After the really awesome Halloween event I looked forward to Wintersday. Here is my feedback which contains some comparisons of both here and there.
First of all: this event is much better than most (if not all events) I saw in other games. It shows love and diligence. But for me it lacks in certain areas. I would like to know if other people think the same or if I am a lone naggler seeing a giant cake and complaining about the missing meat.
Ok, here it goes:
Decoration of Lion’s Arch: We are accustomed to ArenaNet’s greatness in the graphic department and it does not disappoint. I miss the playing children of the Halloween event in Lion’s Arch, though. You know, the ones, who cried: Hello… Hallo… Candy time! To be more general: This Wintersday event LA seems to be more quiet, less busy with the event than during Halloween times. I hear only the event barkers near the snowball most of the time.
Skins: With the exception of the princess wand I don’t like the skins for weapons you can get at all. They are bland and uninteresting. Of course the idea of toy weapons is funny but the execution is all in all so not princess-wandy… Let it sparkle, glitter and shine. Why does the head of the staff not glimmer a bit? It is a piece of wood. As old-fashioned toys were. Which died out for a reason.
Minis: This one is a general complaint. I don’t use minis. I like the concept and I would use them but as of now I think they are highly impractical. Why? Because I continuously click on “Deposit collectibles” when I look into my inventory, and then the minis are away. I have to, otherwise my inventory would suffer from serious overflow. I would so like a right-mouse-click option in the inventory with which you can flag and unflag a specific item as depositable. I know there are special bags for that but those are impracticle for other reasons (I like my inventory as a whole area – “Hide Bags” on). So all parts leading to crafting minis are a bit pointless for me. But it is an extra source of income, which is always welcome.
Tixx’s dungeons (the five town-dependant missions): They are really lightweight dungeons. That is ok; not all content has to be difficult. The rewards are as crappy as the dungeons are easy. For me the content is so easy that I don’t like to do it; I prefer to go into the fractals. I get more fun and more reward in the same time I would get if I did Tixx’s dungeons. I wouldn’t say that the dungeons are outright bad (they are somewhat beautiful designed) but fractals are so much better (and will be even more so when the January update comes). Halloween had the maze as easy-going area. That was much better in my opinion. I liked it when the map instance I were in was full of shouts “Champion spawning in NE” and all players tried to get him down (and succeeded, because that dungeon was also easy, but not THAT easy, and the rewards were good).
end of part 1