I think y’all are not getting my point.
I’m not complaining because I spent so much money for the boxes, nor do I say that I’ve been forced to do so by anyone or anything.
I’m just VERY dissappointed that the unlimited hairstyle kit is NOT accountbound, so that lucky one’s who just want to make gold with it are able to. 400 Gold is a hell of an amount. And seeing the only thing you really really really wanted being sold by someone who just wants to make profit because he has no need for it HURTS!
Ahahahahaha…hahaha…hahaha breath hahaha….
Thank you for this entertainment.
Thank you for this unbelievable mature and senseful entry here.
I’m sure this helped a lot.
Aaaah I found it, thank you! ^.^
Sorry, it’s none of them, still thanks for the tips.
The one I mean reminds a lot of the lanters in the grove, like those that stand outside the bank.
A light rosé/yellow glowing flower. I bet it’s one of those staffs that use a unique skin like the one with that little flame on its top. (dunno the English name, it’s “Glutstock” in German) I’d have asked the one who had it, but she hopped through an asuran portal before I could do so… ^^"
Hi guys!
I’m looking for a certain staff for my mesmer.
I’ve seen someone running around with a staff, that looked like one of the lanterns that light up the grove, a bright glowing flower.
Does anybody know the name of this staff, is ist crafteable, can you buy it from tp, whatever? Please help me!
No one is getting banned for just mentioning it, especially without providing links or stuff.
As for the hairstylestuff – it’s not about how many times I will or won’t do it, it’s about WHY I want to do it.
I’m a roleplayer and I only play Sylvari. They’re plantlike. So what happens if you throw ink into a flower’s water? Right, their petals dye in the same color the ink had.
So if a Sylvari with originally whit petals would drink a lot of cherry-juice… You understand my point? Well… probably not…
But I wouldn’t want to pay 1000 gems each time. The infinite one would just have been perfect…
Well I doubt that people who’ve spent so much money now will ever do it again. I won’t, definitely. There are much funier ways to waste your money, really.
If buying gold wasn’t against the rules I’d really think about that. Would have been a much better way to get 400 gold, just buy the kit and say thanks, but as I do not want to loose my account well…. Honest people never go far, that’s a damn fact…
Dear ArenaNet,
I can understand that you do not give away stuff like the permanent hairstyle kit too easily, but WHY the hell aren’t they accountbound?
First of all, I’ve spend a LOT of money to buy your gift boxes from the GemStore. I opened 200+ of them (you can sum up the price in Euro for yourself) in the hope to get the permanent hairstyle kit. I even ended up doubting they even EXIST. (I didn’t even get a quaggan mini other than making one in the mystic forge)
And now, I must see a hairstylekit in the TP, for 400Gold! Seriousely… If I had exchanged the gems I bought for my money in gold in the first place, I’d have been able to buy it. Is this what you want your paying customers to experience? Being unlucky in getting something they REALLY want, just to see other people whose only intention is to MAKE GOLD out of these items doing so, because they were luckier than others?
This really bothers me now, and I don’t see ANY point in buying these kind of RNG stuff anymore. The minis are accountbound, while it would have been a lot better to make them tradeable, nd stuff like that, that people will only sell for an insane amount of gold isn’t? Now I know what people meant when they felt ripped off…
Call this QQing, but to me, it really feels like a punch right into the face.
If the boxes were for free, okay, but this… I’m sorry but it hurts!
Yepp, preview needs to be the way it has been before.
I noticed this quite early. (I only play Sylvari btw ^^)
I wanted to color the cultural armor of my ele to look fiery, but as his skin is in a very shiny GREEN it looked awful. :S
Then, I’ve been trying the nightmare light armor on my thief – it looked awful! (his skin is brown, with hair and dye set in colorful autumn tones) Way too much brown in it! Then I went there with my engineer (bright green skin, deep red hair, and a dye combination of his hair’s red, his skin’s green and a darker tone of green) and I was totally blown. THIS combination looked awesome! I had to get it.
I didn’t like it in the beginning too, but it prevents people from running around like clowns. And then, cultural or leafy armor looks more natural, if it uses the original skin color on some parts. If I wanted armor to put on, I could wear common leather or plate or cloth armor, but as I am a plant, I want to grow my armor myself. And it wouldn’t look like that if it hadn’t this… uhm feature?
I’m quite satisfied with how it is right now, if they should ever change it, then they should give us an option to keep it the way it worked before. I can understand both sides, but I’ll go with the status quo.
I never finished a single monthly because of that WvW stuff in it… ONLY because that WvW stuff.
After 3 years of Aion and the worst PvP ever, I am no longer intrested in PvP, no matter how good it might be. I don’t even like most oft the dedicated PvP’ers attitude.
So, apart from getting the 100% of map exploration (which is enough really..) there is NO reason for me to join WvW, and there won’t be.
I like how PvP and PvE is divided from one another, PvPers even got their own monthly… So WHY didn’t Anet move the monthly WvW kills just to the PvP monthly? Why is it still in the PvE monthly, bothering a LOT of PvE’ers? >_<
Other than that, I have no problem with group-play. This is still a MMO, so I can understand why solo-play isn’t supported too much. Off course I like to be on my own sometimes too, but if I want to play a singleplayer with a chat then I’d be playing Skyrim and use Skype while doing so… ^^" But I agree as for the PvE monthly achievement…
If you think about it closely, you will find a way to do a dungeon 6+ times and still get full reward for it.
