Toymaker Tixx and his flying Infinirarium are returning to Lion’s Arch, which can mean only one thing: Wintersday is coming! Sharpen your snowball-throwing skills and pull out your warmest clothes; the festivities are about to commence!
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Wintersday is just around the corner! The air is getting crisper, Lion’s Arch will soon be decorated – you know, I and my fellow Black Lion Trading Company representatives are so excited, we think it’s time to start celebrating Wintersday in the Gem Store. Read on to learn about this week’s offerings!
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  New—Holiday Helms!
  
      Antlers are in for this Wintersday season! Pick up a Grenth Hood or Stag Helm and celebrate the season in fashion!
  
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  New—Wintersday Minis!
  
      The Mini Puppy, Faun, and Arctic Fox Kit are all waiting to enjoy Wintersday with you! Unlock these faithful – and adorable – companions in the Wintersday Minis 3-Pack! You can also use these minis and Ugly Wool Sweaters to create the lovely Mini Dolyak Calf!
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  Black Lion Wintersday Rewards Event
  
      From now until December 31, you can earn special gifts like a Green Quaggan Backpack or the elusive Mini Mr. Sparkles by buying gems! Learn more!
  
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      This is your last week to pick up Kasmeer’s Staff, Marjory’s Axe and Dagger, and the infinite Dreamcleaver Logging Axe!
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Welcome to the month-long Black Lion Wintersday Rewards Event! Evon Gnashblade of the Black Lion Trading Company will be rewarding December customers with exclusive gifts!
Black Lion Trading Company customers who purchase at least 800 gems will receive an exclusive Green Quaggan Backpack Cover. If you purchase at least 4,000 gems, you’ll receive not only the Green Quaggan Backpack Cover, but also a Mini Mr. Sparkles of your very own!
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In early January, you will receive your gift based on gems you purchase and gem codes you redeem between 12:01 AM December 1 and 11:59 PM December 31 PST.
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When we added the World XP system to World vs. World, it was our goal to create a sense of character progression in WvW gameplay. We wanted to reward people who put time into WvW by increasing the tools available to their characters. The system has been a great success and we’ve seen thousands of ranks gained – top players are already surpassing rank 2,000!
I’m here to announce a major change to the system: We’re making World XP account-bound.
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Why Are We Doing This?

Every system in Guild Wars 2 operates within an ecosystem that contains all the other systems in the game. It’s important to us as a company that players receive value for the time that they spend in the game and that we don’t overload players with an excess of long-term systems that are character-specific.
World XP was initially conceived of as a system that would provide depth to characters in WvW while also providing reasonably achievable goals that kept you interested in playing and earning ranks. That led us to the decision that World XP would be tied to the character that earned it in WvW. By tying the XP and ranks to the individual characters, we had a WvW system that closely mirrored our PvE XP.
When we initially designed this system, we envisioned a specific amount of abilities and lines for players to progress and unlock for their characters, to create builds and scenarios for their characters to use. As we begin to roll out our new core horizontal progression system of continually-expanded skills and traits, we felt there was no longer a need to have a character-specific progression system unique to WvW. The skill and trait system will provide game-wide horizontal character progression for all players.
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How Will it Work?

With all of this in mind, the system is receiving the following changes:

• All earned World XP on an account will be put into a single pool.
  
• The sum of those points will determine the world rank and World Ability Points available to each character on the account.
  
• World Ability Points can be allocated differently on each character; you are not creating a single, account-based, version of your characters.

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Hey, everyone. We've been reading all your feedback about the Flamekissed Armor Skin that was released into the Gem Store yesterday.
      
Although the Flamekissed Armor uses the same mesh as the Tier 3 Human Cultural Armor, it was not our intention to create an armor skin that so closely matched the existing Tier 3 Human Cultural armor set. The intention was to use the mesh as a basis for creating an armor set that stands apart and is distinct in appearance. However, after reading your feedback, we agree that the Flamekissed armor is not visually distinct enough from Human Cultural Tier 3 armor.

We will do a few things to address this issue.

