I actually thought the Toypocalpyse game was fun, but it just takes so long that I don’t really bother with it. However, if there were decent rewards from it, I probably would play it more. Or, if it were shorter(less waves maybe) with no rewards, I’d maybe play it more just for fun. But, when it’s both long and thankless, it’s just work.
Beat it on the first try and went back again to try the “drop siege wherever you find the materials for” method (works very, very well). It’s decently fun, but as mentioned above, it is very long and the rewards simply aren’t worth it. If it gave usual dungeon rewards (chest at the end, 26s, more 60 stuffing/glue) I would definitely be doing this dungeon over 2h.
It also forces people to look outside of game to get in game money, because people are purposefully blocking the ability of others to make a profit (I describe this as what is happening because the alternative conclusion is that 90% of this games players are idiots, so since that is LIKELY not the reason for the above scenario, it is most likely a real money conclusion).
REMOVE TAXES!!!! It only hurts the game, will help the economy, and is pointless to have them anyway.
The tax is there to keep gold from inflating/remove gold from the economy. It’s a good thing. And actually, you ARE still making a profit when you sell on the tp since that item was technically “free”.
Also, you probably overestimate the intelligence of the community.
I had a score of 2 :P Spent the entire time running around building things. The ONLY way to score points was to kill the toys. Toxx doesn’t give points either.
So really… if you scored over 50 points, you’re really not helping your team out. In my pug, the toys didn’t get close to reaching the dolyaks (Toxx did, but she’s a sneaking little golem). The ballistas and catapults do a LOT more damage than you can as a player.
Good luck guys! Had to stop trying for the golem, could only see it ending badly. Wish combining the four would guarantee either the dolyak or the toymaker’s only though :/
That means “here take some for free, but if/when you get hooked, gotta buy more BEEEEOTCH.”
ALSO, please god please please please tell me am I missing something or did the christmas chest really have just 200 cogs in it, 50 short of doing anything else but taking a slot up in my inventory?
Drug free is the way to be.
Too smart to start.
If you aren’t drug free, you can’t hang with me.
Above the Influence.
They gave the 200 cogs out because some people received the wrong rewards (less cogs than they were supposed to) and this was the easiest way to fix. Just keep them in bank “in case” but I doubt you’ll be able to make more than the 2 minis that they stated in the other thread.
Ah, nevermind about that. Should state that the glue and stuffing are rare drops from the gifts. I’m not sure if small drops them, but medium-giant definitely do in varying rates from 5 to 25. Nothing drops cogs.
They’re there, but the odds are very, very low. You can still get stuffing and glue in all the presents, but in a smaller quantity. Most people are opening the presents for the chance at the unbreakable choir bell and the endless toymaker’s tonic. If you’re truly noticing the difference the 50c (and that’s being extremely generous), then might I humbly suggest that you’re in need of one quick dungeon path run?
No, please don’t! It makes my giant norn alt feel downright special handling delicate objects such as the small presents. Sometimes I like to do a little twirl after running from the princess dolls.
What you fail to see is how complex it is to create these events. Its not like playing with legos. What you fail to see are those employees that worked overtime, missed dinners with their families,time with their children, the list is endless. You know why? To bring YOU a fun event. That is a selfless act.
Uh…don’t you think you’re going a little too far with that statement? I sure as heck hope they got paid well if they did any of that :P
But I will say thanks for the event; I am enjoying it a great deal.
Please Anet, just put the mini quaggan in the gem store for 4000 gems. And bring it back every Wintersday. That way, no one would complain about RNG anymore and of course, everyone would be HAPPY because they could spend an entire year farming to obtain this super duper rare mini, right?
Toy versus Toy: An alternative single map WvW game type wherein the populations of five servers are match against each other, rather than just three, with each server taking on the form and skills of a different wintersday toy. (Princess server against Charr Solider server ect, ect.)
It will be a slaughter fest for whichever server get princess. They be scary dolls.
Yes, so terrible not to be able to collect all minis without spending any money. Can’t enjoy Wintersday at all. No other game does this, of course, asking you to spend money to collect everything. The two freebie minis, pah, worthless without the rest!
I asked an Anet person who was in the puzzle; the game chooses you at random to be at any path. Noticed because we only had four players on at the time and one path had three people.
Just wanted to confirm that you do get the Endless Toymaker Tonic by combining 4 tonics in the mystic forge. I combined all of the endless tonics except the griffin one to get it
It is RANDOM which one you get: you have the same chance (I believe) to get dolyak, toymaker or the 5th tonic.
The Anet board post states you can make 2/5 minis, so I don’t believe the repeat days in LA will net you cogs, although it might give other reward items.
Having opened over 8000 gifts, 1k giant, 1k large, 100 personalized, the rest spread between small and medium, here’s my observations:
1) They all have the same chance to drop unbreakable choir bell & endless tonic
2) Only the giant has the chance to drop Foostivoo, the mini pet
3) Giant drops sweaters; Large has a chance to drop all three; medium drops hats and socks; and small drops socks only
4) The level of the snowflakes, crafting recipes, and runes/sigils vary appropriately from small to giant.
5) Personalized has a chance to drop everything, except Foostivoo (I think).
6) Every other drop has approximately the same chance.
All this info is also available on the wiki on the presents. There is a page collecting the drop rates too ><
You can still see players when they stealth, assuming you are gathering nodes in PvE and not WvW. Players who just vanish are most likely bots, unless they are parked at the rich ori ore in Southsun.
For three games, I ran over to the path leading to enemy base and then proceeded to invis+snipe the enemy carrier. I was only ever able to down the enemy carrier and not actually finish, since their teammates would swarm and kill me off rather quickly. Frankly, I never actually contributed anything concrete to the game besides top enemy carrier downed; in the end they almost always scored the 100 points.
It’s an achievement that promotes that type of selfish behavior from people who don’t actually want to the mini game.
I’m pretty sure the original event chest guaranteed 2 exotics and 2 rares. You’re the first person I’ve heard from who didn’t get that from the original chest. Perhaps a ticket to Anet would help.
No more RNG. If anything is added into dungeons, let it be through a token system.
Lower boss health. I understand sometimes you want the encounter to be more difficult, but I hardly think my idly pressing 1-5 while occasionally strafing for 4 minutes count as more difficult.
I like the endless transformation tonics and rare mini pets. But again, no RNG.
I love the idea of more armor and weapon skins. Some of the dungeon armor seem very unfinished and it is a pain to run one dungeon for the stats and another dungeon to transmute. Either that or give us a way to combine those basic transmutation stones into fine transmutation stones.
Honestly though, when you’re talking about the replayability of a dungeon, unless it’s something truly spectacular, I’m not interested in a path taking longer than 20m with a good group to complete.
