Question About Party and Alcohol Price Differences

JoeysAngyl

JoeysAngyl

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

So Cali

Absence of Light [AoL]

E/R

Alright so I've seen people selling alcohol for 100-150 gold per minute, and have seen people selling party items for 200-300 gold per point (which is what I'm trying to get). My question is since they are both 1's (minute and point) and you don't get any bonuses from them like you do from sweets, why such a difference in the price?

Hollygen

Hollygen

Core Guru

Join Date: Feb 2007

UK

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

R/

Probably supply and demand. Booze can be aquired through repeatable quests, and from quartermasters and their equivalents throughout the game. SParty points are rarer, with their main source being from event drops

razerbeak

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

R/

Alcohol and sweets would be priced as high as party items, but then they would be cheaper at the traders (ie. dwarven ale and bean cakes). Party items are only worth that much because they cant be outpriced by an npc.

Mayda

Mayda

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2007

Prague (GMT +1)

FTW

E/

you can buy a point for drunkard or sweet tooth for 200g at merchants
theres no such opportunity for party title - if you want those, you gotta wait for some event
moreover, at the biggest events, there are collectors of like lunar tokens, victory tokens and similar stuff, who offer 1 party point for 5 pieces, or 3 alc/sweet points for 10, so effectively its more expensive

cognophile

cognophile

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

USA

You can purchase dwarven ale (booze) year round from merchants in Droknar's Forge for 200 per minute.

Similarly, you can purchase red bean cakes (sweets) year round in Shing Jea for 200 per point (400 per cake).

To my knowledge, party items can only be farmed in quantity during special events.

JoeysAngyl

JoeysAngyl

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

So Cali

Absence of Light [AoL]

E/R

Oh okies... thanks for the explanaition =)

miskav

miskav

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

None

Mo/

Also, drunken title is way more annoying to get, atleast to most.

jayson

jayson

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

Aren't you also able to farm party items year round from the snowman dungeon?

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Yes you are Jayson, but even then they are slow going.

Furthermore, stuff like the z-chest, another big supply of booze/party/sweets drops cremes and firewater at a rate of like 20 times that of tonics.

Also, many of the smaller events that occur throughout the year just don't drop any party points (st patricks, easter, thanksgiving, international talk like a pirate day all drop sweets and/or booze ONLY).

realtalk916

realtalk916

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2008

California

Reign Of Judgment [RoJ]

W/E

i think the party items r more scarce, considering they usually come around the holidays... kinda sorta maybe?

Luminarus

Luminarus

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2007

Sydney, Australia

Haze of Light [pure]

R/

Party items are more scarce
Booze/Sweet have an unlimited supply, and price ceiling
Booze is a harder title to obtain
Party title is newer, and hence more popular.

illidan009

illidan009

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2008

Volterra, Italy

A/

Drinks are easy to farm...takes only like 4 minutes to run Irontoe's lair, that's WITH working on Deldrimor and Survivor title all in one...Party items only come at like Christmas and Halloween, holidays basically.