Annual Events are dead

As I was rummaging through the event items on one of my mules, I realised that it was pretty much all junk. What the events need is something more memorable, Wintersday and Halloween need a bit of sprucing up as the monks have been kind of a fail in the last year.

So what do we need? How about more minipets, not like the polar bear one that basically never dropped last wintersday, and I know that there is the freezie and elf minipets, but how about a dwarf one?It would give him some use for once.
For halloween why not a ghost or bat minipet, or a candycorn shield(would look like the BMP mursaat shield just made of candy corn), because frankly the costume ball was good but had nothing to do with halloween.

Don't care if you flame me,we need something to remember events by,not just the vast amounts of sweets/acohol you just flog.

I think adding new items to the game that just cost a lot doesn't solve much =/

/notsigned

it would be nice if there were more things to do in the holidays but maybe not more items maybe more arean sorta things that give points etc.

Mini Pig prior to the Celestial remix? That was a cheap festival related pet.

/signed for more things to remember festivals by, so long as they're common

Don't we already have items to remember these annual events such as pumpkin helms and the other helms :/

We alreasy get 1 or 2 hats each year at halloween, wintersday, canthan new year and dragon festival. Please, no more! It's a pain as it is trying to attend all the places that give you different headgear each event. ONE hat or perhaps TWO should be max for each event.

But I guess the wintersday candycane weapons are getting old. Perhaps have some new tonics this year?

Always hoped they'd include a Christmas Tree tonic that turns you into a christmas tree during wintersday events. Would be pretty cool to login to LA and see a bunch of trees standing around shouting "WTS CANDY CANES!"...

A mini dwarf? You'd never be able to find him!

actually, i like hodgie's idea of more stuff to do like arena stuff. maybe really unique quests like iono.....party-crash the charr's wintersday celebration?

Charr don't believe in Wintersday :3.

/signed to party-crash the Charr

Some different items would be cool for the annual events.... I don't really care what as long as they are different from the last year's event. XD

I don't think the events are dead, they are becoming a little repetitive for those of us who've been around for all of them, but for new players it's still really exciting, and I still really enjoy all the festivals, even if it's essentially the same thing ever year. Isn't that the case with the real Christmas and Haloween every year anyway? People just complain too much.

I just hope they don't begin to recycle the hats. Using the Lion mask again at Cantha New Year was pretty weak, and I don't think anyone bought the excuse.

/signed
New hats, new quests, new tonics...no more worthless CC weaps plz.

Wintersday needs a more definitive way of people deciding and battling between which avatar wins the festival. Being able to make snowballs in towns and chuck them at people might also be entertaining.

Halloween at least needs to have Costume Brawl updated so that certain skills don't become useless. Halloween doesn't really feel that haloweeny to me anyways, just because it's always been something I'd show up for at the end. Costume Brawling was a nice addition, but it doesn't have the dark and scary feeling that I think I should get out of Halloween. An improvement would be if decorated towns had falling autumn leaves just like they'd have falling snow.

Oh, dyeable masks help. I haven't seen a good one since the Dragon Mask, thanks. I'm split over the idea of new tonics or minipets. Quests don't appeal to me either, as I spend all of my holiday event time in arenas to get Gamer points.

What I really want is a system to allow festival masks to have armor, allowing them to be sported year-round.

i agree that the masks should have armor!
also for halloween they could do something like giving players random looks (rangers look like mesmers, necros look like warriors) those would be fun!

Party-crash? How about gate-crashing?

'Hey...*hic*...hey is, is this ale free? I nee-*hic*-eed to *hic* to... drunk'.

Those poor unsuspecting Charr.

Oh my god, YES!

/not signed to mini pets.
only need 1 or 2 hats per holiday.
/signed for more things to do.

I say, more tonics, more arenas, more quests, maybe armor instead of just masks. Maybe, a new title or two, although Gamer works well for me. New weapons to mimic the Candy Cane weapons in stats would work too.

For Wintersday, I suggest going to this thread for an idea. http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10292929

Would depend on how you did it, I think. If you are a X-mas tree you shouldn't be able to move, if you do I think it should wear off. This isn't Looney Toons, plants don't move. Except those ones in Nightfall... but they don't count, they're evil. Maybe a X-Mas tree summoner, like the snowmen, but not a tonic.

YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
^^

and ty Azarel ^^

Whats funny is I was just thinking about this over the last few days.

The Holiday events in GW, while very fun, are sort of losing their luster because they are exactly the same every year; with the exception of Mad King Thorn getting a new joke or two. It would be really nice for a change of scenery, as well as a change in the overall experience.

Dragon Festival I'm unsure what could really be added. Though considering it was sort of a preview of Nightfall when it originally came out, and since it is, infact, called Dragon Festival, if they were to do something with the GW2 dragons I think that would be a lot of fun. As I suggested in a topic ages ago, lull us into a false sense of boredom with a simple reskin from last years DF, then have the finale be crashed by Primordious.

I'm not ashamed to admit, I'm a bit of a Halloween nut. By far, it is probably my favorite holiday of the year, not only in GW, but especially in real life. However, what I like about it is not the scary jump out and grab you type of stuff that GW features, but the Autumnal atmosphere that permeates the season.
It would be nice if this year, instead of having the NPC's reskinned to the undead creatures of Kryta, they stay the same, and the towns decorations are turned to a late evening featuring golden maple trees and 'cutsie' Halloween decorations; handmade tissue ghosts, hay bales with pumpkins and Jack'o'Lanterns, things like that. Something that is more akin to the atmosphere of trick or treating as a young kid, and less about undead scariness. A few quests would be nice as well. And considering it's been two years, I think enough Tyrian characters have travelled to Cantha to allow Cantha to take part as well. It would also be a nice test for the seasons system in GW2. *hint hint*

Wintersday, I'm not sure what exactly could be done. I strongly support the idea that the winning God could be chosen through an AB type of battle, where donated faction is added up to determine the winner. And It would be very nice if there was a Mini Black Moa type of scavenger hunt for a Mini .. I dunno, Grentch?

id love them to add a little more content a few more quests a chance to get more tonics but keep the old there no major overhauls just a few things to do.maybe a new min you can get or maybe a way to get those overpriced ones.

Canthan New Year gets... new Ritball, that mini pet, and the scavenger hunt, Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Roller Beetle Race, hats, and new quests.
Dragon Festival gets.... new Ritball, Dragon Arena, Roller Beetle Racing, that mini pet, a new "Fury Tonic", quests, hats, and new "Imperial Weapons" *same states as CC weapons*.
Wintersday gets.... DvG Arena, Phantasmal/Elf Tonics, quests, candy cane weapons, Snowball arena, hats, new titles *see DvG Arena thread*, and rings.
Halloween gets.... Costume Brawl, Candy Corn Tonic, Hats, new 1v1 with Mad King Thorn, Thorn's jokes/activities, and new "scare tactics" *you have to find ways to scare NPC's*.

He's always got the best ideas, listen to him Anet!