Afther my last post last week I never did a single run again. I might try a few tomorrow. Last year was to much a disapointment; and come to think of it; all that grinding ruined my holiday. I had a fabulous holiday this year; and made quite a bit of cash selling the gifts i got out of the 110 runs I did last week; and powertrading. Congrats to all that got a bear; and my sympathy to those who didnt.
I wish you all a fabulous 2010.
Mini Polar Bear Drops
isildorbiafra
sixdartbart
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Originally Posted by Autumn Crocus
Doesn't anyone actually help the snowmen?
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Carinae
I ALWAYS fight for the snowmen. Some 500 runs this year, and only twice was I forced back to the door. Fighting speeds up the process hugely, 4-5 min runs are NORMAL.
Wave 1 can be split in two halves, so you can easily kill the Grentches about as fast as they come, losing 0 snowmen. The only tight spot comes at the end of wave 2 and the start of wave 3. There is no delay. They often wipe all your snowmen, so you have to tank 6-8 grentches by yourself.
Yes, TANK them. Not dodge, not survive, tank.
By getting the grentches on yourself, you let your snowmen accumulate, and right when you are unable to tank anymore, they come to your rescue.
Wave 4 is easy at that point, but sometimes you lose several snowmen making the boss group harder. But by this point, your skills are recharges, so you can tank them if necessary.
Wave 1 can be split in two halves, so you can easily kill the Grentches about as fast as they come, losing 0 snowmen. The only tight spot comes at the end of wave 2 and the start of wave 3. There is no delay. They often wipe all your snowmen, so you have to tank 6-8 grentches by yourself.
Yes, TANK them. Not dodge, not survive, tank.
By getting the grentches on yourself, you let your snowmen accumulate, and right when you are unable to tank anymore, they come to your rescue.
Wave 4 is easy at that point, but sometimes you lose several snowmen making the boss group harder. But by this point, your skills are recharges, so you can tank them if necessary.
Makaveli
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Originally Posted by Autumn Crocus
Doesn't anyone actually help the snowmen?
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EDIT: At the final battle I do join in the fight, though. Stand at the door and bombard the grentches from one group at a time. This ensures that if you lose your snowmen only 2/3 grentches will come for you instead of two groups. Works a charm!
Jugalo Dano
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Originally Posted by Autumn Crocus
Doesn't anyone actually help the snowmen?
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Since they buffed flurry of ice, using that on the bunched up grentches helps take them down alot faster. I think ive only had to use snow fort once or twice this year, the grentches will only target me if all the snowmen are dead, and that very rarely ever happens.
Inferno Link
I keep dying whenever I try to help the snowmen 
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knobby
523 runs so far, helping snowmen, strength of snow.
well.....
no polar bears
12 yuletides! are they worth anything?
Ive even experimented opening the chest when the jingle happens, doesnt help much lol
well.....
no polar bears
12 yuletides! are they worth anything?
Ive even experimented opening the chest when the jingle happens, doesnt help much lol
Jae Onasi
I run to the door, read some threads here and there, pick up my drops, start over. I don't get it done very fast, but after doing a few hundred Snowball Dominance runs, I'm OK with letting the Snowmen take down the Grentchies for me.
Ewa Kirch
Over 400 runs and no mini polar bear!
chaosincarnate87
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Originally Posted by Autumn Crocus
Doesn't anyone actually help the snowmen?
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Reformed
Made it through 1180 runs this year without getting the drop. I'd be pulling my hair out in frustration if it wasn't a pretty good haul on items. The only other time I've run into something across my 20 something years of gaming that defied farming half as well as this miniature was probably the Pink Tail in Final Fantasy 4.
snowman relic
well i feel bad for you guys but on the 25th of december at about 8pm i got my mini polar bear drop no i didnt get a screenie i picked it up as soon as i saw it for fear that it would somehow run away or dissapear about 150 runs in and now ive done about 25 less then 300 runs trying to farm a second mini
Dzjudz
It's not over yet!! 
P.S. Chest drops are assigned, so if you happen to lag out or not pick them up you get a Claim Item box when you're back in town.
P.S. Chest drops are assigned, so if you happen to lag out or not pick them up you get a Claim Item box when you're back in town.
snowman relic
the event ended early wtf
Riot Narita
300 runs last year + 350 runs this year = no bear + ;_;
Event ended exactly on time BTW.
Event ended exactly on time BTW.
snowman relic
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fenix
Wow and I thought Aion was grindy, you guys are insane. All that for a few (literally, the price has dropped heaps) ecto?
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snowman relic
fenix what u tlking about i saw buyer in kama for 1300e
Malice Black
Price dropped 200e, nothing major.
Divine Ashes
also, that 200e price drop coincides nicely with the ecto price inflation, so it's really worth about the same :P
MisterB
I completed the quest (Strength of Snow) once. Imagine my shock and surprise when no Mini Polar Bear was to be found from the chest. Fortunately, the MPB is just a waste of a storage slot to me, but I obtained plenty of CCS's for the finale. Congrats to any of you who got one, and better luck next year if you did not.
Malice Black
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Originally Posted by Divine Ashes
also, that 200e price drop coincides nicely with the ecto price inflation, so it's really worth about the same :P
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Sir Skullcrasher
wonder if the bear will still be around once GW2 is out?
mrmango
Heh. Good luck next time fellas.
Dzjudz
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Originally Posted by MisterB
but I obtained plenty of CCS's for the finale.
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. I gained about 25 shard doing 7 finales.
