Update - December 15, 2011

Wintersday

The Season of the Colossus is loosening its grip,
But there are still the icy patches. Careful or you’ll slip!
Perhaps you are the type to frolic in the frosty glow.
Perhaps you wear a fuzzy scarf until the Zephyrs blow.
Whichever type of reveler you know yourself to be,
One thing is true: this is a time for sweet festivity.
So wrap your hand around a ball of snow or mug of cheer.
Pelt your foes! Hug your friends! Wintersday is here!

Wintersday Events

Preparations have been made for Wintersday 2011.
Holiday quests are now available throughout the land.
Players can enter PvP Snowball Fights by speaking with Wintersday Priests.
8v8 ATS-style Snowball Tournaments are accessible through guild halls.
Replaced “Operation: Crush Spirits” with a PvP version of “The Great Snowball Fight of the Gods,” accessible by talking to the Priest of Balthazar in Kamadan or Lion’s Arch.
Added a Priest of Balthazar to the Great Temple of Balthazar for those accessing “The Great Snowball Fight of the Gods.”
Removed the grentch activity from festival towns.

Costumes

The Augur of Kormir and Vision of Lyssa costumes are now available for purchase from the Guild Wars In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.
The Limited Edition Pantheon Pack of costumes is also available for purchase from from the Guild Wars In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.

General Updates

Kurzick architects have been dispatched to build a ramp in “Urgoz’s Warren” to facilitate exploration without teleportation.

Nice update,thanks.
Though i cant see any costumes..?

I think playing this was fun only 1st year .... at the beginning , before people stared to abuse it (all that afkers , groups manipulating , dodge & pick up bots).

!!!

So there is hope for all of those things people have been asking for for literally years.

Bolded part suxs!

confused
Is the snow in towns supposed to be there now? and the NPC's?

the guild was waiting for a group event of crush spirits now our spirits have been crushed

removed the grentches
and the costumes arent yet available.....so its .....wait

The costumes should be available in the in-game and NCsoft stores in less than half an hour. Sorry about the confusion.

any .dat file love from my german brethren at wartower yet? i'm irish, is it cool if i call you my brethren? if not, come at me bro!

wow no more Operation Crush spirits I know a lot of people w8ing for wintersday just to do this quest. It was a blast to do with guildies.

On an unrelated note, I'm still curious as to why snowball ATs give out 4x as many RPs for winning as GvG ATs.

To promote playing them. The rewards for doing moderately well are sufficient to lure even the PvE-ers out of the woodwork.

Im loving the support messages in the outpost aww i love anet

The PvE version of the quest is actually still available, but only from the Priestess of Melandru. Talking to a Priest of Balthazar will send you to the PvP version of "The Great Snowball Fight of the Gods".

Ooooooh...very nice.....was confused by the update notes "replaced"

Update: players are loading the wrong map for the PvP quest "The Great Snowball Fight of the Gods". The Live Team is working on a fix that should be pushed fairly soon.

Sorry about this and thanks for your understanding.

What exactly did they do to Urgoz Warren?

In the room where you need to corpse Teleport up to the lever, they put a ramp in. No more teleport needed.

woot new costumes...live!


added images (f) undyed....they do dye well!