They're still the only way to acquire back pieces with Ascended stats, and that irritates me (although thankfully ArenaNet is working on a solution). Some of this was sheer bullheadedness on my part, since I really didn't care for the patch that introduced Fractals and running them was initially the only way to get Ascended items. Despite all of that, I didn't have a great first few experiences trying to run them, and their initial marketing as "dungeons for people who love dungeons more than anything" led me to think that maybe they just weren't meant for a guy who approaches high-end group content the way a feral cat approaches a human hand that has kibble in it. And I'm still waiting for miniature versions of those wonderful cat golems. The chained Colossus manages to be one of my favorite GW2 characters despite appearing only briefly and not having any lines. The shoutout to dedicated community contributor Dulfy in boss form is extremely cool. I love the concept of each one being a suspended vignette of the past. In theory, though, I should love Fractals. I'm just now beginning to understand why people find it fun, instead of boggling at the strange, masochistic habits of you Earth-lings ( beep). With medication and therapy, it's still something that takes roughly two hours of mental preparedness beforehand if I don't want to be a miserable, uptight bundle of nerves throughout the run. Without medication, running dungeons even with a group of friends seems like a form of exotic torture designed specifically to terrify me into social paralysis no matter how much I want the rewards, and I would rather roll naked over white-hot nails as long as I could solo it. A large part of that is thanks to my brain, which likes to beat up on itself, and one of the ways this manifests is as severe social anxiety disorder. Heck, it's even enough to get me to give Fractals a second look, which is no mean feat since it's one of the few chunks of GW2 PvE content I haven't spent a lot of time on. We'll finally be seeing the results of the Cutthroat Politics vote. It's been just about a year since ArenaNet introduced Fractals of the Mists to Guild Wars 2, and so it's appropriate that this week's release centers on polishing and additions to the popular never-ending, increasingly difficult dungeon-ish thingies.
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