Get Ready for Wintersday 2008

looks like theres new stuff this year

Umm...wheres this from?

GW.com Wintersday 2008 page

Looks great, can't wait.

so wintersday this year will start friday the 19th of dec. with this they are adding a couple new items, and a new quest line, and also a ats style 8v8 snaow ball area*

some of the new things will be

*Frosty Summoning Stone
Nobody should be alone on Wintersday, so use this item to summon a snowman ally!

*Mischievous Summoning Stone
Summon a grentch ally to help you spread some holiday cheer, Grenth-style.

*Frosty Tonic
Don't just build a snowman, be a snowman!

*Mischievous Tonic
Get in touch with your inner grentch by taking on the outer appearance of one.

*Speak to Lt. Thackeray in the Eye of the North to find out how you can help the Ebon Vanguard enjoy Wintersday through a new chain of quests! and if you complete all four of the Eye of the North quests, you'll find a special surprise waiting in Gwen's garden!


*Brand new 8v8 ATS-style Snowball Tournaments!

*And yes the mini polar bear will be back this year


now the thign is the everlasting frosty tonic is in dat file when and where toget it anet doesnt know at this moment.
talkign with linsey about the update yesterday, i asked her about the everlasting frosty tonic, and will it be dropping in winsterday this year. her responce was this

"well we made an everlasting version just in case,we just haven't put in the way toget it." -linsey

with that being said its up in the air , and now also with the new tonic comingthis year for the grenth will there ever be a everlasting of that one also , so much to think about and wish for this wintersday.

so what does everyone think about the new things happy for all the staffs hardwork to still give us some new stuff, in my book everlasting Mischievous tonic would own.


i also look forward to the 8v8 snow ball ats is this going to be gvg type of somethign like ha , and not be random 8 man teams, whichi would like better what do you think ?

new info on the ats snowball

you will have to enter from your guildhall you will make your 8 man team s in guildhall then enter battle liek you do for the other ats for gvg, it will use the map for snowballarea, you will receive reward points for doing this

for links onthe info please visit http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/wintersday2008/

I'm actually gonna grind during the festival this year. And I'm entering the art contest

lol youposted right before mine i was writing up the post lol

that just shares the love even more

What can I say?

The main reason I came back to Guild Wars are the events. I haven't seen events like these in any other Online RPGs.

Have a nice wintersday everyone!

~daraaksii

snowball ats, sounds pretty fair to me. My gut tells me winners will be getting a mini polar bear, which is the case, i think it be perfectly fair. Rather give a rare mini to a competition winners (like the rollerbeetle) than a random drop from a dungeon.

Very nice. Good to see some more content updates to GW (helps limit the number of OMG GW is dying threads).

I wonder just how this 8v8 snowball arena tournament will work. Regular snowball arena is my favorite minigame of all, and I think I'm pretty good at it. I just hope this won't require grouping. "R6 hero/R3 Skillz group lfm" discrimination and people ragequiting after every loss doesn't sound very appealing to me. Well, whatever it is/however it works, hopefully it will be interesting and fun.

Oh, and "Eye of the North" collectors? Hmm, anybody farming raptors, I suggest you save your saurian bones till next week just in case you are getting a new holiday item collector.

This Wintersday sounds pretty awesome.

Linsey Murdock FTW

heyhey its soudns liek they enjoyed making this update.
NEW ITEMS:
Frosty Summoning Stone:
Nobody should be alone on Wintersday, so use this item to summon a snowman ally!

Mischevious Summoning Stone:
Summon a grentch ally to help you spread some holiday cheer, Grenth-style.

Frosty Tonic:
Don't just build a snowman, be a snowman!


"In the tradition of the season, you will also receive special holiday-themed headgear for attending the Wintersday finale; and if you complete all four of the Eye of the North quests, you'll find a special surprise waiting in [[Gwen's garden]]!"

The lack of sorely needed PvP meta nerfs would make sense if this MAT is just going to be a snowball fight. Observer would be hilarious, and I'm assuming 8v8 is going to be something other than the current arena.

CoH/CoV have Winter Holiday/St. Valentines/other occassions events every year. Warhammer had a Witching Night some time ago (the Halloween of Warhammer), also WoW has events too. Ragnarok Online too... And probably more.

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees and begged
You not to leave
Because I'd go berserk?
Well!
You left me anyhow and then
The days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone
Completely out of my mind.

Let me say most formally to the team working on GW1



I LOVE YOU

In the tradition of the season, you will also receive special holiday-themed headgear for attending the Wintersday finale; and if you complete all four of the Eye of the North quests, you'll find a special surprise waiting in [[Gwen's garden]]!

