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Guild Wars Reporter 160 – Daamaaaassssk!

August 06, 2015

Celeste and Allona chat about the recent official blog post on the changes coming to Fractals in Heart of Thorns! And then they are entertained by community artwork ... particularly a dreamy Trahearne. They hate still hate Damask.
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What We Did This Week
 

Allona

Fungeons and Fractals with MoCK. Up to lvl 15! -- also got an achievement, and did two fungeons! Arah AND Honour of the Waves!
Guild Missions with Maven … This one will have a shocking secret
Silverwastes, like a bunch! Hunter helped me get a lot of mordrem parts I still need for Luminescent Armour (which made me take better stock of the parts I needed and Hunter gave me a great tip to buy all the extractors I needed to have them on hand!)
Ran a few Drytop runs for geodes and that silky silky sand
Quite a bit of PvP, even a few matches with Ultra and Spirit from Relics of Orr - I made a bad choice early on in one match that made me feel dumb. Even so, we won all five matches we played!
Finished my medium ascended armour! Wooo!
Finished Party Politics (Thank you Dulfy)!
Making good progress with the Godskull weapons
Speaking of … there was one day that the Claw of Jormag was a daily. I logged in about an hour before reset to do some Grawl killing (for large skulls, for Godskull weapons) and noticed Jormag was in 24ish minutes. GREAT! I kill me some Grawl and then randomly toodle around for gathering nodes, come across the jumping puzzle with the underwater entrance, decide to do that, “Hey ancient sapling right at the top!”, gather it, run to the edge to jump off and decide the lighting is great and proceed to take a bunch of selfies of my character … at some point notice a dragon flying around in the background … CRAP! JORMAG! Boot it over to the fight and it’s in the second phase and a quarter health left. Manage to get enough hits in to get gold (although I’m not sure how THAT works) and credit for the daily about 5-10 minutes before reset! YAY ME! So yeah, almost missed a world boss because of selfies.
Totally unrelated to previous point: I gave Allona a new hairstyle. TOTALLY UNRELATED.

Celeste

Working on World completion on my ele
Silverwastes on Monday with Pear and Hunter (which made me take stock of all the modrem parts I need to get still. Spoilers: it’s a lot)
working on getting leatherworker to 500, which I thought I had done already
Iron Marches Event completer means I got an explorer achievement done
Been looking at my mesmer and being conflicted about whether or not to finish world completion on my ele before working on my mesmer in earnest

 

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Report from Lion’s Arch
 
The Brand-New Fractals of the Mists, Legendary Backpacks, Ascended Salvaging, and More!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-brand-new-fractals-of-the-mists-legendary-backpacks-ascended-salvaging-and-more/

“Our goal with these upcoming changes is to raise the challenge of the fractals on the top end and to make them more accessible to a larger group of players. In other words, we want to create an experience that is easier to get into and easier to learn but more difficult to master.”
“One island from a static list”
Do fractals as often as you want without the 90 minute time commitment
“The lower scales will be adjusted to help make them more approachable to players to aid them in learning the mechanics of individual fractals before they scale up and become too difficult.”
“To start with, we’re raising the maximum fractal scale from 50 to 100. In addition, after scale 50, the difficulty curve will change to adjust not only the health and outgoing damage of creatures but also other stats like precision and toughness.”
“For example,