Yes, people arent forced to farm/collect them. But it just seemed like it WAS a mandatory requirement for the hat before Gaile made it clear that it wasnt.
It would have been smarter on Anet's part to give a clear reason why we need the chef's plate to give people some motivation and incentive to do so. A clear motivation is key in having fun. Right now people arent sure what they were working so hard for, so either people don't bother or struggle through it wondering if it's worth it.
But I want to end on a positive note. The whole event overall is fun and the theme is great especially timing it along with the real Chinese new year.
Celestial Chefs: Why am i killing myself for this?
The Ernada
scyfer
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It was never implied anywhere that the chef's ingredients were needed to make a hat! Nowhere at all; even the chefs say it's for pleasing the celestial pig, blah blah and considering the scale of the ingredients it was clearly (to me anyway...) implied that it was meant to be a group effort. The trend for hats have been =Free= or very easily obtainable (dragon/tengu), not limited and impossible. Come on people, stop whining ;p
John Cotica
would've been much better if specified that getting the Paradigm (i.e. 1 of each item) was required district-wide, non individually...
Ashleigh McMahon
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would've been much better if specified that getting the Paradigm (i.e. 1 of each item) was required district-wide, non individually...
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Let's wait and see! 3 Minutes left
My Sweet Revenga
Heh shoulda figured. The ingredients are like the festival tickets we had at wintersday. They're donated to influence the festival. So no single person needs to have ALL the ingredients. Just 1 person needs to donate an ingredient when the chef asks for one. And according to Gaile, I guess completing ALL of the chef dishes will make the celestial pig happy and drop tons of gifts.
And wow I feel sorry for the people who bought up all this stuff for k's of gold each.
Oh dear. The celestial pig just gave us ALL a mini pig lol. I guess whoever sold theirs won out in the end of the festival lol.
And wow I feel sorry for the people who bought up all this stuff for k's of gold each.
Oh dear. The celestial pig just gave us ALL a mini pig lol. I guess whoever sold theirs won out in the end of the festival lol.
The Ernada
Heh. I wasted my time farming just to get the ingrediants for one dish.
Knightsaber Sith
He liked our dishes; everyone got 16 red gift bags, the mask, and a mini piggy.
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He liked our dishes; everyone got 16 red gift bags, the mask, and a mini piggy.
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garethporlest18
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Same here I got all of the above, well I guess that answers all of our questions. I am happy, I don't know about the rest of you?
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w00t!
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Not entirely, I could care less about the pig, I wanted a more fun finale. Like most of the past ones have been at the finale..if not all of them.
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VitisVinifera
wow last year's tengu event pwned this one
explodemyheart
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Not entirely, I could care less about the pig, I wanted a more fun finale. Like most of the past ones have been at the finale..if not all of them.
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Oh well. Other things were fun, so I guess it all balances out.
Ashleigh McMahon
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He liked our dishes; everyone got 16 red gift bags, the mask, and a mini piggy.
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Will we get more gifts/pigs if we turn up to the future times?
sumrtym
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wow last year's tengu event pwned this one
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garethporlest18
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And exactly how much did this event cost you? 'nuff said.
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My Sweet Revenga
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wow last year's tengu event pwned this one
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What did we get this year? Rollerbeetle races! That alone made this event one of the best ever.
garethporlest18
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You're kidding right? What did we do with the event last year? Stood in a bunch of flashing circles trying to get a lucky/unlucky title? Had 6-7 emperor clones walk up and give a speech?
What did we get this year? Rollerbeetle races! That alone made this event one of the best ever. |
That's why I say thanks anet for this event, but the ending was disappointing..considering what you've done in the past.
Gaile Gray
I just left the district. I totally loved the event. Everyone in my district loved it, too. I enoyed the spirit of cooperation, of people working together to get the reward, the edge of the timer clicking away, the look of the Celestial Pig, the cute dialogue of the NPCs, and the rewards.