WOOT

This is the fourth year i hope they introudce blue candy cane weapons or give us another chane to get green ones.

well now my threads are merged my update post says how the ats is going to wrok as far as rewards only thig i was told is tourney reward points , as for somethign speical being for the 1st 2nd and 3rd places and so on i dont know here s to hoping

i play atlantica online they also have events along with weekend events also and hats for things

Here here!
To anyone thinking he's joking... He's not. I'm talking to him in game right now...


I have but ONE issue with this.

Wintersday gets all the love, why no new stuff (aside from a few jokes, new CB builds, and two hats) at Halloween???

I hope there will be quests and the Teller of Tales at Halloween '09.

exactly, really hope they do that

rewarding skill instead of pure luck (is it still random arena style ats ?) looks more like gw spirit to me

teams will not be random said it onxce say it again lol talked with linsey a horu ago about it

I'm terribly sorry, but I think I will have orgasmed too much over this in the next week to participate this season.

Am I the only person here that has no idea what "ATS-style" means?

ats= auto toruny system

so a style like it is going tobe like the gvg ats style where you form your guild team click snowball arena, then you get paired against others best w/l record wins the swiss parign after that you do single elimation which is the top 16 guilds from the swiss round

English, It's your friend.

No, you are not.


^^ Okay, the only thing I understood are the first three words!
Again: swiss parign and v/l = ? Why you people do not write the complete words? Not everybody is completely literate on everything regarding GW.

Thanks.

/Angelica

I'm guessing it works the same way as the predicted tournament but the guilds or groups will be registered together.

QFT, this is gonna be awsomest and the bestestestsest wintersday evea!!!

Even if a mini polar bear is the grand prize for the Winterfest 8v8, it should still remain a rare dungeon drop. Not all of us have "skill" or a PvP guild.

Overall, ArenaNet people have outdone themselves again this year. I am so excited. While other games may have their special events and celebrations, I cannot believe that the same thought is given to making sure all types of players enjoy themselves.

NOTE: NO, NO - no new Wintergreen weapons. My wand and staff are sacred and should never be duplicated. They were our reward for the first tournament predictions which can never occur again.

ok this time i will take my time typing and spell check it!!!!


ATS= Automated tournament System

this is how it works
Entry to the tournament is bought with Tournament Tokens which are purchased with Balthazar Faction.
Registration for the Snowballs have not been set yet.
Tournament matches are performed on a predetermined this one being snowball arena.

Swiss pairing is you take all that entered the tournament and you will play each round against somone when you lose you will stillbe in the next round and face somone new. there is a set number of mathe sina swiss pairing
your record will be as follows x number of wins/x number of loses.

the top 16 teams will then go on to the single elimination round
in this round once you loose your out of the tournament

then you will recieve what place you got the first one eliminated is 16th place and so on.

this will be about what youw ill have for the snowball ats.

note you have to make your teams in the guildhall meaning you need 4 players from your guild in the team the rest can be from other guilds, or heros(we dont know yet if you can use heros for the snowball ats)

interesting, can't wait.

To be fair, "swiss pairing" was the full words to describe that, and is often used in actual sporting event and RL competition. His english wasn't that bad so no reason to grill him.


Anyway, are you sure that enterance into the tournament will cost tournament tokens? I know the regular ATSs do, but for just a holiday minigame, I don't see how they could expect players to shell out 5k in bathazar faction. My guess is it will be a free enterance fee (unless you have a source saying otherwise).

Edit: I find it funny that so many people apparently make ATS Xunlai house tournament predictions, but so few people know how the system actually works.

No only it's gonna be a lot of cool special event drops, they're adding a large bunch of entirely new ones! You may have heard this before, but how about a storage update? Just think about how many totally new items got added to the game since the last storage update... which was almost 20 months ago... it's getting ridiculous.

For something completely different - Snowball ATS sounds really AMAZING, this can be a great play format without all those clueless randoms.

i never said you would hacve too i said atm we dont know if you need tokens my source isnt online atm so i woudl have to ask later

Wait...so if I read that right, Eye of the North with be decorated? My dear sweet lord...as if that place didn't lag enough for me the way it is xD

Everything looks good though...can't wait!!

My only concern is that if 8v8 is played on the existing map, the matches may bog down into slugfests. Sounds fantastic otherwise. We've been screaming for organized teamplay in snowball fights for three years now? Glad to see that ANet finally found a way.

Wow great update - can't wait for Wintersday. Snowball AT should be interesting

woot, been waiting all year for this......100+ stacks of skulls later.

Cya next week Scrappy Jhim!

Sounds like tons of fun this year. Thank you Anet for taking the time to make the LAST (crossing fingers) GW1 wintersday a festival to remember.

Oh... i think you may just find it will be something to remember, pop down to the events section and look for "Seasons End"