Drop Rate for event collectibles too low

Christmas event 2017
The drop rate is too low for anyone to finish the 5 basket achievement.
Six days in and barely enough for first basket.

All i get is candy canes basically

What do you guys seem to get more of? Also what is missing the most from everything?

I have had multiple spawns of at least 6 candy canes out of 10 already. One was 7 or 8, wasn't keeping track earlier in event.

Candy canes are admittedly the easiest to find, but when I'm finding 6+ and I know there are only 10 xmas collectibles, I also know I'm not missing a lot of bells or gingers.

I have far more candy canes than the other 2 types of collectibles put together. From chatting with guildies on the 2 servers I play on, it seems that almost everyone has the same issue - lots of candy canes and very small numbers of bells or gingerbread. It would be really nice if the numbers were a bit more evenly distributed.

Same here. I have a great number candy canes and very few of the other two. The proportions are very lopsided.

Yes, this is a problem. I currently have received 136 candy canes and 52 gingerbread.

Also this thread was very hard to find. I think it should be moved to the feedback board.

update: dec-19-17 2 baskets made. 106 CC, 28 Bells, 4 Ginger
update: dec-22-17 3 baskets made. 161 CC, 33 Bells, 13 Ginger

Bells are the hardest to get. Not wanting to getting robbed in trade, it took 3 days just to get 25 bells from collectibles. 2 players have been selling bells since the start, idk where they got all the Bells to sell.

Agreed, the drop rate for bells isn't high enough to be able to meet the achievements.

13 Bells, 15 Gingerbread Cookies and 105 Candy Canes; that is roughly 4x more Candy Canes than Bells AND Gingerbread Cookies together! I see no disparity.

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Originally Posted by Raubhautz

I see no disparity.

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Neither does BB, you will make an excellent employee hehe

Waaaaay too many candy canes, 4x as many as the bells & gingerbread, but it's all good, i got what i need thru trade.

(I would not have even reported it, but you made it part of the achievements to make the baskets using the collectibles)

same here, extremely low drop of christmas collectibles - especially bells, barely could finish one basket for the quest and I'm collecting 2x a day. Sorry, not gonna put alarm clock on to collect 3x (I don't think it will make difference anyway)

Hey all,

Thank you for the feedback and I will be talking to some other team members to see if they have the same issues on the different servers.

This happens every year. It's always been tons of candy canes and much less bells or gingerbread.

I was struggling to find gingerbread. Now I have started getting plenty of that but no bells. At least I know the people that rushed to complete it will have plenty to spare.

I am finding fairy dust helpful. I don't know how I overlooked this before, but I use it once each time and always get at least one extra event collectible by doing that.

Guess the devs think this is an us problem since we have to find them BUT I have cleared 90% of my collectibles if not higher and the xmas ones are easier to find ...

42 bells
178 canes
20 gingerbread

I have made two baskets and turning to the TO this even it not worth the cost for the reward for the achievement. I have also done two collectibles every day and once did three.

Same problem from last year same and only event to have this issue.

This happens every time, although I don't remember the market prices being this crazy before. The summer event has about a dozen event resources, and normally there are a couple that people are scrambling to get while they have hundreds of others that they could hardly give away.

I have two baskets and about to do a third. I figure that leaves me needing two bells and two gingerbread per two spawns per day. Probably cutting it close but achievable. Will end up with a bunch of useless candy canes, though.

I have completed 4 of the 5 baskets already, no purchasing of xmas collectibles on TO, just finding through the collection drops, yes I have a lot more canes than bells or gingers, but with doing all 3 collectibles each day, it is possible to find all the collectables to complete the acheesement

I have had similar issues to those already stated. However, today I have run into a new one :(

My coll's have regularly spawned every 8 hours just as they are supposed to all event long, until today. My current spawn is running almost an hour late and who knows if they are even coming.

I would like to know if there is a workaround for this bug as well as if it has a fix planned.

TY :)


update: they did spawn, approximately 45 minutes later than usual

there was a claim by a player that activating the quest (clicking on the quest in questbook) would guarantee 8 hour spawns. also pinning the quest is supposed to help somehow.. no idea if it works.

I have a nice brie for you.