Last weekend I dug away at a repeatable quest for Guild Wars Wintersday Redux, which ends this weekend with a finale for those having hat problems during Wintersday 2009. The quest is a fun one called Snowball Dominance, where the denizens of the Eye of the North go outside for a massive snowball fight. Players can bring one other person along. The quest can be a bit challenging for casual players that stroll in to the chaos, but with a few “exploits,” like waiting for the scrum to finish by standing outside of agro range on the left side then mopping up the remaining mobs, it becomes manageable.
Of course for farmers there is a different tactic. Take a necromancer Hero, and run it into the middle of the enemy group before they turn red. Pop Holiday Blues (AoE well degen), Snow Fort (temporary invincibility), and Snowcone (heal) to ball up the mobs. The mobs waste their good skills on the sacrifice, and players and the AI allies can easily take out the clumped up enemies. The rewards are very good for something that can be run in under 2 minutes. Continue reading Happy State of Grind