Guild Wars 2

Yeah it’d make sense that prizes will go up, unless a lot of people give up on their shoulder piece after the end of Wintersday.. Who knows? ^^’
I’m just lucky I’m a hoarder, so I had a lot of stuff in my bank that I could sell to get a lot of the drinks already, and the rest I managed to get from the different mini-games, and mostly from the bell choir and trading for karma with the merchant. It wasn’t too bad in the end

Seriously though, if you don’t want to spend the time needed to get this shoulder piece, don’t do it.. Nobody is forcing you to do this, and there are plenty other skins in the game that you can get instead.. I just don’t get what is sooo terrible about all of this.
Not everybody is willing to go through all those fractals just to get the legendary backpiece, same for PvP. Not everybody is willing to spend all their time to craft a legendary weapon, you don’t hear them complaining it takes too long or whatever to craft one. Why should this be any different? Crafting any legendary weapon or backpiece is going to take time and gold, this is just the same. Either you farm the presents now, or you have one year to just play the game, get some gold, buy more booze and slowly but surely get that shoulder piece.

Hmm true… Another slot would work even better of course.. In any case, since this is more of an effect instead of an actual shoulder ‘skin’, there should be a better way to implement it with your armor / outfits..

Not complaining here, no problems with the JP (even though I’m bad at them, I did manage to get the achievement), and no problem for the booze farming as we get a whole year for that
I do have a suggestion though, wouldn’t it be much better to get effects like Winter’s Presence and Nightfury in the form of a trinket (like the refractor effect and the queen bee jewel), instead of a shoulder ‘skin’?
The reason I ask this is it that it’d be more interesting to combine these effects with the themed outfits for halloween and wintersday. I mean, the witch outfit or arctic explorer outfit work PERFECTLY with effects like a swarm of bats or a flurry of snowflakes O_O
I really do like the shoulder skin, but I just don’t think it merges really well with most of the armor skins, whereas it’d be perfect in combination with the arctic explorer or fancy wintersday outfit.
Seeing as there was a big at first that turned the queen bee jewels into winter’s presence trinkets, it must be possible to do this without much of a problem ^^’

Tl;dr: Winter’s Presence as a trinket instead of shoulder ‘skin’… Yes or no?