Predicting Gift of the Traveler Collectables

doomfodder

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

farm

R/

so far... since the introduction of the post seraring Traveler, the collectables haven't been simple "garden variety stuff" (cept may B the Linen). So here's a few predictions for upcomming collectables-----

Plague Remedies (from the Naga Pelt Collectors in Cantha)
Refined Jellies (from the Blob Of Ooze collector in Ooze Pit)
Pahnai Salad (from the Iboga Petal Collector)
Drake Kabob (from Drake Flesh Collector)
Icy Humps (like from the Snow Ettins in Griffons Mouth)
Enslavement Stones (from Sorrows Furnace Summit Dwarves)

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

it can be anything and everything...going by trends isn't very reliable because it's not a trend thing. I do expect enslavement stones to be one, however. Anything else we'll just have to wait and see.

I will have to predict a Herring though, or hardened moa eggs, as they're stackable and they've been neglected lately.

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

E/

Its too early to predict. You need a bigger sample size (in other words, if the next 10 things happen to be either craftable items or repeatable quest rewards, you can maybe guess that the one after that will be)

Hengis

Hengis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

London

Better Than Life (BTL)

R/

Inscribed Shards would be my guess..

I just remember how hard it was to get them when I did that quest..

Any others I got after that I gave away to people trying to buy them!

lewis91

lewis91

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2008

Wales

Order of the Azurelight[OA]

E/

Could be DoA and a gemstone of sometype for all we know..Personally id love that, sell gems at double perhaps triple the price XD.

Longasc

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

naga pelts would be... waah.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Ectos!

But seriously, I doubt it will be any crap from lower levels like Pahnai Salad or
Drake Kabob. It will be easy to farm if true though.

And no, I don't count Red Iris Flowers, as they are available in GWEN, and most characters had stashes of those from pre anyway. Nice opening, too bad I missed that one...

Cursed One

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2008

E/Mo

could literaly be anything

it would be funny if it were ectos next, that would boost prices

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Well, its gotta be something odd. If its a quest item, it has to be from a repeatable quest.

My first guess is that one day he will ask for Ice.
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ice

Chico

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

I hope he asks sometime for Althea's Ashes Urns ^^. I know it won't happen, not repeatable during 'standard' play.

Alleji

Alleji

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Flames of Balthazar!

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Seraphim Angel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2008

Sacred Knights of Orr [SKoO]

P/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai View Post
Ectos!

If Nicholas ever did collect ecto they should have better drops for that week. Lets say 3 ecto per gift..and you get 10 bottle rockets NO THANKS. Even the Vamp FDS and IDS from him are barley worth 3 ecto.

But yea seems to get a trend of beginning areas so my guess would be around that area too.

Eliza Deathblade

Banned

Join Date: May 2009

W/

i vote for mountain troll tusk or ruby djinn essences :P

Obrien Xp

Obrien Xp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2009

Canada

The First Dragon Slayers [FDS]

I doubt the chances of predictions ever being right for this. GL though.

Stolen Souls

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Well, since he's already asked for Linen I'd say there are at least SOME other rare mats he'll ask for (maybe something similar to Linen...Damask? Vellum?).

As for the items, just think of any collector stuff that nobody would normally go out of there way to craft and there ya go. xD First post has most I can think of.

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

Predicting seems somewhat pointless when you can't even see a trend in the first place. It's gonna be some weeks, or even months before we could even hope to be able to accurately tell where Nicholas is going to be next, unless he some time practically gives it away the week beforehand.

Gift3d

Gift3d

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Las Vegas

Enraged Whiny Carebears [oR]

W/E

Keen Oni Talon
Dredge Manifesto
Forgotten Trinket Box
Ore Ingot

and other obscure bullshit nonsense you've never really heard of for greedy kids to sell for 2k/each

Grunntar

Grunntar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

I predict that Nicholas is going to get tired of walking all over creation, he's going to impale Professor Yakkington on a pike, and out of spite, start trading Yak Hides!

That's what I predict!

Black Metal

Black Metal

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2009

N/

It seems to be totally random, but if there is a pattern, which I doubt, we'll need many more samples.

I'm personally hoping for blobs of ooze, because I never threw one away, and the only way to really farm them is 600/smiting Ooze Pit, which takes long enough just to get there to make it inefficient

MisterB

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

[ban]

W/

Saurian Bones.

Unless the .dat file lists the dialogue beforehand, predicting is pointless now.

Gigashadow

Gigashadow

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Bellevue, WA

W/

An item that only drops when a whammo dies in PvP.

