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Posted by: Lukas.9650

Lukas.9650

Q:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/Basic-Event-Overview/first#post998484

In this post from the community operator, when it comes to minipets players can get through dungeons, it says that by the end of the festivity, simply by playing the dungeons, we’ll have more than enough to make any of those minipets. I’d like a clarification on that, so here’s my questions:

1) You mean we’ll have enough mats to make everyone of the 5 dungeon pets, or that we’ll surely have mats to make the one we like best?

2) In case you meant that we’ll have enough mats to craft every mini, can you explain how? Only through the first playthrough on the account we can receive 250 stuffies or 250 glue of choice and 100 cogs (and cogs are account bound, so no trading), so it seems that after the whole 5 dungeons we’ll have, at best 500 stuffies, 750 glue and 500 cogs, and that is enough to make only 2 of the minis. I’m fully aware of the possibility to trade glue and stuffies, and that the gifts gotten from the second playthrough can yeld stuffies and glue, but they are not reliable sources.

I’d like to receive an answer from a staff member if possible.

P.S. Please don’t look down on me for this post, I’m not a disgruntled customer! I’m enjoying the festivity at my best, and I’ve tried every activity so far, liking them all, but I’m an OCD player, sort of, and I like minis!

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Posted by: AnthonyOrdon

AnthonyOrdon

Game Designer

A:

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

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Posted by: Lillith.5724

Lillith.5724

I’ll have to second this post. I’d sure love to know as well

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Posted by: Esplen.3940

Esplen.3940

Tomorrow. gasp

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Posted by: Thaia.5146

Thaia.5146

Heh… that’s funny. I was writing a post about that when I saw yours. Let’s wait for a response.

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Posted by: Lutheran.9687

Lutheran.9687

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Yet, if I’m not mistaken once Tixx makes it to Lion’s Arch don’t all mini dungeons become available? Couldn’t you in fact continue on to get more then just 2 mini-pets made?

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Posted by: SolidView.9247

SolidView.9247

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

So say I managed to get 2/5, will I then be able to buy the other 3 from players over the TP?
I myself, like to collect things on Guild Wars, always used to in the first game, and would like to continue this trend. But if we can only get 2/5 ourselves, there will be 3 gaps in my mini-pet area (not saying it’s anywhere near full mind you!)

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Posted by: Roda.7468

Roda.7468

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Yet, if I’m not mistaken once Tixx makes it to Lion’s Arch don’t all mini dungeons become available? Couldn’t you in fact continue on to get more then just 2 mini-pets made?

I hope so. :<
I really don’t want to miss out on any of the pets!

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Posted by: Koga.7215

Koga.7215

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

so we can only make 2? and only if we play the 5 days? what happened to being able to repeat in LA to ensure no one missed anything?

Also why can we not get the daily when we redo them in LA to get more cogs/mats to make all 5? and if we cant, where can we see each of the toys to know what 2 we may want to make

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Posted by: SteepledHat.1345

SteepledHat.1345

So wait… mini pets are toys. I thought they were alive. Oh, Chirpster! You’re a robot!

(Chirpster is an adorable green moa.)

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Posted by: samrogan.9132

samrogan.9132

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

So to follow up on this question, the event runs until the 3rd. It had been previously stated that after tixx has visited all 5 major cities we will be able to visit him in lions arch. So hypothetically, once he is in lions arch could we play the dungeon ever day after and have enough materials to make all of the minis?

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Posted by: Araris.7839

Araris.7839

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

So hypothetically, once he is in lions arch could we play the dungeon ever day after and have enough materials to make all of the minis?

Unfortunately not, unless accessing the dungeon via Lions Arch resets your account, which I highly doubt. Subsequent runs are only resulting in Winter Box’s, not the required materials needed to craft the mini’s.

So, at the end of the event, you’ll have to choose 2 of the 5 mini’s you want.

At least, with current info, that’s what it looks like.

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Posted by: Athidae.3870

Athidae.3870

It looks like each new day’s dungeon put that new mini pet in the gem store as well. Take a look at the mini pet section in the gem store and sure enough you’ll see the ventari for 350 gems.

I for one am pretty upset about this as my fiance and I spend $105 on gems for the chests mainly for the minis. The chest description on the wiki initially was misleading along with the special mini slots in the collections tab. Unfortunately we spent all of our gems on the boxes and now there’s nothing left to buy these last 3 dungeon minis when they’ll be posted.

