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Godess Charmaine · Apr 29, 2012, 02:13 AM // 02:13

if the bday date is the 28th of April would it not be the caes that all these Sposed 7th bday gifts that have been open been days ealier then the accual bday of the toon in question.

So maybe just a thought since they seam to be stackabel that anet have given you the 7year vets an early pressy as a ty for your suport and when your toon acually turns 7 you will get your real pressie.

WarcryOfTruth · Apr 29, 2012, 04:43 AM // 04:43

I think an epic thing they could have done for 7th birthday presents was, when you open your gift, Dhuum comes out of the ground, strikes down your foe, and when you're logged out it says: "Happy Birthday! You weren't really banned, this is just something fun we thought we'd do!" Or something like that. I was kinda hoping for April Fools something like that would happen, Dhuum randomly pops up and ban scythes people but as April Fools only.

Swingline · Apr 29, 2012, 09:01 AM // 09:01

Instead of trolling the entire Guild Wars community how about you come clean Mr. Stumme and tell us what minis are possible. I would very much like to know what the rarer minis are.

WhitePaladin · Apr 29, 2012, 11:08 AM // 11:08

So no new tonics? just minis?

Pyrthas · Apr 29, 2012, 01:29 PM // 13:29

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Originally Posted by Swingline

Instead of trolling the entire Guild Wars community how about you come clean Mr. Stumme and tell us what minis are possible. I would very much like to know what the rarer minis are.

I don't see how he's trolling. They've always left random drops up to players to discover. Nothing new or unexpected there. (Well, I mean, if he's lying, then yeah, he's trolling, but I'm guessing he's not lying.)

thelessa · Apr 29, 2012, 02:38 PM // 14:38

From what I understand the 7th B-day gifts come out on the characters B-day. Many of the Beta people were able to keep their Beta chars. when Prophecies was released. So early (before the 28th) 7th B-day gifts are very possible.

take_me · Apr 29, 2012, 02:49 PM // 14:49

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Originally Posted by thelessa

From what I understand the 7th B-day gifts come out on the characters B-day. Many of the Beta people were able to keep their Beta chars. when Prophecies was released. So early (before the 28th) 7th B-day gifts are very possible.

If that was true we'd have had 7th birthday presents way earlier. Birthdays were set to the first time a beta char logged in after the game was released. My theory is, that through a 1-day head start + 2 leap years, people had their presents as early as April 25th.

dare49devil · Apr 29, 2012, 04:08 PM // 16:08

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Originally Posted by take_me

If that was true we'd have had 7th birthday presents way earlier. Birthdays were set to the first time a beta char logged in after the game was released. My theory is, that through a 1-day head start + 2 leap years, people had their presents as early as April 25th.

-I got mine the 25th or 26th.

Saint Troy · Apr 29, 2012, 09:09 PM // 21:09

I got mine the other day on my main - a mini Candysmith Marley. I didn't have that miniature, and I do quite like it, so I'm happy enough with it. It was originally a year five purple. Next 7th birthday is not for a couple of months.

Pinkest One · Apr 29, 2012, 09:25 PM // 21:25

Not one report of a new mini ingame from friends or on any forums.

The Rarest B-day mini's are normally known and documented WAY before now..Even the MPB was known before it was actually found ingame thanks to .dat miners. Wtf is going on? Did they have some technical oversight with all the anxiety the BWE inevitably caused?
Wish we could hear a bit more from John about this!

esthetic · Apr 30, 2012, 12:15 AM // 00:15

So if you open a 7th bday gift you get a mini you dont have... Wait this means what you dont have in your HoM? you dont have on that char? you dont have across all chars on that account?

Any ideas?

Ethos N F · Apr 30, 2012, 03:34 AM // 03:34

I have three 7th year presents..

If someone can show me the non-birthday plausible mini's, I'll give them a present.

I just want to know what I'm dealing with here.
Thanks!

<---IGN

Gabs88 · Apr 30, 2012, 06:33 AM // 06:33

There isn't suddenly going to be a huge influx of any rare miniatures in game. If anyone hasn't understood that much already they're just stupid. How many gifts do you guys think have been opened up this far? Few thousand at best?

