I usually stay away from forum posting unless it’s big related, but this has to be said.
The proposed changes to fractal level and infusions are completely unfair, and show a lack of appreciation and understanding for what players have had to deal with in fractals.
Anyone with a personal level of 49 or higher has had to endure some of the buggiest, most poorly tuned content on the game. Be it the invincible immune harpies on uncategorized, the 15 minute clown car on dredge, or the flat out hard grawl shaman, we persevered and advanced, playing over and over, month after month, to farm skins and make our agony sets and raise our personal level to 49.
Our personal level should not be rolled back to 30, and we should not lose agony resistance. These are statistics and achievements that we, as players, have EARNED, in spite of the abysmal rewards provided by fractals.
New content should not come from undoing the achievements of players and making them redo something for no legitimate reason. I have never in my ten years of playing mmorpgs seen something as disgraceful as a “content patch” specifically designed to punish the high skill players such as this.
We (Fractal Players) were normally quiet on the forums as most of the time we were forgotten by Anet completely. With no updates and nothing to look forward, we kept pushing our limits and playing with our alts to get them as high as our main…
Then ray of light came through with election that a new fractal level will be made. We couldn’t be any happier, when all others couldn’t care any less about it.
When it finally was announced what really is gonna happen, we not only been forgotten again. We been deemed outcasts and a laughing stock for PvE and WvW players across the board.
That’s what I feel like right now. A laughing stock. Having 3 characters level their way up to level 49 each and started working on my 4th one not that long ago. It was all waste of time and effort.
Now all these people that couldn’t care less when fractals were the way they were, since they either barely played them or had no intention of wasting their time and effort on leveling alts are now being rewarded and are practically laughing at us. All while refusing us any kind of compensation.
You win again Anet. You got majority on your side with this. There’s an example what small hardcore player base that actually cared about the content you’ve made, while others laughed at it, really mean to you. Why not reset us all to level 1? I really don’t see any difference in any of it anymore, nor do I feel the urge, need nor fun in getting my level up anymore, since it can be taken away from us at any moment again in the future…
Give us a shot. What are you waiting for?