Guild Wars 2

I cannot believe the price of these on the Trading Post. They went from a bulk karma purchase (which I missed out on) to a rare drop. I’ve completed Ashford and am 68% done with Diessa and not one Chili! They are used in too many recipes to have them drop so infrequently. I have managed to find enough to discover all the recipes but don’t have enough to actually cook with.

Thanks for reading.

They’re near the first area in ashford like a lot of them. dependable on spawn and diessa plateau. Has to look as if the ground is dried.
You’d find a bunch near the mortars grabbed a total of 2-5 every visit

Thanks for the tip Nhalx but it didn’t pan out. I re-ran through and was only getting garlic, sage and bay. Perhaps they’re in the later areas. Still the price of them on the TP is outrageous and I can’t not find walnuts and cinnamon which are rarely used.

The reason why is chilli, black peppercorn and vanilla beans share a spawn with every other drop from low level and potentially all level herbs (I rarely get chilli peppers and sometimes get black pepper from higher herbs, got vanilla once I think). The best way to fix ALL of this is actually to make chilli, black pepper, vanilla beans, etc, a random secondary drop like cinnamon is from most low level wood. It would make it a lot less stupid at least.

Yeah ive found about 2-3 chili peppers since it was patched. The drop rate needs an increase.

I like that idea GADefence. I was checking on the Wiki and Black Peppercorn can be found on ALL the types of herb patches but Vanilla and Chili’s are limited to 3 out of 6. Perhaps just moving Peppercorns to trees will increase the odds of these rarer herbs enough. But then the first tier of Herb Patch will only contain parsley, thyme and dandelions.
I’ve definetly narrowed down where in Tyria I am going to search (designating a farming alt) for elusive herbs because I am too cheap to pay more than1 silver for an ingredient and chili’s and vanilla are currently going for 3-3.5.

I’m not convinced that there’s an actual issue that needs to be addressed. I’m reasonably sure that ANet intended to make some chef’s materials more difficult to acquire than others — and they seem to have succeeded admirably.

If the goal is reaching Chef Rank = 400, there are plenty of guides out there that show you how to do so without using Chili Peppers or Vanilla Beans (and without breaking your bank account).

If your goal is making certain recipes, you will find that some herb patches are more likely to drop certain herbs than others. I don’t think anyone has systematically collected data to determine which corners of which maps are most suited.

(Of course, I’m always disappointed when I get Peppercorns — I have plenty of those.)

Arguably vanilla needs to drop from wood since vanilla grows on trees. So far I’ve been gathering herb patches from anywhere and been only getting peppercorn.

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I’m not convinced that there’s an actual issue that needs to be addressed. I’m reasonably sure that ANet intended to make some chef’s materials more difficult to acquire than others — and they seem to have succeeded admirably.

If the goal is reaching Chef Rank = 400, there are plenty of guides out there that show you how to do so without using Chili Peppers or Vanilla Beans (and without breaking your bank account).

If your goal is making certain recipes, you will find that some herb patches are more likely to drop certain herbs than others. I don’t think anyone has systematically collected data to determine which corners of which maps are most suited.

(Of course, I’m always disappointed when I get Peppercorns — I have plenty of those.)

Yes some materials should be harder to come across, I don’t believe Chili Peppers should be one of them. They’re required for 14 recipes when cinnamon is needed for 3, walnuts for 2. Vanilla (rare) is also used for alot of recipes but still faster and easier to come across than a Chili Pepper (in my experience).

I’ve already gotten 400 in Cooking, my interest was discovering all recipes rather than simply leveling. I will keep tabs on the Wiki as it gets more and more fleshed out each day, already it’s starting to add which area of certain maps are more likely to have certain nodes.

Hello, It looks like it’s been a while since this was addressed, so I’m doing it here as it seems that it should stay in the forefront of things that need attention… PLEASE make the drop rate for chili peppers higher than it is right now. It is incredibly low, and very difficult to find them. That is all… or actually if you would make them available through karma merchents again, this would be GREAT! Thank you.

I know they were removed from the karma merchants to keep people from making money off them. But why not add them back but as a cash option like flour and water. The drop rates for chili is WAY too low.

I missed out on them being sold by vendors, but luckily was able to pull enough in to push me through the few recipes that required them and now have a tiny pile (54) of them stashed in collections.

But I also run 6 characters (Currently 60-77 range) so I brought in a lot more than your average player.

There was a period there where I literally ran out numerous times and couldn’t find more, so I agree that the drop rate should be boosted.

For real, chili peppers are over 5 silver per pepper on the market, they hardly ever drop and they are in LOTS of recipes.

I understand wanting to make certain ingredients rare, or expensive, but making that ingredient necessary in SO many recipes seems ridiculous.

The drops are really out of kilter. Stuff like cinnamon and walnuts that I rarely use, I have stacks of. I have less than 15 chili peppers. The prices are so crazy, it makes more sense to sell the peppers then use that money to buy the food you want off the trading post. Selling just one chili pepper will get you enough money for around 10 food items.

A while back they spiked up past 9s each. Chili peppers can be found from Plains of Ashford to Fireheart Rise from any of the herb nodes. Likewise vanilla can be found from Metrica, Caledon, Brisbane, and Mount Maelstrom (possibly Sparkfly…can’t remember)

I don’t think chili peppers are in Fireheart Rise. There are Cayenne peppers, but not chili peppers.

I can confirm that Chili Peppers can be harvested from Herb Seedlings and Herb Sprouts in Plains of Ashford and Diessa Plateau, but their drop rate is much better in PoA because the Herb Sprouts drop tables include more types of herbs like Thyme and Bay Leaves. Herb Seedlings just have Black Peppercorns (most common), Garlic (less common) and Chili Peppers (rarest).

I think that ANet should increase the drop amount of Chili Peppers to 3 – 5, similar to what they did with Vanilla Beans. They probably don’t need to adjust the actual loot tables, since Vanilla Beans are required in many more recipes than Chili Peppers are.