At first I was really excited about about the Halloween event but not even a day in it quickly turned into disappointment. While all the mini events and costume brawl in Lions Arch and the pumpkin carving hunt along with the find the ghosts. It was even cool to see that chef and artifact had a recipe vender but all the other crafting trades did not. I kept running around LA to find them but couldn’t think there will probably be some insane amount of Karma or gold needed to purchase them. But instead you need other insane amounts of crafting materials (from what I gathered reading).
The exotic recipes reminds me of the pain in the behind heirloom armor from another game but GW2 is much more harder in more ways then one. Ten buck five keys for zero chance of black lions chest isn’t the way to get them either. And same with the personal trick-or-treat bags. The mining of the raw candy cane nodes but they eat up my mining pick which cost me coin and ll I get is nothing for it.
The commercialization of holidays is really a sad thing and I have to say that other game Halloween is a lot fun then what Guild Wars 2 is now, even Guild Wars holiday events where more fun then Guild Wars 2 till they started to commercialize costumes, now all we get for our hard work is a hat which hasn’t even showed up in the cash shop.
It’s sad that the fun factor has been replaced by greed or the use of exploits and or signs of status ( no status was a great thing in Guild Wars to bad it’s not in GW2. We can’t even craft town costumes for ourselves.
I still can’t grasp the idea of the chef and artifact had a recipe but nothing for all the other crafting trades. And for all other who say other wise you forget it’s our game too.
Quests would have been nice to get these Halloween themed exotic recipes.