As you can see, there's no need to "kill yourself" (as the OP says) for the ingredients, but it is a satisfying feeling to know that what you have makes it possible for an entire district to receive a reward!
As you can see, there's no need to "kill yourself" (as the OP says) for the ingredients, but it is a satisfying feeling to know that what you have makes it possible for an entire district to receive a reward!
Ashleigh McMahon
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I just left the district. I totally loved the event. Everyone in my district loved it, too. I enoyed the spirit of cooperation, of people working together to get the reward, the edge of the timer clicking away, the look of the Celestial Pig, the cute dialogue of the NPCs, and the rewards.
As you can see, there's no need to "kill yourself" (as the OP says) for the ingredients, but it is a satisfying feeling to know that what you have makes it possible for an entire district to receive a reward! |
Was fun! I agree! Co-operation was excellent. Everyone was thanking the people who were giving the ingredients
Cacheelma
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You're kidding right? What did we do with the event last year? Stood in a bunch of flashing circles trying to get a lucky/unlucky title? Had 6-7 emperor clones walk up and give a speech?
What did we get this year? Rollerbeetle races! That alone made this event one of the best ever. |
And I think it was a sarcasm too. Why? Well, the tengu event lasted only 1 day and there was nothing in it but just a bunch of quests that helped you in your naga fang-gathering business, which you needed for the mask. The emperor came later that day and gave you the tengu mask. That's it. Not even a single firework.
sixdartbart
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I just left the district. I totally loved the event. Everyone in my district loved it, too. I enoyed the spirit of cooperation, of people working together to get the reward, the edge of the timer clicking away, the look of the Celestial Pig, the cute dialogue of the NPCs, and the rewards.
As you can see, there's no need to "kill yourself" (as the OP says) for the ingredients, but it is a satisfying feeling to know that what you have makes it possible for an entire district to receive a reward! |
It seems that for far too many people (insert new rope saying here)
That aside thank the devs for a fun event and it was a fun crowd in int 1
Roshi_ikkyu
Thanks Anet,
A wonderful event. A finally a way of building a sense of community into the events.
It was fun
A wonderful event. A finally a way of building a sense of community into the events.
It was fun
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Thanks Anet,
A wonderful event. A finally a way of building a sense of community into the events. It was fun |
GraceAlone
I'm wondering how things will progress as the day goes on. I'm at work and will only be able to attend the events later in the day. Since I didn't get to farm a lot of the items I wonder what the chances of getting all the bags/pig will be? At least I know I'll get a hat
Cacheelma
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I hope that's what it does. Because only one person needs to turn things in, and then everyone else can just afk. I know people won't actually all do that, I'm just saying..shouldn't there be a bit more...like making everyone have to turn in something. Although I know we'd get complainers for that.
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garethporlest18
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Are you saying that 1 AFKer in a district can ruin the entire event? That's a good idea, how?
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My Sweet Revenga
I thought this event was quite fun. If I have only 1 complaint, it would be that I was really really REALLY hoping that while wearing the lion mask, if you use the /laugh emote, the lion head's mouth would flap up and down like the real life ones ^^ oh well hehe.
The Ernada
Ok I have the worst luck. My second event and it was yet again a loser district that completed only 2 dishes. Switched districts but it was too late. Damn you elusive pig. I really wish they hadnt based this on relying of others to get something.
garethporlest18
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Ok I have the worst luck. My second event and it was yet again a loser district that completed only 2 dishes. Switched districts but it was too late. Damn you elusive pig. I really wish they hadnt based this on relying of others to get something.
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But this time I did have fun, chatting with the 10 or so active people before the event actually started. Some were great company so that as pretty good.
Also Ernada, if I get another pig you can have one of mine.
cellardweller
Or me with everything except azure crests in d15 where everyone was afk was either afk or yelling spam. Of course noone else had an azure crests.
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We had over 50 people in our district and 10 or so were active. But none of us had ingredients cause we didn't want to go for them again. So we said oh well, I had some left over so gave them but that was about it. Hahaha.
