Guild Wars 2

Ok im no math genious or anything so i will be using rough estimates.

So we need to complete 10k drinks, i assume the way to get the gifts by farming the wintersday dungeon, the daily 50 gifts for the 26 days the event has been up this gives us about 1300 gifts assuming you do the daily, and then it gives you 25 every time you complete it after the daily, say you do it 2 times afterward, another 50 per day, this gives you during the whole season 2600 gifts.

Now assuming ALL of these drop the eggnoggs and whatnots for festive imbiber youll have completed about a fourth, more or less of the complete achievement.

ill add to this that you’ve also got gift from other sources like achis and such, lets be generous and make it that you’ve gotten the imbiber achievement to half, then what?

wintersday will be over and you can, if you got it, do the home instance tree!
One gift per day with 0.8 chance to get an eggnog, youll have to wait for next years wintersday to get the shoulder you released this year, and whose to say there wont be a new skin for next years???

Have some sense anet please, where is the Christmas spirit in having all the ah flippers and traders trapsing around with nice things putting the normal people in their place just because they could afford it, and the rest of the people could not.

Is this what you have become, did martin shkreli invest in this game too?

it may look like everyone has a chance to get the skin, but it’s an illusion, you can’t get this with just hard work, it’s yet another: “if you got the cash you get the stash.” to quote Nancy Botwin.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Drunkard

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sweet_Tooth

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Party_Animal

Welcome to guild wars.

You get gifts each time you do one of the Wintersday minigames. I get 300-400 drinks each day with just goofing around most of the time.

The achievement is the only sink for these drinks. Not everybody is going for the shoulders, so if everybody would be able to earn all the drinks he needed at a reasonable pace, you will soon have an oversupply of drinks on the market, from people that dont want to do the achievement and from players that play more than the average casual.

Its a simple reward mechanism, that adds temporary value to wintersday gifts, so people have the option to sell them for a decent amount of gold to those who want to rush the achievement and be the first ones with that skin.

Edit: Also, please change topic title to : Guestimating the festive imbiber because what you did here isnt a calculation

You get 10 gifts per Winter Wonderland run too. You can easily get over a hundred gifts in a 30 minute time-span, granted you take the time to get used to the jumping puzzle and rarely fail it. I’d say the hardest part is the gifts that explode on someone touching them, and you start to hate other players who foolishly jump too soon, triggering it and falling to their deaths, while you have to wait for them to respawn (—poor design, this game should not make you hate other players, and this jumping puzzle does).

Other things to do, PvP Reward Track, it will grant you some gifts, and at the end, the Ultimate Wintersday Gift, which will allow you to select your gift, including the Ancient Mariner’s Oilcloth Bag containing the unique-effect Rime-Rimmed Mariner’s Rebreather. Unfortunately, it seems the effect is tied to the Aquabreather, and not a skin, and now with Ascended being available, this is no longer as good as it used to be. Perhaps ArenaNet could introduce an upgrade recipe to make it Ascended and/or turn it into a skin so we can apply it on our Ascended Aquabreathers?

As stated above me, I get about 300-400 drinks per day too, and I ain’t even fully focused on earning the gifts, but are spending time doing other things as well. I think I should be able to get rather close to the 10,000 mark by January 12th. At which point I can either take it easy and try get the remaining ones slowly from the tree in my Home Instance(s), or toss a few Gold towards the Trading Post, if the price isn’t too bad. Worst case, I can wait until next year and continue. They already made an announcement stating the achievement stays active.

Yarrmor.8406:

You get gifts each time you do one of the Wintersday minigames. I get 300-400 drinks each day with just goofing around most of the time.

each day… goofing around… how long do you play for lol