Droprate for stuff such as Polar Bear is 1:5000 or 1:10 000 (from the chest not from this present) and Zaishen chest has a droprate of like 1:10 000-1:100 000 for several of its tonics. Even if someone got one its not sure it would actually even show up in this thread.

Showtime · Apr 30, 2012, 07:08 AM // 07:08

1)rare mini's are not going to show up.

2)they did the easiest thing they could that would do 2 things.
a)provide a bday gift.
b)provide minis to fill everyone's homs.

if they gave new mini's, people wouldn't sell or give them away for next to nothing. this makes filling hom easier which makes people more likely to buy gw2. for the exact same reason they've been extending events and adding items to drops. it surprises me that they don't just give a full hom and gwamm to anyone who has gw1 and pre orders gw2.

Ethos N F · Apr 30, 2012, 07:24 AM // 07:24

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Originally Posted by Showtime

1)rare mini's are not going to show up.

We were all told and lead to believe by someone with higher authority than the rest of us that there will be rare mini's, of which aren't recycled 1-5 years.

Can confirm this with a reply on page 2 of this thread

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Originally Posted by John Stumme

There are some minis that are not repeats from the presents of previous years - they're just rare. Of course, with my luck being what it is, I pulled a Miniature Elf. XP

So the speculations are at best. But still speculations.

But my previous offer was requesting insight.
Wasn't meaning to be spontaneous, but in a timely fashion however.

Showtime · Apr 30, 2012, 07:43 AM // 07:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ethos N F

We were all told and lead to believe by someone with higher authority than the rest of us that there will be rare mini's, of which aren't recycled 1-5 years.

Can confirm this with a reply on page 2 of this thread

So the speculations are at best. But still speculations.

But my previous offer was requesting insight.
Wasn't meaning to be spontaneous, but in a timely fashion however.

What specific rare minis are they offering and at what ratio. They are playing games to get everyone to open theirs so there will be an influx of cheap minis.

There may be that 1 in a million rare mini. So as not to upset the current rare mini owners very much. But even if they did that, it's only to get everyone to open it and basically give away all the crappy reissues so that people can fill their homs for cheap.

I have one. Is it the golden ticket?

Mintha Syl · Apr 30, 2012, 07:56 AM // 07:56

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Originally Posted by esthetic

So if you open a 7th bday gift you get a mini you dont have... Wait this means what you dont have in your HoM? you dont have on that char? you dont have across all chars on that account?

None of this. It was just a pure speculation some people were making, but it revealed to be wrong. So, it's just random as usual. Yay for duplicates! But you still get no whites so you have a decent chance to get something you didn't have.

Riot Narita · Apr 30, 2012, 07:58 AM // 07:58

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Originally Posted by esthetic

So if you open a 7th bday gift you get a mini you dont have...

I don't think that's true.

I got a mini that I already had in my HoM. I might be a special case (I already had ALL birthday mini's in my HoM, I opened the present using the 7-year old character that received the present, it's the same character that dedicated all of my other mini's)... but others have posted to say they got mini's they already had in their HoM too.

Ethos N F · Apr 30, 2012, 08:08 AM // 08:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Showtime

What specific rare minis are they offering and at what ratio. They are playing games to get everyone to open theirs so there will be an influx of cheap minis.

There may be that 1 in a million rare mini. So as not to upset the current rare mini owners very much. But even if they did that, it's only to get everyone to open it and basically give away all the crappy reissues so that people can fill their homs for cheap.

I have one. Is it the golden ticket?

No one knows which mini's they're offering. Hence why this topic exists.
So by you saying they're playing games to get people to open their gift(s)- that they're lying to us, their patrons, the people who pay their bills and put food in their stomachs? This just seems nonsensical. But, the odds are there.

If you seriously have one, then look at my proposal about 5 replies up.
I'm offering an unopened 7th year just to take a look at what could be in the presents. You may call it the golden ticket, I call it the proof.

The Only Warrior · Apr 30, 2012, 09:14 AM // 09:14

well if there was new new mini's someone would have seen it in the .dat by now, this leads me to think either: Its a Certadon/Gray Giant or similar give-away items(non-tournament), or the skin is already being used somewhere in game, such as baby pets in menagerie, that red frog thing, or something small like that. Either way its a great way to piss off the 7 year faithfuls right before you launch a new game. Happy 1000 armbrace minipet whoever gets it first.