Guild Wars 2

Mister Mustard.7203:

Vol.5241:

lchan.2169:

good to know you blew 40+ days of your life doing nothing substantial. Or almost 60 days including your sleeps.

someone is bitter

I hate to say it, or just realistic. I suppose I could be bitter about someone who spends close to all their free time in one spot, but why would I be?

Someone tell me if my math is wrong, out of a possible 3672 hours since release, he’s played 1000. So just over 27% of his time is spent in front of a computer playing one game.

edit I don’t mean to be rude though —- Congratulations on your achievement, Volkon.

I know it sounds like a lot… but the question is what is that time replacing? I’ve a full time job, wife, two kids, etc. and still have plenty of time. What I don’t do anymore is plop on the couch watching TV. That time is replaced with computer time with the kids (who also don’t watch much TV). I also work rather well on about six hours sleep. I do the lion’s share of the cooking, which I’m rather good at, a good share of cleaning and handle most the laundry, which is rather easy to take care of while the game’s up. I even squeeze in a daily exercise routine. Ah, I’m also the goto Dad for homework, especially science and math.

Basically it’s replaced my “do nothing” time. I’d rather keep my mind engaged online than stagnant staring at the TV.

1000 hrs strong and still having a blast. Millenials, represent!

Real men (and mesmer women, of course) use pink to melt your brains from the inside. What could be manlier than that?

declan.3968:

Unbreakable should not be crafted / forged, doing so takes away the prestige of owning one.

The single-use ones should be craftable/forged, as this will create a money/time sink.

I have trouble associating “prestige” with “I had a lucky loot roll” personally. If someone can go through the hoops required to craft one that should be at least as prestigious as someone getting lucky with the roll of the dice.

MithranArkanere.8957:

VOLKON.1290:

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You could have her off on maternity leave, and when she returns she could have an infant…

She’s a sylvari. They don’t do that… yet.

Oh, right, right.

She could bring back a sapling? Maybe a take out salad…

Unwrapping the wife… hmm, Christmas may be taking a saucy turn this year…

AFK for nun yer bidness…

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

We do not have an ETA on when Lyns will be accepting commendations. To clarify about timing: this will not happen during Wintersday, but in a future game update. Sorry about the confusion, everyone, and thank you for your patience.

You could have her off on maternity leave, and when she returns she could have an infant…

I agree. They’re bending over backwards to help people out, and it’s not because they don’t want to lose a subscription.

It’s appreciated.

It should only be craftable if you can play Eruption with it.

Someone still put in a ton of work. I don’t care if someone else pays them for that work… it has no effect on my game whatsoever.

Poor thing is a LONG ways from home, can’t get back, and in my way. :-( (Jade Quarry server)

Dude needs a leash.

Nhalx.9735:

Thus far from my understanding.
from googling it ‘’they said that they gave the extra 200 for the people that encountered a bug and received less than 100 in one of the dungeons.’’

Which would work better then a script that might give someone double cogs or someone no cogs at all.

That’s odd then… because that never happened to be. I’ve always received the right number of cogs. It would be nice if the chests had a chance to drop even five or ten cogs. (By chests, I mean the ones the mobs drop.)

Is there any truth that there’s a chance to get 50 cogs out of the Wintersday Chests you can buy with gems? I swear I read that somewhere but can’t verify and don’t dare accept as true.

I really wish ANet would take a moment and clarify once and for all questions regarding the accessibility of more cogs. Just so I know and can stop stressing it.

“(Hey you don’t need a god to be an active part of daily life to have zealous cults acting in its name. See; real life.)’

My favorite line in a brilliant post. I do happen to enjoy WintersDay and I expect future ones to provide new experiences. I think ANet should ponder your suggestions with a raised eyebrow and a conspiratorial “Hmmm”.

I can recall a karka from last night doing the insta-respawn… one in particular that sticks in my memory.

From Lion’s Point, you head out and come across the first karka ahead of you. When you take care of him, if you look a little to the right there’s the upslope that heads up to the floaty dudes… at the base of that, on a sandy area immediately across the water, are a couple karka. The closest one to you (from the perspective of the first karka) did an immediate respawn. I believe it was the third one I killed on the way to the upslope.