But this time I did have fun, chatting with the 10 or so active people before the event actually started. Some were great company so that as pretty good. Also Ernada, if I get another pig you can have one of mine. |
explodemyheart
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Yep, that's my fear for those of us that can only come later and didn't farm the living daylights out of everything
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GraceAlone
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Actually, you may have more luck later. In the US it's a sunday and most normal people are asleep right now, so I'd suggest waiting for awhile until more people are awake and see how it goes.
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I'll be there for the noon one so we'll see.
Silver Spook
What these with ingredients need to do is sell info which dist they are going (like last spanish dist in europa, which probably have plenty of room) for 500g and invite like 30 people. So you can get 15k + mini pig + red gift bags. 
Sniper22
Bleh the 1 lunar token per ingrediant was pathetic, I had all the ingrediants and i pretty much got the same reward as everyone else....
Blackest Rose
Next years Cathan will be a disaster if there is one.
Now that everyone knows that they don't personally have to contribute anything to the chefs and they still get the reward by relying on others - no one will get the ingredients......
Now that everyone knows that they don't personally have to contribute anything to the chefs and they still get the reward by relying on others - no one will get the ingredients......
The Ernada
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Also Ernada, if I get another pig you can have one of mine.
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cosyfiep
I for one had a great time farming for stuff....I had some of those things in my storage and had just done my wintersday cleaning of some of the others (grr).
I had a blast 2 man farming kraken and island guardians. My hubby made a goal of getting one smoking remains for us (after 5 attempts he did indeed fulfill his goal).....I went capping on perdition rock and got my friery crests and one unctuous remains (tons and tons of ribcages, lol).....
It meant that we had to go back to factions and prophecy to do some stuff---got out of elona for a while (and did some mapping as well...)
In the end we did manage to get at least 1 of every item----and some (like naga hides) had tons and tons extras....
and I am very glad that they let the icy lodstones drop from the ice golems---so I did 2 for one....juniper barks and ice golems! It would have been nicer if they had used more stuff from factions (like augmented growths, putrid flesh, jade bracelets, stone horns.......these I have in storage!)...but heck if they do this again next year we know better, right?
I had a blast 2 man farming kraken and island guardians. My hubby made a goal of getting one smoking remains for us (after 5 attempts he did indeed fulfill his goal).....I went capping on perdition rock and got my friery crests and one unctuous remains (tons and tons of ribcages, lol).....
It meant that we had to go back to factions and prophecy to do some stuff---got out of elona for a while (and did some mapping as well...)
In the end we did manage to get at least 1 of every item----and some (like naga hides) had tons and tons extras....
and I am very glad that they let the icy lodstones drop from the ice golems---so I did 2 for one....juniper barks and ice golems! It would have been nicer if they had used more stuff from factions (like augmented growths, putrid flesh, jade bracelets, stone horns.......these I have in storage!)...but heck if they do this again next year we know better, right?
Meat Axe
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Next years Cathan will be a disaster if there is one.
Now that everyone knows that they don't personally have to contribute anything to the chefs and they still get the reward by relying on others - no one will get the ingredients...... |
Blackest Rose
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Next year will be a new animal year, so it wouldn't make sense to do a feast again. I believe next year will be year of the rat, so we will have a completely different event. That's what I look forward to for these new year events. Every year they will change (I'm assuming that is the case anyway), so every year it's gonna be like getting a new event.
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I should clarify that I'm talking about the mechanism used here - not the actual dishes etc.
Next year it could be finding parts of a rat trap all over Cantha - idk but same mechanism.
Put it like this - I have been afk and have recieved a good number of pigs.
I would trade them all in for 1 where I had to provide all ingredients myself to get a special reward.
This weekend started out so promising but end mini-pet was waaaay too easy to get by doing absolutely nothing.
I know it's a fun event and all but why should anyone get the exact same award as everyone else for no participation.