sought after skins.
Thoughts? I want to throw more money at you Anet, I really do. Make it happen.
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Elementalist
Problem: The whispers light leggings from the whispers vendor has a noticeable line bisecting the human females torso.
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Thief
Armor: Seraph-issue Leather Leggings from Sergeant Rane in Kessex Hills
Problem: There is a red line that goes up the backside of the pants, it is extremely noticeable and annoying. Thank you for looking!
I disagree with Bruno, I dont feel it is outlandish at all, short hair is practical in battle, but regardless more options is always a good thing. Seems like simply extending the human hairstyles to norn would be fairly simple and go a long way towards increasing diversity.
Can we please get some more short hairstyles for female norn? Even just copying the ones from the human would be awesome because I like those quite a bit. Would really appreciate it
