Curse

Yang Whirlwind · Feb 03, 2009, 12:48 PM // 12:48

Lunar Fortunes = 1, Celestial Ox = 0
... had 3 tokens left over when I had used the rest on Red Gift Bags.

Instead I got roughly 200K worth of sweets and fireworks from the Red Gift Bags - easily enough to buy eight Celestial Ox

Lottery = fail

Olof · Feb 03, 2009, 01:02 PM // 13:02

I did the quests on one char only last year and got a rat.

I did the quests on one char only this year and got an ox.

Pretty much the only luck i've had with Guild Wars in over 3 years playing.

EroChrono · Feb 03, 2009, 01:34 PM // 13:34

~355 fortunes, no ox.

Rocky Raccoon · Feb 03, 2009, 02:31 PM // 14:31

405 fortunes, 2 ox.

Carboplatin · Feb 03, 2009, 03:19 PM // 15:19

around 250 fortunes, 2 cows.

Mournblade · Feb 03, 2009, 03:46 PM // 15:46

just over 400 opened, no ox.

Tullzinski · Feb 03, 2009, 03:51 PM // 15:51

500 Fortunes 7 Ox. No quests.

I had much better chances with my Factions campaign created characters (they all got a ox) opening in the courtyard area. My Proph or Night chars not so much. May be all in my head, but when I took a proph chars to the factions campaign and opened I got the mini on them (two total). One char in EOTN burned through 100 fortunes with nothing.

The second a character would get a mini I would stop and switch to a different character.

One ox I got on the 4th fortune

Tom Swift · Feb 03, 2009, 04:12 PM // 16:12

It seems to me that, overall, the drop rate was about the same as for the rat last year.

If the price for the ox is lower I don't think it is because they are more common.

Rather, we already have 2 glowing minipets. from a distance it's a little hard to distinguish between them. I think people are kind of getting bored with the same basic texture on all the "celestial" animals and aren't as ready to put out money for them.

Raven Wing · Feb 03, 2009, 04:21 PM // 16:21

Around 500 opened, got 1 little cow from them

Garsty · Feb 03, 2009, 05:22 PM // 17:22

Out of 500 odd I got 8 oxs

Spaced Invader · Feb 03, 2009, 05:26 PM // 17:26

RockPaperScissor'd me a full stack of 250 Fortunes - 0 Oxs.

Luckily, I couldn't care less. Just realized that Fortunes rather suck in terms of Party Points output (while playing R-P-S is quite mind-numbing) and pumped the rest of my tokens into Gift Bags excusively - to gain ~2000 Party Points.

Tramp · Feb 03, 2009, 07:45 PM // 19:45

1000 extra tokens i put into lunar fortunes so 333 of them. In the first 70 I got 3 oxen and I thought, omg... these are common. Then in the next 263 I only got 1 more. So 4 from 333 total or about 1 per stack of lunar tokens. Since lunar tokens are worth about 25k per stack if you put them into red gift bags, the market price of 20-25k per ox seems about right to me. For me Ox Lottery = alternative of Red Gift Bags = shoulder shrug. Also, afking with storage accounts and every computer I could find, brought in another 1504 red gift bags = about 24 stacks of party, 3 stacks of sugar, 2 stacks of crates, 20k worth of wine, and 30k of gold. Afking on rings brought in 15k unlucky and about 150k of lucky. A good weekend of not playing.

Sir Skullcrasher · Feb 03, 2009, 07:57 PM // 19:57

Compared with previous years in Canthan New Year. I think the droprate for celestial mini remain the same. First year, it took me about 200 fortunes to get the mini pig. I actually gotten 2 pigs out from that year. Second year, I didn't do the quests with all my characters. Only gotten 140 to 150 fortunes. Opened it and no mini rat. This years same like before 140 fortunes, no ox. Anyone think that the droprate is set to be the same year after year?

XxSanctusxX · Feb 03, 2009, 08:19 PM // 20:19

5 Fortunes, 1 Ox.
First fortune was the Ox.. Guess I'm finally lucky

mage767 · Feb 03, 2009, 10:41 PM // 22:41

18 fortunes -> 2 ox
250 fortunes -> 0 ox

Go figure...O.o

Oink The Pig · Feb 04, 2009, 12:39 AM // 00:39

I opened around 100 fortunes and got no ox. I ended up buying one for 25k. I gave 20 fortunes to a guildie as a gift and he got an ox. :/ I had the same luck with the rat last year. Obviously, the Celestial Pig paid me a fortune-induced visit back when I used Year of the Pig fortunes, but that's how we pigs roll. In the mud.

In case anyone was on the fence about acquiring a mini Celestial Ox, though, it does "moo" on rare occasion while in a PvE explorable.

CHannum · Feb 04, 2009, 01:08 AM // 01:08

My luck was much better this year, wound up opening about 260 fortunes, landed an ox, turned the other tokens into gift bags. Last year opened over 800 and had to pay someone 20K for a rat.

Hyper.nl · Feb 05, 2009, 11:08 AM // 11:08

160 fortunes, no ox. I just bought one because I do collect minipets.

The Arching Healer · Feb 05, 2009, 11:18 AM // 11:18

first 180 tokens: 0
35 tokens: 3
250 tokens: 0

random random random is random

Dr.Jones · Feb 05, 2009, 11:25 AM // 11:25

i am predicting this right now and right here next years canthan new year's mini pet will require you to have 5 oxes in exchange for a Tiger