Guild Wars 2

My main problem isn’t that I wasn’t here for half of the event and I missed it. My problem is when you associate achievements with a specific content and then delete it. I was here for the first 2 months of it and did all the achievements and the content stayed so when I had to go out of the country for a few weeks I said “no worries, apparently the content isn’t going anywhere”, came back yesterday and it’s over, gone and now I have a bunch of achievs that I can’t get anymore. At least with seasonal events I can always get them next year, but this sucks…

Excursion.9752:

Do you have an official link to where ArenaNet says this. If so that would be lame they never changed clock tower when it was to hard for some people why would they make and exception for this? If they crack it would be weak on their part. I don’t think its a great achievement by no means but changing it after some have already did it the “old way” would be pretty lame.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/Toypocalypse-Can-t-join-as-a-party

Second Page:

“Like Snowball Mayhem and the Bell Choior, the Toypocalypse is an activity. They are using the same systems, and these systems do not permit joining by party. Unfortunately due to technical limitations and time constraints before the holidays, we cannot change it. We understand that this is not ideal for people who wish to play in the same party and who are finding it difficult in random groups. We will be adjusting the “Toypocalypse Cancelled” achievement so that you will need to keep only one gift dolyak alive. We do not have an ETA on when this change will be live. Thank you for your feedback. We have been listening, and we will take your comments on board for future game updates.”

ReginaBuenaobra
North American Community Team Lead

As for the OP, thank you for the strategy, there should be more people trying to help =)

I saw people finishing the jumping puzzle in 2 tries while you took hours to do it.
Said people merely said “Done, what’s next?” while you’re here all happy sharing with us how good it feels to finally be able to complete it.
So even though those people had arguably more skill in jumping puzzles (and I’d like to see them try to do it without the mouse…that’s awesome by the way!) I definitely think you got the biggest slice out of that cake so great job and I hope you can keep enjoying the game like you are now for a very long time!

The first one has to be waiting for the loading screen in LA. I was thinking “They did such a great job with LA for Halloween, they’re going to have to work really hard to do better” then I saw the beautiful white town and I felt like a kid running around in the snow building snowmen.
Then the bells mini-game is just so addictive…Got the achievs for it in one go and then tried to move to pvp to get those achievs but I was just hooked; and playing Silent Night, Jingle Bells, etc during the free round is so much fun. I enjoyed it so much that after I was done I had to go upstairs and play Fear Not This Night in my harp XD
Tixx’s airship is great fun and even though I felt bad since everything there is so nicely “built”, it was a lot of fun fun to track that last tree to destroy and get the achiev (almost like tracking that last unpainted doll that was hiding all the way in the back behind a support beam yesterday =P)

Edit: Also the sweaty palms finishing the jumping puzzle with 60hp left =P (I actually died out of hp loss the first time while falling into the final present). They did such a great job in improving upon the jumping puzzle with the several paths to disperse the crowd, and snowball fights between runs…The hardest part about those jumping puzzles for people who aren’t very good at them is the wait in between.

I also forgot present hunting; even though I think the toys an dolls’ hp regen is a bit too much it’s lots of fun to go out and just hunt presents down.