Summary: Chris and Celeste are both sick this week but we soldier on to bring you Wintersday, Scarlet, and WvW rewards. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: did dailies with Allona and AC path 1 nightmare’s end crafting perplexity runes to lvl tailor (and then i realized ascended armor is soulbound and i’m not crazy about my necro so what's the point) Chris: Ran around looking the Wintersday stuff. Nice change to the Toypocalypse Mostly real life stuff - Concert, etc. Looking forward to my holidays SOOO much. Report from Lion’s Arch Wintersday patch notes https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-a-very-merry-wintersday/ Tixx Infinirarium - “All five paths will be available for the duration of Wintersday.” as opposed to the golem flying from city to city throughout the festival “After receiving enough donations, they (Ho-Ho-Tron and Marcello DiGiacomo) will load up their gift dolyak and make for the asura gate to Divinity’s Reach, dropping gifts for players along the way.” “To show off Wintersday pride, keep an eye out for special rare items such as the adorable Mini Ho-Ho-Tron, the returning Unbreakable Choir Bell, new Endless Tonic recipes, and recipes for the new ascended back-slot items: Light of Dwayna and Shadow of Grenth.” “After completing the Very Merry Wintersday meta-achievement, players will be awarded a box containing their choice of either one Wintersday toy miniature or a giant stack of Wintersday gifts.” “Toxic Offshoots and Seedlings continue to appear across Tyria.” “The Moogooloo Waypoint and the Meadows Waypoint have been removed.” Moogooloo makes sense since the quaggans have now cleared out of the area but what was the point in taking away meadows? “Pieces of the key for the Tri-key Chest can be dropped by creatures throughout Kessex Hills or can be acquired through trade with Marjory’s helper, Dee, back at Thunder Ridge Camp.” Ascended armor, tailor, leatherworker and armorsmith up to 500 crafting levels “Ascended armor recipes are now available for purchase from master craftsmen and laurel merchants and require a rating of 500 to craft.” “There is a 5-gold-per-day cap in Custom Arenas and a 15-gold-per-day cap in Solo Arenas and Team Arenas.” “Added a temporary vendor to the Heart of the Mists that has items that can be purchased with both glory and gold: tomes of knowledge, pvp dungeon armor sets, pvp cultural armor, 20 slot bags, custom arena starter kits” Gw2 living story a year in review https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-world-2013-the-year-in-review/ hopefully answer unanswered questions from 2013 in the 4 remaining releases that will involve scarlet. I can’t wait to kill her. I want to kill her so bad. next update will occur on jan 21 “Due to the size and scope of the final four story releases in season one, the next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished. Once the story has completed, we’ll go into much greater detail on what’s to follow, but for now we want to focus on making sure our last four episodes shine.” Any guesses as to what some of those features might be? Changing face of gw2 https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/new-faces-and-more-in-the-gem-store/ 3 new faces per gender and race combination collection expander - add 250 with each purchase, first is 500, etc gifting bonuses black lion chests will give 3 wintersday gifts no matter what else drops from the chest Feel like you’re stuck fighting the same 3 servers over and over and over again… Guess what? New WvW Matchup variances https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wvw-matchup-variance-reduction/ In the top tier this still makes every week increasing predictable.
