Vavume.8065 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 400g+ for 25 Ap, such a fun festival... who even thought this was a good idea? not even a recipe available for us to make them ourselves so we are forced to buy them from the TP and be fodder to the TP barons, thanks Anet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 The festival is only a few hours old and this achievement is brand new. Give it a few days (ideally wait until after the weekend) and the price will drop dramatically.Edit: To clarify - because the achievement is new and the dumplings had no additional uses in previous years there was no reason for anyone to stockpile them so the only ones being sold are ones people have gotten as drops in the last few hours. Because it's only been a few hours that's not many relative to the demand for them (probably thousands, or hundreds of thousands have dropped, but still not many compared to demand). Add to that the fact that some people will be trying to complete this achievement as far as possible and won't care what it costs.So right now we've got unusually high demand and unusually low supply.Wait a few days and the 'OMG must get it now' crowd will have gotten theirs and moved on to the next thing, reducing demand. More dumplings will have dropped too - increasing the supply. Wait long enough and even some of those who are just using their own drops will have completed it and will start selling extras, further increasing the supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreejaffa.3682 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Only cost me about 200 gold.Sorry...I might have made the price go up faster by buying so many when the patch went live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 It's not an unusually low supply, unless you mean that they have an atrocious drop rate (i'm basing this on my previous years' recollection). Last year i had around 10 total of those maybe, so i doubt anyone except the few people buying and massopening envelopes will be able to do that achiev out of their own drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstealer.5978 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 @Vavume.8065 said:400g+ for 25 Ap, such a fun festival... who even thought this was a good idea? not even a recipe available for us to make them ourselves so we are forced to buy them from the TP and be fodder to the TP barons, thanks Anet...Makes me wonder who the real TP barons are... easy gold sink and all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleabite.7528 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Unless my RNG sucked tonight they've made the drop rate rare. I opened around 50 envelopes with not one red steamed dumpling.500 are needed for the 25 AP. Present AH price? About 80 silver each. 400 gold total. So it would seem to be a deliberate and cynical gold sink. Lucky us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manasa Devi.7958 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I played the festival every year, never used or sold a dumpling. I have just over 50. It would take me several more years of just using my own drops to get to 100 once. Seems a little excessive, especially compared to Drooburt's demands at the other festivals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrizzFreston.5290 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 If they would've included all the foods, that would at least make some sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 @"Vavume.8065" said:400g+ for 25 Ap, such a fun festival... who even thought this was a good idea? not even a recipe available for us to make them ourselves so we are forced to buy them from the TP and be fodder to the TP barons, thanks Anet..."Forced?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithranArkanere.8957 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 @FrizzFreston.5290 said:If they would've included all the foods, that would at least make some sense.Or have an NPC that trades the foods. It'll work as a sink for all the others:Trade rice balls and dumplings for the rare foods. Something like 25...50 for 1 rare food.Trade the rare foods for each other at a 3:2 ratio. Give 15, they give you 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malediktus.9250 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Does not seem that expensive for completly new 25 AP. I spent way more for way less AP before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kovu.7560 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 This thread is food for thought.~ Kovu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrizzFreston.5290 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Malediktus.9250 said:Does not seem that expensive for completly new 25 AP. I spent way more for way less AP beforePff you would pay 1000 gold for 1 AP, we all know. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Vavume.8065 said:400g+ for 25 Ap, such a fun festival... who even thought this was a good idea? not even a recipe available for us to make them ourselves so we are forced to buy them from the TP and be fodder to the TP barons, thanks Anet...Ahh sure make then 10s each so im done with this in a day and then i quit the gane coz no incentive to keep playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malediktus.9250 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 You are not wrong, but the price for these will go down quite a bit once all the "I must have everything on patchday" people are done with itit is not like legendary armors which will stay relatively stable in price over long time periods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Dos Cavalos.6132 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Festivals in GW2 is not about having fun , is all about gold sinks.They should have chosen golden dumpling or some food that actually drops in good amounts, people open 100 envelops and only get 1 red dumpling (if they lucky), so yeah festivals are fun in gw2..Thank god dragon ball doesn't give ap anymore tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayakaru.6583 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Wait.. 25 ap for a 2 week achievement costing 400g?Thats a LOT.. normally they’d cut the achievement in 3 tiers each worth 1 AP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @"Malediktus.9250" said:You are not wrong, but the price for these will go down quite a bit once all the "I must have everything on patchday" people are done with itit is not like legendary armors which will stay relatively stable in price over long time periodsThere was enough of them on TP before today to let around 50 people finish that achievement. And that was probably a result of at least 2-3 years of lunar festival. At the current droprate it requires around 10-15 people opening all envelopes from dailies/merchants for the whole festival to let one person complete one tier of that achievement. I don't think the price will go down anytime soon.Seems completely out of proportions compared to the other Drooburt's achieves (and in general, out of proportion to all of the other recent festival achieves as well).I have to agree with Ze Dos Cavalos here. It doesn't seem to be about fun anymore, but rather about gouging players more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daroon.1736 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 'Achievement's' (and I use that word loosely) like this, serve no other purpose other than to alienate the player base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightshade.5924 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Fleabite.7528 said:Unless my RNG sucked tonight they've made the drop rate rare. I opened around 50 envelopes with not one red steamed dumpling.500 are needed for the 25 AP. Present AH price? About 80 silver each. 400 gold total. So it would seem to be a deliberate and cynical gold sink. Lucky us. Can't call it a gold sink. Gold transfer is correct. You can't buy them from a vendor, after all... just other players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightshade.5924 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Manasa Devi.7958 said:I played the festival every year, never used or sold a dumpling. I have just over 50. It would take me several more years of just using my own drops to get to 100 once. Seems a little excessive, especially compared to Drooburt's demands at the other festivals.Yep, the drop rate seems to be crazy low. Have not got one yet, and I've opened 30 of the big envelopes and over 30 small ones. Either Drooburt needs to be adjusted, or the drop rate needs to be stepped WAY UP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Vavume.8065 said:400g+ for 25 Ap, such a fun festival... who even thought this was a good idea? not even a recipe available for us to make them ourselves so we are forced to buy them from the TP and be fodder to the TP barons, thanks Anet...Hey, you don't need them ... what's the complaint about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta.2563 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Kreejaffa.3682 said:Only cost me about 200 gold.Sorry...I might have made the price go up faster by buying so many when the patch went live.How many did you buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b k.1648 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I might just have to sell the ones I have now and acquire the rest in a few days' time.Or skip the achievement is another possibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gop.8713 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 You don't have to do all five hundred this year . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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