GW2 Monkey King Tonic

Dulfy 34 Comments Jul 30, 2014

Images and videos of the new GW2 Monkey King Tonic as a rare drop from the Black Lion chests. Special thanks to Stark Aristata of TC for modeling it for me.

Restrictions

Cannot be sold once used
Cannot do any emotes (i.e. do /dance, /sit, /sleep)
No combat
Cannot interact with anything, include bank/TP etc
Cannot summon pets
Cannot use any toys (i..e brooms, kites etc)

Players not familiar with the Monkey King can consult this wikipedia article. He is a significant character in the Chinese folklore.

buttplug

Read all the restrictions 🙁 wow
HadesClutch

The restrictions make it pointless IMO. But I like their rendition of Sun Wukong. Just wish you could actually do things with it.
shodannet

Is it because of GW2 being in china now, or just something out of the blue? If the latter, how far are they going to take this?
- Dulfy
  
  It is because of GW2 China
  - shodannet
    
    Thanks!
Garuna

ArenaNet should selling this dodge animation to use in combat
- Crd
  
  Just dodge jump backwards…
- Thevos
  
  Or just make an Asura character.
Datenshi

can it be sold/bought in BL trade post? cos i seriously can’t see it
- Hachi-chan
  
  not once you used it
Skobie

I so wish this could be somehow used in combat, I love this take on the monkey king, one of the best I’ve ever seen
Kelmen Wong

now we need the pig, and the cow…
Johnny Rage

Why can’t I find it on the TP?
Candysama

IS CANTHA COMING CLOSER? sry for the caps.
Man

The most powerful man(monkey which can bet god) cannot combat? I am sure if it is a outfit, even cost 2000 gem, a lot of chinese still will buy it. But this one can do nothing, what a waste.
- Replying to a man
  
  Did you read the tittle? It’s a TONIC! it’s for appearance only. For 2000 gems they would make a better product stop spreading stupid nonsense, take a moment and READ for once in your life!
  - Empty Headed
    
    Wow. Such hostility and YOU entirely missed his point. He KNOWS it’s a tonic, that’s why he’s saying it’s a waste because it’s not an outfit instead. Geezus, calm down and take your own advice and read what the guy is saying.
  - KINGRPG
    
    It’s Anet evil plan to reduce the game gem rate.
The Spirit Molecule

Why isn’t it a combat tonic like the Watchwork Knight Tonic we got from the Mechanical Scarlet ?
Reiko

You have it listed as ‘Cannot be sold once used’. The chat code for the endless monkey king tonic on wiki brings up an in-game description that says ‘Account Bound on Acquire’. When received from a BLK, is there an item such as ‘Unopened Endless Monkey King Tonic’ that first exists, or is it immediately account bound upon acquisition, thus removing the possibility of selling or acquiring one by any other means? There doesn’t seem to be any listed on the TP yet, and although I understand it may be that the few who have received them all chose to open them, it seems unlikely not one attempted to cash in on the opportunity and post it on the TP.
- Stark
  
  I cannot recall whether or not it said “unopened”. I should have paid closer attention. Before I used it, I was able to right click and use the “sell on TP” option which showed a completely empty listing on the trading post. I am assuming that had I posted, it would have been the first for sale. After I used the tonic, any attempts to right click to get options did not allow for a “sell” option.
  - Reiko
    
    That answers the question of whether we will eventually be able to buy them, so thank you. Out of pure interest, did you happen to get yours on a whim or were you burning through quite a large number of keys?
- Yoone
  
  Both items have the same name.
  Unused: http://db-en.gw2.fr/item/66926
  Used: http://db-en.gw2.fr/item/66768
Stark

I posted this on Dulfy’s reddit thread, but there are a couple of issues with the tonic.
1) I was wrong about pets. Maybe, maybe I was clicking on the pet but it was obscured in the background. I tried to click on a couple of mini pets after the video and I was able to do so.
2) Most toys don’t work, but using a costume weapon does. However, the Monkey King simply stands still with the staff on his shoulder as the surrounding animation fires off. As an example, using the Executioner’s Axe, I was able to get an image of the whirling scythe attack around me (but my character just stood still with no extra animations). I reported this as a bug, though stealth attacks via switching weapons in costume brawl seems awesome.
3) I also submitted as a bug the inability to interact with things. I CAN interact with banners and get the buff, but everything else like vendors, quest NPCs and the like I cannot interact with. I tested with a quaggan tonic to be sure and yeah, we could always interact with these NPCs while transformed.
NightLord_001

uggh, another “almost right” item. so close, yet still terrible
insanelyapple

That idle bouncing gives feeling like it was taken from another totally different game.
harry

Another useless item while the real issues don’t get adressed.
- Filippo Chinello
  
  you better deal with this routine if you plan to stay in gw2 for a long time, because if it hasn’t changed in past 2 years, i dubt it will change in the next 2
- Michael Harrison
  
  You’re pretty slow if you think that the same team that makes these things handles game balance and gameplay issues.
Veldara

Interesting animations, Anet should have saved the assets and instead made a new dungeon with Monkey King as a boss.
Metasynaptic

Future Monk class much? Staff melee?
- Tellis Argonis
  
  It’s just a symbolic item for the chinese players to spend yuan on getting Keys, mainly.
Soyo

Is the monkey tonic out for only 2 weeks or is it permanent ?
Krystal S. S.

they have an iconic tonic and they didn’t do animations for him? that’s just beyond silly. there’s no point in keeping the item since it can’t do anything.

GW2 Monkey King Tonic

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