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Posted by: Naps Elif.7438

Naps Elif.7438

This is a Lv.400 Artificer recipe named [Recipe: Maize Balm] from a Halloween merchant near the old mystic forge which is priced at 700 [Nougat Center]. The crafting ingredients are :

5 [Nougat Center]
100 [Pieces of Candy Corn]
1 [Empyreal Fragment]
5 [Chattering Skull]

This yeilds 1 consumable Vial of Maize Balm which is (Master) craft. This item also has a 24hr crafting Cool Down.

Now at least to me this seems like a bit much for what little it does. This has been a running trend in Guild Wars 2. Asking for a lot of 1 mat to make a item (Superior Sigil of Malice) or worse the item cost alot of mats and feels useless (Watchwork Portal Device). What I’m not fine with are needing 100 candy corn and it being a 24/hr cool down. Sure you can get a lot of candy corn by farming for a while but why not just lower the drop rate of the candy corn and change the crafting recipe to need 5 candy corn.

Please slow down on making items a hassle to craft. I simply loved the way Guild Wars 2 first started with it’s crafting. It was easy to understand what is needed to craft what and the numbers was consistent. But now it seems every new item to craft is just so night and day from what the game use to be.

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

Is that the only way to get the recipe? Does it drop, say, as rare drops from ToT bags as well?

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Posted by: Naps Elif.7438

Naps Elif.7438

All I know is the vendor. Who knows it might have a drop chance.

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Posted by: Dasenthal.6520

Dasenthal.6520

Candy corn isn’t just used for this recipe, lowering the drop rate is a *bad* idea. I agree that crafting in this game sucks after a while because everything is in 100’s and 250’s. But last year candy corn wasn’t dropped enough, so this is a better solution.
I don’t know of anyone who is actually use the balm but my understanding is it turns candy corn back into Tot bags. (Crafted using corn, use on ambients, kill, get bags.) Which to me looks like it’s intended as a way for people to still fight for minis (kitteny RNG ghost wolf). So saying it isn’t worth it just means you’re not looking at the right value.

“A conquered people will always resist you,
Edair. But allies-allies will fight by your side”~Cobiah Mariner

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Posted by: Mystic.5934

Mystic.5934

maize balm turns AMBIENT creatures into ToT bags (those white bunnies and frogs and birds you see in PvE world). more specifically: into 1-hit kill candy corn elementals which drop ToT bags. And each use of maize balm has 3 uses of the skill, each skill is an aoe that will transform 3 ambient creatures, I believe. So 1 maize balm = 9 ToT bags. Just go to an area with high ambient concentration. With ToT bags being worth 5s, that puts maize balm at 38s (including TP fees).

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

Hmmm… Maybe I should start hoarding up my Balms till after Halloween is over. They’re relatively cheap now thanks to the mass drop rates of ToT bags from the Labyrinth, but that will change within a week.

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Posted by: Cormac.3871

Cormac.3871

If you are careful about how you use it and go with a friend you should be able to get most of your ingredients back from a use of maize balm. It also gives you something to do while waiting for the Shadow Behemoth to spawn.

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Posted by: laokoko.7403

laokoko.7403

It’s probably a bit hard to used up those stacks and stacks of maize balm after the halloween instance is removed.

And I don’t know how you can share the item since monster die in 1 hit with it.

that being said, don’t take my word for it. I tell people not to buy those infinite aether tonic recipe for 1 gold and the sell price is 600 gold now.

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Posted by: Enko.6123

Enko.6123

It’s probably a bit hard to used up those stacks and stacks of maize balm after the halloween instance is removed.

And I don’t know how you can share the item since monster die in 1 hit with it.

that being said, don’t take my word for it. I tell people not to buy those infinite aether tonic recipe for 1 gold and the sell price is 600 gold now.

They get one shot in areas like the Reliquary because they’re lvl 2 and you’re still 80. In the open world zones, they’re the levels of whatever the zone is and you’re downleveled as well. Tag it once and let other people get their tags in and you can have multiple people getting drops off of it.

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Posted by: Herr der Friedhoefe.2490

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490

It’s probably a bit hard to used up those stacks and stacks of maize balm after the halloween instance is removed.

The Queensdale swamp area works just fine.

My posts are facts as I know them, or my own opinion, and do not represent any guild.

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Posted by: Cakemeister.5792

Cakemeister.5792

North camp (wvw) works pretty well.