GW2 Wintersday Update <3

[tanithryudo]

Update Notes

There's the expected new content for Wintersday of course, but also HOLYWTFBBQ!!! BUFFS!!

Ele - Buffed! And finally we get our falling damage trait!
Engi - Kits finally get sigil bonuses! Some slight buffs otherwise.
Guardian - Mostly buffs!
Ranger - Buffed!

Also love that so many skills have been updated to be combo fields or finishers. This by far makes the combo mechanic much more approachable to lowbies/newbies. Also love the buffs to underwater; what with so much game content located there, anything that makes this less of a pain is great.

Mesmer portal got nerfed (again?) but I don't have a mez so I don't really care about them. :p

An excellent Wintersday event guide
Wintersday soundtrack

Comments

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Oooh, that's a lot of content. Need to work on my paper, but will definitely try to squeeze in some play time over the break. :D

Engi - So basically, they nerfed grenades and buffed other kits in hopes of making all kits equally viable. Don't know how this will work in terms of play over all. Will get a sense when I start playing again.

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Well, took a quick peek into the Engineer forums and it seems everyone's in a tizzy getting angry at the 30% nerf to grenades, probably because the other kits still aren't viable in PvE.

Ugh.

Maybe I'm going to start a new guardian and hope that it plays better than the engineer, because from what I can tell, engineer is no longer a viable class. Ideas and names? ^^;

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

Depends on your race, if you want a race appropriate name.

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

I'm thinking human...wasn't too pleased with the Sylvari designs.