What do you think will happen when there is a 26th fractal?

Currently there are 18 unique fractals, leaving 7 duplicates per tier that can be replaced by new unique fractals. Now, at the current rate of fractal creation and release, that will last us a good long time, but it won't last forever. What do you think will happen when all 25 slots per tier are occupied by a unique fractal but there is a new one ready to come down the pipe?

I think the most likely scenario would be increasing the number of slots per tier by a lot, say to 50/tier from 25. Everybody would have their current personal fractal level doubled. Agony would still max out at 150; the speed at which it ramped up from one fractal to the next would just be halved.

But I can see some other scenarios, like just adding one new fractal per tier at a time. You wouldn't have to do anything about personal fractal levels but all the achievements would need tweaking every time, with some things inevitably falling through the cracks every time. I think this is less likely than my first solution, but still a possibility. I can think of a few other possibilities as well. What do you think?

Interesting question. Personally, I don't think that 50 fractals per tier is the way to go. Having 200 levels will do nothing to us veterans, but I'm certain it will be very painful for beginners. With AR already being a gate, I hope they won't add another layer. Maybe an alphabetized list is a good thing - that will require some tweaks of the reward and AR system, but apart from the two points the level of an individual fractal hardly matters anyway, so why not kill it.

They remove the Aetherpath and Mai Trin and release them as the single dungeon they used to be. Same for Molten Fractals. That's a net gain of two slots!Preferably yet they'll remove all LS1 fractals and restore them to being LS1 instances (maybe keep the CMS and such) along with a long-awaited system to allow LS1 to be replayed. (net gain of 5 slots).Or increase max tier to 150, reshuffle fractals to 3 tiers instead of 4, and 50 fractals per tier.

New dungeons with high AR requirements, so the progression for 5 man groups will go from fractals to longer instanced stuff.Dungeons will one day make a comeback. One day...

GW2 will be abandoned before.

At the current rate of release... This game will be dead by then. It's already on its deathbed... with a new expansion every few years (bringing 1 week of new content), and all meaningful rewards coming from the gemstore. Good night GW2.

There should be an option "we will never see 26th fractal"

If we ever get to that point, they'll have to revise the whole fractal level approach. Perhaps they will just drop levels and keep just the tiers, so that each fractal will have a single instance per tier, and all fractals within the tier being theoretically at the same "level". Perhaps they will think of something else. Or perhaps we'll never get 26th fractal.

At a rate of 3 fractals per year(which is faster than it has been), that will take 3 years. By that point the game would be already dead and Anet will be doing something else.

The poll is premature, especially since it doesn't offer even all the likely possibilities. Besides, that it's not happening for a while. If ANet keeps up their current pace, the 3rd expac will be out first and all sorts of things might change by then.

ANet could:

• Reduce fractals to three tiers, with the Bronze tier being like dungeons, Silver introducing instabilities, and Gold as the most challenging.
• Not worry about having identical lists in each tier, e.g Tier 1 could include the 25 shorter fractals and Tier 4 could have the 25 longest.
• Add a tier.
• Introduce a rotation to the tiers.
• Have levels go past 100, so each tier has room for more than 25.

I think the most likely is that they'll just let the tiers be different, after all, the four tiers have never really tried to be mirrors of each other. The lists tend to be different, even if a few are in the same spot in each tier.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:The poll is premature, especially since it doesn't offer even all the likely possibilities. Besides, that it's not happening for a while. If ANet keeps up their current pace, the 3rd expac will be out first and all sorts of things might change by then.

ANet could:

• Reduce fractals to three tiers, with the Bronze tier being like dungeons, Silver introducing instabilities, and Gold as the most challenging.
• Not worry about having identical lists in each tier, e.g Tier 1 could include the 25 shorter fractals and Tier 4 could have the 25 longest.
• Add a tier.
• Introduce a rotation to the tiers.
• Have levels go past 100, so each tier has room for more than 25.

I think the most likely is that they'll just let the tiers be different, after all, the four tiers have never really tried to be mirrors of each other. The lists tend to be different, even if a few are in the same spot in each tier.

I like the 3 tier idea. It is neater and clearer than we have now. We could fractals renamed as Bronze 1, 2, etc, silver 1, 2, 3 etc meaning the system would never need changing again. The downside is all the work to revamp the achievement and AR system which could be non trivial

They will replace some of the weaker fractals.

history will repeat itself

they will remove some fractals like they removed ta fw up, then introduce the new 25th fractal and declare the entire game mode dead.

I believe that once the 7 new ones are out (if they even make those) they will have stopped fractal production and focus on the expansions and raids instead. There is no reason that they can't just stop production right now.

Gw 2 has to die now its time for a new game gw 3

I think they will just start rotating fractals in and out of the roster, they have already indicated they want to get to a place where instabilities change everyday on the fractals. I think they will do the same for the encounters.

i think they will just make it so that some of the easier/faster fractals are lower Tier, and some of the harder/longer ones are higher Trier, there is no law that says that they can't have 100 different fractals.

REEEE content for elites only?! REEEEEE

Although I seriously am salty about the bits of story locked in raids and would give my eyeteeth for a raid story mode.

Also I think if you do all the work of making a fractal you want as many people to enjoy it as possible, from newbies to silent wizened t4 murderhobos. So I think we'll always see a copy on every tier.