It’s not that hard, our guild did it endless times. We got the whole TA set in only 2 days, no problem with that. Just use your brains and you’ll find out for yourself.
And no, I won’t tell you HOW it works, at least not in the forums. Another no, no exploiting is used to achieve that, just plain calculation.
I’m not satisfied with how visiting a dungeon multiple times is punished by anet, that’s why I do not want them to change the way it is still possible to be fully rewarded, even doing it 6-9 times in a row.
You know, if I WANT something (like those nice leafy armor sets!) I’m eager to work for it, no matter how hard, and I do NOT want to get restricted by some silly prevention system.
50 trys only? Lucky you… -.-"
I’ve had way more and guess what? Nothing…
I opened a loooot of gift boxes from the TP, really, a lot of money was spent for this…
I got a lot of minipets, no complains here – but what I was buying them for was the quaggan-mini, but in any case for the hairstylekit.
After a huge amount of boxes, and way too much money, I neither got a mini quaggan, nor did I get the hairstylekit. (got the quaggan from the mystic forge instead)
I understand that they’re extremely rare, but after the amount of boxes (AND money) I wasted trying I doubt that they’re really in there. I haven’t seen one myself nor did I hear of someone who got any of these two items.
Yes, please. I’m missing that. Especially as I am looking for a certain skin, and can’t find it because I cannot preview…
Add item that turns ANY piece of Armour into TOWN CLOTHES.
Profit.
This so much this… I would an equipment piece which I think is really nice and I would love to see it as town clothing but it is a functional armor.
This would make the whole town clothing thing so much richer and interesting…
Exactly this is waht a friend of mine and I are dreaming of all the time. Toys are great, some armorskins are great, combinations of them would be even greater, but sadly we can’t do that.
Adding basic townclothes (one piece for every available slot) to special vendors in town and then sellingtownclothes transmutation stones at the TP would be great. ^.^
The idea of a minislot ist quite nice, I’d support that.
If it comes to lagg issues and stuff: what about an option for each player to show / not to show other peoples minis? The game I’m coming from does have an option for this, and it even calls pets sagain after changing the area. (after people complaing about them being gone each time they shift maps) And there’s no argueing about lagg, even with hundreds of pets in a city. ^^
Yeah I’m missing 1st person view desperately too…
I’ve been using it a lot, not only for screenshots, and standing in front of any something that doesn’t let you turn the camera so that you only see glitches or camerajumping or whatever is simply annoying. If you could use 1st person view, this wouldn’t happen anymore.
Well just as the title says, the unbreakable bell is really amazing, it’s so addicting playing it.
How about adding more musicial instruments to the gme? Like… for example human’s guitars, sylvari xylophones or harps, asuran synthesizers, Charr-drums, and/or Norn horns? That’d be great, and we could oranize bands. (off course they should be available to everyone, no matter what race they play.)
Plus, someone mentioned to respecify the itemclass of the unbreakable bell from consumable to toy in the wintersday forums (to wear it along the townclothes). This would be a great idea. Or at least to remove the timelimit on the unbreakable one. (and off course for future instruments too – if there will be any) 1 minute is way too less to play most songs. 5 minutes would do at least!
You know, if people want to bother others with this tiny thing they can do so anyway, so the timelimit makes no sense on a permanent item, other than bugging their owners and ruining their songs!
The bell is definitely the BEST idea ever. Thanks to Leif for creating such beautiful content. Now Anet, give us mooooore and stop limiting it to a little amount of time being used at once. PLEASE!
A flowerskin for a staff? :O
If you mean the type of flower that looks like the lanterns in the grove then PLEASE tell me the name of this staff, PLEASE! I’m desperately looking for it, but as there is no preview in the TP, well… and everytime I try to ask someone who has it (which is quite rare) they run off before I can.
I’d take a candy cane instead, off course… ^^
I’d have wished for some more leafy stuff for sylvari.
I only play Sylvari, and it doesn’t feel righ to wear anything else than leaves!
But as there are only 4 armorsets per armorclass (one insanely expensive, one out of a dungeon and 2 for an okay price) and 2 townclothes (the original one which looks meeeeh… and the cooker’s outfit) we definitely need more. _
A christmassy leaf-outfit would have been really nice. The festive outfit is oookay, but that’s it. Also, I liked the fact taht some costumes have a different look ondifferent races, would love to see this in the future too. Other than that I got the costume, as I am collecting them anyway.
The bell doesn’t have half-tones. It covers 3 octaves. (deep, middle, high) like the bell choir minigame does, but all in one.
I’d like the idea to convert it from consumable to toy, to wear it along the townclothes. Off course the time limit for playing it MUST dissapear. it’s the only thing about the the bell that really bothers me.
And hell yeah, MORE instruments! (As toys?) I’d like the asuran synthesizer too. x)
Edit: They drop from regular presents. But X-tremely rare.
