Have you been nice or naughty for this Wintersday? