Guild Wars 2

I bought a few zephyr boxes :P
5,688 boxes (455g), and this is what I got out of them:

3 Mini Reef Rider = 1g (odd choice of mini to give)
502 Queen’s Gauntlet Tickets = 20g + 3,514 Festival Tokens = 26g
5 x Medium Air Filtration Device = 2g
4 x Heavy Air Filtration Device = 2g
31,331 Quartz = 84.6g
10,007 Festival Tokens = 17g
566 Celestial Item recipe = 17g
113 Satchel of Celestial Armor = 6.8g (when I click ‘buy more from TP’, why does it say these sell for 1g, 4g, and 20g, but when I click the item, they say like 4s? I’d prefer to sell them for 20g)
1 Celestial Intricate Gossamer Insignia = 2s (this was interesting. I remember last year I got more of these than all the item recipes combined – same with the inscriptions)

total = 156g return
but if I wait 3 months, quartz might go up to 1.5s each, bringing these to a 462g value = exactly break even :P
thank you for sharing this daily dose of science with me

Next: 250 Equipment Bags
Results:
246 masterwork
3 rare
1 exotic (Zhed’s Leggings)

huh. That 17g above is assuming 1 in 10 was rare (for my blade shards I got 11 masterwork and 1 rare). that rate was clearly wrong. that 17g should actually be 11g. (though I feel I got lucky with zed’s – anyone else want to add to this? :P)

Thanks for posting. I was hoping that the boxes would drop the ticket thing so I could get the Mini Panda AND the Dolyak tonic but I guess they do not.

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Thanks for posting. I was hoping that the boxes would drop the ticket thing so I could get the Mini Panda AND the Dolyak tonic but I guess they do not.

Get back to EB.

Those droprates suck.

It’s nice to know that whatever rare items is in those boxes if not worth getting. Drops seems terrible. :/

Thank you very much for your research, Mystic. I’m a bit disappointed to see that the various Catcher skins aren’t available from the Zephyr Boxes though.

Thanks for the details, Mystic. Combining this with information from Skribulous on Reddit:

5,688 attempts with these approximate drop rates:

• 5.58 quartz/box
• 1.77 tokens/box

And each box has approximately:

• 10% chance of celestial item recipe (includes insignia, etc) (mostly worth under 10s, a few 15-30s)
• 2% chance of celestial armor set recipe (satchel, box, etc) (worth a lot, but dropping a fast)
• 9% chance of queen’s gauntlet ticket (i.e. 1 per 11 boxes)
• 0.06% Mini Reef Rider (worth ~30s)
• 0.14% Air-Filtration skin (worth ~40s)

Based on past festivals, I’m sure the price of everything here will go up substantially, but that also means you are betting off speculating on specific items rather than spending a minimum of 8s/box (based on current mat prices, gossamer scraps being generally the most affordable option).

The wiki also lists the sun/wind/lightning catcher skins, but since none were found in 5,688 attempts, I’m guessing that might be based on hopeful speculation rather than SCIENCE.

Once again, thanks to the OP for taking the time to record the results and posting them.

Seens like the prices get up.

Yesterday, I was getting 100 boxes per 4g. This would make all those 5688 boxes for a total of 225 G or so. Wich convertion are you using? If I remember right, I used iron convertion, since it only need 14 I think for the 10 boxes.

And yeah, the drop rates sucks a lot. I’ve opened 500 boxes on my first day, almosr only stupid Quartz, and around of 40-50 uselesss recipes.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The wiki also lists the sun/wind/lightning catcher skins, but since none were found in 5,688 attempts, I’m guessing that might be based on hopeful speculation rather than SCIENCE.

I received a rucksack skin after opening around 210 boxes, so it seems like the catcher skins would be available as well.

I used http://zephyrcalc.wolchok.org/ to find the best rates. http://magiget.com/zephyr-box-calc/ is another good one + reddit has like 4 others besides these as well
But it takes too long to just get one type of material so I did the top 8 or so. In the end, I used piles of iron, gold, gossamer, rugged, coarse, and thin. I paid around 8-8.5s per box (buy orders for less than the current minimum, prices fluxuate).
I have no idea how Mauricio paid 4s per box. materials you gather yourself don’t count – if it takes 8.5s to buy the materials for 1 box, you could sell those same materials for 7.3s. cheaper, yes, but not zero. pretty sure iron needs 50 for 10 boxes – I didn’t notice any of them where the bulk rate was less than the individual.

I wrote a program to get all prices, starting as soon as the patch came on and I was able to get the exchange rates. The lowest price I ever saw was 6s in the first two hours and it never dropped below 8s for long since then.