I feel like this should have been mentioned before it was implied so people could have had a better idea on what they wanted to spend their gems on. I personally would have saved for 3 of the dungeon minis and as many boxes I could have got afterwards.

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Posted by: Malediktus.9250

Malediktus.9250

That would be horrible. They are account bound so people would be forced to live with empty slots in their collection table forever?

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Posted by: Munki.9452

Munki.9452

Hopefully we can do this again next year and get 2 more of the ones we don’t have. If that’s the case, I’m ok with that. If it’s 2 per account, EVER, that is a bit more extreme

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Posted by: Athidae.3870

Athidae.3870

Hopefully we can do this again next year and get 2 more of the ones we don’t have. If that’s the case, I’m ok with that. If it’s 2 per account, EVER, that is a bit more extreme

Look what I posted above about how you’re intended to get all 5.

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Posted by: Wolfey.3407

Wolfey.3407

Clarification would be nice, the English language isn’t a clean cut language, the words being used are a little disingenuous for every event. Not asking for more information, just basically saying take your time and actually re-read what you type up and see if anything can be taken out of context or may be a little to vague for players who never played GW1 and aren’t use to your system.

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Posted by: Allisa Wonderland.8192

Allisa Wonderland.8192

I DO have a complete collection, and I will be extremely disappointed if it is not possible to maintain this without trying my luck (ha) at the gem store. Very uncool.

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Posted by: Iridiana.9078

Iridiana.9078

Only 2 of 5 minis? What?
I’m dissapointed!
Guys, I was so happy you put all these nice and super-cute toys… You can’t tell me I can’t get them all! Why?
Give us a way to get 1250 Cogs to craft them all!

P.S: And what to we do with the frames? Do we occupy bank slots with useless items..?

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Posted by: Think.8042

Think.8042

Please immediately fix the announcement text to say that you can get materials for 2 out of 5 pets only. Otherwise, everybody who made the first two pets and finds out the third one is much more awesome will jump your throat.

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Posted by: Allisa Wonderland.8192

Allisa Wonderland.8192

Give us a way to get 1250 Cogs to craft them all!

I’m with this. I am willing to grind for them, as long as it’s possible.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Whoever decided to limit everyone to 2 out of 5 minis clearly does not understand collecting and collectors at all.

Please either let us know that in subsequent years the same minis will be available so we can eventually get them all or give us a way to get them all this year.

Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).

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Posted by: Iridiana.9078

Iridiana.9078

Please immediately fix the announcement text to say that you can get materials for 2 out of 5 pets only. Otherwise, everybody who made the first two pets and finds out the third one is much more awesome will jump your throat.

Good suggestion… I just imagine the flame here in the forum…

But now I’ve understood what’s happening reading other topics.
They are putting the minis for 350 gems every day in Gem Store… So they’ll let you get only 2 so you’ll need to spend 1050 gems for the other 3 (and you have to buy gems 2 times since you get 800 per purchase)…

I thought only Baby Quaggan, Snowman and the other 2 minis in the chests were “gem-bound” but I was wrong…

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Posted by: Malediktus.9250

Malediktus.9250

Game company hates collectors nowadays, dozens of exclusives and other crap which prevents you from ever getting complete collections.

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Posted by: Moon.7310

Moon.7310

I love the winter event in general. It is fun and relaxing. But you clearly achieve to disappoint me once again with your greed for money. One kind of minipets can only achieved in random chests, making it a lottory of how much money you have to spend to get them all… I bought the halloween pets since this was an clear trade of money for pets and not based on luck. And now of the other mini pets you only get two and have to buy the other three -.-
So now instead of buying something in the shop like halloween I will just enjoy the event and buy nothing in the shop because I am frustrated of this policy.

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Posted by: Cevilo.7862

Cevilo.7862

just realized you can buy the minis in the gem store 350 gems for ventari atm.

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Posted by: Athidae.3870

Athidae.3870

Whoever decided to limit everyone to 2 out of 5 minis clearly does not understand collecting and collectors at all.

Please either let us know that in subsequent years the same minis will be available so we can eventually get them all or give us a way to get them all this year.

just realized you can buy the minis in the gem store 350 gems for ventari atm.

Please read up. I’ve already said in this thread that they intend for you to only craft two and you’ll have to buy the other 3 via gems if you want the whole collection. I also started a thread about this here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/Dungeon-Minis-listed-in-Gem-Store/first#post1007930

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Posted by: Manoa.5897

Manoa.5897

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

That’s disappointing.

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Posted by: Randazzinator.8754

Randazzinator.8754

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Yet, if I’m not mistaken once Tixx makes it to Lion’s Arch don’t all mini dungeons become available? Couldn’t you in fact continue on to get more then just 2 mini-pets made?

This seems to make the most sense to me.

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Posted by: Yareon.2835

Yareon.2835

Wonder if Anet will do something about this

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Posted by: Horheristo.3607

Horheristo.3607

Are those minis account bound?

I got 2 accounts and if the toys are RNG’ed somehow then I’d rather sell them in a few months.

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Posted by: Mattus.1345

Mattus.1345

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

I understand, that 4 minis are obtainable only from gem store from chests – that way it was on halloween and in karka event and I’m good with it.

When I first saw the information about toymaker in every 5 cities who will give us a toy to craft, i thought “ok, so there will be 5 more minis for everyone who participated in event, great!”
Now If what Anthony said is true, I’m really disappointed about mini toys rewards…
I suppose we will get 5 frames, but cogs and materials will be enough only for 2 toys, the 3 more we will be forced to buy for gems (of course if we want to have 5 toys)
Come on, there are already minis from shop… I have one suggestion:
- First time we complete city instance = reward is pet frame+100 cogs+ 250 stuffies or glue (this means 5 frames+500 cogs+1250 stuffies/glue = 2 toys)
-first time on the every next day = reward should be 25 cogs + 25 stuffies/glue (this means we need to do every of 5 instances in 6 diffirent days during the event to get 3 more toys)
-every other complete of instance (second, third etc. in a day) = gifts, as it is now

This way every account will be limited to only 1 of each toy and also players who will play everyday in every instance will get all toys. And many of us will be very happy
(I really hope this suggestion was oryginally developers idea and it is already in game)

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Posted by: niwaar.5631

niwaar.5631

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

So to follow up on this question, the event runs until the 3rd. It had been previously stated that after tixx has visited all 5 major cities we will be able to visit him in lions arch. So hypothetically, once he is in lions arch could we play the dungeon ever day after and have enough materials to make all of the minis?

This is a bigger question. And was my original assumption until the Red Post answer in this thread. I figured they were putting the Minipet of the day up for those players who would rather purchase them instead of “having” to do the dungeon every day in order to have the materials to complete all 5 pets. That was an awesome idea. It serves all player types.

However, being forced to purchase the other 3 pets for gems no matter our play style is pretty much unacceptable. I am onboard with the Wintersday Boxes. I think they are too high of a price for the “chances” you get, but I am willing to be onboard with those. I believe that ALL the pets from those boxes should have been on the BLTC for a decent price as well but that is besides this point. In game events that reward you with recipes like this should be able to be made by EVERYONE who wishes to put in Work to make them. These are things that should NOT require us to dish out anymore of our already scarce gold. These are things that need to be accessible.

As it stands I have given this game MUCH MUCH more money than I gave any other MMO in triple the play time. The goal should be to make people use the gem shop to spend around 20$ on average a month. The current shop is flat out encouraging players to spend 50$+ a month and is 1) Not good for the game, and 2) not good for its players.

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Posted by: xerca.6135

xerca.6135

Coming from WoW and remembering that Children’s week event they had where you could only get 1 of the minis each year, I do not complain to much. For me, “it could have been worse.”

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Posted by: Gilosean.3805

Gilosean.3805

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

I understand, that 4 minis are obtainable only from gem store from chests – that way it was on halloween and in karka event and I’m good with it.

It wasn’t that way on Halloween – there was a pet pack people could buy that would drop 3 set minipets. Those 3 could be combined in the mystic forge for the 4th. It wasn’t RNG at all, and that was great.

There was a some frustration among collectors over the karka minis, which only dropped from chests. But, they weren’t account bound, so extras could be traded on the TP. That wasn’t great, but that was OK.

The festive minis (not the same as Tixx minis) are RNG-only and account bound, so you can open 50 chests and not get anything, or get stuck with 15 snowmen and none of the others, etc. That’s really bad for collectors and collectors are pretty upset about it. It’s also a bad trend to see. It makes players think, “What else will ANet do to mess up collector’s ability to play like we want?”

I thought that since events could be replayed we would be able to get the same reward too, otherwise what’s the point of having the events replay in LA? There’s already the each day achievement for people who are there in the dungeons each day, I thought the point of being able to replay the dungeon was so that people who have RL obligations (i.e., most of the Western world for the next few weeks) don’t miss out on anything.

This is a game, not a life. ANet needs to recognize that and stop expecting people to put GW2 first.

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Posted by: skullmount.1758

skullmount.1758

just realized you can buy the minis in the gem store 350 gems for ventari atm.

Only problem is it’ll cost 1050 gems. (Between this and the RNG for other minis) If thats not a scam/move to make us buy gems, I don’t know what is.

Please let us be able to either get more cogs somehow (not necessarily subsequent dungeons), or up the amount we get please.

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

I understand, that 4 minis are obtainable only from gem store from chests – that way it was on halloween and in karka event and I’m good with it.

It wasn’t that way on Halloween – there was a pet pack people could buy that would drop 3 set minipets. Those 3 could be combined in the mystic forge for the 4th. It wasn’t RNG at all, and that was great.

There was a some frustration among collectors over the karka minis, which only dropped from chests. But, they weren’t account bound, so extras could be traded on the TP. That wasn’t great, but that was OK.

The festive minis (not the same as Tixx minis) are RNG-only and account bound, so you can open 50 chests and not get anything, or get stuck with 15 snowmen and none of the others, etc. That’s really bad for collectors and collectors are pretty upset about it. It’s also a bad trend to see. It makes players think, “What else will ANet do to mess up collector’s ability to play like we want?”

I thought that since events could be replayed we would be able to get the same reward too, otherwise what’s the point of having the events replay in LA? There’s already the each day achievement for people who are there in the dungeons each day, I thought the point of being able to replay the dungeon was so that people who have RL obligations (i.e., most of the Western world for the next few weeks) don’t miss out on anything.

This is a game, not a life. ANet needs to recognize that and stop expecting people to put GW2 first.

Nicely put. I consider myself part of the collectibles crowd and am very upset they keep putting the minis in the RNG chests. Any of those minis go for extreme amounts of gold, which I can’t even ever get close to. I for some reason do not get how people are getting the amount gold they are (to be able to uby either the minis, the halloween weapons/skins, precursors, etc.).

Come on, there are already minis from shop… I have one suggestion:
- First time we complete city instance = reward is pet frame+100 cogs+ 250 stuffies or glue (this means 5 frames+500 cogs+1250 stuffies/glue = 2 toys)
-first time on the every next day = reward should be 25 cogs + 25 stuffies/glue (this means we need to do every of 5 instances in 6 diffirent days during the event to get 3 more toys)
-every other complete of instance (second, third etc. in a day) = gifts, as it is now

This way every account will be limited to only 1 of each toy and also players who will play everyday in every instance will get all toys. And many of us will be very happy
(I really hope this suggestion was oryginally developers idea and it is already in game)

I’d support that. at least that way we aren’t forced to only buy the other three from the BLTC.

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Posted by: Jayden.3085

Jayden.3085

Very disappointed that we do not have the option to create all 5 of the daily minipets. The gem store in theory sounded like a nice thing, but in practice, it’s horrendous, as the ingame gold to gem market is horrible. And buying the gems with real money just doesn’t seem worth it as the gem amounts for items are way to high IMO.

Please give us a way to obtain more cogs and allow us to complete the wintersday mini pets.

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Posted by: Halo.1679

Halo.1679

First, all he said was that if you do the first 5 events you will have enough to make 2 toys. I don’t think we should read into it too much, it was just simple math.

That doesn’t mean “OMG! we only can make 2 ever.” Who is to say the lions arch dungeons won’t reset daily? We are not even past the first day yet. Why don’t we wait and see once he gets to LA?

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Posted by: Dante.1508

Dante.1508

Seriously only 2 for 5 days of the event seems pretty bad..

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Posted by: Mr Crazy Moose.5760

Mr Crazy Moose.5760

Who is to say the lions arch dungeons won’t reset daily? We are not even past the first day yet. Why don’t we wait and see once he gets to LA?

The people in Europe who have tested it after their reset time.

It doesn’t reset.

