Bag of CandiesFollow

In two days on 2 characters I've gotten one bag of candy. And I have tried at every available opportunity. The drop rate is amazingly low. Lower it seems, than the "rare" items like the pet, picnic basket, and dress, all of which I've gotten multiple times. Kind of sucks.

Supposidly the drop rate is about 3% whereas blizzard said it was supposed to be around 20% drop rate.

I can confirm that the drop rate was increased with that hot fix they did the other day - before that I had seven toons working the gifts with 3-5 appreciation gifts per day each - I got one candy, one pet (bank toon of course), three dresses and two picnics per toon. Post patch my main got two bags within three gifts (and thankfully got all the candies he needed from them) while everyone else got at least one bag each - guild chat was being lit up non-stop with spam of peeps finally completing the meta.

So just be patient and keep hacking away at it - I know that's not what you want to hear right now and I know the thought of having to wait a year thanks to one lousy peice of candy is maddening, but fret not - you'll either get it, or if enough people are in your shoes, then Blizz will remove that requirement like they did with the Halloween masks and several others.

Ignore the man behind the curtain, puppets.

I say we all get the Blizzard employees in charge of this event, hang them from the nearest tree and beat them like pinatas until we get our bags of candy.

Damn, guess I owe you an appology - I figured you'd be far crueler and sadistic then that - I was going to suggest locking them in a room with the original arcade version of Gauntlet and telling them no food or water till they beat the game (and they only each got $5 in quarters an hour).

Peh, big softy.

Let's not get too hasty here. If we got our way every time Blizz did something stupid, the developers would be rocking back and forth in the fetal position in a dark corner of the building muttering "Wizard needs food badly" to themselves after just about every patch.

I've yet to see a single arrow drop for me, they're BoP and the event ends tonight :((

Only had 2 bags of candies drop, both on a bank alt :/

Have however had 9 picnic baskets and 7 dresses :/

I have a single heart candy that I need from the bag for the event meta-achievement... just one single piece... just ONE!

I have been logging on every hour (that I can) to the character that I have been trying to get the meta-achievement with and I have only got two bags of candy since the event started.

Here is the kicker... on the same server I have been passing the hours by doing the hourly thing with my 9 other characters and 4 of those 9 have been able to get the heart candy achievement, but their levels are too low (pre-80) to even bother trying to do the meta-achievement in its entirety. ...and those 4 characters KEEP GETTING BAGS OF CANDY as gifts...

I am writing this hoping to break the cycle... if that kind of stuff actually happens...



I am still looking for that damn kilt from the Baron in Strat... I MUST HAVE THAT KILT! If his other stuff drops then so be it...

Edited, Feb 15th 2009 9:54am by PentUpAnger

It took me four bags of candy to get the last candy I needed, but I finally got it and as a result, the meta achievement.

I'm half tempted to agree with the people who think that achievements should be something that should not be at the mercy of the whim of the RNG, especially those in which there is a very small window of opportunity such as these.

After all, it's called an "ACHIEVEment" not an "I got lucky-ment."

Edited, Feb 15th 2009 9:02am by Ambrya

Ask around and see if anyone you know remembers where they got their bag at.

It could be random..or it could be not, but for the Cupid Vanity Pet..the guy in UC near the Flight Master seems to give it a lot. Most im my guild (including me) have gotten it from him.

As for the candy bag for me (I play Horde), all 4 I have gotten came from Orgi, but I didn't pay attention to what NPC it was ><

It took me 2 bags to get all but one candy, and out of the other 2 i still didn't get I LOVE YOU -.-

This reminds me of "Reason to not drink and play WoW #273"

Lost adored buff, get new gift, get bag of candies, cheer, go to make back space, delete bag of candies, grumble.

Took me another 7-8 tries to get the bag of candies again.