Guild Wars 2

Cameirus.8407:

I hope there are not real world equivalent events in GW2….

If they want to do Tyria ones fine, but I really hope they dont do xmas events or halloween or easter (an no, just changing the name is not good enough.)

I agree, Tyria has its own rich lore why should it celebrate some old man dropping gifts into strangers houses or a lamp that burned for 8 nights or whatever kwanza is a celebration of.

I can understand doing stuff around the holidays because that is when people are off of work/school and can enjoy the events the most. But why does it have to be winter in Tyria just because it is winter break in the Northern Hemisphere? I doubt the Tyrian day is on a real world 24 hour cycle, so why should its holidays/events follow the real world cycle?

For that matter, each of the races should have their own holidays/events. As I understand the lore they aren’t some big happy family that have been living as one for so long that their holidays/events should coincide entirely. Heck the Sylvari are such a young race they may not even have any official holidays yet, except maybe the birth of the firstborn. And I highly doubt some Charr is going to give a cog about when that happened.

I would applaud ANet actually having holiday events that made sense for their own lore, and as the quote above says, not just some renaming or slight changes to real world capitalistic holidays that have no meaning.

I’m not rolling in money, but what I tend to do is complete a zone, and all events as I come across them. I generally vendor all Blue and Green drops that are not upgrades for the character I am on. I salvage white drops, and yellows I either sell or dump into the mystic forge in an attempt at something I can use depending on the mood I am in.

I have been able to buy the training manuals at each bracket without going broke, and have used some money frivolously on dyes, and crafting components to try to keep my crafting caught up with my toon (leatherworking and jewelcrafting).

I also will tend to travel on foot within a zone rather than using the waypoint system heavily, the exception being going to and from Lion’s Arch from whatever zone I am leveling in. This reduces the money I am spending on travel, and also means I kill more mobs in transit and possibly come across more events.