Guild Wars 2

I am talking about enough to buy cobs the halloween items. (not buying at TP) It would be impossible for me. I’m curious if anyone hardcore wa able to do it.

I’d be absolutely astonished, and a little worried, if anyone did.

15,000 candy corn (for Pail; Mini is 20,000)
/12 days (from event start to today)
= 1,250 candycorn/day (1,667 for Mini)

If you played 8 hours/day, you’d have to be making 156 cc/hr. (208 for mini) Even if you could make that by just running around the max and mining nodes, I’d be a little concerned if anyone actually did that.

SHM.7628:

I am talking about enough to buy cobs the halloween items. (not buying at TP) It would be impossible for me. I’m curious if anyone hardcore wa able to do it.

Anyone hardcore enough to do it would be smart enough to realize that farming gold and buying cobs off tp would be a faster route.

I doubt Anet intended anyone to be able to do it during Halloween. The merchant is permanent so you will be able to get the bag and the mini after Halloween is over, either by harvesting candy corn from the node in your home instance, buying it on the TP, waiting for future Halloween events or some combination of those.

Personally I don’t know why anyone would bother with the bag because you’d be better off selling the candy corn and buying another 20 slot bag on the TP, but I’m relieved about the mini.

(And in answer to the original question I’ve gotten about 1,700 so far. The first 1,000 went for the mini Carlotta and I’m now working on the Bloody Prince.)

Danikat.8537:

I doubt Anet intended anyone to be able to do it during Halloween. The merchant is permanent so you will be able to get the bag and the mini after Halloween is over, either by harvesting candy corn from the node in your home instance, buying it on the TP, waiting for future Halloween events or some combination of those.

No offense, but it takes 15000-20000 CC to get the prizes. Even if you have a few thousand after Halloween, and you can get 5-9/day on your home node (great for cooking) it would take years to get up to the 15000-20000 from that, assuming your not using the TP. In short, very grindy.

Where did I say it’s not grindy? I said it’s possible, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a grind.

All I was saying was that I don’t think Anet intended it to be something people could do during Halloween, unless they happened to already have 160g or whatever in the bank (or stacks and stacks of candy corn, which is unlikely). It was always supposed to be a long-term goal.

20,000cc / (10cc/day) = 2,000 days, or about 5 1/2 years.

That’s 5 1/2 years if I don’t miss a single day, longer for every day I miss. And that’s not counting travel time to and from the instance, or any waypoint costs. (2s/time=40g)

If “long term goal” really is the intent, then I have to question the wisdom of a time-gated goal that will take at least 5 1/2 years being introduced into a game that’s a little over one year old.

Of course, future Halloweens could reduce that cost by raising candy corn supplies, but, in the end, I think there’s really just no sensible way to get the mini other than breaking down and buying candy of the trading post.

Redenaz.8631:

20,000cc / (10cc/day) = 2,000 days, or about 5 1/2 years.

That’s 5 1/2 years if I don’t miss a single day, longer for every day I miss. And that’s not counting travel time to and from the instance, or any waypoint costs. (2s/time=40g)

If “long term goal” really is the intent, then I have to question the wisdom of a time-gated goal that will take at least 5 1/2 years being introduced into a game that’s a little over one year old.

Of course, future Halloweens could reduce that cost by raising candy corn supplies, but, in the end, I think there’s really just no sensible way to get the mini other than breaking down and buying candy of the trading post.

Not to mention the problem of needing copious amounts of the other items as well.

Plus, technically we have no clue if the items will be removed, say, 2 weeks before next Halloween (they did remove the gift recipes from the MF), and introduce a new different mini.

Also don’t forget they can easily introduce other sinks in the mean time. I remember I spent the 2-4k candy corn/zhaitaffy I had sitting in my bank at the bazaar. What makes it worse, is that on a lot of servers the Labyrinth is empty, making it a lot harder to grab the little candy corn nodes that there are.

Danikat.8537:

I doubt Anet intended anyone to be able to do it during Halloween. The merchant is permanent so you will be able to get the bag and the mini after Halloween is over, either by harvesting candy corn from the node in your home instance, buying it on the TP, waiting for future Halloween events or some combination of those.

Personally I don’t know why anyone would bother with the bag because you’d be better off selling the candy corn and buying another 20 slot bag on the TP, but I’m relieved about the mini.

(And in answer to the original question I’ve gotten about 1,700 so far. The first 1,000 went for the mini Carlotta and I’m now working on the Bloody Prince.)

This is not true for the recipes.

I’ve farmed about 15k CC myself, but that’s combined from last year’s Halloween event, where ToT bags were in much higher abundance. I farmed ToT bags with the scanner thing (although many locations were removed, some still existed and reset like every 30 minutes) with 9 toons, and IIRC Mad King’s Clock Tower had more ToT bags as a reward (I think like 6-9 per success). I pretty much just did the clock tower between the scanner reset and managed to get somewhere like 90% success rate. It wasn’t too bad because I ended up being able to do it blindfolded – and I watched the entire series of The Office on my second monitor while I was doing it.

I saved up about 5k bags and opened them all this Halloween to get the CCs out of them (my poor wrists). This year, however, I’ve only managed to obtain like 3k CC’s as there aren’t nearly as many to go around. I’m 2 cobs away and probably just gonna buy the rest because I’m sick of farming and grinding.