We’ve had a hard time on this a few minutes ago, until I took out my epic flamethrower and well… xD
That’s some kind of fun! ^.^
I know why I love my Engineer.
All right… as for “Fear not this Night”, I’ve looked the song up by now.
I fear it be impossible to play the full version. Not because of the range, but because of all those half-tones, but well… I’ll still try it later on.
But this time I’ll hide away in n solo-instance for practising I think. xD
Edit: Ewww grammar… ^^"
Wahaha, that one was great, yeah. xD
Gonna have to look the song up and I’ll try. I got a permanent one. _
And damn, I’M LOVING IT!
If it comes to people who are willingly bothering others: Ignorance is a good way to make them shut up or move to another area, soon they’ll be bored of that.
I’d wish for a removal of the timelimit you have to play the permanent one. It makes no sense. With or without it you are possibly able to bother others, but without it you’re able to play much better and without haste. ^^
In another thread I already wrote, more instruments would be great, even on the Gemstore. We could make bands and play in the cities, or just for our own, for friends… for roleplay events…
I loved this feature in LotRO, although I like playing it by myself much better than using scripts. No need for them at all. Again I beg of Anet to remove the timelimit, other than the the bell is the BEST wintersday-gift I got so far. I’m really happy with it.
I tried to hide somewhere in the grove for practising yesterday, to not bother all the people in the bank area, but what should I say? It didn’t take long until I got a LOT of listeners in front of me, cheering. Along with my festive golem it felt like a little stage. We had a great time out there yesterday, THIS are the moments I like best on wintersday and the game itself.
It’s not about killing all and everything, but about stopping by, have a look, a chat, make friends and just have fun, and THEN go out to kill stuff or explore something.
And the bell is the better way to enjoy the little toilette-breaks during a dungeon than costume-fights, even if they’re funny though. xD
They’re from the gift boxes. There’s a tiiiiny chance to get a permanent one instead of the consumables.
Or you could spend 30G+++ on the trading post. (Even that is SO DAMN WORTH it!)
I know a lot of people who were wishing for these kind of instruments so bad. ANet could add more instruments, even to the Gemstore for use. We could create bands and play songs…! _
But still, not without a time limit, that ruins the songs. xD It’s just enough to play “Oh come all ye faithful” x)
Yesterday I’ve been playing the bell in the grove. I thought: Well, just hide somewhere instead of bothering all the people in the storage area, but guess what happened? While I was practising more and more people popped up to listen. With my little festive golem aside it felt like a little stage somehow. xD It was great fun and we even started some RP’ing there.
This are the things I like best on wintersday! ^,^
More of this ANet, you made us REALLY happy. (still the timelimit… waves)
It would be nice if the pets were unbound. Wintersday (and christmas) is all about giving, and I could give the ones I have 2 or hree times to others who weren’t that lucky but still wish for a mini. Or to people who doesn’t have the big money.
It would still be a pain what amount of money I needed to get my festive golem, but on the other hand I’d be happy being able to make others happy as well.
Sadly, no…
Been quite sad when I found out that the candy cane actually is a hammer, which none of my characters can use. I would have been so happy if it was a staff for my mesmer. _ It would have suited him so well.
Buuuut… no candy-cane for little Gici… ^^"
I put 4 green festival minis (3 snowman and 1 of the other ones) in the mystic forge and I got a REGULAR green one (dredge mining suit). Obviously kitten … why did they make the minis so hard to come by… and account bound to make it worse?
Wouldn’t have happened if you had read the patch-notes, or just ask around.
To create a mini quaggan out of 3(!) of the new RNG minipets (no matter if you got the snowman thrice or only 2 different ones, whatever) you need these 3(!) pets, as well as 50 walls of enchanted stuffing, and your mini quaggan comes out with a chance of 100 percent!
And no, no Ventari, only snowman, airship and festivegolem minis.
It doesn’t change to 15 minutes, this is what the ‘buff’ says, bit after a few more secounds it’s over. If it were really 15 minutes I wouldn’t have anything to complain about, as that was eeeeenough. ^^ Even 5 minutes would do.
And well, teh reason of not being able to bother others is a bad one, as you can just take the bell out again and go right on. Other than that, the constant skill spamming of some people is way more bothering than a tiny bell. ^^
It’s just so funny to play with the bell! _
Best toy of wintersday ever!
Still, 30 seconds until you’re back to your skills are way too short! >_<"
It would be funny to organize a band.
Well I got 30 boxes from the gemstore… >_<"
4 snowman pets, 1 miniature airship… and all I wanted was this freaky golem… and then, they’re not even tradeable, what I find quite sad, as we could have exchanged them for the ones we wanted.
And how are Quagganfans supposed to get their cuuuuute Quaggan if they do not have the cash to buy these boxes until(!) they have 3 minis? That’s sad too.
There IS a permanent one, I was lucky enough to get it.
But PLEASE Anet, remove the 30 secounds timer, PLEASE!
Either make it longer, or simply remove it at all.
Playing the bell is sooo entertaining, I really enjoy it, but the time limit ruins every song because of the sudden abort. ^^"
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE _