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[Sorrows]

Blog Post

So Fractals are in for shake up!

So much in this announcement, so here's some hightlights:

• Each Fractal level will now consist of 1 Island (ie. 1 current Fractal)
  
• Later Fractals will be 1 Fractal + it's paired Instability
  
• Fractal levels now go to 100
  
• New Dailies, fractal consumables, rewards (Mini Professor Mew, ascended aquatic breather, recipes, high-level crafting materials, and many more)
  
• Ability to buy Fractal Weapon Crates after Reward Level 50
  
• New tier of Fractal Weapon skins (with the ability to change the weapon using the mystic forge)
  
• New Achievements with a variety of different types.
  
• Legendary Backpacks
  
• Ascended Salvaging
  
• Bonus Sub Objectives, so some Achievements will have small counterparts.
  
• This is not the Challenging Group Content Collin has hinted to thus far
  
• Read this post history for some answers people have been asking. (Click "context" will show you the comment chain)

As another note, Starting this weekend I plan to assemble a comprehensive guide to what has been announced for HoT so far. I will try my best to detail what will and will not be locked within HoT purchase. I will also be trying to find sources, articles, and many other notes I can on all announcements so it will take me awhile to compete the entire post. Please feel free to post anything and everything I miss once I've posted the original.

I should publish it in this order somewhat:

Outline -> Attach Blog Posts -> Attach Other Articles -> Clarify HoT locked or not -> Dig through dev posts -> sleep sometimes -> Refine -> Refine -> Improve -> Refine

Since the information being released is not final and more and more info will be released, I expect it to be quite long.

[Maxxalot]

Well, at least they've told us about SOME actual content now, even though it's just an addition to content that already exists. Kind of just sounds like better rewards and more pseudo-progression.

[Twinkkles]

Do the Legendary Backpacks require doing fractals?

[Rimmy1a]

This is tremendous news. Regardless of whether you like fractals or not, giving unique content that can be used anywhere (and is thus desirable, although not necessary) to specific areas of the game is a good thing.

It's only a pity that there is no equivalent for WvW - legendary something that is a 'must have' that can only be attained not by grinding but by something useful. I don't know - killing opposing players while in roughly equal groups within a given area or something.

[KaiX]

Sorrows, on 30 July 2015 - 06:11 PM, said:

Blog Post

So Fractals are in for shake up!

So much in this announcement, so here's some hightlights:

• Each Fractal level will now consist of 1 Island (ie. 1 current Fractal)
  
• Later Fractals will be 1 Fractal + it's paired Instability
  
• Fractal levels now go to 100
  
• New Dailies, fractal consumables, rewards (Mini Professor Mew, ascended aquatic breather, recipes, high-level crafting materials, and many more)
  
• Ability to buy Fractal Weapon Crates after Reward Level 50
  
• New tier of Fractal Weapon skins (with the ability to change the weapon using the mystic forge)
  
• New Achievements with a variety of different types.
  
• Legendary Backpacks
  
• Ascended Salvaging
  
• Bonus Sub Objectives, so some Achievements will have small counterparts.
  
• This is not the Challenging Group Content Collin has hinted to thus far
  
• Read this post history for some answers people have been asking. (Click "context" will show you the comment chain)

As another note, Starting this weekend I plan to assemble a comprehensive guide to what has been announced for HoT so far. I will try my best to detail what will and will not be locked within HoT purchase. I will also be trying to find sources, articles, and many other notes I can on all announcements so it will take me awhile to compete the entire post. Please feel free to post anything and everything I miss once I've posted the original.

I should publish it in this order somewhat:

Outline -> Attach Blog Posts -> Attach Other Articles -> Clarify HoT locked or not -> Dig through dev posts -> sleep sometimes -> Refine -> Refine -> Improve -> Refine

Since the information being released is not final and more and more info will be released, I expect it to be quite long.

Ok so I don't understand the first two bullet points, care to elaborate Sorrows?

Ability to change fractal weapon via forge?  So we can change/upgrade it?(ala mist forged->mist forged hero style?)

Also wonderful idea to make a compiled list/guide for everything Sorrows, let us know if you need any help.

All things aside, YAY FRACTALS CHANGES!!!

[Sorrows]

Twinkkles, on 30 July 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

Do the Legendary Backpacks require doing fractals?

I don't know at this time sorry... To make it sounds like it may require a little bit of everything, like the new Legendary collections will, but don't know for sure.

KaiX, on 30 July 2015 - 11:02 PM, said:

Ok so I don't understand the first two bullet points, care to elaborate Sorrows?

Ability to change fractal weapon via forge?  So we can change/upgrade it?(ala mist forged->mist forged hero style?)

Question #1:

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Each fractal scale is a pre-determined island and gambit pairing. Fractal 10 will always be the same island. You won't be able to just do swamp for all 100 scales.

The rewards you get from an island will scale based on the island type. So an island that is typically longer (cliffside) will give more rewards then one that is typically shorter (swamp). This will discourage you from just farming swamp forever.

"Btw 50 fractal levels is the equivalent of 12 old fractals." - The difficulty curves are being changed a lot. Lower level fractal scales might end up being easier then they are on Live right now, and 51+ is going to be much more challenging. You can't really just divide by 4 and consider them the same anymore.

"Island" is 1 current Fractal, i.e. Swamp, Ascalon, Cliffside, Mai Trin, etc.
Gambit is the dev term for Mistlock Instability.

Question 2:

New mystic forge recipe is only to convert Fractal Skin v2 from one to another. So say you got a (what the community is calling "gold") Fractal v2 Speargun, you can change that to any of the other Fractal v2 skins via the mystic forge. I don't think you can upgrade current skins to Fractal v2 Skins, and these skins will only be available after lvl 50ish I think (don't quote me on that). Could you potentially use this method to unlock all the v2 skins with 1 v2 weapon? Possibly, but don't know yet.

[Sanji]

The fractal skins will become more common is a negative part i guess.

Question tho for Fractals...if I place 2 fine agony infusions (2x +5s) in my offensive slots on an ascended greatsword...will the +10 agony stay as stated if i swap to my other weapon set? or id need to compensate by doing same on other weapon set?

[Sorrows]

Sanji, on 31 July 2015 - 07:54 AM, said:

Question tho for Fractals...if I place 2 fine agony infusions (2x +5s) in my offensive slots on an ascended greatsword...will the +10 agony stay as stated if i swap to my other weapon set? or id need to compensate by doing same on other weapon set?

It's only the currently equipped weapon, meaning you would need to compensate.

[Sanji]

Sorrows, on 31 July 2015 - 08:30 AM, said:

It's only the currently equipped weapon, meaning you would need to compensate.

Sigh...Guess Ill craft 2 ascended armor pieces then...tks

[Liric]

I hate fractals, but anything that means I have to put overall less time into them to get something is good, I suppose. I would much prefer they give the repetition monkeys their shiny fractal skins and not mix legendaries into it, however.

[Sorrows]

Twinkkles, on 30 July 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

Do the Legendary Backpacks require doing fractals?

I believe it was said that the new fractal backpiece will require the use of Fractal masteries, so that's a decent sign it will require fractals.

Edit: They just announced PvP leagues and said that a component of crafting a PvP special legendary backpiece will use require PvP leagues also, so perhaps when WvW leagues are re established there will be a component from there.