Guild Wars 2

Heey,

I was wondering if anybody knows where Anet put the Pavilion vendors.
They usually put those vendors somewhere else so you have a week or so after a festival to exchange your tokens. Usually they put them in LA near the Piazza but can’t find them there. Also looked around in Dr but can’t find them.

I also checked the patch noted but that does not say a thing about the Pavilion (even not that the pavilion has been removed while it obviously has).

Any idea where to find them. I have my bags filled with tokens so would be nice if I can now spend them.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/s2/Bring-back-Festival-Token-mercant/first#post4163008

I think it was a given that the vendors would be gone when the event was over. Last year when the event was over the vendors went with them.

Past history on some other events has shown if you didn’t redeem your stuff before the next patch you could well be out of luck. (Heirloom merchant and the angst that went with that one comes to mind…)

Unless the Zephyrites find a way to come back your tokens may be worthless. Definitely worth posing that question to ANet before doing anything with them. I, too, did not see any announcements other than this one: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready/ I assumed then that we would have to use our tokens before the patch went into effect.

If the Zephyrites are not coming back I am sorry you did not redeem your tokens in time.

Anet gave us 2 months notice on this. The vendors are gone.

That being said, I would be willing to bet that they add a merchant, or add a category to a few merchants in the future that will take the tokens. They did the same with the blade shards.

But, there was plenty of advance notice on this.

Just for the record. A dev once said on this forum on a question if vendors of a festival would stay for another week that that’s how they did it before so it’s how we could expect it in that festival as well (it was some time ago with another festival).

So since then I expect that to be the case.

I did not forget to spend any tokens I waited till the festival was over (what I knew would be today) so I knew how many tokens I would end up with and could then decide what to buy with it.

I usually don’t have many tokens so I have no idea what happened those other times but I do know that usually they are there for a while after an event.

Anyway, if they are nowhere I expect Anet simply to have forgotten it and we might see them in the next patch being added. That happened before as well.

I think you’ll need to site your source for nay-sayers to believe you regarding the dev’s quote.

Devata.6589:

Just for the record. A dev once said on this forum on a question if vendors of a festival would stay for another week that that’s how they did it before so it’s how we could expect it in that festival as well (it was some time ago with another festival).

So since then I expect that to be the case.

I did not forget to spend any tokens I waited till the festival was over (what I knew would be today) so I knew how many tokens I would end up with and could then decide what to buy with it.

I usually don’t have many tokens so I have no idea what happened those other times but I do know that usually they are there for a while after an event.

Anyway, if they are nowhere I expect Anet simply to have forgotten it and we might see them in the next patch being added. That happened before as well.

I sure wouldn’t wait until the very last minute or day, next time. That’s just asking for grief.

But I do agree with your last comment and as I previously said…..we will probably see some sort of source to sell them at in the next patch or so….similar to blade shards.

But next time, don’t push it to the very limit….give yourself a day or two buffer and get rid of most of any sort of special tokens, etc from a special event. My hunch on being able to dump them later certainly could be wrong…..you might now be stuck with a bunch of trash because you waited too long.

Devata.6589:

Just for the record. A dev once said on this forum on a question if vendors of a festival would stay for another week that that’s how they did it before so it’s how we could expect it in that festival as well (it was some time ago with another festival).

So since then I expect that to be the case.

I did not forget to spend any tokens I waited till the festival was over (what I knew would be today) so I knew how many tokens I would end up with and could then decide what to buy with it.

I usually don’t have many tokens so I have no idea what happened those other times but I do know that usually they are there for a while after an event.

Anyway, if they are nowhere I expect Anet simply to have forgotten it and we might see them in the next patch being added. That happened before as well.

I think THIS may have been the link where they said event would continue until Season 2 kicked off July 1. Basically you had until the patch took place.

I would like ANet to give an answer, though, whether the tokens will be any good in the future so at least folk can make decisions on keeping or throwing away such things.

Mystic.5934:

I think you’ll need to site your source for nay-sayers to believe you regarding the dev’s quote.

Only the discussion section has 1157 pages and I am not even sure if it was there and the search function does not work so no way I will be able to find that back.

But it does not really matter if I can link to it or not. A dev did say that so because of that I did never feel the need to look at stuff like tokens until after an event.

However like I said I usually never have many tokens anyway so I don’t know if Anet always did as they said.

I just expect them to do what they say and implement stuff the right way. Why would you not put a vendor to keep selling the stuff if people still have the tokens? I would be just extremely bad design.
Last time I had many tokens left was with SAB and there is was the same, the vendor was there for an extra week or so.

I now have 2 festival tickets I got to buy the panda and the other thing and many more tokens left in my bags. I really can’t see any good reason to not have a vendor in it. Even if they would have said they removed the vendors this time (what they did not..).

However like I said I guess Anet simply forgot to put the vendors somewhere and they should do it soon in a patch. The SAB vendor was not hard to forget because it was not inside the instance.

Teon.5168:

Devata.6589:

Just for the record. A dev once said on this forum on a question if vendors of a festival would stay for another week that that’s how they did it before so it’s how we could expect it in that festival as well (it was some time ago with another festival).

So since then I expect that to be the case.

I did not forget to spend any tokens I waited till the festival was over (what I knew would be today) so I knew how many tokens I would end up with and could then decide what to buy with it.

I usually don’t have many tokens so I have no idea what happened those other times but I do know that usually they are there for a while after an event.

Anyway, if they are nowhere I expect Anet simply to have forgotten it and we might see them in the next patch being added. That happened before as well.

I sure wouldn’t wait until the very last minute or day, next time. That’s just asking for grief.

But I do agree with your last comment and as I previously said…..we will probably see some sort of source to sell them at in the next patch or so….similar to blade shards.

But next time, don’t push it to the very limit….give yourself a day or two buffer and get rid of most of any sort of special tokens, etc from a special event. My hunch on being able to dump them later certainly could be wrong…..you might now be stuck with a bunch of trash because you waited too long.

Well I didn’t. I waited till the event was over and then I immediate when to search for the vendors to buy what I wanted knowing how many tokens I had at that moment (without any new tokens being able to come in).

Aerinndis.2730:

Devata.6589:

Just for the record. A dev once said on this forum on a question if vendors of a festival would stay for another week that that’s how they did it before so it’s how we could expect it in that festival as well (it was some time ago with another festival).

So since then I expect that to be the case.

I did not forget to spend any tokens I waited till the festival was over (what I knew would be today) so I knew how many tokens I would end up with and could then decide what to buy with it.

I usually don’t have many tokens so I have no idea what happened those other times but I do know that usually they are there for a while after an event.

Anyway, if they are nowhere I expect Anet simply to have forgotten it and we might see them in the next patch being added. That happened before as well.

I think THIS may have been the link where they said event would continue until Season 2 kicked off July 1. Basically you had until the patch took place.

I would like ANet to give an answer, though, whether the tokens will be any good in the future so at least folk can make decisions on keeping or throwing away such things.

I think you misunderstood me. I did know the festival would end that day. I was talking about the vendors. that sell stuff with tokens (and tickets) you earned during the event.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-March-18-2014/first#content

“Trading
Rumors tell of a merchant interested in items from major events in Tyria’s recent history, including Blade Shards. Players are encouraged to hold on to these items if they are interested in trading with her when she appears.”

This. THIS. 1,000 times this!
I remember during the “Cutthroat Politics” release, there were tokens that dropped (can’t remember exactly which ones) that I destroyed just before the “election” ended. THE NEXT DAY a vendor price was added to the item that I had destroyed at least a stack and a half of. I have been burned with every item I’ve held onto since, and it makes me sick.

Devata.6589:

Well I didn’t. I waited till the event was over ………..

That’s not waiting until the very last minute? Sounds like your definition of last minute is completely different than mine. But then again, I also assumed that the vendors would be gone at the same time the event ended.

Anyways, I still think you’ll see some vendors pop up in the future that will deal with the tokens.

Devata.6589:

Mystic.5934:

I think you’ll need to site your source for nay-sayers to believe you regarding the dev’s quote.

Only the discussion section has 1157 pages and I am not even sure if it was there and the search function does not work so no way I will be able to find that back.

But it does not really matter if I can link to it or not. A dev did say that so because of that I did never feel the need to look at stuff like tokens until after an event.

However like I said I usually never have many tokens anyway so I don’t know if Anet always did as they said.

I just expect them to do what they say and implement stuff the right way. Why would you not put a vendor to keep selling the stuff if people still have the tokens? I would be just extremely bad design.
Last time I had many tokens left was with SAB and there is was the same, the vendor was there for an extra week or so.

I now have 2 festival tickets I got to buy the panda and the other thing and many more tokens left in my bags. I really can’t see any good reason to not have a vendor in it. Even if they would have said they removed the vendors this time (what they did not..).

However like I said I guess Anet simply forgot to put the vendors somewhere and they should do it soon in a patch. The SAB vendor was not hard to forget because it was not inside the instance.

the forum’s search doesn’t work, but google is pretty good. just search for something like:
site:forum-en.guildwars2.com festival vendors
and it will search this forum for those words

I really hope they pop up. I was tossing up which weapon to get, when work took me away from the game and out of town suddenly for a week…

Here’s hoping…

Teon.5168:

Devata.6589:

Well I didn’t. I waited till the event was over ………..

That’s not waiting until the very last minute? Sounds like your definition of last minute is completely different than mine. But then again, I also assumed that the vendors would be gone at the same time the event ended.

Anyways, I still think you’ll see some vendors pop up in the future that will deal with the tokens.

