Guild Wars 2

its been awhile since ive gotten anything but snowflakes from my home instance node. I used to get at least one sometimes 2 drinks. lately, nothing but snow.

No, it’s just random, and you’ve had a bad run. I got two things of booze today. One yesterday. But two snowflakes prior to that. Again . . . just random.

but this is the first time in, well, seems like forever that I haven’t gotten at least one drink. lol and I have never gotten just snow. ever

Again, you’re having a bad run. And I mean a really bad run. It happens.

slpr.2647:

its been awhile since ive gotten anything but snowflakes from my home instance node. I used to get at least one sometimes 2 drinks. lately, nothing but snow.

Wintersday Gifts are identical regardless of where they are encountered. On average, you get 0.8 drinks/ gift, which means a 20% chance of getting no drink at all, if gifts dropped only one drink at a time. As you’ve said, they can drop more than 1, so the chance of getting no drinks is higher than 20%. For argument’s sake, let’s call it 33% chance of no drinks — there’d be ~1.8% chance that you could go 10 days without getting a drink.

In other words, if all you are doing is opening up your 1 gift/day from your home instance, then there’s more than a 1% chance that you won’t have gotten anything since the last patch. That’s not even very unlucky.

FYI since things like Wintersday Gifts are opened regularly by the 1000s, you can be pretty sure that investors would notice if they were getting less than 0.8 drinks/gift and would report it.