Guild Wars 2

You can get these gauntlet chance consumable items by beating opponents inside the gauntlet.

So far I’ve opened around 50 or so and only received a single festival token from each one of them.

Do these drop anything else (I’d assume so judging by the name and the description of the item) and has anyone gotten anything else from these yet?

Edit: opened ~100 more, nothing.

Shadow Dragon.9874:

You can get these gauntlet chance consumable items by beating opponents inside the gauntlet.

So far I’ve opened around 50 or so and only received a single festival token from each one of them.

Do these drop anything else (I’d assume so judging by the name and the description of the item) and has anyone gotten anything else from these yet?

200+ opened for me, nothing but single festival tokens. Another guy in a thread in gw2 discussion section opened 400+ and nothing. Im guessing we are looking at extremely low drop rates

I know the recipe for the Chaos of Lyssa backpiece is supposed to be a very rare drop from it.

Which means chances are likely no one will ever see it.

Single Token 24/24.

It looks like a lottery.
Gambits are the only way to farm large amounts of Gauntlet Chances, and each gambit still consumes a ticket. Tickets, on the other hand, cost some silver and good amount tokens, while the gauntlet itself doesn’t reward any gold and only provide tokens once a day.
Even if you reinvest every token you get, you barely get 45 tickets a day, so you’re not just gambling your gold (1.9g per 45 tickets) but you also need to farm tokens like mad somewhere else for a reasonable chance of getting something.

All of mine turned into 1 token aswell. How did you guys get that many (like 100/100?) When I did a boss twice I got no reward at the end so I assumed a daily lock, or is it simply a prevention of repeating 1 boss over and over?

Esmee.1067:

All of mine turned into 1 token aswell. How did you guys get that many (like 100/100?) When I did a boss twice I got no reward at the end so I assumed a daily lock, or is it simply a prevention of repeating 1 boss over and over?

The chest with tokens is daily for each fight, but you should always get a gauntlet chance (and another one for each gambit used), even repeating.

About 50, nothing here.

After I beat Lladri, I don’t see the point of repeating this. Judging by what drop rates Anet has had in the past, it’s probably something like 0.1% chance to see the recipe.

Xae Isareth.1364:

About 50, nothing here.

After I beat Lladri, I don’t see the point of repeating this. Judging by what drop rates Anet has had in the past, it’s probably something like 0.1% chance to see the recipe.

0.1% chance would be a recipe every 1k chances opened. It wouldn’t be that bad.

We are already over 700 gauntlet chances opened just in this thread and we haven’t seen anything but tokens, not even a single rare returning LS reward, which are meant to be more common than the recipe :P

Vargamonth.2047:

Esmee.1067:

All of mine turned into 1 token aswell. How did you guys get that many (like 100/100?) When I did a boss twice I got no reward at the end so I assumed a daily lock, or is it simply a prevention of repeating 1 boss over and over?

The chest with tokens is daily for each fight, but you should always get a gauntlet chance (and another one for each gambit used), even repeating.

Ah fair enough, I was saving my tickets for Liadri so I likely was so disappointed about no tokens for tickets I must have missed it. Still gotta figure out a fight I can do easily with all 5 gambits, 6 tickets per attempt, boo. ^^

So I remember last year there was a lot of talk about Deadeye farming and what not. I was abroad during the time and didn’t get a chance to play, just knew it was very profitable. Tried doing gauntlet just now and all I’ve been getting are these festival tokens, event with gambits. Am I doing something wrong or did ANet nerf this? I thought it was supposed to drop hella T5 and T6 mats.

Esmee.1067:

Vargamonth.2047:

Esmee.1067:

All of mine turned into 1 token aswell. How did you guys get that many (like 100/100?) When I did a boss twice I got no reward at the end so I assumed a daily lock, or is it simply a prevention of repeating 1 boss over and over?

The chest with tokens is daily for each fight, but you should always get a gauntlet chance (and another one for each gambit used), even repeating.

Ah fair enough, I was saving my tickets for Liadri so I likely was so disappointed about no tokens for tickets I must have missed it. Still gotta figure out a fight I can do easily with all 5 gambits, 6 tickets per attempt, boo. ^^

just do the first guy, hammer dude. That’s what i used up all my saved tickets on

I too have run it at least 100 times, absolutely nothing so far.

Dragon Coffers all over again…

I’ve got Monocle from 5th and nothing else since then

I opened +500 so far, and all I got was two minis. The rng in this game is really disappointing.

Harbinger.8637:

I opened +500 so far, and all I got was two minis. The rng in this game is really disappointing.

Which ones?

I get this feeling that the droprate is bugged. I’m gonna hold onto all of my little bags until further notice.

Static.9841:

Harbinger.8637:

I opened +500 so far, and all I got was two minis. The rng in this game is really disappointing.

Which ones?

Reef Rider and Toxic Hybrid

PlayGrr.1024:

I’ve got Monocle from 5th and nothing else since then

Seriously. I opened 300+ Gauntlet Chances just for a Monocle and got NOTHING. So the RNG is ridiculously bad, as usual… Ty for that ANet.

If you used it, can you at least tell me if you unlock the skin for all three weight classes or just for one?

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

PlayGrr.1024:

I’ve got Monocle from 5th and nothing else since then

Seriously. I opened 300+ Gauntlet Chances just for a Monocle and got NOTHING. So the RNG is ridiculously bad, as usual… Ty for that ANet.

If you used it, can you at least tell me if you unlock the skin for all three weight classes or just for one?

iirc from the wardrobe thread when it was first released, it only unlocked that weight class, which means you’d have to get one for each I could be wrong though, as I don’t have a monocle to try it with. Hopefully someone with one can tell us.

I’ve opened 11of them and i’ve got 1Favor of pavilion, every other time was 1 tokens… Altho i am running short on gauntlet tickets >.> banging my head against deadeye cause he 1shots me before i can do anything because of lag >.>.

skullmount.1758:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

PlayGrr.1024:

I’ve got Monocle from 5th and nothing else since then

Seriously. I opened 300+ Gauntlet Chances just for a Monocle and got NOTHING. So the RNG is ridiculously bad, as usual… Ty for that ANet.

If you used it, can you at least tell me if you unlock the skin for all three weight classes or just for one?

iirc from the wardrobe thread when it was first released, it only unlocked that weight class, which means you’d have to get one for each I could be wrong though, as I don’t have a monocle to try it with. Hopefully someone with one can tell us.

If this is true, I’m just going to stop believing in ANet.
This would be the epitome of ridiculousness.

opened ~90-100 “chances”, ran out of tickets from last year, didn’t get anything but tokens. Sad.

Opened ~400 and got 1 Favor of the Pavillion. The stupidly low drop rate would be fine if you could farm it like last year, but now you want me to farm tokens so I can farm gaunlet chances so I have a CHANCE to farm gold? No thanks.

Opened about 100, no special tokens.

The best way to farm these is to do Hamli with all gambits except for the outnumbered one.

If there is a patch coming, do not log out. Instead, remain in the map until you get kicked, that way you do not have any competition.

Vol.7601:

Opened about 100, no special tokens.

The best way to farm these is to do Hamli with all gambits except for the outnumbered one.

If there is a patch coming, do not log out. Instead, remain in the map until you get kicked, that way you do not have any competition.

I prefer Subject 7 as Necro, but yeah, Hamli should work too.
Deadeye Dunwell Farm was “nerfed” iirc; he instantly tries to snipe you now.

I left SWTOR simply because I got tired of playing the lottery for simple crap. As it is I have already backed out of most of the festival because of this concept. Buy a box get a chance for crap, buy 500 boxes get more chances at crap. It all ends up being a senseless grind to obtain(or not) a menial item that should have required less work.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

If this is true, I’m just going to stop believing in ANet.
This would be the epitome of ridiculousness.

Actually, yes, unlike every other item which looks the same across weights (on land aquabreather, gas mask, dragon horns, etc) Monocle requires you to get one of each armor weight.

Andele.1306:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

If this is true, I’m just going to stop believing in ANet.
This would be the epitome of ridiculousness.

Actually, yes, unlike every other item which looks the same across weights (on land aquabreather, gas mask, dragon horns, etc) Monocle requires you to get one of each armor weight.

Thank you for shattering any hope I had left. Also, thank you for the information, so I’m not saddened when I buy the cheapest one and it doesn’t unlock for all classes.

I have now opened 300 bags and no Monocle or Gauntlets, i got 3 Favors of the Pavilion, so i guess the chances are 1:100 for the Favors.

On top of this getting tickets isn’t easy if you play with gambits you spend a lot of tickets and time to get them and then the bags and you get nothing at all.

I’m now at exactly 500 Gauntlet Chances. Still not a single drop, nothing. No Favors, no Pets, no Monocle, no Recipe, nothing.

You practically throw away your money and tokens right now as it seems.

did anet think this through ?
1.) Farming tickets(Slow)
2.) Using the tickets consumes a lot of time(Slow)
3.) Buying tickets with festival token(Reward= -gold)
So let’s sum this up:
Recipe = -2*yourtime – yourgold -yournerves
Example: ME
Farmed about 300 tickets, bought some tickets, used the tickets, opened the bags.
Reward: Reduce my gold, waste my time, makes me wanna puke at the RNG.
This is as hard as getting a precursor, and I am NOT joking.

How did you guys manage to farm 400 gauntlet chances? o.o is there a fast way to do that?

200 tickets, nothing so far. Would be happy with a ‘favor’ thing

Lolindir.3518:

How did you guys manage to farm 400 gauntlet chances? o.o is there a fast way to do that?

I spent quite a lot mats on the zephyrite boxes, they can drop entrance tickets and tokens. Had some left etc.

Opened over a 100 gauntlet chances. Got zip.

I believe Anet knows this, that’s why they don’t reply at all.

I’ve spent 100g (all i had, was left with 8g) prior to this on materials so i could convert to Festival Tokens, i got the Doly and Watchknight Tonics already (where one was by finishing one of the Master Achievements, however the Tokens are kinda hard to get unless you do Boss Blitz for Gold, however this is where the problems starts.

It is ok that Gauntlet Chances don’t drop the items so easily because lets be honest, we’re looking at Items that costs hundreds of Gold, you can not expect to get hundreds of Gold for every 100 bags you get or everyone would be rich in no time.

What’s NOT ok is how Anet decided to handle the Pavilion this time, people can’t farm anymore at all, in both ground and top floor.

Let’s talk about the top floor, the Top floor is a place for people to test their skills, which i love it, but i like to get rewarded for my efforts, i believe everyone does.

However we don’t get rewarded at all, we don’t get extra bags for defeating Harder bosses, just one bag, we do get more tokens however… if we don’t fail, or we lose a ticket, this is ok, we failed we got punished.

What’s not ok is that no matter which challenge you do (say you do Liadri and i do Quaggan Challenge, we get one bag each, and Quaggan was obviously super easy compared to Liadri, the chances of getting something from both bags are exactly the same, how do i know this? Because they stack in inventory, if you look carefully you already noticed some champion bags with the same name and icons but do not stack, this happens because they have different loot tables/chances at something, here this doesn’t happen, which means we get rewarded with the same thing over and over no matter the effort).

We can use Gambles and get more bags however, but another problem comes, every gamble consumes another Ticket, why is this a problem? Because again Tickets are hard to get unless people do Boss Blitz for Gold, which can then later convert the Tokens to more tickets if they wish, and pay Silver, and like already said, at the end get penalized and lose gold.

How to solve this: either make every Challenge Bag have their own loot table 8which increases based on the active Gambits and/or Challenge or make the ground floor mobs drop loot more often and also tickets and tokens, aka being farmable.

Now let’s talk about ground floor, Boss Blitz is probably the best way to farm Tickets and Tokens, if you go for Gold, which means you get Gold every 7 Min.

From the successful runs i managed organize (waiting for enough coms and explain them and other people my logic) in one Hour, the results for the Tokens where 52 Tokens every 7 Min, which means i did Gold 8 Times, i didn’t do more because i had to go, anyway let’s take a look at tokens/hour:

52×8=416

Which means we get 416 Tokens per hour doing Gold, pretty good i’d say, the problem is that it won’t work out if there’s not enough coms and organization.

Sadly i forgot how many Tickets i got, i know i ended up with almost 160, but i’m not sure if i had any, i don’t think so, even if it’s 150/hour it’s pretty good, but hardly good if people get bronze since people are zerging and will take a lot of time to finish the 6 Champions.

How to fix this: Do not make the Champions scale so much, or the only way this would work out is to get up 6 commanders together that know what to do, however this happens on ONE Overflow (or channel if you want to call it that, which is how it works now, just like in GW1, however we can’t pick the Channel we’re in), how many people are left out? Yeah.

Thanks for reading.

Opened another 200 gauntlet chances. Again, zip. That’s 300 gauntlet chances that didn’t even give a festival favour or anything. Just 300 times 1 festival token. How lame is that?

negerleif.2106:

Dragon Coffers all over again…

Coffers are easy to get. The gauntlet tickets on the other hand take endless grinding to get 1 stack of it

ESCUDO.8397:

It is ok that Gauntlet Chances don’t drop the items so easily because lets be honest, we’re looking at Items that costs hundreds of Gold, you can not expect to get hundreds of Gold for every 100 bags you get or everyone would be rich in no time.

That hundreds of gold value is completely set up by players.
The items themselves don’t provide any advantage and probably worth no more than a few silvers for NPC vendors. They’re just vanity items, and they’re high prized because they’re extremely rare and/or discontinued.
A loot chance increase won’t make people rich on a sudden because the market price of those items would just go down.

Some rarity is required because the demand of vanity skins is limited and a huge supply would make them pretty much worthless. A hundred of golds rarity is, however, quite insane and force rewards to behave as a lottery.
The current system doesn’t cater netiher to:

A) Someone who wants the item
If the drop rate of an item is 1/100k, it’s unrealistic to expect anyone to directly work towards it. Even if a player spect 1k tickets, chances are still at 1%.
Most items are likely to be dropped to someone that isn’t after them and just used a few tenths of tickets (those gotten randomly at different events), because that’s where the game wide majority of tickets are.
The player that’s really after an item may just ignore the activity that drops it and start farming tons of gold so he can buy it from one of the lucky guys.

B) Someone who enjoys the activity and might like to farm his gold there.
The current lottery system doesn’t promote this either. It rewards a few lucky guys with an insane amount of gold, while everybody else gets asolutely nothing or even incur losses.
Even if the law of large numbers might actually show the activity as highly profitable, an individual won’t play an infinite amount of games. More likely, the sampling provided by a single player, even a dedicated one, will be lackluster at best when compared to the current drop rates.

A compromise between both should be possible.
Some exlusive rewards might be soulbound (so no market/farm value) and their drop rate reasonable enough for players willing to put some dedication on the activity to get them (we’re probably looking at 1/200 – 1/500 rates or so). This could be the case for the Chaos of Lyssa recipe.
The farm potential that gets lost with it could be covered by adding a lot of high rate common goods, like t6 materials or lodestones.
Items that are meant to be extremely rare and keep a high market price, like those returning from previous LS patches (even if I think that unexpected comebacks that make prices go down are actually good to control speculation), shouldn’t be always direct drops. Even if an extremely rare chance on a direct drop could still be possible, they should come in “pieces” for the most part, making the profit to be spread a lot more between players.

The current system doesn’t appeal anyone and make a quite interesting activity to lack a lot replayability outside of maybe daily completion for festival tokens (if these tokens are needed. I’ve little use for them outside Gauntlet Tickets, and I’ve no use for these outside of token farming :P)

Of course, since I really like the gauntlet, I would go hands down for a much more complex and elaborated reward system where harder fights are likely to be more profitable, just like you described.
I would love, for example, a Liadri reward that grows exponentially depending on how many additional orbs are thrown at her during phase 2. However, since this kind of things are really (and sadly) unlikely to happen, I would be fine just with anything that doesn’t completely look like a lottery :P

Opened around 300-400 in total (haven’t really counted so it’s just a roughly estimated number but somewhere around that number) and so far only 1 favor of the pavilion in addition to the tokens.

No recipe though.

Running out of tokens so can’t even get more tickets easily, otherwise could farm gauntlet with the hope of getting that recipe and perhaphs selling it. Those buy orders (atm 1150g) are crazy

Given that the final backpiece is account bound, perhaps ANet could see about putting in a new trader that lets you trade a Favor of the Pavilion or 250 Gauntlet tickets for a recipe.

I don’t mind it, and will keep trying to win the lotto until I run out of tickets. Not spending anything on tickets, but the ones that drop, I will use. Farm easy bosses for tokens every day, buy skins, open chances. I see lots of other people farming too.

~300 opened. Have only got 1 favor.

There have only been 3 known Lyssa recipes to exist in the game thus far. Two of the players who got it obtained the recipe within the first couple GC they received casually doing the event.

Do not waste your time farming this event. Its beyond a 1 in a million chance at this point. Lyssa is the only item i’m interested in this patch, seeing as how its virtually unobtainable—I’ve logged out till the next patch.

Almost 3 days have passed, and no Dev response on the matter. If this item’s loot table is working as intended it will become the most rare item in-game should nothing change about the drop rate before the next patch.

opened around 30 of them, got monocle, but not for my class -.-

I got the toxic spore backpack skin by opening about 150 of them.

Vargamonth.2047:

The current system doesn’t appeal anyone and make a quite interesting activity to lack a lot replayability outside of maybe daily completion for festival tokens (if these tokens are needed. I’ve little use for them outside Gauntlet Tickets, and I’ve no use for these outside of token farming :P)

Of course, since I really like the gauntlet, I would go hands down for a much more complex and elaborated reward system where harder fights are likely to be more profitable, just like you described.
I would love, for example, a Liadri reward that grows exponentially depending on how many additional orbs are thrown at her during phase 2. However, since this kind of things are really (and sadly) unlikely to happen, I would be fine just with anything that doesn’t completely look like a lottery :P

It’s true the rewards system in GW2 could be so much better, even with the progress into PvP rewards they’re still pretty bad, if i want to get a legendary there’s no way i’m going to waste any time in PvP because i’d be losing time and gold since there’s much better ways to farm, such as the Crown Pavilion, and when not available EotM is also pretty decent…until the precursors Skyrocket, i made 200g so far since the start of this renewed Crown Pavilion, however looking at 200g right now is like i’m looking at 100g before the Precursors Skyrocketed (and this in one week isn’t anything special at all, considering i could do Daily dungeon run and get about the same since i sold all materials i got in Crown pavilion too), then comes WvW Rewards, capping a Tower in EotM… 24 Badges, capping a Tower in EB or Borders 4~ Badges, but thats another story, just pointing out rewards are not good or appealing, even the daily Dungeon run is not good anymore at all, GW2 economy has always been a mess, and i guess at this point there’s not much Anet can do (unless they make some new ((motivating)) ways to farm), distributing various new rewards through the World.

I’ve opened now 1250~ Gauntlet chances, 7 Favors, nothing else. I only keep doing them because i have guess i still believe i’ll get something nice, i was looking for the Monocle, the only reason i’d want the Recipe would be to sell it, but knowing my luck that’s never going to happen.

Anyway, like i said, i don’t think it makes sense for good stuff to be easy to acquire, they could do like this: add a system within the game that checks how many times we’ve done X and from there keep increasing the chances to get something decent, says the drop chance is 0.01, it keep increasing to 0.02 (this is a 200% increase lol) and so on, obviously to prevent abuse this would reset after X bags or X time, there’s plenty that can be done, but i guess Anet doesn’t care that much at all anymore, we’ll see with LS2.

600 bags, only 2 favors
I’ve gotten lots of stacks of tickets doing boss blitz, i’m using my tokens for tome’s so i’m not investing any money into this.

I opened about 200 and got 1 favor the rest were single tokens. I have tried in about 2 days since it is really just not worth it. The person who designed the rewards loot table on the gauntlet must have never tried it.