Guild Wars 2

Recipe: Gift of Spiders requires 40 Bottles of Elonian Wine, 10 Candy Corn Cobs, 10 Piles of Crystalline Dust, and 100 High-Quality Plastic Fangs.
Recipe: Gift of Souls requires 40 Bottles of Elonian Wine, 10 Candy Corn Cobs, 10 Piles of Crystalline Dust, and 100 Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers.
Recipe: Gift of the Moon requires 40 Bottles of Elonian Wine, 10 Candy Corn Cobs, 10 Piles of Crystalline Dust, and 100 Gibbering Skulls.

100 High-Quality Plastic Fangs [/others] * 1000 = 100 000?

I just want to ask: umad?

I guess making it more costly this time is sort of a reward for long time players who were around from the beginning.

Of course, we don’t know how easily the mats will be to get this time around. I feel like the Candy Corn → rare Mats → refined rare Mats conversion is designed to take the loads of candy corn out of the economy.

Who ever had 100k candy corns? Nougat centers/others are already “rare” materials. No? 100k of rare mats? Huh? 1500 gold for last year 40 gold skins?

Are you saying it takes 1000 regular fangs / nougat / skulls to make a single upgraded version?

If so… dear lord. Unless these things drop like mad this year (they certainly didn’t last year) then holy crap, that’s really going to slam the supply of these like no other. They didn’t even drop that often last year, I’ve got maybe 100 of each. It was bad enough when they required 100,000 Zhaitaffy for Jorbreakers to get the wings during Dragon Bash, but at least Taffy was common as hell. These are not (or weren’t last year).

It also means that unlike before, there is a finite number of these that can ever exist. Before, the only actual limiting factor was Candy Corn, and that has so much supply its a null issue (not to mention the personal node this year). But if every item crafted is going to require a ton of the other materials and they’re only available at Halloween… eesh.

I very mad, if all this is the case. I want both Arachnophobia and The Crossing, both are among my favorite weapons of their type in the entire game, and this is going to make them even more difficult to get.

It also means I wasted my money buying 200 Destroyer Cores in preparation to make Arachnophobia at some point (bough them when the price was down during Pavillion). Guess I can use them for something else, but it still stings a little that I bought them specifically for this purpose and now they’re useless toward it.

I’d say I was disappointed there weren’t more craftable Halloween recipes added, but with how kitten difficult they’re going to be to make based on this… yah, probably for the best. Wanting 2 is bad enough, if I wanted 5 I’d kill myself.

Oh thank god i have the gift of souls recipe already and the material requirements for it hasnt changed.
I read the description of the “Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers” and got scared when it said “Used in the creation of Gift of Souls”, so i thought i need them to make the gift.

Andrax.4576:

Oh thank god i have the gift of souls recipe already and the material requirements for it hasnt changed.
I read the description of the “Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers” and got scared when it said “Used in the creation of Gift of Souls”, so i thought i need them to make the gift.

The original recipes are disabled

What happened to not making grindy games? They are so out of touch.

This is really ridiculous, quick calculation put the crossing at ~3.9k gold. Just for the nougat. I really wanted to make the crossing, thanks for shattering my dreams, Anet. I could make Eternity before I could make the crossing.

Falkor.7932:

This is really ridiculous, quick calculation put the crossing at ~3.9k gold. Just for the nougat. I really wanted to make the crossing, thanks for shattering my dreams, Anet. I could make Eternity before I could make the crossing.

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Almost 4000 gold? My god, I hope they increased the drop rate of these items 10 fold. They need to be as common as bloodstone dust.

Yeah I don’t get why they do this. It really ruins the whole holiday.

Holidays are supposed to be fun events. Yet they put all this grind in them and make them a chore instead of actual fun. And I mean, seriously? A thousand materials just to make one? Did they not do the numbers themselves or do they just throw random stuff out there and think it looks good? No one could of seriously though that farming thousands of these things just to exchange them for one item was a good idea.

I have no idea what they were thinking with this. This is not fun. This is not a holiday.

This is absurd, I’m beyond disappointed. I was really looking forward to making that staff this year. Oh well.

has anyone confirmed drop rates? maybe it’s not as bad as it appears… i hope…

anet, i h8 you for this. i bought all materials to craft them and 1 day later you deleted the recipes. gg anet. gg…
and NOTHING of the old materials are usefull for this..
where is the comparism with dragon bash? holo wings dropped as hell..

Thank god they did this. I took me a lot of work to get the crossing and mad moon last year and I was really hoping they would make it harder to obtain this year. Sure they may have gone a little overboard but it was a first year weapon and there should be some prestige to it. It shows that if you have one you are either a vet whole believed in the game early on, or you have dedicated enough time to the game to be an effective farmer. Either way I’m okay with it.

Thank you Anet =)

And don’t forget that there are other new weapons out. Anet didn’t even have to give you an option to obtain these.

Storm of the Ages.9076:

Thank god they did this. I took me a lot of work to get the crossing and mad moon last year and I was really hoping they would make it harder to obtain this year. Sure they may have gone a little overboard but it was a first year weapon and there should be some prestige to it. It shows that if you have one you are either a vet whole believed in the game early on, or you have dedicated enough time to the game to be an effective farmer. Either way I’m okay with it.

Thank you Anet =)

And don’t forget that there are other new weapons out. Anet didn’t even have to give you an option to obtain these.

nonsense.

other things we all hoped they would make it harder to obtain, butthey made them easy.

Storm of the Ages.9076:

Thank god they did this. I took me a lot of work to get the crossing and mad moon last year and I was really hoping they would make it harder to obtain this year. Sure they may have gone a little overboard but it was a first year weapon and there should be some prestige to it. It shows that if you have one you are either a vet whole believed in the game early on, or you have dedicated enough time to the game to be an effective farmer. Either way I’m okay with it.

Thank you Anet =)

And don’t forget that there are other new weapons out. Anet didn’t even have to give you an option to obtain these.

Except that the only other weapons they added, are in the kitten real money RNG boxes. Ya, thats really an option to obtain them…

Guess they’ll never listen to group of players that want to buy the weapons directly from the gemstore instead of RNG bullkitten.

As for making it harder, it was already kittening hard last year, did they really need to increase the difficulty that kittening much? Its a holiday, its supposed to be fun, not a kittening grind fest. God I hate you kitten players that have to have some kind prestige items, just so only a kittening few players have the items.

It was fun last year! I ran the mad king dungeon like crazy to get my hands on a mad moon and used the rest of my money to craft the crossing. That dungeon was by far my favorite temp dungeon.

Anyone knows what is needed for the 20-slot bags? I’m at work and can’t check.

Devilsmack.5736:

Anyone knows what is needed for the 20-slot bags? I’m at work and can’t check.

15.000 candy corns. Which means, they need to be at 7 copper each to buy a 20 slot bag for ~10g.

Guess the 2 stacks of Candy Corn I bought last week will finally pay off…

I can’t even imagine how much are worth now. Any info?

so it just occurred to me. The candy corn home instance nodes. they are the key to the new recipes. It makes sense now. We are not intended to actually make the recipes over the course of the halloween event. This will simply give us a head start towards gathering all the candy corn

2g a stack and falling for candy corn

Gnat.9405:

2g a stack and falling for candy corn

kitten , I won’t be making a profit… yet.

Gnat.9405:

2g a stack and falling for candy corn

Woot! Glad I sold the little I had left over from last year last night at ~2.5g a stack. Makes me wish I saved the ones I spent at the Bazaar.

Guess I will simply hold to them and see how the market fluctuates.

BoogerSammich.7189:

so it just occurred to me. The candy corn home instance nodes. they are the key to the new recipes. It makes sense now. We are not intended to actually make the recipes over the course of the halloween event. This will simply give us a head start towards gathering all the candy corn

Even if that was the case, and we managed to get 10,000 corns over Halloween, that would mean we need at least 90,000 more (for the recipes), which would mean we need 30000 days (90,000/3perday) or about 82.2 (30,000/365days) years just to get enough for one recipe.
I just don’t get their reasoning for these holiday grindfests anymore. First it was jorbreakers, now these, and most likely something about the same for Wintersday. It was hard enough before to get the stuff needed to make just one of the 3 holiday weapons, now its kittening impossible/impractical to get (at least craft).

Tbh, all these “gather gazillion of x to convert to y to buy z” “events” are getting out of control and i’m seriously thinking of moving on to another game. I’m all for working for rewards but this is getting/is ridiculous. :/

Cotheer.2806:

Tbh, all these “gather gazillion of x to convert to y to buy z” “events” are getting out of control and i’m seriously thinking of moving on to another game. I’m all for working for rewards but this is getting/is ridiculous. :/

Yeah, they’ve pretty much placed all the rewards at the end of some stupid grind instead of fun and challenging content. While I can’t tell them how to design their game I can tell them that I’m no longer really enjoying it. Grind has taken priority over fun and it seems as if they have truly lost their way.

Why didn´t they change it for example in this way :
old mats + 5 of each …?
-.-" would be enough grinding.

panzer.6034:

I guess making it more costly this time is sort of a reward for long time players who were around from the beginning.

Of course, we don’t know how easily the mats will be to get this time around. I feel like the Candy Corn -> rare Mats -> refined rare Mats conversion is designed to take the loads of candy corn out of the economy.

I’m here since beta.
And I have to say. U MAD!?
This is just whole new definition of grind.

Fungalfoot.7213:

What happened to not making grindy games? They are so out of touch.

They threw out those ideas with the original manifesto.

Gnat.9405:

Andrax.4576:

Oh thank god i have the gift of souls recipe already and the material requirements for it hasnt changed.
I read the description of the “Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers” and got scared when it said “Used in the creation of Gift of Souls”, so i thought i need them to make the gift.

The original recipes are disabled

Nope they arent, my gift of souls recipie (used/learned one) from last year is still ori, ecto, gift and Crystal L and can be crafted.

iniside.4736:

I’m here since beta.
And I have to say. U MAD!?
This is just whole new definition of grind.

Lol. Not mad at all. Quite the opposite. Why? U mad?

what I -really- don’t understand about this update, is 100,000 pieces of candy corns is over 400 slots of inventory spaces.

It’s almost a bit of a joke >_>

Andele.1306:

Gnat.9405:

Andrax.4576:

Oh thank god i have the gift of souls recipe already and the material requirements for it hasnt changed.
I read the description of the “Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers” and got scared when it said “Used in the creation of Gift of Souls”, so i thought i need them to make the gift.

The original recipes are disabled

Nope they arent, my gift of souls recipie (used/learned one) from last year is still ori, ecto, gift and Crystal L and can be crafted.

The new refined mats are required to CREATE the recipe for the gifts.

Irikol.3495:

what I -really- don’t understand about this update, is 100,000 pieces of candy corns is over 400 slots of inventory spaces.

It’s almost a bit of a joke >_>

You can turn Candy Corn into Candy Cobs, hence not taking too many spaces.