Guild Wars 2

So we’ve had Halloween, and Wintersday is in progress… what other holidays or events do you think could be made or themed around the game? Be creative, whether world-related or race-specific.

Note: Because we’re not in Cantha, please keep the Canthan New Year and Dragon Festival off the list.

Here’s a few ideas I had…

The Great Hoelbrak Moot (St. Patrick’s Day)
Norn have plenty of moots around the year and around the land, but Hoelbrak has one great moot every year on the anniversary of its founding. Every year Norn come from far and wide to trade tales, boast of their accomplishments, and of course, get completely wasted in the process.

Day of the Claw (Independence Day)
Only one Charr, the Khan-Ur, has ever managed to unite the legions under one banner. What better way to celebrate the anniversary of the uniting of the Charr than by blowing up their enemies? Every year the Charr come together and celebrate, even allowing some of the less fanatical of the Flame Legion to partake in good food, strong drink, and launching fireworks… preferrably at the greatest concentration of their enemies.

Ventari’s Day (Earth Day)
Though the Sylvari are young, they have still seen the holidays and events of the other races, and have tried to find a day of their own. Eventually they decided to celebrate the day Ventari planted the pale tree, celebrating it with dance, wine, song, and even prayer. It culminates with each Sylvari planting a single seedling somewhere on Tyria and whispering one of Ventari’s tenets into it, to spread his knowledge, and the beauty of nature across the land.

Been spending time trying to think of some Asura holiday that could somehow be connected to Easter, but my mind’s been blanking.

….no this isn’t a shameless bump I swear! [/suspiciouslyspecificdenial]

Good ideas.

and Asura lead most of the events thus far anyway from what I’ve read, we don’t really need to come up with any more for them.

I think the Charr Holiday should be the Anniversary of retaking Ascalon.

Whats wrong with Dragon Fest? Plenty of canthan refugees are in kryta or Tyria for that matter. My thief is of Canthan descent. Shipwrecked sailors wash up all the time providing tales of the homeland.

Humans in general should pay homage to Cantha being that it’s humans oldest nation. Should being the operative word here, I know it doesn’t happen. It doesn’t happen in the real world.

Charr holiday should be MEATOBERFEST. We’ve all been over this before, but there absolutely must be an ANet supported meat holiday.

JMadFour.9730:

I think the Charr Holiday should be the Anniversary of retaking Ascalon.

Maybe, except they still haven’t quite retaken Ascalon yet. Sure they have Rin and bits and pieces, but there’s still ghosts all over the place rendering large portions relatively uninhabitable. I’d suggest the Searing, but the Charr might be slightly against that considering it was part of their “Worshipping Gods” phase and they REALLY hate the Shaman caste that did that. The only part of Charr history that really seemed to be accepted by all was the uniting by the Khan-ur.

And Meatoberfest would be great, except for the fact it already seems to be something that’s held every day continuously in Diessa Plateau. Were it not for that, it would be perfect.