Mini Bad Luck

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Callista Aurelia
Callista Aurelia
Academy Page
#1
I basically want to make myself feel better by seeing who else out there has had worse bad luck with minis than I have.

I got Guild Wars in July of '05, and pretty quickly filled my four character slots. When factions came out, I made another and left my 6th as a pvp slot. Bought another slot when they became availible that summer and made another character. With the release of Nightfall I made one more and left the second slot for pvp, which was good because a few months later I found myself using the same pvp character most of the time and so decided to keep her around.

So what all this means is that I have five two year old characters and three more one year olds. So far, I have gotten the following minis for their birthdays:

two seige turtles
hydra
temple guardian
necrid horseman
*three* jade armors
two wind riders
fire imp
thorn wolf
aatxe

That's 13 white minis in a row. I just about lost it when I got the third jade armor on my 7th character.

Anyone want to share their tales of mini woe with me?

Edit: I certainly don't mean to be whiney about, just wanted to know that there are others that have suffered the same stroke of bad luck as far as rarity is concerned.

Honestly, I'm not unhappy with most of my minis, I love my turtle and temple guardian, my aatxe is awesome, and I just got the thorn wolf for my factions chars 2yr and he looks like he might be cool. I'm just sad that I never got the rare ones, cuz some of the rare ones are *cool.* It would be nice to just get them instead of going out and spending 100k + xxe to get the one you want.

So from reading all the responses (thanks a bunch by the way, I feel a bit better now) :-) the "winner" for worst luck is Jamison0071 for getting the most white minis without getting any colored ones. Shadows of hob deserves mention too for the five fungal wallows.

And if certain people could actually read the whole original post before declaring me greedy, that would be awesome.
kobey
kobey
GW Retiree
#2
I have a couple of 1st bday and 2 2nd bday character minipets. I got a purple shaman (I think) and the rest are worthless whites (devourer and wallow). At least yours look better
Jamison0071
Jamison0071
Lion's Arch Merchant
#3
16 Birthday Presents (4 2nd year, 12 1st year)...all whites. That included about 4 devourers and 5 wallows. Oh well.
b
bifter
Frost Gate Guardian
#4
10 white minis in a row here.

Not to get all Pollyanna about it though, it saves them eating space in my storage while I procrastinate about selling them. I can just drop them on the trash can and forget about them, without feeling like I've missed out on a payday.
M
Malice Black
Site Legend
#5
I've only ever had 2 Bday Mini's, beat that

1 Jade Armor
1 Wind Rider

Deleted that char so I'll never see a 3rd year mini.

They're free, and they're random. So do yourself a favor and stop whining.
Holly Herro
Holly Herro
Jungle Guide
#6
*Sigh* yes =[

I have gotten all whites >____< but I like the mini devourer skin [=
kobey
kobey
GW Retiree
#7
Quote:
Originally Posted by Holly Herro
*Sigh* yes =[

I have gotten all whites >____< but I like the mini devourer skin [=
hehe you can be the biggest devourer minipet collector by buying all of them for 500g or lesser each
Saraphim
Saraphim
Jungle Guide
#8
Quote:
Originally Posted by Callista Aurelia

two seige turtles
hydra
temple guardian
necrid horseman
*three* jade armors
two wind riders
fire imp
thorn wolf
aatxe
I guess it depends if you want them for their re-sale value or the actual critters, I'd be happy with most of those although the hydra doesn't float my boat. The only mini I've ever sold on was Varesh.

I've been fairly lucky with them I suppose:

2 Jungle Trolls
Temple guardian
Burning Titan
Charr Shaman <3
Shiro
Jade Armor
Thorn Wolf

Out of those the only ones I'm 'meh' about are the trolls.
farmpig
farmpig
Jungle Guide
#9
Quote:
Originally Posted by kobey
hehe you can be the biggest devourer minipet collector by buying all of them for 500g or lesser each
So kobey still has the devourer obsession lol pm me in game i got 1 more for ya 499 gold if u must lol
Martin Alvito
Martin Alvito
Older Than God (1)
#10
Quote:
Originally Posted by kobey
hehe you can be the biggest devourer minipet collector by buying all of them for 500g or lesser each
He'd run out of storage/inventory slots long before he ran out of money.
Gen Saver
Gen Saver
Frost Gate Guardian
#11
Necromancer 1 : Miniature Temple Guardian (White)
Ranger 1 : Miniature Temple Guardian (White)
Assassin 1 : Miniature Jungle Troll (White)
Elementalist 1 : Miniature Kirin (Purple)
Necromancer 2 : Miniature Mandragor Imp (White)
Paragon 1 : Miniature Prince Rurik (Gold)
Monk 1 : Miniature Jungle Troll (white)
Necromancer Pvp 1 : Miniatur Fungal Wallow (white)
Ranger 2 : Miniature Fire Imp (white)
Marty Silverblade
Marty Silverblade
Administrator
#12
Out of 5,

2 Mini Turtles (white),
2 Mandragor Imps (white),
1 Jungle Troll (white).

Crap luck for me too. Next birthday for me is 29 September for my War.
garethporlest18
garethporlest18
Forge Runner
#13
Well let's see.

2 Wallows
Wind Rider
Jade Armor
2 Trolls
Madragor
Joko
Shiro
Temple Guardian
Necrid Horseman

Missing one I think, don't remember. Overall I've not had too much bad luck with mini's. But the 2 wallows is meh.
pumpkin pie
pumpkin pie
Furnace Stoker
#14
erm my curse is necrid horseman, they have become a herd, but I did get one lich mwahahaha go me.
kobey
kobey
GW Retiree
#15
We should start a minipet exchange event so that everyone can exchange their extras for a different one. (Well, i am 2 years late)
a
ap0c
Krytan Explorer
#16
hmm on my collectors ed. account i got rurik, lich, water djinn and a lot of purples.

on my normal account just whites and an few purples
Karuro
Karuro
Lion's Arch Merchant
#17
1st years:
Siege Turtle
3 Temple guardians (Managed to trade 1 for a Necrid Horsey)
Kirin (My only non-white from my own bday's!! >.<)
2 Jungle Trolls

2nd years:
Juggernaut
2 Heket (Traded 1 Heket for an Aatxe yesterday)

I hope my monk will have better luck with 2nd years next month.
Then it's waiting for October (and December for a 3rd year) =/
Pleikki
Pleikki
WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!
#18
I had 3 Jungle trolls in row ..
But ye 1st year ones
3 Jungles
Nedrid
Charr
Shiro
Fungal
And kirin

2nd year
2 imps
Harpy
Joko
Jugger

3erd..
1.5months for mine
take_me
take_me
Furnace Stoker
#19
I never got an expensive mini, but that's okay.
I feel quite lucky never getting a Mini twice and I got 7 1st year minis (6 whites, 1 purple), 4 2nd year minis (all white) and 2 3rd year minis (both white).
I MP I
I MP I
Hustler
#20
I got two mini water djins on the same account. I'm happy.