Tramp

Tramp

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2008

Mo/

Please, Lord, let it be onyx and diamonds since I farm double drops of them nearly every dungeon end chest I open... Closing in on my second stack of each.

sportacus

sportacus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2008

Burninating the countryside

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterB View Post
Saurian Bones.
Don't we all wish

Aussie Boy

Aussie Boy

Alcoholic

Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

W/

LOL 5 Claws of the brood-mother ( hey she must be running out of these with all the farming of her babies)
Nah my predictions take em or leave em can be anything
Ice from "Cold One" quest Applying five Ice to a Warm One will turn it into a Cold One..
Truffles (dunno why but they are hard to come by for me)
5 Herring?
Whatever it will be it seams to be edible or worn stuff he will require for his journey.
i think he will be in EOTN next week so jar of honey? or something.

Stolen Souls

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterB View Post
Saurian Bones.

Yes please.

"WTS Saurian Bones, 1k/e!!!"

Esprit

Esprit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

E/

If I placed random drops on a dice, my predictions would be just as effective as everyone else's. In fact, Anet might even do that to decide what the next week's collectible actually is.

rick1027

rick1027

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/R

i feel i may be wrong but im gonna say golf balls. i think its too quick to make a prediction til we see more of what he collects

Daesu

Daesu

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2008

Next one would be in EOTN and either Destroyer cores or Superior Charr Carvings.

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

*hopes for the seeds that look like testicles *

Obrien Xp

Obrien Xp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2009

Canada

The First Dragon Slayers [FDS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gift3d View Post
Keen Oni Talon
Dredge Manifesto
Forgotten Trinket Box
Ore Ingot

and other obscure bullshit nonsense you've never really heard of for greedy kids to sell for 2k/each
Don't even try saying that there. You will get flammed worse than being torched by a Flamethrowing tank in the middle of a firestorm.

I didn't even call them greedy, I just mentioned that things are overpriced.

Divine Ashes

Divine Ashes

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Chicago

LFG

R/

If anyone were to find the dialogue in the .dat files, they would be best off not to tell anyone anyways...for obvious reasons.

I would guess truffles at some point. I've only ever seen like one of these drop.

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

I'm tellin yah that 15 ectos is comin. I will laugh so hard that week.

Quote:
for greedy kids to sell for 2k/each
Nope just payback for all those noobs that said we shouldn't PACKRAT stuff and merch it. Well I'm one of those greedy kids that's making a fortune off of this because I have stacks (250) of many of these resources and have made more money in the past several weeks than in the entire 4 years of playing. I'm happy. So, save up your ectos people I'll be coming around picking them up for The Travelers gifts and I know you are lazy an impatient and will gladly give them to me for some 10gp items lmao.

Clone

Clone

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Whatever it is, I doubt it will be worth it. I spent a few hours killing mandragor to end up with a handfull of assorted fireworks and random tonics... Yeah... that makes me want to buy GW2. </sarcasm>

undead living

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

Nobl

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esprit View Post
If I placed random drops on a dice, my predictions would be just as effective as everyone else's. In fact, Anet might even do that to decide what the next week's collectible actually is.


lol! i personally they do a dart board. with ectos in the middle. they do same thing for his locations and urgoz is the in the middle XD

sportacus

sportacus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2008

Burninating the countryside

D/

Bog Skale Fins or Herring

zwei2stein

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

Ranger Tomes. He IS a ranger and might need good reading.

Anyhow, so far:
1x material
1x consumable
1x quest reward
1x thing that is just laying around.

Really, there is nothing to base predictions on.

tasha

tasha

Auctions Mod

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gigashadow View Post
An item that only drops when a whammo dies in PvP.
That'll be tears from the crying that they weren't healed then

In all seriousness though, I think we can expect things like vials of ink to turn up. As for drops, easy ones are out. I'd actually like it to be something really obscure that people don't collect, I've felt bad having 3 of the 4 items he wanted stashed around accounts.

Halimahdance

Halimahdance

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2008

USA

The Silly Nannies

E/Me

No doubt it will be something I had a bazillion of but then decided to get rid of the day before ..lol

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Let's see...

1.- Ascalon. Trophy that spawns on the ground from the Norther Shiverpeaks, Charr Lands or pre-Searing.
2.- Northern Shiverpeaks. Rare material (craftable at artisans), from all around the world, drops more from Am Fah and Crimson Skull.
3.- Kaineng. Repeatable quest reward from Kourna.
4.- Kourna. Consumable available in trophy collector in Koruna.

So, logically, the next one would be...
Mursaaat Tokennnsssssshhhh!!!!!!111!!!!one!one!one!一一一一十四!! !

Now seriously, the first one was the 'presentation' an easy one to make it quick.

He sure travels a lot, so the net step is either back to Prophecies, or to the North. I hope he asks for stone summit armbraces, they are easy to get in Fronis'.

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

it'll be black dyes..after all yakkington needs to dye his fissure of cow armor.

the other stuff will be.., elite tomes, shards & spiritwood.