MisterB
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Originally Posted by Dzjudz
Anybody with 10 shards had enough for all 9 finales
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fenix
Oh right, I was under the impression the price had halved.
Still, that many runs for a chance at 1300e? Psh.
Think about it. If you can earn 1.5-2k a minute doing ANY kind of farming, you're making more money than doing runs of Snowman and not getting a polar.
Still, that many runs for a chance at 1300e? Psh.
Think about it. If you can earn 1.5-2k a minute doing ANY kind of farming, you're making more money than doing runs of Snowman and not getting a polar.
coil
in ~500-700 runs no polar bear
BUT
i didnt get hacked (yet). so yay
BUT
i didnt get hacked (yet). so yay
Reformed
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Originally Posted by fenix
If you can earn 1.5-2k a minute doing ANY kind of farming
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byteme!
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Originally Posted by fenix
Oh right, I was under the impression the price had halved.
Still, that many runs for a chance at 1300e? Psh. Think about it. If you can earn 1.5-2k a minute doing ANY kind of farming, you're making more money than doing runs of Snowman and not getting a polar. |
Martin Alvito
You don't even get 1.5k-2k per minute from Strength of Snow. This is an easy math problem, so let's solve it. I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but this is a good approximation if the estimated wiki drop rate is in the ballpark. The real payout is probably worse, because I'm not considering things like loading time and I'm being very generous in pricing.
Completion: 6 minutes, no cons (10x/hr.)
Return: 4 guaranteed items. Assume Spiked is 300g, Fruitcake is 150g, Summoner is 200g, Wintergreen is 250g. That's 900g.
+/- 15 Candy Cane Shards @ 70g/ea = 1,050g.
Average guaranteed: 1,950g.
Assuming the wiki 1/3000 MPB drop rate and a value of 10,500,000g (1400e @ 7.5k/e): the opportunity to get one is worth 3,500g. Call the other drops worth 250g on average, yielding an expected drop value of 3,750g.
So the farm is 5,700g per run, 57k per hour, or just under 1k/minute.
That's not bad; that would make it the best solo farm going, comparable to the nerfed Vaettir keg run during an event with multiple, desirable event drops. It gets blown out of the water by dungeon running, succeeding at Snowball ATs (semifinals or better, with enough wins to offset the odd quarterfinal loss), and power trading.
But many people are risk averse, and know that in practice they're going to walk away with about 22k per hour. That's not worth your time if you're even remotely skilled.
Completion: 6 minutes, no cons (10x/hr.)
Return: 4 guaranteed items. Assume Spiked is 300g, Fruitcake is 150g, Summoner is 200g, Wintergreen is 250g. That's 900g.
+/- 15 Candy Cane Shards @ 70g/ea = 1,050g.
Average guaranteed: 1,950g.
Assuming the wiki 1/3000 MPB drop rate and a value of 10,500,000g (1400e @ 7.5k/e): the opportunity to get one is worth 3,500g. Call the other drops worth 250g on average, yielding an expected drop value of 3,750g.
So the farm is 5,700g per run, 57k per hour, or just under 1k/minute.
That's not bad; that would make it the best solo farm going, comparable to the nerfed Vaettir keg run during an event with multiple, desirable event drops. It gets blown out of the water by dungeon running, succeeding at Snowball ATs (semifinals or better, with enough wins to offset the odd quarterfinal loss), and power trading.
But many people are risk averse, and know that in practice they're going to walk away with about 22k per hour. That's not worth your time if you're even remotely skilled.
Carinae
You could also do it because:
1) You enjoy the quest
2) Don't really need money
3) Really want a MPB
1) You enjoy the quest
2) Don't really need money
3) Really want a MPB
lilDeath
Ok, well, 230 runs this year across 2 accounts... and no bear for me.
Kinda sucks that peeps run like 50 runs and then get one, wtf makes them so special...
Oh well. It's almost Wintersday again.
Kinda sucks that peeps run like 50 runs and then get one, wtf makes them so special...
Oh well. It's almost Wintersday again.
Odinius
lol same here, hope next year we'll be playing GW2 so I can stop thinking about that bear 
The Arching Healer
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I did 60ish runs, got my MPB and stopped. Btw farming sucks. If you can convince me you can make 2k per minute consistently I'm game. That means not relying on the odd weekend events or luck of a random fluke drop. It needs to be practical and realistic. If it ain't reproducible it ain't worth it's weight in gold and you don't know what you're talking about.
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12charzz
Reformed
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PvP
12charzz |
Also, sitting away in a town and providing a service are not the same thing as loot/gold gathering. No need to break out the Merriam-Webster here either.
MithranArkanere
I got one, but it wasn't polar, but bi-polar. So it got angry over something stupid and ran away.
This days everyone's crazy.
This days everyone's crazy.
Operative 14
Didn't get my MPB, but I did make 90k worth of Candy Cane Shards from doing some casual farming throughout the event. Which is about 85k more than I thought I'd get at the start, so that was a loverly surprise.
Polgara Val
My shameless bump to resurrect my old drop rate thread for the mini polar bear from last year. Lets see if we can keep tabs on any drops this year ladies and gents. Good luck!
Pol
Pol
Necro Quink
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Originally Posted by Polgara Val
My shameless bump to resurrect my old drop rate thread for the mini polar bear from last year. Lets see if we can keep tabs on any drops this year ladies and gents. Good luck!
Pol |
. I'm so glad I got him, this way I can spend more time doing other things than just do the quests over and over again.Screenshot is posted here
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...postcount=1280