We will temporarily remove Flamekissed Armor Skin from the Gem Store.
Players who have purchased Flamekissed Armor Skin will keep the skin.
We will make new art for the Flamekissed Armor Skin that achieves our goal of making a visually distinct and attractive armor set and does not closely resemble the Human Tier 3 Cultural armor.
Once this new artwork is completed, we will then update the Flamekissed Armor Skin so that all existing sets that players have purchased get the new art. We will also offer the Flamekissed Armor Skin for sale again at that time.
When we update the Flamekissed Armor Skins with the new artwork, any player that has already purchased the set and who does not like the new, updated look, can get a full refund by contacting Customer Support.

Note that there is no ETA on when this change will happen. We need to work with the Character Art Team to determine when we can have a new armor skin ready, and this could take some time.

Thank you everyone for providing your feedback. We appreciate that you took the time to let us know how you feel about the new armor set.

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The Guild Wars 2 Great MMO Migration has begun, and new citizens from all over are being welcomed to Tyria!
How can you, as a current citizen of Tyria, help the effort? Welcome in new heroes with open arms! It’s not so long ago, after all, that you were new to the world of Tyria – all the excitement can be overwhelming, and having friendly, knowledgeable veterans around can make all the difference. Show how Guild Wars 2 has the best community by providing that stable foundation to incoming citizens. As a bonus, every new citizen that joins the world of Tyria and the adventures within will get an item that grants a significant amount of influence to the guild of their choice.
If Tyria isn’t yet your home, you can move in for free – all you need to do is create a simple video! Pledge your commitment to the world of Tyria, send it in, and find out if you’re one of 5,000 winners of a free copy of the Guild Wars 2 Heroic Edition! Read all the contest details here.
Good luck, and we’ll see you in-game!
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Ellen Kiel has done it! After being supported by players in her bid for a seat on the Captain’s Council of Lion’s Arch, Kiel has made good on her campaign promises – specifically, the promise to head up Mists research into the mysteries behind the disaster at the Thaumanova Reactor.
Today’s release brings in three new fractals, two new boss fractals, and improvements and updates to many core Fractals of the Mists systems.
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Fractured

Five New Fractals

• Three standard fractals:
  
  • Thaumanova Reactor: Embark on a brand-new historical adventure, and travel to the ill-fated power facility moments before it explodes. As the fractal scale increases, more potential outcomes will unlock.
    
  • Molten Weapons Testing: Accompany Braham and Rox through this epic retelling of the Molten Facility dungeon.
    
  • Aetherblade Retreat: Join Ellen Kiel as she fights off Aetherblade pirates in a fragment of the Aetherblade Retreat dungeon.
• Two boss-tier fractals:
  
  • Molten Retribution: Battle the legendary bosses from the Molten Facility dungeon in this boss-tier fractal.
    
  • Sky Pirates: Relive the challenge of Captain Mai Trin and First Mate Horrik.

• As promised during her campaign run for the Captain’s Council seat, Ellen Kiel has begun her investigation of the Thaumanova Reactor disaster in the Mistlock Observatory.
  
• Players can complete the special story-mode version of this fractal when they enter the Fractals of the Mists for the first time during this release.

• Tampering with the Mistlock Observatory to target specific moments in time has destabilized the Mistlock process. Consequently, unique Mistlock Instabilities will begin occurring on fractal level 31.
  
• Mistlock Instabilities are special modifiers that have various effects on players and their party’s journey through the fractals. These can be anything from simple conditions to insidious extra creature attacks.

• All infused ascended equipment now has a special infusion slot for Agony Resistance infusions.
  
• Agony Resistance infusions can be found in fractal reward chests.
  
• All existing, infused ascended equipment has a +5 Agony Resistance infusion in the Agony Resistance slot by default, in place of the natural +5 Agony Resistance.
  
  • Agony Resistance infusions provide +1 or more Agony Resistance.
    
  • Artificers can combine two identical Agony Resistance infusions with a Thermocatalytic Reagent to create a single, more powerful Agony Resistance infusion.
• Newly created or dropped infused ascended equipment will have empty Agony Resistance slots.

• Fractal selection is now based on the number of fractals the party has completed on the current run. Longer, more difficult fractals are less likely to be selected as the first fractal of the level.
  
• Every fractal level now ends with a boss-tier fractal. The Solid Ocean, Molten Retribution, and Sky Pirates fractals are all in this category.
  
• Unshakable creatures will no longer receive more than 5 stacks of the defiance boon in the fractals.
  
• The difficulty scaling for fractals has been adjusted. Enemy health, damage, and count now scale more gradually.
  
• Agony damage has also been reduced at several levels.
  
• Fractal level 50 is now possible, even with excessive agony damage. However, the fractals are temporarily capped at level 50. Additional levels will become available in the future.
  
• Fractal progress is now account-wide.
  
• Numerous bug fixes and balance changes have been made to previously available fractals.

• With this release, players will be able to track their progress on a new leaderboard that displays their fractal rank.
  
• In the case of a tie, the first player to achieve that rank will be listed higher.
  
• The leaderboard will be posted on GuildWars2.com once they have been populated with enough data.

• Daily coin rewards for fractal completion are now more consistent with other dungeons. There are now separate daily rewards per every ten levels of the fractals (1–10, 11–20, and so on).
  
• The Fractal weapons have been converted to weapon skins.
  
• Recipes for a new rune and a new sigil will now drop exclusively in the fractals:
  
  • Superior Rune of Resistance grants bonus toughness, a reduction in condition duration, and aegis upon using a signet.
    
  • Superior Sigil of Momentum grants a stacking toughness bonus on kills.
• Completing the Fractured meta-achievement awards the player a bag of ascended crafting materials.

• Completing a fractal will fulfill a daily achievement each day of the Fractured release.
  
• Each unique fractal completed during the Fractured release will fulfill a corresponding Living World achievement.
  
• The Fractured meta-achievement requires players to complete a combination of 11 daily fractals and/or unique fractal achievements.

• The Endless Fractal Tonic is an endless transformation tonic that allows players to temporarily appear to be various creatures from the Fractals of the Mists dungeons. The tonic is more likely to drop at higher fractal levels.

• The Tri-key Chest has been updated to include more loot bags, more Dragonite Ore, and a chance at Scrolls of Knowledge and Tomes of Knowledge.
  
• The Toxic Hybrid will now drop a piece of the Tricolor Key every time he is defeated.
  
• Sergeant Walters, located in the base of the Tower of Nightmares, will now accept players’ Pristine Toxic Spore Samples for the Toxic Spore Sampler achievement. She will accept extra Pristine Toxic Spore Samples as trade for various new crafting recipes, Tricolor Key pieces, and the Antitoxin Spray healing skill.

• A new area has been added to the Obsidian Sanctum jumping puzzle!
  
  • The Borderlands Bloodlust effect has been disabled in Obsidian Sanctum.
    
  • Players can now enter Obsidian Sanctum directly from the drop-down menu of the WvW panel.

• Additional recipes for ascended back-item pieces have been added to the Mystic Forge for players who don’t play the fractals.
  
  • All of the ascended back-item pieces that required 1 vial of Condensed Mists Essence can now be forged with Bloodstone Dust instead.
    
  • A total of eight recipes have been added.

• Sylvari cultural armor updates—light tier 1 (female only), light tier 3, medium tier 2, and medium tier 3: textures, specularity, and dye channels have been predominantly restored to the state before the last update, while balancing them to work with the glow material.
  
  • For the medium tier 2 leggings, the dye-to-skin area was largely combined to a supporting channel to give full texture and glow-color control. The armor-glow shader has been tweaked to allow full saturation range of the glow color, as will be dictated by the saturation of the texture. This shader affects all plantlike sylvari armors that have glow: sylvari cultural, Nightmare Court, and sylvari town clothes.

• Gathering tools can no longer be unequipped while gathering.

• Fire Shield: The aura of this skill now applies to 5 targets when traited with Powerful Aura, up from 4.
  
• Shocking Aura: The aura of this skill now applies to 5 targets when traited with Powerful Aura, down from 6.
  
• Zephyr’s Speed: This trait now always grants movement speed while attuned to air and also functions with Lingering Elements.
  
• Stone Flesh: This trait now always grants toughness while attuned to earth and also functions with Lingering Elements.
  
• Signet of Air: The tooltip now displays the proper movement-speed increase of the boon when this skill has been activated while traited with Written in Stone.
  
• Stop, Drop, and Roll: This trait will now only go on cooldown when burning or chilled is removed.
  
• Soothing Mist: Updated the skill fact to indicate the correct rate at which Soothing Mist is applied.
  
• Healing Ripple: This trait now indicates the correct healing amount when in a PvP map.
  
• Ether Renewal: Adjusted the skill fact to better describe the functionality of this skill.

• Tool Kit
  
  • Throw Wrench: Removed the healing functionality from this skill. It now applies 2 stacks of vulnerability each time it hits an enemy.
    
  • Smack: Added a turret-healing fact.
    
  • Whack: Added a turret-healing fact.
    
  • Thwack: Added a turret-healing fact.
• Power Wrench: Updated the description and skill fact to indicate the actual functionality of this skill.
  
• Poison Grenade: These grenades now display a red ring for enemies and a combo ring for allies.
  
• Grenade Barrage: This skill now launches 7 grenades when traited with Grenadier, instead of having a 50% chance to launch 6 or 8 grenades. These grenades now display a red ring for enemies and a white ring for allies.
  
• Autotool Installation: Updated the trait fact to indicate the correct amount of health restored to turrets.
  
• Automated Medical Response: This trait now recharges Antitoxin Spray, the human racial skill Prayer to Dwayna, and the sylvari racial skill Healing Seed.
  
• Rifled Turret Barrels: The range bonus has been increased to 50%. Several turret abilities have been modified to reflect this change.
  
• Rifle Turret: The range has been increased from 1400 to 1500 when traited with Rifled Turret Barrels.
  
  • Automatic Fire: This skill is now affected by Rifled Turret Barrels.
• Harpoon Turret: The range has been increased from 1400 to 1500 when traited with Rifled Turret Barrels.
  
  • Automatic Fire: This skill is now affected by Rifled Turret Barrels.
• Flame Turret: The base range has been increased from 450 to 500. The range has been increased from 600 to 750 when traited with Rifled Turret Barrels.
  
  • Smoke Screen: This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, increasing its radius from 240 to 360.
• Net Turret—Electrified Net: This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, launching at foes up to a 900 range (previously 600) when traited.
  
• Rocket Turret: The base range has been lowered from 1200 to 1000. The range when traited with Rifled Turret Barrels remains at 1500.
  
  • Explosive Rockets: This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, increasing its range from 1000 to 1500.
• Thumper Turret—Thump: This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, increasing its radius from 240 to 360.

• Symbol of Protection: This symbol now has the appropriate duration increase when traited with Writ of Persistence.
  
• Purging Flames: Updated the skill fact to show the correct condition duration reduction (33%).
  
• “Stand Your Ground!”: Added a skill fact for number of targets.
  
• Binding Jeopardy: Facts from this trait will now show up on skills that immobilize.
  
• Ring of Warding: Added a skill fact for the light field generated by this skill.

• Phantasmal Warden: This phantasm will now properly try to enter the attack range of its target before using its skill.
  
• Imbued Diversion: Added a radius trait fact.
  
• Empowered Illusions: This trait now indicates a damage increase for phantasms.
  
• Illusionary Duelist: This skill no longer indicates a loss of damage when traited with Empowered Illusions.
  
• Vortex: Updated the range indicator to use the proper range. Added a radius skill fact. Added a skill fact for initial pull radius.

• Putrid Mark: Changed the description to match the actual functionality of this skill.
  
• Marks: Fixed an issue that caused staff marks to go on full cooldown when aborted/interrupted.
  
• Shadow Fiend—Haunt: Updated the blind skill fact to display the proper duration.

• Kick: Adjusted the range fact on this skill to match the proper attack range.
  
• Frost Spirit: Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
  
• Stone Spirit: Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
  
• Storm Spirit: Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
  
• Sun Spirit: Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
  
• Spirit of Nature: Added radius and time-interval skill facts. Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
  
• Signet of the Wild: Rangers will now be able to interact with objects when they use the active portion of the signet and have Signet of the Beastmaster traited.
  
• Mercy Shot: Fixed an issue with the trait fact that caused multiple damage facts of the same type to appear.
  
• Eagle Eye: This trait now indicates the damage increase in its facts.
  
• Sharpened Edges: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to display an incorrect chance on critical hit.
  
• Intimidation Training: Updated this trait to display on the activated abilities for the Jungle Spider and Black Widow pets.
  
• Hide in Plain Sight: Added a camouflage trait fact.

• Basilisk Venom: This stun will now apply after a strike, instead of on a strike, to prevent crowd-control attacks (like Headshot) from overriding the stun.
  
• Cluster Bomb: The bleeding skill fact now displays the proper bleed stack and duration. Added a radius skill fact.
  
• Fire Cluster Bomb: Added skill facts to describe the functionality of this skill.
  
• Smoke Bomb: Removed the old shadowstep fact.
  
• Fleet of Foot: The conditions will now be removed at the beginning of the dodge roll instead of at the end. This trait will now only go on cooldown when crippled or weakness is removed.
  
• Potent Poison: Updated the thief skills that caused poison to reflect the extended duration that this trait applies.

• “Fear Me!”: Replaced the range fact with a radius fact.
  
• “For Great Justice!”: Replaced the range fact with a radius fact.
  
• “Shake It Off!”: Replaced the range fact with a radius fact. Added a skill fact for removed conditions.
  
• “On My Mark!”: This skill will now properly use a 1200 range.
  
• Vigorous Focus: Fixed a bug that was granting 8 seconds of vigor on stance use instead of the intended 6 seconds. Skills affected: Balanced Stance, Endure Pain, and Berserker’s Stance.
  
• Fast Hands: This trait will no longer trigger a 5-second recharge when swapping to or from bundles.
  
• Earthshaker: Fixed a bug where this skill would occasionally fail to consume adrenaline.

• Borderlands Bloodlust no longer applies to NPCs.
  
• Town clothes and toys have been disabled in WvW.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing some players from unlocking the WvW Dawn of the Season achievement.

• The ratings for matchmaking and leaderboard standings in PvP have been reset.

• Flamekissed light-armor skins, Flamewalker medium-armor skins, and Flamewrath heavy-armor skins are now available in the Style category of the Gem Store. These fiery armor skins can be purchased for 800 gems each.
  
• WXP Boosters continue to be 10% off until the end of WvW season 1. WXP Boosters can be purchased from the Gem Store in the Boosts category for 135 gems each or 495 gems for a pack of 5.

If you’re looking for something to spice up your wardrobe – look no further! This week, the Black Lion Trading Company is proud to present three armor skins that will totally revamp your look. Read on to learn about the Flamewrath, Flamekissed, and Flamewalker armors!
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With the release of Fractals, we’re making several exciting additions and changes to the Fractals of the Mists infinite dungeon. Here’s a brief overview of the changes you can expect!

Changes to Fractal Rotations:

For those not familiar with the current structure of the Fractals of the Mists, they’re like mini-dungeons which string together and present more of a challenge as you progress. On average, a single fractal should take 20-30 minutes to complete, depending on your group and difficulty scale.

Entering the Mistlock Observatory through the Fractals of the Mists gate near Fort Marriner in Lion’s Arch will place you into a random fractal from a common pool.  Completing the fractal will prompt your party to move to the next fractal, which is also chosen at random. After completing three fractals, the party will be taken to a shorter boss fractal, after which you’ll receive rewards for completing the run.

Completing a given fractal level will increase your personal fractal difficulty and reward level by one. As you level up within the Fractals of the Mists, enemies become more challenging (up to a maximum level of 50). Above fractal difficulty level 10, a new type of damage called agony is applied by certain attacks. This effect deals a set percentage of your health, but can be mitigated by special Ascended gear with the agony resist stat on it.

Fractals are now weighted according to their length and difficulty. Easier fractals will always show up earlier in the run, with more difficult ones coming later.

All 50 levels now have a boss fractal after the standard rotation of three normal, instead of only offering a boss encounter at the end of even-numbered fractal levels. You no longer need to worry about skipping levels to get the best rewards!

Your personal fractal difficulty and reward level is being made account-wide! Starting with the Fractured release, you can attempt high level fractals on a new character without needing to level up all over again.

New Fractals:

Three new fractals have been added to the fractal rotation:

• Thaumanova Reactor Fractal: You voted, and Kiel delivered! Experience the moments leading up to the catastrophic destruction of the Thaumanova Reactor, caused by the Inquest’s reckless experiments with Chaos Energy.
• Molten Furnace Fractal: Relive the beginning of the assault on the Molten Alliance base from the Flame & Frost release! Watch out for the supercharged Dredge Engineer!
• Aetherblade Fractal: The Aetherblade pirates from the Sky Pirates of Tyria release can now be found in the Mists as well – and their traps and tricks are deadlier than ever!

Two new boss fractals have been added to join the Jade Maw encounter:

• The Molten Berserker and Dredge Firestorm from the Molten Facility Dungeon are back! The deadly duo will challenge you to focus your fire while avoiding their attacks.
• Mai Trin from the Aetherblade Retreat will also try to get between you and your well-deserved rewards. Avoid her first-mate’s cannonball barrages while bringing down her shields.

Mistlock Instabilities:

As Dessa has always been quick to point out, diving into the Mists is a dangerous hobby! Playing above fractal level 30, you will notice new Mistlock Instabilities that will force you to rethink your approach to what might otherwise seem like familiar challenges.

Every level starting at 31 will have a new instability to conquer. This instability is tied to the fractal level, so it will be the same for all three fractals and the boss, but will be replaced by a new challenge when you move up to a new fractal level.

These instabilities should offer new and varied challenges, even to veterans of the Fractals of the Mists!

Agony Resist Infusions:

To assist you in your ventures into the mists, a new agony resist infusion slot has been added to all infused rings and backpacks.

• All current infused rings and backpacks will start with a +5 agony resist infusion (this replaces the +5 agony resist that was previously on the item itself).
• Players will be able to find +1 agony resist infusions commonly in the fractals after level 10.
• Artificers of at least 100 skill will be able to combine two infusions of the same level with a Thermocatalytic Reagent to make an infusion of the next level. For example, you could take two +2 infusions, combine them with a Thermocatalytic Reagent, and create a +3 infusion.

Reward updates:

You will be able to receive a special daily chest for finishing a boss fractal once per day. This chest will contain a number of items based on your current fractal level:

• Empyreal Fragments
• Fractal Relics
• A Pristine Fractal Relic
• Gold

This boss chest will also have a chance at containing a number of other rare rewards. As your fractal level increases, so do the odds of obtaining these items:

• Fractal Weapon Skins (starting at level 10)
• Ascended Rings (starting at level 10)
• Ascended Weapons (starting at level 10)
• Infused Ascended Rings (starting at level 20)

Starting at level 40, this chest will have a small chance to contain an Endless Fractal Tonic. Using this item will transform you into a random creature found in the fractals. It is account bound, so it can be used on any of your characters.

Completing a fractal will yield a repeatable chest that contains the following (this chest can be obtained any number of times per day):

• Fractal Relics
• Agony resist infusions
• Character equipment (blue quality or higher)

Above level 30, this repeatable chest also has a chance to contain a brand new rune or sigil:

• The Rune of Resistance grants bonus toughness, a reduction in condition duration, and aegis upon using a signet
• The Sigil of Momentum grants a stacking toughness buff every time you kill an enemy

As you delve into old and new fractals alike, we’re hoping these changes will keep you feeling challenged and better rewarded than ever before.