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Posted by: DarkBurst.6820

DarkBurst.6820

Check your Gem Store. You are able to purchase the minipets that are revealed for 350gems. No idea if they’ll be gone the next day, but I love this option.

At least now I can collect all 5 of them.

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Posted by: Katreyn.4218

Katreyn.4218

I’d say they did this so they can get more out of the event…as in next year. People could get 2 more, so they don’t necessarily have to make more, maybe just one new one instead of 5 new ones.

It is a little sad though. But I can’t complain. Thats two that I got for free for once instead of gems.

Still seems kind of weird considering we have all this excess time for the event running, but I guess that is for the majority of the playerbase to get around to the events if they are busy.

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Posted by: MagusShade.2358

MagusShade.2358

I was pretty excited for this Tixx the Toymaker event, and i also thought that the extra days in LA were so people could earn all 5 pets if they played every day of the event. But since we can only earn 2/5 through actual gameplay (ie. Why i bought this game) i guess the whole tixx event is just a cash shop advertisement. Give us a taste and make us buy the rest. Maybe A-net should just replace the word “event” with “new items in stock!” because 90% of their events are cash shop promotions.

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Posted by: Svenn.5209

Svenn.5209

I was pretty excited for this Tixx the Toymaker event, and i also thought that the extra days in LA were so people could earn all 5 pets if they played every day of the event. But since we can only earn 2/5 through actual gameplay (ie. Why i bought this game) i guess the whole tixx event is just a cash shop advertisement. Give us a taste and make us buy the rest. Maybe A-net should just replace the word “event” with “new items in stock!” because 90% of their events are cash shop promotions.

Agreed. This is seriously stupid. I don’t mind some stuff in the shop but there’s like $60+ worth of stuff, plus random chests where you have to get lucky to even get the rewards with real money… and they can’t even give us these 5 pets? Seriously?

Collectors get royally screwed yet again. I’ve been one of the biggest fans of GW2 since the start hailing it as one of the best (if not THE best) game of the last decade and bringing a lot of friends with me. I had plans to play this game for years, but this stuff just makes me want to stop playing right now. Why bother playing when the only way to get half the stuff is to toss tons of cash at the gem shop? I gladly tossed a good bit of money at the shop early on and I would love to continue to do so… but I can’t support these stupid business practices.

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Posted by: CMEPTb.8091

CMEPTb.8091

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Q:
Will ALL minis (GemStore and Dungeons) be available again next Wintersday? Or will they be replaced?

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Posted by: Sharkinu.8096

Sharkinu.8096

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Q:
Will ALL minis (GemStore and Dungeons) be available again next Wintersday? Or will they be replaced?

Funny, I was about to ask the very same question.

So, will Tixx’ Wintersday repeat next year(with the same dungeon reward and minies) or we’ll be getting a complete new Wintersday event next year?

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Posted by: Velkyn.5168

Velkyn.5168

I just got 25 glue from a present I dropped from a mob. So it might be quite possible that we can get the other crafting materials for the minis from gift boxes as well and be able to make more than just 2 of them after all.

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Posted by: naintestin.1948

naintestin.1948

Hey there
I hope we’ll be able to craft all 5 pets, cause i spent all my gold for buying 90 chest in order to get others pets (snowmen, golem, quaggan)…
I though we’ll be able to gain glue and cogs from tixx when he’ll be in the lion arch but i was wrong aparently.
I hope this will be fix and everyone got all 5 pets
Happy christmas to all

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Posted by: Awesome.6120

Awesome.6120

Gonna be really sad if anet expects us to shell out 1050 gems to get the 3 other toys. I thought the 4 minis from the boxes were going to cover their bases on that front.

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Posted by: ThiBash.5634

ThiBash.5634

One of the reasons I left StarKitten Online was because of their love for paid random drop boxes.

Then came along Wintersday, and I really liked the costume, so I bought a gem card…and with some of the leftover gems, I bought 10 boxes. Surely Anet wouldn’t make the same mistake that StarKitten did?

However, 10 boxes later I had 2 random dyes and some other, useless items. And then I remembered again why I disliked lottery boxes again. It seems that no matter how much you spend on them, you will never get your money’s worth.

So yeah, I won’t be making that mistake again. Surefire stuff only from now on.

If you can read this then it is proof that ArenaNet’s moderators just, kind and fair.