Hopefully that helps a little… I didn’t really mind and made it go dead as well.

zbrkesbr.4173:

ThiBash.5634:

It’s a new skin. So the main thing that’s new are the looks.

Then it is kind of “new looks with bad design” because i couldnt even see it on my norn warrior (shortest height possible) with long hair.

Get a haircut, you hippy! And get a respectible shirt and tie instead of wearing dead animals everywhere you go! How do you expect to get a decent job?!

Haven’t seen one, and it’s not for lack of being out there killing things.

Feedback, arcane thievery, even the heal that reflects projectiles, null field… mesmers can do rather well against them.

BaZomic.8392:

This is outrageous!!! haha jk

But yeah, dev said we will only be able to create two out of the 5 when wintersday started so I picked up the others on the TP. If that wasn’t true I want my money back for one of the pets i purchased!

They never said that. They said if you did the each of the five stops you’d have enough for two of the minipets. They never said there were no other ways to get more cogs.

Are they account bound?

JoniSusi.1678:

Contibuting. While I was Transmuting my gear i accidentally turned my camera around and… Oh god…

Photobombed by the bear! lol!

What people haven’t realized is that Nostradamus had mentioned in his writings something along the lines of ‘and the apocalyse can only be averted by the rising of the toys’. It’s a rather unknown statement often written off as being mistranslated, but maybe… maybe…

They have not said if there will be additional cogs to be had after Tixx gets to L.A. All they’ve said is that the first five days will give you enough materials to make two of the minipets. That leaves a lot of days unaccounted for.

We don’t know if that’s it for the cogs or not… they haven’t actually said. You may want to be a little patient and hold onto things for now.

Do we know for a fact that there will be no additional materials once Tixx gets to L.A.? All they’ve said is that for the five days you’ll get enough mats to make two minis… they haven’t said anything about after the five days however.

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

I believe this now more than ever.

“Shakes Magic Asura Cube”

Outlook points to yes, Bookah.

Lordphantomhive.1256:

VOLKON.1290:

SCREENSHOT or it didn’t happen!

Well, I’d simply like to see a screenshot if that’s ok… stuck at work still.

Here a picture of it.

You just became one of my favorite people. Thanks for that!

SCREENSHOT or it didn’t happen!

Well, I’d simply like to see a screenshot if that’s ok… stuck at work still.

New Slogan:

ArenaNet. Without them, it would only be Tersday.

I’m having just as much fun as I did in Wintersday in GW1… probably more. I’m in no hurry, yet also can’t wait to see what January and February have in store for us.

It would look silly if mesmers are putting up a bunch of portal exits but no entries.

Lorana.2468:

i’ll just leave this here.
http://www.gw2db.com/items/73113-miniature-wintersday-trio

Only one response can do that justice. I am pleased.

arrownin.3128:

Dungin.2983:

arrownin.3128:

Mike.9451:

Word of advice: buy the mats now (if you need them) while they’re still cheap. The prices are going up now.

Yep, I anticipated that, which is why I bought a ton of them before I made this post

Sooo… How is this post still here then? Isn’t that a violation of code of conduct on forums? I’ve been infracted for 1/10th of what this infers.

To be honest I bought 750 of glue, and 750 of wads, I am not a rich guy, I just wanted to show people how to get this tonic, because I think it is cool. Right now all I have is 2 gold and 30 silver, along with 550 gems, so I’m not a big time economist. For all those that think that this is fake, two words, its not, I have all three tonics. Sorry, but RNG brings good and bad luck,.

Did anyone else try to mouseover the image to see which tonic was which or is that only me?

My kids will be thrilled with this… thanks greatly for this thread!

skullmount.1758:

Combine the frame with some glue, wadding and a pile of glittering dust, and you have a chance at it. Apparently if you don’t get it, you get the frame back in the chest it generates. There’s a thread (with pics) about it in this subsection.

:D Going to hunt that down now. ty much!