Well I planed to buy it after the event. I also got myself an extra Favour of the Festival titcket so depending on how many tokens I would have after the event I would be able to buy the panda and the other thingy.Well I planed to buy it after the event. I also got myself an extra Favour of the Festival titcket so depending on how many tokens I would have after the event I would be able to buy the panda and the other thingy.

So as soon as the event was over I rushed to the entrance (I expected they would put the vendors at the entrance) to buy all the stuff I wanted based on the number of tokens I had.

Anyway now I have my bags full of tokens to buy the items I wanted but I can’t buy the items.

It’s just bad design and why not being consistent? Why did it work like that with SAB and multiple other things but does it not work the same way another time. Thats just frustrating.

An element this game is very good in in fact. Being frustrating.

Anyway I am still waiting for the vendors to finally but the items I wanted.

Considering many of the items are now found at the Laurel Merchant/Vendor, I’ve no idea if a Festival Token Merchant will appear soon.

Still, they are Festival Tokens, and may be of some use in up-coming Festivals.

Mystic.5934:

Devata.6589:

Mystic.5934:

I think you’ll need to site your source for nay-sayers to believe you regarding the dev’s quote.

Only the discussion section has 1157 pages and I am not even sure if it was there and the search function does not work so no way I will be able to find that back.

But it does not really matter if I can link to it or not. A dev did say that so because of that I did never feel the need to look at stuff like tokens until after an event.

However like I said I usually never have many tokens anyway so I don’t know if Anet always did as they said.

I just expect them to do what they say and implement stuff the right way. Why would you not put a vendor to keep selling the stuff if people still have the tokens? I would be just extremely bad design.
Last time I had many tokens left was with SAB and there is was the same, the vendor was there for an extra week or so.

I now have 2 festival tickets I got to buy the panda and the other thing and many more tokens left in my bags. I really can’t see any good reason to not have a vendor in it. Even if they would have said they removed the vendors this time (what they did not..).

However like I said I guess Anet simply forgot to put the vendors somewhere and they should do it soon in a patch. The SAB vendor was not hard to forget because it was not inside the instance.

the forum’s search doesn’t work, but google is pretty good. just search for something like:
site:forum-en.guildwars2.com festival vendors
and it will search this forum for those words

Did a search but can’t find it.
Did find this one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/sab-bts/Able-to-buy-moto-s-designs-when-SAB-closes

But it’s not the one I am referring to as thats more specific.

The one I talked about basically said ‘we left them there after before so you can expect us to do the same again’

Anyway as the SAB examples shows they did it there. So how I am supposed to know that now they do not do it or they forget it. It makes no sense.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Considering many of the items are now found at the Laurel Merchant/Vendor, I’ve no idea if a Festival Token Merchant will appear soon.

Still, they are Festival Tokens, and may be of some use in up-coming Festivals.

I checked and your right, the laurels vendor now sells them now. Still I am sitting with stakcs of tokens and 2 of those tickets.

Is it really that hart to put in the vendor so you can spend your tokens?

The frustrations in this game only grow like this. As if the developers dont want it to be fun but want it to be frustrating.

On the other hand they did do it correctly before multiple times. Inconsistency itself is also frustrating.

I don’t know…is it really that hard to spend your tokens/currency when it is relevant? Sometimes vendors have stayed after the relevant release, and sometimes they have not.
Why take the chance, and then be left holding?

Better safe than sorry.

If I recall correctly the vendors disappeared with the Pavilion last year as well. Now, I have a theory, it could be wrong, but here goes:
if the vendors are inside a temporary instance, it is very likely that they will not be available after that instance is gone.
Moto and the wintersday vendors were located outside the instances, so they remained a while after the event. The Pavilion and Sanctum vendors were inside the instances, and thus became unavailable when the instances were removed.

Just a theory, but there is some logic to it I think. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Meh, I also missed the vendor. I had to go out of town on short notice, so… ah well, hopefully I can use my tokens next year. Just kind of stinks that I need to use bank space for them rather than have them in my wallet…. eh… ANet… eh???

I was out of town as well, and I didn’t spend my tokens before leaving. I’ve got thousands of coins in my bank.

1 – It doesn’t seem like a vendor would be that hard to leave in place.
2 – The tokens could be part of the wallet to avoid taking up space in banks (unless they just want to encourage people buying bank slots for this sort of thing).
3 – I like lists.

“Festival Rewards Vendors and Sovereign Weapon Vendors have temporarily returned for players to spend their remaining Festival Tokens and Favors of the Festival. They are stationed at the Grand Plaza in Lion’s Arch and by the Crown Pavilion waypoint in Divinity’s Reach.”

There you go they are back.

I figured it was just a mistake but started to lose hope as my previous comment shows.

Great of Anet to fix it. One little thing.. The only way I notice it was because I was checking the patch notes looking for this.

It might be announced a little bit bigger to make sure people don’t miss out on it not knowing they are back.
I edited the title so people will also notice it that way.