Guild Wars 2

Where are the wintersday places like snowball mayhem and winter wonderland set?

’Functionally" all seasonal instances are in the mists, thats the buggy source because they run the PvP engine.

Reality (ingame speaking) it’s all an asuran lab simulating a winter wonderland.

The original winterland in GW1 was a domain alternately ruled by Grenth and Melandru

Originally, the Mystic Forge in LA was replaced with a snowglobe, which had miniaturized models of the jumping puzzle and snowball mayhem and bell choir. The maps in lore were literally inside that snowglobe. Toypocalypse and Tixx’s Infinitarium take place in… Tixx’s airship called ‘Infinitarium’.

These maps have nothing to do with the GW1 snowball arena which Amaimon talks about.

Mechanically, these maps are part of the Kryta region, I believe.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Originally, the Mystic Forge in LA was replaced with a snowglobe, which had miniaturized models of the jumping puzzle and snowball mayhem and bell choir. The maps in lore were literally inside that snowglobe. Toypocalypse and Tixx’s Infinitarium take place in… Tixx’s airship called ‘Infinitarium’.

These maps have nothing to do with the GW1 snowball arena which Amaimon talks about.

Mechanically, these maps are part of the Kryta region, I believe.

I never said the gw1 wintersday map and gw2 were the same map. I just said the map used in gw1 was a realm grenth and melandru competed over.

And yes, the infiniarium is an airspace made by Tixx. Where the minigames are functionally i dont know, inside the snowglobe is a good possibility.

As for the mechanical location, it is the pvp realm. We know that as a fact because its whats causing all the bugs they cant fix. Because they forced a pve style game into a pvp engine. Why they ever did that is beyond me, but seperating it now as much effort as completely remaking everything, so anet is kinda like sucking up the bugs because they dont have the time to fix it

If you go to the Crown Pavillion and look up you can actually see Tixx’s airship floating above the city. You can see it even more clearly if you go to the upper level of the city and look out across the Crown Pavillion.

Amaimon.7823:

I never said the gw1 wintersday map and gw2 were the same map. I just said the map used in gw1 was a realm grenth and melandru competed over.

Grenth and Dwayna, actually. In some of the later activities, Balthazar and Melandru came in on the sides of Grenth and Dwayna respectively.

Amaimon.7823:

And yes, the infiniarium is an airspace made by Tixx. Where the minigames are functionally i dont know, inside the snowglobe is a good possibility.

Unfortunately the snow globe is gone now but in 2012 it was downright obvious that it took place in there if you looked. You could see the areas in the snowglobe and all the NPCs that took you to those three places were next to it, plus the “region” that the three areas are in is called Enchanted Snow Globe.

Amaimon.7823:

As for the mechanical location, it is the pvp realm. We know that as a fact because its whats causing all the bugs they cant fix. Because they forced a pve style game into a pvp engine. Why they ever did that is beyond me, but seperating it now as much effort as completely remaking everything, so anet is kinda like sucking up the bugs because they dont have the time to fix it

By that reckoning, WvW should be up in the “pvp realm” because they share same maps and the like.

But I’m fairly certain that mechanical region has nothing to do with whether it’s considered PvP. After all, aren’t activities considered PvP but are in Shiverpeaks, Maguuma, and Kryta on the map?

Danikat.8537:

If you go to the Crown Pavillion and look up you can actually see Tixx’s airship floating above the city. You can see it even more clearly if you go to the upper level of the city and look out across the Crown Pavillion.