Naxos.2503 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) Is it me, or did the potential drops for the Orphans Drastically get lowered ? I must have opened 300 gifts today, and didn't get a -single- item I could give back to the children... I'm puzzled by this, that has never been so bad in term of drop rate Edited December 13, 2022 by Naxos.2503 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighto.7386 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Thanks to those lovely research notes... they removed ALL the food items from the gifts, so that effects what you can use for the orphan gifts. You now have to burn through your karma to buy the toys from the vendor to make the gifts for the orphans.. Just more hoops to jump through cause of them stupid research notes. 17 1 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 19 minutes ago, neighto.7386 said: Thanks to those lovely research notes... they removed ALL the food items from the gifts, so that effects what you can use for the orphan gifts. You now have to burn through your karma to buy the toys from the vendor to make the gifts for the orphans.. Just more hoops to jump through cause of them stupid research notes. More reasons to dislike EoD with each passing month. No more expansion purchases for me until they have been live for a few months. 7 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Forgot about this being another reason for the food until I was looking at the vendors. Grrrrr. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Yeah, we raised it during Halloween. The feedback was ignored. If memory serves, we can craft those foods at least? 8 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos.2503 Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said: Yeah, we raised it during Halloween. The feedback was ignored. If memory serves, we can craft those foods at least? Indeed the food items Can be crafted, by a level 400 chef, which older players will find trivial, but I think is needlessly skewed against anyone who doesn't craft, or even hasn't progressed That far into the game. If the reasoning was indeed for the research notes, it gives me even Less good will to work with that ridiculous system... And I thought I couldn't think even lower than that. To be clear, I dont even Need to engage with that part of Wintersday, I just liked to literally open present and give the foods, half to the dolyak, and half to the orphans, it was a nice little habit I had. Talk about of a sad wintersday :< I just find that needlessly annoying, it's essentially us being punished for refusing to engage with bad design. That isn't winning the one who designed that system any fans... Also, a friend reminded me : that doesn't explain why the ugly sweaters/socks have equally vanished, if those were put back in, atleast we'd have something for the kids, and the research note system isn't impacted, but nothing seems to drop Edited December 13, 2022 by Naxos.2503 5 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 11 minutes ago, Naxos.2503 said: Indeed the food items Can be crafted, by a level 400 chef, which older players will find trivial, but I think is needlessly skewed against anyone who doesn't craft, or even hasn't progressed That far into the game. If the reasoning was indeed for the research notes, it gives me even Less good will to work with that ridiculous system... And I thought I couldn't think even lower than that. To be clear, I dont even Need to engage with that part of Wintersday, I just liked to literally open present and give the foods, half to the dolyak, and half to the orphans, it was a nice little habit I had. Talk about of a sad wintersday :< I just find that needlessly annoying, it's essentially us being punished for refusing to engage with bad design. That isn't winning the one who designed that system any fans... Also, a friend reminded me : that doesn't explain why the ugly sweaters/socks have equally vanished, if those were put back in, atleast we'd have something for the kids, and the research note system isn't impacted, but nothing seems to drop I haven’t seen the ugly clothes for years. They were removed from game as drops a long time ago weren't they? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos.2503 Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 19 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said: I haven’t seen the ugly clothes for years. They were removed from game as drops a long time ago weren't they? You may be right, I'm getting too old for this 😞 Still would have been a pretty good thing to bring back if they were going to remove the food items 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 59 minutes ago, Naxos.2503 said: You may be right, I'm getting too old for this 😞 Still would have been a pretty good thing to bring back if they were going to remove the food items On the plus side, we have confused some poor lost soul. That’s always a win 1 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eekasqueak.7850 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 God I hate research notes. 9 5 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentMoore.9453 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 13 minutes ago, Eekasqueak.7850 said: God I hate research notes. Same. Should have been one of the Jade Bot salvage modules so you could at least passively earn them while playing content instead of sitting at a crafting station destroying things. It's disappointing that they nerfed festival loot boxes instead of just re-evaluating how their contents interacted with their new system. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Image.8630 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Farohna.6247 said: Forgot about this being another reason for the food until I was looking at the vendors. Grrrrr. Right! Those poor orphan will starve this yeah. Shame on you Anet. 1 less event to do I guess. 😞 Put in that useless Hatched Chili from Grothmar. They would finally have a use. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 It takes some serious Bah Humbug to decide to remove rewards from longstanding wintersday presents in order to prop up a new material sink elsewhere in the game. This speaks ill of the character of the people running the game. 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebulous.2934 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Hmm, so the amount of karma you can potentially earn is the same, but you have to spend more karma than before to get the gifts. Well, when the trading post runs out of socks, I guess I will be spending karma on gifts instead of just spending it on wrapping paper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anninke.7469 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Poor orphans aside, I really enjoyed getting the food. Now I have to make x-mas food myself even in a game and all I get from presents is just booze. That's sad. Why can't I at least donate the drinks to Ho Ho Tron? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urud.4925 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) People always find a way to complain, even about stupid Christmas daily events. You can buy the gifts with karma, and the festival provides a lot of karma. It's free currency. Edited December 14, 2022 by Urud.4925 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 8 hours ago, anninke.7469 said: Poor orphans aside, I really enjoyed getting the food. Now I have to make x-mas food myself even in a game and all I get from presents is just booze. That's sad. It's the new spirit of Wintersday they're promoting, i guess. Which, yes, i agree is quite sad. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerryTT.4792 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 checked personal guild vault,,, 100 sweaters, then glanced at bank,, 3 stacks of 250. I can keep the kids happy for a bit 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elricht Kaltwind.8796 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Ugh I can't tell you how much I love the food drops being reduced / eliminated. I've always disliked how food items have no value and no point in being crafted. Every time food drops get reduced here and there I feel like it's another big win for my chef I've invested so much time and money into. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Elricht Kaltwind.8796 said: Ugh I can't tell you how much I love the food drops being reduced / eliminated. I've always disliked how food items have no value and no point in being crafted. Every time food drops get reduced here and there I feel like it's another big win for my chef I've invested so much time and money into. Back to birthday cake, i guess... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebulous.2934 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 15 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said: Back to birthday cake, i guess... Lol, that was the perfect response! well done! The one free food buff that everyone will get, and which will never be removed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Image.8630 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 16 hours ago, Zebulous.2934 said: Lol, that was the perfect response! well done! The one free food buff that everyone will get, and which will never be removed. never know for sure... ;D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solvar.7953 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 It might be hard to remove, but they could certainly change the effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Image.8630 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 I just read in Anet's website: "Donation Drive Speak with the Charity Corps Seraph in the Crown Pavilion to purchase Rolls of Wrapping Paper. These rolls can be combined with various items earned from Wintersday activities to create Wrapped Gifts. Give these gifts to orphans throughout Divinity’s Reach and get some well-earned karma for your good deeds." I wonder what are those various items are? Never got anything from loot to create gifts. Anyone has? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 6 hours ago, Image.8630 said: I just read in Anet's website: "Donation Drive Speak with the Charity Corps Seraph in the Crown Pavilion to purchase Rolls of Wrapping Paper. These rolls can be combined with various items earned from Wintersday activities to create Wrapped Gifts. Give these gifts to orphans throughout Divinity’s Reach and get some well-earned karma for your good deeds." I wonder what are those various items are? Never got anything from loot to create gifts. Anyone has? It is from previous years you could get socks, sweaters and hats. Then they discontinued that and you could get holiday food instead that was dicontinued earlier this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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