Guild Wars 2

I have a question about this tonic. As far as I know, the only way to get them is from SW chests. I’ve been chest farming and casually playing in SW for a long time and I’ve only gotten 2 to drop. The first one I kept, the second I planned to sell. It’s only worth a few silver. This seems a bit strange to me and I checked on GW2spidey out of curiosity. In the recent past it looked like it spiked and then quickly settled back down again.

My first inclination was that the initial rush of chest farming flooded the market making it worthless. I was part of that chest farming scene and that’s when I got my first one. But the spikes seem to indicate that new tonics are being fed into the market.

What am I missing? Is my drop rate on those just incredibly low, or am I completely underestimating the number of chest farmers out there? Is there another way to get them I don’t know about?

Just curious as it seems odd to me.

It sounds to me likely to be due to the sheer number of chest farmers available. Its sad but theres enough that maps that complete the event chains can be….consumed might be a good word for it. By a small chest train that begins to ferry more and more chest farmers in. As the number of chest farmers rise the number of event players begins to deminish. Soon the map is completely chest driven and will generally remain so for a few hours at a time. Theres enough chest farmers that theres almost ALWAYS an lfg open for one at any given time.

Haven’t really done much chest farming. Just mostly opened the random ones other people dig up or with my own shovels but I still got 2 or 3. Maybe it was never meant to be a super rare thing.