Wait… what’s this about endless potions? (Haven’t seen this yet… am curious…)

Oh… and if these can be used in the costume brawl I’m going for the doll. I’ll lay waste to all of you with my tantrumy badness!

Black Lion chest rewards have been revamped… yesterday I opened one that had a bag of coins in it. In that bag of coins was over 1 gold.

Speaking of presents, there are twenty piles of presents meant for six year olds in Newtown, Ct. that will never be opened. Maybe “outraged” isn’t the right word to use in the context here… it’s far more fitting in the real world right now. Perspective, please.

That being said, I’m not an avid collector which is probably why this doesn’t bother me at all (plus the perspective thing). Come payday in a few days I’ll likely get more gems and give a few more chests a try (I managed a festive golem out of my first six attempts), but if I don’t get any it won’t be a big deal.

Here’s something interesting… I had a couple Mystic Keys lying around in the bank so I opened two of the newly revamped Black Lion chests. From the two, I got none of the tonics and three large bags of coins (I think that was the name). One of them had pocket change. The second around 25s. The third… the third had a few coppers above 1g 8s. I was not sad.

But please… save the “outrage” for when it’s appropriate. You may not like how something is done in game, but there are far better outlets for the real emotions. Having two young kids and seeing current events really does change your perspective on things.

My first thought was “I got the music in me”.

We know one thing and one thing only.

We know that, after five days, you’ll be able to make two of the minipets.

We have no idea whether or not we’ll be able to get more cogs after those five days however, do we? Maybe Toypocalypse has some as a reward, we don’t know. It’s premature to get freaky, and even when we know for sure it’ll still be wierd to see people getting freaky.

Anyone remember the Doctor Who episode with the little cubes?

It reminds me of that.

You can make up any days you missed once Tixx is in L.A.

Hmm… add a little steel drums, some rum… Toypocalypso!

crimsonbro.3126:

Kyosji.8961:

Any screen caps or video of this?

You know, I found this too. I hit ctrl+shift+h to get some screen shots without the hud and danced a bit. Didn’t have fraps up and running. However… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNuDpvh6ec someone got a vid of it.

That’s the one. If you’d have turned around up there there’s further back in there you can go into a silvery area.

karma.8763:

I still havent seen any of these so called toys in orr, been all over there yesterday, and they just dont exist, do i have to do something for them to appear or something?

They don’t appear in Orr. There is no joy in Orr. Tixx is skipping it altogether.

Maybe the “Toypocalypse” isn’t an exaggerated name after all?

Image waves of these things all coming against us…

My son came across this… at the end area of the jumping puzzle (where the chest is) there’s another mini-jumping puzzle that takes you up to an area with a star, then you can go in behind that to a shiny area. Anyone else find that, and is there more beyond what he found?

My son found a mini-jumping puzzle at the end of the jumping puzzle. Takes you up to the star, but not sure if there’s more beyond that… anyone else find it?

Of all the satisfying aspects so far, and there have been plenty, the top ones are watching my kids play the Wintersday stuff as well. My son (10) has the jumping puzzle nearly mastered and giggles when in the snowball fights he turns into a giant snowball and bowls people over. My daughter (12) is scoring near 500 (I think) every time in the bell chimes and says she has every song figured out. (I watched her righting down the numbers for at least one song, don’t know if it was that or the free play though).

It’s fun for the whole family!

Except my wife who goes off and paints while we’re playing…

Chamone.6890:

If I do all 5 Tixx dungeons I can get enough mats to make 2 Xmas Dolls. Which is cool, and how rewards should happen. There is not enough of this, and far too much RNG going on right now.

I just want to address this part for some reason. What was stated was that if you do all five days you can get enough materials to make two of the minipets, correct?

What wasn’t said:

Rewards for Toypocalypse.
Rewards for running the earlier events after the ship gets to L.A.

We also know you have the additional option of buying the minis from the gemstore (350 gems ea). Ventari and Creepy Doll are already listed there.

I think the whole minipet complaints are a wee bit premature.

We have no idea what the Toypocalypse rewards will be keep in mind.