Candy Canes

If you haven't noticed, and I'm sure you have, the last couple of days people have been going crazy for Winter items, mostly the special weapons and candy cane shards. What I haven't been able to understand, is why people are paying so much money for these things. They're so simple to acquire, and don't take much time at all to find. I've made over 25,000 in 2 days of playing from selling candy cane shards alone. People are buying them for 500-1000. I havent been on in 2 days, so im sure the price is much lower now, if they're still even being sold.
Another thing I havent come to understand is why people arent going crazy for Candy Canes. A candy cane removes your death penalty while in battle. I dont know about you, but when I'm in the UW or FoW and we accidently attack too many guys, me, as well as my teammates will end up with a 30%+ death penalty. Eating a candy cane would erase that, and that helps a lot. I'm not sure, but im forcasting that the price of a candy cane will increase greatly in the next couple of weeks/months. Hold on to them now, i bet you'll be able to get 100g a piece for these later in the game. I've managed to get about 250+ of them so far, just from killing gargoyles and grawl outside of sardelac and Surmia. 100g might not seem like a lot to some people, but for someone like me w/ only 45,000g in storage, its a lot.

So save your candy canes. I think they'll be worth a lot in the future!

what if they decide to remove the "remove dp" effect after winterday?

They won't. It's the point of the item. It's like removing the ability of eggnog to make your vision wobbly. It's not useable in PvP, so it's not a balance issue. The effect will stay.

Hopefully not - because it makes already easy PvE that much easier. Some of my most entertaining experiences in PvE were when myself or my party were heavily DPed and had to get extremely tactical in taking down the large groups of mobs.

Yeah it is pretty stupid that they made PvE even easier. Whats the point of calling it a "penalty" if many players will never experience this disadvantage again. They could re-name it to the "haha you missed out on the winter event" effect.

The canes will run out, and I doubt many people will farm them constantly. Also, DP isn't crippling in PvE. PvE is easy even at 30% dp

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You know what's reaaaally nice?

Making 180k off of this update, <3 @ having multiple accounts & 2 being in euro servers:

'WTS Candy Cane Weapons [sword, axe, wand, staff, hammer, bow!] Whisper me!'

-ten thousand whispers later- *grins at storage stuffed with gold*

greatest thing was I gunna sell for ~10k each, but people we're offering 30 and so on, sold a set for my friend and made him 175k. woo.

And they are self-use only , apparently.

It's probably most useful for warriors and elementalists who need a large pool of health or energy, and where even -15% DP is detrimental. In other instances, unless your DP is really bad, the Candy Canes would be wasted.

Yes I realize PvE isnt that difficult, but in certain situations, like in FoW or the UW, DP can make gameplay slow down a lot. I'll be selling these later on, you'll see. I bet ill make 25,000+ off of 250 canes.

well, I must have killed 1000 monsters w/o a cc shard drop, so i gave up and bought all mine, if that answers your initial question.
secondly, people are farming the f*** out of candy canes, and they are already worth 100 at the very least.

1000 monsters? WHAT...

I killed Charr for maybe an hour, and Got ~12 Shards. Used all the Charr carvings on gifts, and got ~4 shards from the gifts..

And I consider my runs alittle unlucky at some points..

FYI...outside surmia is the best place for shards and items that wintersday collectors want

ok, probably wasn't 1000.

killed big packs of grawl 3 times outside sardelac, then a bunch of stone elementals after the grawl stopped spawning.

went to piken and chewed up a few screens of charr to althea's ashes.

not one drop.

28 carvings, though.

opened about a dozen gifts w/no shards.

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm one of those ignorant people who hasn't played Guild Wars for months and needs to be told how the snowman quest works. I also have no idea about how to aquire candy cane shards. I have searched the wonderful internet a few times, but have failed to find anything to aid me. Can anyone assist me?

Oops. Dunno how I missed that, thanks.

Oh, because you only really need the candy cane with those Enchanted Snowmen hench since they stink so bad?

well they are already going for 100g+.. If I manage to get some I wont even look to use them before the expansion.. I might need them at that time for that new beacons - droks kind run or may be new areas like UW, FoW or SF

They make a nice addition to my monk's inventory