In the case of raids, raid rewards are garbage for the effort and time regardless of being challenge mote or not. Kind of sad how much more profitable fractal 40 farm is compared to doing fractal CM's. I wish the integrated matrices could be traded in bulk to replace the grandmaster craftman marks or purchase grandmaster craftman marks directly or boxes of T6 materials. The content is hard with or without a challenge mote if you're new to said:Unfortunately, the rewards for fractal challenge motes is not that better a model since 99CM is barely worth it with the abysmal rewards, and 100CM's reward is subject to heavy RNG. the fractal 100 and 99 challenge motes is how they should be, adding entirely new phases and skills that the bosses use instead of just adding a smaller playing space. Why? Just put that effort into balancing the boss and the mechanicsīecause the challenge motes usually only add a very minute amount of extra mechanics that sometimes make the fight more annoying than fun(keep construct mote for example). The devs have stated they ran out of time balancing w4 bosses, but felt like they had CMs balanced well.
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I personally hope to not see more CMs and to instead see that development time used towards fine tuning mechanics and balance in the bosses,baseline. It doesn't make much sense to me to intentionally balance a boss to be easier just to add a challenge mode to make it harder when difficult encounters are already the design goal. You're making raids to be top tier challenging content, so just make them the top tier challenging content. Said:Challenge modes in "the most challenging content" in gw is redundant and shouldn't have been included imo.