Multicolored snowball

So I upgraded mine last year to purple and looked forward to upgrading to additional colors this year. However because the snowball isn't in my inventory now it won't let me buy another color. Do I need another snowball?

Yes you need another one if you don't have one in your inventory or bank, and a psa(note) video from last year

Thanks - you answered the same question I posed in another discussion. However, that is a poor decision on Anet's part IMO given that we already bought the snowball last year. I really only wanted 2 missing colours but I'll leave off grinding to buy another snowball just to get those.

I didn't add my snowball to the novelties. I was able to get my last color this year.(Meant as info, not a taunt)

@keenedge.9675 said:I didn't add my snowball to the novelties. I was able to get my last color this year.(Meant as info, not a taunt)

No offence taken at all - good information. After thinking about it a bit more I suspected that was the case and is probably just a programming oversight by Anet rather than a conscious design choice.

So wait. If you DID NOT add it to novelties you don't have to buy another one and if you did you do?

@Etria.3642 said:So wait. If you DID NOT add it to novelties you don't have to buy another one and if you did you do?

Seems to be what Keenedge is saying BUT you'll need to test that out yourself (assuming you haven't added it).

@Etria.3642 said:So wait. If you DID NOT add it to novelties you don't have to buy another one and if you did you do?

Yes if you didn't add to novelties or did destroy it you don't have buy another one

I feel pretty fooled. They put the snowball to the novelties and now i can't get my missing colours. And tbh i don't wanna get a new one just because i used it now. I hope anet will fix that problem so i can get my last 2 colours

Probably need to post it as a bug report, it really sounds to me like an oversight.

Yeah I'm not going to get another one just for a few colors.

In the OP's shoes, I'd contact support before spending on another. It seems to me since this is an ANet oversight, they'd be willing to help out in some fashion.

@neffi.9175 said:I feel pretty fooled. They put the snowball to the novelties and now i can't get my missing colours. And tbh i don't wanna get a new one just because i used it now. I hope anet will fix that problem so i can get my last 2 colours

I sent a bug report. I just got the last ice cube thing I need, and I don't want to hoard 10 more just to buy another snowball for one color. Maybe they will see our plight and change it ever so slightly!

@Feire Fly.4263 said:

@neffi.9175 said:I feel pretty fooled. They put the snowball to the novelties and now i can't get my missing colours. And tbh i don't wanna get a new one just because i used it now. I hope anet will fix that problem so i can get my last 2 colours

you dont need to buy one more snowball, see the video above

I have all the colors -- except White. The basic snowball that I used up to make the colorful one as I recall, or at least that must be why I don't have it now, in inventory or in Novelties. I'm assuming that I'd need to buy a second one (and would have even before the Novelty update) in order to get White?

White is on the color bar already.

@Robban.1256 said:

@Feire Fly.4263 said:

@neffi.9175 said:I feel pretty fooled. They put the snowball to the novelties and now i can't get my missing colours. And tbh i don't wanna get a new one just because i used it now. I hope anet will fix that problem so i can get my last 2 colours

I got all the colors except for brown last year following the method described in the video. Then I added the snowball to my novelties. Now, when I want to buy brown, the vendor shows that I don't own an enchanted colorful snowball. I don't know of a way to remove novelties and restore them as inventory items. So, I'm afraid I'll have to get a whole new snowball and then buy the brown color to have all of them unlocked.