GW2 Developer livestream notes for the upcoming Fractured update scheduled to be released on Tuesday, Nov 25.
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[*]No returning rewards from previous Living World releases (i.e. Aetherblade Retreat, Molten Facility)
[*]Endless Fractal Tonic – rare drop, but less rare at higher levels.
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- With the fractal reset, new content added to 30-50 fractal range. 50+ fractals are not possible at the moment.
- 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50 have separate rewards that are daily and account bound. Gold gain on these rewards have being increased.
- Fractal rotation changed so easier fractals come up first.
- Fractal 1: Underwater, Swamp, Urban, Sky (harpies)
- Fractal 2: Sky, Snow, Urban, Molten, Cliffside
- Fractal 3: Aetherblade, Grawl, Thumanova Reactor, Dredge, Cliffside
- Boss Fractal: Kraken fractal, Molten Facility boss fractal, Aetherblade boss fractal.
[*]No returning rewards from previous Living World releases (i.e. Aetherblade Retreat, Molten Facility)
[*]Endless Fractal Tonic – rare drop, but less rare at higher levels.
- Has a number of transforms, one of them is a phallic shaped tentacle that flops around.
- Higher level fractals will drop fractal weapons in a container, allowing you to pick them. Fractal weapons are now skins instead of just weapons with no stats that force you to use a transmutation stone on them.
- Pristine Fractal relics do not have new uses this update but maybe in a later update they can be turned into regular relics.
- Mist Essence is required for the new recipes for runes/sigils.
- No changes to Ascended rings (i.e. ability to salvage them) this update.
- New slot type called agony resist, only agony resist infusions can go in there. Those with infused rings and backpieces will get a new slot that allow you to put in agony resist infusions in.
- You can combine two agony resist infusions with the same resists to make new ones of the next tier up (i.e. a +2 resist infusion and +2 resist infusion put together will make a single +3 infusion. You cannot combine say a +1 and a +3 together. You can reach infinity agony resist with this method, which is useful when they add more levels in the future beyond level 50.
- Future updates will add in new levels in 10 increments (i.e. 10 new fractal levels or 20 new fractal levels).
- No Fractal armor but once we add in Ascended armor you can get those. You can also get Ascended weapon drops as well.
- No new weapon skins in this release. Fractal tonics and runes/sigils are new.
- Storymode available for Thumanova Reactor, allow everyone to see it without having to wait for them to come up.
- New runes/sigils are only craftable, fractals will drop their recipes. These runes/sigils can be sold on the TP
- New achievements for new fractals. Meta achievement for Living World release will reward a hoard of Ascended materials (bloodstone brick, dragonite ingot, empyreal star are given as examples).
- Change to agony overall, and non player characters (i.e. pets etc) are no longer affected.
- No gathering nodes in the fractals.
- New debuffs placed on players at higher fractal levels (31 and higher)
- Example: Last Laugh: Enemies explodes when killed (Fractal 39)
- Every level past 30 has its own instability so there are 19 instabilities in total.
- First come first rank basis – if you are the first to reach a fractal level, you are ranked first for that level. Everyone that comes in later is ranked below you.
- Very similar to the Aetherblade facility from before
- The trap near the entrance of the facility has being changed and new traps have being added. They all require pattern recognition to get pass through.
- End boss fight is the one with turning lasers. (Mai is now part of the boss fractal and her fight length have being reduced)
- Aetherblade/Thumanova Reactor fractals are typically 3rd fractal in a series due to their difficulty. Molten Facility is 2nd fractal in the series.
- Better jump detection and exploits people were using to stand under the boss to avoid the shockwaves is no longer possible.
- Health reduced for fractals.
- Asuran fractal
- Change with different fractal levels.
- Everyone is converted to a bald asura.
- Wolves pop out of the walls and made snack of all the tasty bald asura.
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