[Tonic QoL request] Increase chance of rare transforms

[Request]

This is probably somewhere near the bottom in terms of important features that deserve some QoL, but I'd love to see it get some attention anyway.

I've owned the endless mystery beast tonic (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Mystery_Tonic_(beast)) for a while, and it's uncommonly known that it has a few 'rare' transforms. If you left click on it in the novelty menu, you can cycle through them all, but they are listed on the wiki nevertheless.

Unfortunately, if you actually own the tonic, while you can switch transformations with the 7 skill, you could do that for an hour or more straight in some cases and never see the white wolf or steam creatures.

In my case, I've owned the tonic for years and played with it daily, but there are some transformations that are so rare that I've never seen them in all my time owning and using the tonic.

My question, really, is: What's the point of 'rare' transforms? They were pretty pointless before the novelty update since it only lasted 15 minutes anyway, but even now, they only last until you change maps. I'm not sure if any other tonics have rare transforms, but they just seem completely unnecessary.

Basically, I'd like to see transformations on this particular tonic normalised to the same rarity so that the wolf, skale, spider, and such all appear as commonly as the ice elemental (what is that even doing on the 'endless beast' tonic?), fire imp, branded devourer, and such.

I can't see the harm in it and it would make the tonic a lot more enjoyable to use for me personally.

Posted Nov 1, 2018, 11:41 PM UTC

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benisjacker•

i've tried for hours and hours to get the skale transformation with that tonic. never got it. i did manage to get the ram and white wolf a couple times but no other very rares. it makes me sad because i didn't even know skales were a possible transformation until I cycled through in the novelty section once that became a thing. so I saw it and got real excited to be a skale because I love skales but then I just can't get the transformation

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MithranArkanere🌟 SUGGEST-A-TRON•

I'd rather have a way to get the separate forms individually, or two buttons next to the random button to cycle trough them in a fixed order, or make mystery tonics unlock all of its forms as separate tonics automatically.

There can be fun in getting random forms, but constantly pressing a button to get one when you want a specific one is not that fun.

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Diribiri•

Alternatively, give active tonic transformations the mount/chair slot, with a list of transformations.

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