Guild Wars 2

The dungeons were simple, goofy, and fun.
I got me 1 mini pet out of the potential 5, and I’m happy to have it.
The “run-amok” toy ventari made me lol, “all things have a right… to DIE”
The timing on the bell-event was so wonky I kept failing and just gave up.
Snowball Mayhem was my favorite, there’s nothing like turning yourself into a giant snowball and steamrolling people!
We managed to save all the toypocalypse Dolyaks in the very first game I played, we just built snow walls around the inner area, but it was a little tedious.
The Tixx reward bugged out on me but I re-logged and was able to open the chest. And the reward was all just a bunch of fun cosmetic stuff anyway.
I have a PvP Toy bag, so now I can bring presents and pain year round!
SNOWBALL FIGHT!

Overall, 8/10.

JUMPING PUZZLE – Was totally do able, very fun and okay rewards.
DUNGEON – Looked nice and was fun to do, also not overly difficult for not so experienced players.
BELL GAME – Was really nice to play although trying to figure out timing was a bit weird.
SOWBALL GAME – Was also fun especially since some diverse tactics where allowed. I wish Glory was awarded for playing the event though.
TOYPOCALYPSE – I felt like it was a tower defense game and I love that but it lacked re-play ability for me. Some things were missing to make it a good TD game mode that I would want to play over and over.
DECORATIONS – Are great, PvE, PvP and PvX looked awesome.
ITEMS – I think the items are well implemented and collector items that are trade able like the Unbreakable Choir Bells is a fantastic idea. Only complaint is the Santa Hat (that I was hoping so much for) looks ugly and doesn’t look anything like the traditional hat.

CONCLUSION – An event that was well implemented despite a few bugs (that were compensated for), was an improvement from the last event and made me really enjoy playing!

Agree with your 8/10, solid event overall.

What I loved:

Tixx’s Infinirarium
I thought this mini dungeon was absolutely perfect. It was interactive, it was short, it had moderate level of difficulty, and the rewards were worth the time invested.

Presents in the World
This to me was the best idea behind Wintersday. I remember the first couple of nights there were people just everywhere collecting their gifts while doing DEs in the world. It was nice to see the newbie areas as populated as they were at launch.

Gemstore Staff Skin
Nicest staff skin in the game in my opinion, like the graphic more than I like the graphic of the Bifrost. Need to see more thick models like this in game

What I liked:

Bell Choir/Toypocalpse
Mini spinoffs of other games that Ive played in the past brought back some nostalgia and were very entertaining. Level of difficulty seemed too high otherwise would be in the ’Love’ category

Snowball Mayhem
Great idea, very innovative and would have been much more enjoyable if a select group of players had played with team interests in mind instead of just achievements. Was ruined by poor sportsmanship, not ANet’s fault.

Minis
Always love mini pets and was very excited to see a different set offered in gem shop and in game. Was able to obtain 5 of them but was disappointed in opening 50 gem store boxes and not receiving a mini festive golem.

What I didn’t like:

Gemstore Longbow/Short Bow and Toy Skins
For as much as I liked the staff skin for its thick design, I disliked the bows for their extremely thin design. The base frames of the bows are pencil thin, almost as thin as the bow string itself. The princess wand seemed too small to me.

Princess Dolls
These creatures seemed too strong in comparison to the other wintersday creatures. Confusion especially when it comes in mass seems to be too powerful, I could not kill 5 of these with my elementalist in full exotics and would often have to dodge roll away and leave them.

Giver’s Items
Healing Power and Magic Find on an item seems pointless as anyone who takes a healing/support role knows they are going to get less loot than their dps counterpart. Can’t really think of a situation across all professions that these items would be useful.

What I hated:

The Jumping Puzzle
Normally a big fan of jumping puzzles but these timed puzzles are irritable and impossible for me to do. Being an old gamer (relatively) I don’t have the twitch muscles that some players out there seem to have, I made 50 attempts at this puzzle only to reach the set of candy canes 3 times and never making it beyond the next jump.

So… you were the one that kept smashing my face in the snow with that stupid snowball?!

…What goes around comes around, friend!! >:(

/teasing ;P

…no but really I hate that stupid snowball move with a passion!!! >:E