Guild Wars 2

I’ve opened 800 reward bags and received a grand total of 3 Favors of the Pavillion. I have converted all Festival tokens into more gauntlet tickets to open more bags. At best I am breaking even with the cost to run those 800 bags and spent at best 80mins of my time doing it.

If the rewards are expected to be like that then there won’t be many people grinding out the gauntlet, which means the supply of the Recipe: Chaos of Lyssa will be very small and the price extremely high.

I’m personally not surprised that as I write this there are none on the TP and the highest buy offer is 350g. If things continue this way the price will probably reach into the thousands.

which is a shame because I have the other 2 recipes and would love this one. But it isn’t worth 350g+

I have yet to even see any of these favors. Does anyone know if the weapons skins can directly drop rather than buying them? Last year they did but a lot has changed.

Don’t fret. If the drop chance is too rare, Anet will adjust it.

Vol.7601:

Don’t fret. If the drop chance is too rare, Anet will adjust it.

Yeah todes.

Vol.7601:

Don’t fret. If the drop chance is too rare, Anet will adjust it.

One would hope this to be true.

Vol.7601:

Don’t fret. If the drop chance is too rare, Anet will adjust it.

Would be nice to not have been a guinea pig and spent roughly 2 hours doing an utterly boring activity while burning through all of the Festival tokens (including the achievement reward) and Guantlet tickets, but I guess you win some and lose some?

The most depressing part is I either have to farm Festival tokens from more boring and largely unrewarding activities or spend a significant amount of gold in material conversion to go through the gauntlet again.

They almost certainly will. The finished product is account bound, and the player base would howl in outrage at an incredibly rare recipe for a special skin that can’t even be sold. At least with the various runes/sigils, the finished product could be sold for a profit to crafters.

My guess is that ANet will boost the drop rates for this from Gold completions of the Blitz to encourage more people to do it.

Just to be clear, RNG is RNG and even if the drop rate was higher I wouldn’t expect to get it to drop after only 800 attempts (given how easy gauntlet farming is). My main issue and reason for writing the thread is that the attempts at best only pay for themselves after significant time investment so spending time doing it will be seen as a waste and thus less recipe will enter the market while driving up the price.

It’s like going out to farm mobs and 99% of the kills give you absolutely nothing, but the 1% drop something of value. Or doing dungeon runs and receiving no reward at the end while having mobs have the 1% drop rate.

Also current buy offer up to 775g as of this post while none on the TP. They do either need to make it drop elsewhere in the events and/or increase the rate it drops in the gauntlet while increasing rewards in the pavilion as a whole.