Guild Wars 2

Can you please implement this so that I can finally buy one of these obscenely rare ACCOUNT-BOUND tonics without the requirement of going through thousands of chests for a chance at one? The current drop rate may be as bad as .1% based on different accounts, and there are three varieties that you may get duplicates of. Every single other item that has ever been in black lion chests you can now buy directly in some fashion, whether it be tickets, gold, or gems. Endless mystery tonics seem to be forgotten in all the updates however.

It’s good that some items are rare.

You only say that because you don’t care about the items. I care nothing for the rarity of these items. I already have one and you won’t see me going around bragging about it. I just want to collect the other ones because I genuinely want them for their effect. How is it fair that I get shafted because I just happen to want the ONLY items in game which cannot be gotten except through sheer luck (and I guarantee the vast majority of people who own these just got lucky after opening a few chests while not trying for them, so they are hardly prestige like legendaries).

Jabberwock.9014:

You only say that because you don’t care about the items. I care nothing for the rarity of these items. I already have one and you won’t see me going around bragging about it. I just want to collect the other ones because I genuinely want them for their effect. How is it fair that I get shafted because I just happen to want the ONLY items in game which cannot be gotten except through sheer luck (and I guarantee the vast majority of people who own these just got lucky after opening a few chests while not trying for them, so they are hardly prestige like legendaries).

Sorry, but I couldn’t help but laugh at this…..

Why may I ask? I guarantee far less than 1% of player population own legendaries, and each legendary is worth hundreds of dollars in real cash. Just because you see a bunch in LA doesn’t mean they are common… it just means people who own legendaries are more likely to hang around in LA and play the game for hours on end.

Of course the population of this subforum is also biased as it is more likely to have tp moguls with thousands or tens of thousands of gold.

I used to be like you. dumping in gold trying to get the Tonic.

Later on I found out that the consumable version is craftable.
So I went ahead to craft a stack, and they are effectively Endless.

Make them sellable. I have 2 endless beast tonics (dat rng) and I’d love to sell it and buy the furniture one or something.

Max.4786:

I used to be like you. dumping in gold trying to get the Tonic.

Later on I found out that the consumable version is craftable.
So I went ahead to craft a stack, and they are effectively Endless.

Actually each furniture tonic costs like 5s a pop with how high ancient wood planks and crystalline dust are now… and to get the rare forms takes over 100 tries. Literally, I blew through 100 (5g) trying for the seraph armor just to see how rare it was and never got it.

There’s an equation for this:

Desirable item + Rarity = Really Desirable

Now subtract Rarity from both sides of the equation:

Desirable item + Rarity (-Rarity) = Really Desirable (-Rarity)

And you get the following:

Desirable item = No longer Desirable

Actually:

Desirable Item + Rarity – Rarity = Desirable Item. Dat kindergarten algebra.

And I don’t know why you all are so hung up on rarity and status. Nobody uses these items as a status symbol because 99.9% of players don’t give a crap about them. It would be like showing off your collection of exotic dried mushrooms to your friends in real life… just buy a car (legendary) if you want to show off. And in fact just making the tonics tradeable (a solution I have proposed multiple times) would influence their quantity/rarity in no way, merely taking them away from people who don’t care about them and putting them in the hands of people who do. However, since we already have this ticket framework I thought that would also be a logical step. Anyways if they really wanted they could make them something crazy like 10 tickets to preserve the “rarity”… honestly anything is better than the current system where you make no progress for hundreds of chests at a time and risk getting duplicates over the one you want.

Additionally recall that key drops from chests were nerfed in response to addition of tickets. While this was meant to be fair since you have a better shot at getting skins, it inadvertently made the acquisition of tonics even more abysmal.

Jabberwock.9014:

Why may I ask? I guarantee far less than 1% of player population own legendaries, and each legendary is worth hundreds of dollars in real cash. Just because you see a bunch in LA doesn’t mean they are common… it just means people who own legendaries are more likely to hang around in LA and play the game for hours on end.

Of course the population of this subforum is also biased as it is more likely to have tp moguls with thousands or tens of thousands of gold.

They are not prestigious when you can buy one on the TP.

@Jrunyon…. I’ve got 2 furniture tonics, shame they can’t be traded we could definately do trade if so 1/1 ah well…GAME ON