Guild Wars 2

To be honest I am just posting this because this Halloween Event could you a little bit more love. I’ve been reading a lot of complaint topics and to be honest, and a lot of the reasons people are posting are unfounded.

Monday I had the day off, and I was waiting for the event to go live. Been waiting all day but nothing, and yeah I was disappointed. But so what, should I get mad about that or just have a little more patience? I’m not an immature person, and thus I’ve chosen for the latter, to show some more patience. On tuesday I had to work though, and while a few of my guildies and my girlfriend were playing and enjoying the event, I was being bored at work and reading some of these topics, and I got more and more excited to see some of the stuff.

The costume brawl for one, is something I didn’t expect to love this much. Yesterday I spent around 2-3 hours in Lion’s Arch, simply brawling with a lot of others. Sure, I’ve read about people spoiling the fun by placing a cauldron on a hard to reach place, but you should simply avoid this. I’ve been putting down one or two cauldrons yesterday the whole time and I just enjoyed playing with others, and I got knocked down plenty! Here’s a little impression of that event:

People claiming that this is pay to win, are dead wrong. Sure, it costs you about 7 in-game gold to get the gems needed to buy a costume (which is way more fun anyway) but that shouldn’t be hard at all to achieve. If you are saying that 7 gold is a lot, you are sadly mistaken. You shouldn’t get anything just for free and things shouldn’t be too easy to get. Where would all the fun be if everyone would be running around in these outfits? I am glad that we are just a small group right now who has these costumes, otherwise it would basically be worthless to me. Doing one path of the Ascalonian Catacombs for example gives you about 50 silver already, and each path takes you about 20 minutes with a good group. At least that’s how things are in our guild.

Here’s two screenshots of the Costume Brawl:

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I literally was having fun the whole time for these 2 – 3 hours I was playing brawl, and I am guessing tonight will be no different. I would advise anyone to join in the fun now while you can, before it’s over. Right now there are lots of people playing this event which means it’s a lot more fun for everyone. Don’t miss out on all the fun and regret it later. I never used to like events like this in other MMO’s, honestly. But this one, I am loving so far, and I haven’t even tasted half of the fun which is out there yet.

Thank you ArenaNet for this wonderful game and wonderful event!