Damn... no classic Grenth vs Dwayna
They said a while ago that they couldn't do that in gw2 since the old gods are dead
Not dead... just gone. They left the "world" after the crapfest that Abbadon brought down in Nightfall.
As for the event itself, I am really hoping for a winterizing of the world for a month or so. I am just glad that every city will get a little love, something that was completely lacking in Halloween.
Would like to read more about the lore of the Gods leaving, if there is any? Would have thought that the apotheosis of Kormir would have strengthened the God's resolve to the world rather than kill it off.
But yeah, if the event is anything as good as the Halloween one, I'm looking forward to it. Vanilla Lion's Arch is just boring compared to the Halloween one. :C And as stupid as it sounds, the GW2 Halloween event got me more into the spirit of the holiday than anything else has in 10+ years
Looks interesting, though Tixx kinda creeps me out.
From the wiki:
"hese gods are credited with bringing the humans to Tyria and had historically taken a large part in the development of the human race, often using their powers to guide and intervene in events. However, in the past 200 years the Six Gods have stepped back and while they still answer the prayers of their followers, they are much more distant than before, letting humanity stand on its own feet.
This silence from their gods has changed little of their faith, though some now question an undying devotion to these now absent gods. Temples are still made devoted to their worship, and the streets of Divinity's Reach are named and decorated for each of the gods."
Not much there in terms of existing lore about the gods. Just that after the ordeal with Abaddon/Kormir they stepped away completely from the every day lives of the Humans of Tyria.
As much as I do not want to say this is a cop out on Arena.net's part, it really is. They needed to distance themselves from the completely Human-centric Guild Wars 1 version of Tyria and give us an "evolved" culture that was about all 5 races. The Wintersday events in GW1 were extremely Human centric and involved the actual avatars of Grenth and Dwayna (and Melandru/Bathazar). Basically between Life/Death and Creation/Destruction. While they could still have this type of event because Human ritual/culture hasn't necessary changed all that much in 250 years, the actual 4 gods did appear in one form or another during those "classic" events/battlegrounds/quests/missions in Guild Wars 1.
We are left with the knowledge that they will not show up. So what type of events will there be? It would be really nice just to see A.net acknowledge that with 5 races come 5 different cultures and give us holiday events that are specific to each culture. Christmas could be Human, New Year Sylvari, Summerfest Charr, Norn Octoberfest, Asura ... well I dont know what Asura. But it would be cool if they had chosen that aspect of holidays. We all celebrate them all, but on Earth they have more meaning towards different cultures.
Asura nothing, they don't deserve a holiday
Halloween is a human holiday. And culturally no other race in tyria celebrates these type of events that we see in our world, yes it's nice to see that they're having an asura as a toymaker. why not have him like the grinch? why not just celebrate certain cultural achievements i.e the charr legions subduing the flame legion in summer, the sylvari firstborn in spring?
Thats what I am kind of hoping for.
GW1 had 4 total "real" events a year. Halloween, Wintersday (Christmas) , Canthan (Chinese) New Year and the Dragon Festival (Summerfest/Fourth of July). The latter two were Canthan specific holidays that will somehow need to be re-envisioned since there is only a small Canthan "refugee" community currently in the game world.
As you can see there are a lot of real world holidays that are not included. Using the Sylvari "Birthday" as Easter would be an obvious choice.
dat jumping puzzle
Official winters day schedule added
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-ga...december-2012/
Hey, maybe they're selling the weapon skins separate from chests this time! Novel concept
Does Wintersday come with a patch or is it just the event going live on the 14th?
I'll be sure to actually finish the achievements this time as well.
I had to let permission for a script from ncsoftsomethinsomethin to see the schedule etc. It was something new for me.
This couldn't come at a better time. My semester ends Thursday so I won't have to worry about missing out due to exams.
Can somebody post when the update goes live so I can turn my comp on to download it. My comp is having issues and I leave it off as much as possible until I get paid so I can fix it.