Wintergreen Candy Cane: Remove 15% DP?!

The new Wintersday collectors no longer give Candy Canes which remove all DP, but Wintergreen Candy Canes, which only remove 15% of DP.

One question: Why the heck did they switch it?!

Old news on what the Wintergreen does... however the mysterious Rainbow Candy Cane has yet to be seen...

Perhaps the "Rainbow" candy canes will remove all DP, but will probably be harder to aquire.

You have to admit, removing all DP makes it a bit overpowered, especially if you have loads of them.

Well, it's PvE only, so "over-powered" is a bit strong... peppermint already remove all DP, so I'd expect something a bit different. Perhaps a morale boost?

[soothing voice]You seem so angry lately, Zinger. Pull up a chair by the Dwarf. Sip on some 'nog and a have a candy cane. Relax. [/soothing voice]

Unnerfed, they would have made for very very lucrative farming.

Anet disapproves of very very lucrative farming.

Oh no..now its complaints about the candy canes...please god leave the candy canes alone!

Like said we have yet to see rainbow candy canes do...

From what iv'e heard rumored is that Rainbow Candy Canes will give u an automatic 10% morale boost. Not that great

Having 15% DP is not a problem.
But, have you ever had 30% DP and thought, maybe after one more death....I'll use a CC? I think 15% DP removal works perfectly for those situations.
We would all rather have the removal of full DP, but these can work too.
Besides, its hard to complain about something free.
And if you dont want them, you dont need to get them.

I'm already bored with the event, just means more lag for me.

At least they didn't let us waste a few days farming gargoyle skulls before we found out ... oops they did.

And on top of that each nerfed cane is double the cost of last years fully functional canes.

Hmmm...

2005
1 skull = 1 Cane = 60% DP removal

2006
1 skull - 1/2 Cane = 7.5% DP removal

Basically, 1 skull should be worth about 1/8 of what it was last year.

During it's peak peppermint CC were selling for about 1k. I expect Wintergreen CC to top out at about $250 (If Im' lucky).

I didn't spend an inordinate amount of time farming skulls but I purchased some for what I thought was a good deal and it turns out I'll probably lose money on them. (I don't feel bad about that though because a Guild member used the money to buy Ancient Armor)

In a speculative market you sometimes lose.

On the up side. In a long elite mission, there is usually that one guy who insists on going to 60% DP before using a precious cane. In the meantime, his weakness starts a chain reaction in the team. By the time he uses his CC others in the party may have died a few times and the team suffers. Perhaps the Wintergreens will reverse this philosophy. It's much easier to justify a green cane after a couple of deaths to reduce DP to a managable level if the price is 1/4 that of a red cane.

haha me 2! those quests were crap xD when they bringing new things in..tomoz i guesss, then more the next day and so on, i bloody hope not!

The only thing that's iffy about all this for me is that regular candy canes are now gonna be worth a lot more

I really think prices on the old ones would drop. Before this event, the old candy canes were the only way to carry around DP removal. now, the new CC's are out. Not as good, but there will be TONS of them in the market. The old ones aren't the only game in town anymore, and the new ones aren't being held by a select few people who can dictate the sell price. We just went from a seller's market to a buyer's market for DP relief.

the dmg for cc is not good and the skin is also not so good(for me).i dont like cc so much.im just saying.

Gaile was in Kamadan last night, and someone asked her about it. She said they never meant for the original cc's to remove all DP, but that it had been a mistake. So this year, they fixed the mistake. Don't yell at me - I'm just repeating what I saw her say.

But I agree that there's a nice upside to the 15% ones. You no longer feel like you're wasting half a candy cane if you use one at 30%.

I'm hoping the rainbow ones work on the whole team, so we have the option to patch up heroes and henchies.

You know, that's funny, because the description displayed when you hover over them says "Double-click to remove all Death Penalty. This item cannot be used in PvP".

They seem to function exactly as described. So... the description is a mistake as well?

well theres a possibility that they changed the description after they realized what had happened. =o

I don't recall that there was ANY description until recently. People just experimented with them until the effect was discovered.