Guild Wars 2

Ok, first off let me get a few things out of the way: yes I realize that there is another thread specifically about outrage over account bound minis from rng boxes. This thread is generalized to account bound RNG items in general. I feel with the recent outrage over the minis it is a timely point to shed light on something of an even worse magnitude that has been haunting me for the past four months.

I am an endless tonic collector. There aren’t many but I want to collect them all. I have 3 unique ones: Halloween, Toymaker, and one Mystery Tonic (the tree variety). The first two weren’t bad at all (comparatively). I actually got two Endless Halloween tonics after opening over 5000 trick or treat bags (personalized and non) during the Halloween event. The Toymaker one I just bought from the tp for 30 gold. Very reasonable in my opinion.

However, I can not say anything is reasonable about what I had to go through to get the endless mystery tonic, and what I will have to go through to collect the other two. I opened over 500, yes, 500 black lion chests in order to get that one tonic. That is equivalent to 45000 gems! At the going rate of approximately 2 gold per key, that is about 1000 gold. In terms of real money the gems would have run me $562.50! I do not think that is at ALL reasonable. Granted I got about 100 with council commendations, and the others before gems reached one gold, so I probably only spent a MEASLY (sarcasm) 400 gold.

However there are still two that I haven’t collected. Even assuming a best case scenario where I don’t get any duplicates, am I expected to buy 1000 more keys, spending either 2000 gold or $1000 in the process (since keys are probably being removed from captain’s council store)? That strikes me as utter insanity and completely unfair to collectors like me.

Here is the painful part. Slowly, many things that are super difficult to get and RNG based are becoming tradeable (like permanent trader, permanent bank, and even the other endless tonics), yet the endless mystery tonics remain account bound (along with the new minis)!

If you can feel my pain, or just agree that the account bound RNG items need to be FAR less expensive to get or should all be made available on the trading post, please post your thoughts here. Thanks.

TLDR: Must spend over 3000 gold or over $1500 to collect all endless mystery tonics. Account Bound RNG-based items should be made available on trading post or made far less rare/expensive