Gathering Information: Teal stuff

There are three pages on the wiki dealing with teal items:

• Teal Branded Mist
• Teal Petal
• Teal Bloom

I'm trying to figure out how to improve the wiki's descriptions. Since they're so new, there's very little information on these. I'll summarize what we do know here:

1. Teal Branded Mists are obtained from Black Lion Chests. They give a chance to receive Teal Petals while adventuring.
2. Twelve Teal Petals can be combined together to become a Teal Bloom.

Here are some questions I came up with, but feel free to expand them:

• How do branded mists work?
• ^ Being a consumable, how long does the affect last? (Or, does it give you a bundle?)
• ^ Do you have to equip them as a bundle?
• ^ Or, do you have to have them in inventory?
• Can you get petals adventuring everywhere, or just certain maps.
• ^ Does that include WvW and PvP?
• Is the only purpose for petals and blooms to sell them?

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/76446/teal-branded-mists#latest

Search function...amazing I know.

@"Loosmaster.8263" said:https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/76446/teal-branded-mists#latest

Search function...amazing I know.

Perhaps you could explain how that thread answers ANY of my questions. Or, either of the other two threads on this subject.

tl;dr it's not that complicatedI recommend saving them for Halloween to goose your reward by an extra 6+ gold per hour (worth far less anywhere else I can think of).

Open a chest, get a Branded Mist. Trigger it for a buff lasting 30 minutes that allows you to gain up to (and probably much fewer than) 60 petals worth 4s each (2.4g max) or combined into at most 5 blooms worth 1.08g each (5.2g max).

In e.g. the labyrinth farm, that probably will realistically work out to an extra 3-4 gold per BL chest; in other contexts, at most an extra 1.5-2 gold (probably). That translates to a bonus of 6-8g/hour (if you have enough) during Halloween and 3-5g (probably) anywhere else. (And less, if you use it indiscriminately.)

Teal Branded Mists are obtained from Black Lion Chests. They give a chance to receive Teal Petals while adventuring.Twelve Teal Petals can be combined together to become a Teal Bloom.

I'd rephrase the summary as:

• Teal Branded Mists are a guaranteed drop from BL Chests.
• Use them to generate a buff that allows you to obtain Teal Petals from the same foes that drop other loot.
• Teal Petals have a vendor value of 4s and are trading on the TP for 13s each
• 12 Teal Petals can be combined into a Teal Bloom
• Blooms have a vendor value of 1.08g (9s/petal).

Your other questions are implied by the wiki already or have been answered on Reddit:

! > How do branded mists work?! They are gizmos. Like any gizmo, you trigger, they create a temporary buff (duration unstated; on Reddit, it's confirmed for 30 minutes)!! First or second kill will drop the first petal, then every 30 seconds or so.!! > Do you have to equip them as a bundle?! Of course not; you wouldn't be able to engage in combat.! > Or, do you have to have them in inventory?! Of course not; the game can't know if you want to use them or not.! > Can you get petals adventuring everywhere, or just certain maps.! Of course. BL chests don't require owning an expansion.! > Does that include WvW and PvP?! WvW? of course! PvP? of course not, because (a) you can't use gizmos there and (b) there are no loot drops from foes..!! > Is the only purpose for petals and blooms to sell them?! Yes, that's the stated purpose.!

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One question you didn't ask:

• Why can these be traded on the TP? Shouldn't the blooms be vendor junk?

Further Reading

• https://old.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/botg6h/how_do_teal_branded_mists_work_heres_the_answer/

To reduce effort, here's the explanation from Reddit: >! >

buy BL key, open BL chestuse the teal branded mists. it lasts 30 mingo kill [foes]. you will get Teal Petalkill lots of [foes], you will get lots of petal.double click to combine them into a flower and sell it to vendor for over a gold

@Daddicus.6128 said:

@"Loosmaster.8263" said:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/76446/teal-branded-mists#latest

Search function...amazing I know.

Black Lion Chests That right there told me enough about them. You buy keys to get this random drop boon to get drops to clutter your inventory, then compact them and sell for twice as much...

@Loosmaster.8263 said:

@Daddicus.6128 said:

@Loosmaster.8263 said:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/76446/teal-branded-mists#latest

Search function...amazing I know.

It's not random, it's guaranteed. Replaces things like Minis, or Designated Map Material Bags, Lucky Envelopes, Wintersday Gifts, Trick-or-Treat Bags, etc.

Thank goodness we don't get Potions or Boosters for our guaranteed items, anymore.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:I recommend saving them for Halloween to goose your reward by an extra 6+ gold per hour (worth far less anywhere else I can think of).Thanks for the tip. I got some of these after opening chests for statuettes and I was wondering what's the best way to use them. Since I don't like farming normally but I always end up farming the Labyrinth at Halloween I'll save them to use then.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:One question you didn't ask:

• Why can these be traded on the TP? Shouldn't the blooms be vendor junk?

Was there an answer to this? I've been wondering about that ever since I first saw these items, and wondering if anyone buys them.

I understand buying petals, if you buy them for less than 9s. Because then you could sell the blooms and make a profit. But I don't understand why anyone would buy blooms, and looking at the TP neither do most other people - there's no orders currently and in the entire time I've been looking the most I've seen at once was 6.

If it was simply a round-about way of getting more gold from black lion chests that would be fine, but making them tradable when they're effectively vendor trash seems very strange.

@Danikat.8537 said:

• Why can these be traded on the TP? Shouldn't the blooms be vendor junk?

@Daddicus.6128 said:

@"Loosmaster.8263" said:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/76446/teal-branded-mists#latest

Search function...amazing I know.

It answered all the relevant questions actually, although not it the gory detail I provided above.30min, usable in any map. It gives you 4 silver trophy, which you can conbine 12 of them into a 1g X silver trophy. Aperently you can get only 1 drop every 30 sec though.

Sell the blooms on the tp for 8g and win!

I sold mine on the TP for twice their worth (from a vendor).

Thank you! I think I have enough. (Especially from Illconceived's long post!)

Changes have been made to the wiki. Thank you to all who helped!

@Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:I sold mine on the TP for twice their worth (from a vendor).

I'm curious why people are buying the blooms on the TP for over a gold. I could not find any use for them on the wiki. It appears to just be a trophy??

Speculating? And I don't mean investment-type speculating.
Perhaps, thinking it would be needed down the road, and didn't want to acquire any Black Lion Keys. /shrug

Or, and I used to do this, but ran out of room. Collecting unique trophies and other items.

Yeah I was thinking maybe speculating. If they serve some sort of purpose in the future I guess they will have to add an in game way to earn them. Otherwise people would complain about pay to win stuff. I'm going to hold on to mine until I see what the whole Skyscale collection is just in case. Especially since they added it during the Skycale (upcoming) release. Maybe it is part of it and includes some way to farm petals on the Skycale or something.

Yeah, could be that 'special' reward they talked about when completing the Rift Repairs successfully.
Who knows?