Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been farming gifts in Kessex Hills, partly because it seems to have decent spawn rates and a fairly natural loop, but mostly because I’m familiar with it because I opened a ton of Halloween doors there. I haven’t looked around much though, has anyone had luck elsewhere? Queensdale didn’t seem to have a ton of presents.

I really need that unbreakable bell…

I use the bell choir game. If you do well, you get 4 presents every time, and it takes about 10 mins. It’s very reliable for me, but some people have more trouble with it.

How many presents in about 10 mins can you get from farming the spawning ones?

I usually go with the Jumping Puzzle, can get around 6 giant presents every 5-10 minutes assuming you don’t fall. Also depends on how fast you do it so you make the next rotation before the people waiting are put on the puzzle.

I would need to time it, but roughly 15 gifts in a half hour. That is comparable to bells (12 / half hour), but you also get loot off of the creatures that spawn. I earned a decent number of woolen items in that time too.

oron.4860:

I usually go with the Jumping Puzzle, can get around 6 giant presents every 5-10 minutes assuming you don’t fall. Also depends on how fast you do it so you make the next rotation before the people waiting are put on the puzzle.

This^

Once you get good at it, you can collect your 3 presents from the end chest, and frequently get back to the start area, just before the next run begins.

If you were NOT the last one left, I think you have a few vital extra seconds to make it back… because it seems to wait until everyone has either fallen or made it to the end.

KeikoTerada.1963:

oron.4860:

I usually go with the Jumping Puzzle, can get around 6 giant presents every 5-10 minutes assuming you don’t fall. Also depends on how fast you do it so you make the next rotation before the people waiting are put on the puzzle.

This^

Once you get good at it, you can collect your 3 presents from the end chest, and frequently get back to the start area, just before the next run begins.

If you were NOT the last one left, I think you have a few vital extra seconds to make it back… because it seems to wait until everyone has either fallen or made it to the end.

The timer seems to run in conjuction with your health bar, excluding any damage from excessive falling damage/other dangers. so if your fast enough and make it through the puzzle with 15% or so health left, it will give you a few seconds to get in, loot chest, and get back to spawn area before the next round starts.

Working with a party of 3-5, a return of 35-40 giant gifts per hour is achievable, running a loop of 5 present spawns, and killing all the toys that spawn when presents are opened. On top of this all team members get these benefits and all the other benefits of additional drops including rares. Must be done in a higher level zone to guarantee giant gifts.

oron.4860:

I usually go with the Jumping Puzzle, can get around 6 giant presents every 5-10 minutes assuming you don’t fall. Also depends on how fast you do it so you make the next rotation before the people waiting are put on the puzzle.

I do have one question about this. I tried doing this last night with my lvl 4 alt, and I always got 3 small gifts instead of giant ones. Is that due to my lvl? Because my main lvl71 but he’s a fat charr and he’s really hard to control of the timed jumps.

Every run of Winter Wonderland takes a few seconds over two minutes and yields three gifts per successful run. You could get as many as 84 gifts per hour from it if you played perfectly, considering the delays. It’s what I’ve been doing to get my gifts, and I’d say I can get about 70 gifts or more per hour from it.

Comicus.4036:

Working with a party of 3-5, a return of 35-40 giant gifts per hour is achievable, running a loop of 5 present spawns, and killing all the toys that spawn when presents are opened. On top of this all team members get these benefits and all the other benefits of additional drops including rares. Must be done in a higher level zone to guarantee giant gifts.

Do the toys drop normal items? Or are you talking about the chance for skins/socks/etc?

Spifnar.4712:

Comicus.4036:

Working with a party of 3-5, a return of 35-40 giant gifts per hour is achievable, running a loop of 5 present spawns, and killing all the toys that spawn when presents are opened. On top of this all team members get these benefits and all the other benefits of additional drops including rares. Must be done in a higher level zone to guarantee giant gifts.

Do the toys drop normal items? Or are you talking about the chance for skins/socks/etc?

I am talking about normal drops from toys and from incidental mobs around the area (collateral damage). The toys do drop other things than cogs and extra gifts.

Comicus.4036:

Spifnar.4712:

Comicus.4036:

Working with a party of 3-5, a return of 35-40 giant gifts per hour is achievable, running a loop of 5 present spawns, and killing all the toys that spawn when presents are opened. On top of this all team members get these benefits and all the other benefits of additional drops including rares. Must be done in a higher level zone to guarantee giant gifts.

Do the toys drop normal items? Or are you talking about the chance for skins/socks/etc?

I am talking about normal drops from toys and from incidental mobs around the area (collateral damage). The toys do drop other things than cogs and extra gifts.

Yeah, I got a pretty cool dagger and focus from random drops coming from the skritt.

The low level zones are best, because its much easier ( more enjoyable) to kill the mobs. After you get tired of opening thousands of boxes and still haven’t gotten what you wanted…then farming for gold and buy the boxes on the TP

If you are good the best place is the JP, 3 giant gifts every 2/3 minutes, depends how fast you jump