Guild Wars 2

I would have liked to see some consumables that could be bought with candy corn (exactly like how zhaitaffy could buy you consumables during Dragon Bash).

That would have had potential to remove candy corn from the economy, thus allowing the event items (e.g. halloween pail) to not require as much candy corn. We probably would have had less anger and despair over this holiday event.

Thoughts?

You can actually cook with Candy Corn, which is why I’d say they didn’t do a similar thing to the Zhaitaffy vendor’s other treats during Dragon Bash. You can cook the consumables on this page, and even more once you’ve made Candy Corn Glaze out of it.

A lot of these treats also drop from the Halloween event, no cooking required.

I think these items are easily forgotten or overlooked. While I don’t know how effective they are compared to other cooking recipes, since I haven’t leveled in cooking yet, at least they’re a use for candy corn that doesn’t require ten thousand candy corn.

There’s other recipes in other crafts for them too, and even the bags if I remember correctly.

Redenaz.8631:

You can actually cook with Candy Corn, which is why I’d say they didn’t do a similar thing to the Zhaitaffy vendor’s other treats during Dragon Bash. You can cook the consumables on this page, and even more once you’ve made Candy Corn Glaze out of it.

A lot of these treats also drop from the Halloween event, no cooking required.

I think these items are easily forgotten or overlooked. While I don’t know how effective they are compared to other cooking recipes, since I haven’t leveled in cooking yet, at least they’re a use for candy corn that doesn’t require ten thousand candy corn.

Since all the Dragon Bash food had a lv80 requirement it makes sense to compare the Halloween food on a lv80 character. In that situation the Halloween foods are always better than the equivalent non-Halloween food. The Halloween food will last 15 minutes longer and give +15% exp instead of +10%. Even for a non-80 most of the Halloween food is always better, I think there are 3 exceptions where the level requirements on the Halloween food is 5 levels higher than the normal food.

On the other hand the Dragon Bash food has the advantage of being dirt cheap.

Redenaz.8631:

You can actually cook with Candy Corn, which is why I’d say they didn’t do a similar thing to the Zhaitaffy vendor’s other treats during Dragon Bash. You can cook the consumables on this page, and even more once you’ve made Candy Corn Glaze out of it.

A lot of these treats also drop from the Halloween event, no cooking required.

I think these items are easily forgotten or overlooked. While I don’t know how effective they are compared to other cooking recipes, since I haven’t leveled in cooking yet, at least they’re a use for candy corn that doesn’t require ten thousand candy corn.

This is true. But judging from peoples’ responses to the candy corn debacle, it seems that, for whatever reason, most are not interested/satisfied with using candy corn for cooking. (I personally find crafting the worst and dullest part of the whole game.)

I think a direct trade: consumable for candy corn is far more appealing because it’s easy and simple. If you want people to spend their candy corns (and I’m assuming Anet does), make it easy for them to do it!