Guild Wars 2

Why doesn’t alcohol in this game tell you how many points it will give you before you buy it?

Today I was in Bloodtide Coast and came across Donalla in Whisperwill bogs, selling alcohol for 1 silver 20 copper. It’s like like 3 gold per stack.

In other places in the game, alcohol that costs this gives you like 16 or 17 points on your title track. I bought like a stack and a half, only to find out the alcohol I was buying was only giving me 2 points each. So I went to the wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flask_of_Special_Reserve_Blood_Whiskey

Appparently there’s another NPC elsewhere selling this SAME alcohol for 16 copper. Okay it’s my own fault for not checking but…I don’t really want to have to look in the wiki to find out what I’m buying from a vendor. It’s like this one transaction basically cancels out the dungeon runs I did today.

This is the kind of thing that annoys the hell out of me. I don’t play games to go backwards.

I’d like to see alcohol show how much it counts to the title track when you mouse over it. Every single time I have to go to a wiki to check something, it takes me out of the game.

In any event why should two vendors sell the exact same item for such a huge difference in price?

First world problems.

I buy all mine with Karma. Stacks at a time. I thought the alcohol items there did say what they were worth, but I might have been mistaken.

It does seem like some kind of oversight to have vendors sells the exact same item for different prices.

Careful mate, I posted that very same thing in response to a similar type thread and got an infraction for it.

I buy mine with Karma as well Craigstead in Wayfayer’s takes a little longer but Karma is easier to come by then gold.

I usually do that. That’s where I buy almost all my alcohol. And if there was a way to click without breaking my hand, that would be an acceptable alternative, but having to buy one at a time and then drink them is more than my hand is willing to take. That’s why I thought I’d go for higher tier alcohol. Less clicking. For that it was worth the gold.

What I ended up with was more clicking for gold instead of karma.

Clearly he stole all that booze from the pirates, no sourcing costs.

post processing is pretty ugly in this game.. apparently you can’t see drunk effect unless it’s on.. all this time i thought drinking did nothing, other than the guild keg that knocks you down.. i bought all my thirst slayer drinks from the monastery, i think that drink is removed now.. there should be a way to refine drinks like luck, ruined a good mouse button doing that achievement.. thanks arena net!

I agree it would be helpful for it to show how many points alcohol gives you. It would also be helpful if the price per point was standardised.

Danikat.8537:

I agree it would be helpful for it to show how many points alcohol gives you. It would also be helpful if the price per point was standardised.

Thanks for the reasonable response. It may not seem like a lot to people but 4 gold is a lot of money for me to waste.

Selling alkohol to minors is prohibited.

Vayne.8563:

This is the kind of thing that annoys the hell out of me. I don’t play games to go backwards.

Exactly, you don’t like it. It doesn’t bother me though, I like the current system.
Stop trying to speak for all of us, Vayne!!!1111

Sogradde.8016:

Vayne.8563:

This is the kind of thing that annoys the hell out of me. I don’t play games to go backwards.

Exactly, you don’t like it. It doesn’t bother me though, I like the current system.
Stop trying to speak for all of us, Vayne!!!1111

Which is what I’m not doing. I simply said it annoys the hell out of me. I said why I don’t play games.

What I’m not saying is the “community” doesn’t like this. But thanks for stopping by.

I’d like to buy alcohol with karma irl, too…

Write a support ticket about this with title: “confused about price of alcohol in game”. Remember to mention that you are a new player (even if you weren’t), it will increase your odds to make a difference.

Now, I really don’t them to waste any resources in a “problem” like this. This does not hinder or harm gameplay in any way, it is not needed in slightest sense for playing the game or advancing in it.

Also, maybe you could support the game by buying some gems, and then exchanging 28 gems for 4 golds. This would show how much you value the game, developers, and encourage them to create new and exciting content – and address this issue as well.

Finally, I don’t want to get cluttered tooltip on alcohol telling me anything about points, if I have already maxed out the achievement. I definitely support to keep alcohol tooltips and info the way they are now.

Sure, having the points gained per consumption more readily displayed would be fine, and having gold prices standardized would bring it in line with karma (7 karma/point for all drinks, no exceptions), but…

I guess I don’t understand why you would invest a sum of gold that you consider “a lot… to waste” in these drinks without even first confirming their points per consumption through the achievement panel? Is using wiki any different in outcome than personally checking these values? And considering there’s no reasonable expectation that such values are standardized in the first place, would you not still want to compare these points/price among vendors across all explorable regions?

In instances like this, it seems to me that the advantages of using wiki as an additional resource are obvious. Even if the points per consumption were added to the items’ description (an agreeable improvement), you should still find yourself using wiki’s comprehensive information to maximize efficiency in whatever you do, such that you spare yourself the labor of needlessly researching these things in game.

Roundabout.1752:

I buy mine with Karma as well Craigstead in Wayfayer’s takes a little longer but Karma is easier to come by then gold.

I can get 75G a day, getting 75K karma a day is a bit harder for me imo, or more boring i guess

Vayne.8563:

In any event why should two vendors sell the exact same item for such a huge difference in price?

The 16 copper price is probably a bug.

Elestian.6134:

Sure, having the points gained per consumption more readily displayed would be fine, and having gold prices standardized would bring it in line with karma (7 karma/point for all drinks, no exceptions), but…

I guess I don’t understand why you would invest a sum of gold that you consider “a lot… to waste” in these drinks without even first confirming their points per consumption through the achievement panel? Is using wiki any different in outcome than personally checking these values? And considering there’s no reasonable expectation that such values are standardized in the first place, would you not still want to compare these points/price among vendors across all explorable regions?

In instances like this, it seems to me that the advantages of using wiki as an additional resource are obvious. Even if the points per consumption were added to the items’ description (an agreeable improvement), you should still find yourself using wiki’s comprehensive information to maximize efficiency in whatever you do, such that you spare yourself the labor of needlessly researching these things in game.

I spent the gold first, because merchants who offer high tier alcohol don’t hang around for that long, and since I didn’t know how long the vendor would be there for, he could have easily disappeared by the time I went to check it out.

Edit: In addition, having brought alcohol in many many places in the game, the game taught me to understand that the more you spend on alcohol the more it gives you toward your achievement, which makes a certain sense, since that’s all it’s good for.

Every time I’ve bought cheap alcohol it provided few points. Every time I’ve bought expensive alcohol it’s provided more points. It’s logical to assume that this was set up in the same way that alcohol is set up in the rest of the game.

Nokaru.7831:

Vayne.8563:

In any event why should two vendors sell the exact same item for such a huge difference in price?

The 16 copper price is probably a bug.

16 copper is the standard price across the game for 2 point alcohol. 1 silver 20 copper is the standard price throughout the game for 16 point alcohol.

Here’s the wiki page.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Alcohol