It’s funny that I knew what Jeromai meant the second I saw his recent post title “A Very Merry Leisurely Wintersdayâ€. It had already been mulling over the exact same thoughts. It’s the combination of Colin’s announcement that this recent Wintersday/Aftermath update was it until January 21, 2014 and the ease of the update that makes it feel leisurely. In one sense it feels like Guild Wars 2 is over for 2013.
However, I felt more like Jeromai in that I all of the sudden became a master of my time again. I wasn’t worried about WvW or getting up that dang tower one more time. The world was opened up before me. I am still mulling over whether this is a good or bad thing, and my gut check is that the roller coaster of Guild Wars 2 is better than not.
On my bucket list for the holidays is of course finishing the meta-achievements for A Very, Merry Wintersday and The Nightmare is Over. Then I also plan on playing a lot of sPvP because, surprise, now it’s worthwhile to do so. I get some silver for each match, and the sPvP currency, Glory, can be turned in to stuff like tradable Wintersday items. I really like sPvP, and who would’ve thought I just needed this very small reason to do so. I also want to try and go for Dolyak rank before they take sPvP ranks away, but I’m pretty far off. I am hoping that will change if sPvP becomes more of a go-to.
There’s also ascended armor, but I’ll be frank. I’ve halted ascended upgrades for one reason (a stupid one, really): I want Tequatl’s scepter. I don’t want to spend the time to make an ascended scepter to later on get the Tequatl one. I do plan on getting back in to the rhythm with TTS to farm the lizard more. Ascended armor though is a nice outlet except people are paying a premium for time-gated damask right now. Last night I sold a Bolt of Damask for 22 gold! I will gladly sell you a “day†for about 20 gold. Heck, I’d do it for 3-5 gold.
My final goal, and a time-sensitive one, is to get Mrs. Ravious the Leaf of Kudzu, the longbow precursor. She doesn’t read this blog so I can safely say this is going to be a Christmas gift for her. I’m still a ways off so any donations are appreciated (ingame: Ravious), but I don’t expect any handouts. I do expect to be buying gems for gold and otherwise draining my in-game bank for the gift. She’s been working slowly towards a legendary basically since she picked up the game earlier this year, and since it doesn’t look like precursor crafting is coming until well after whenever the groundhog decides I figure it’d be a nice token of our time together. She’d think of me whenever she moved across the battlefield.
Time for me to go clean up more dolyak droppings.
–Ravious
Merry Christmas! Looking forward to a nice, lazy Wintersday.
I, too, want Teq’s pistol really bad. That low-chance RNG is really grating though, I really wish you had a non-RNG option to obtain it though ,hrrrrggg…..
-Ursan
Still pretty much all WvW all the time for me in GW2. We have another great, competitive match this week. I do like the new update though. Some funny stuff in there.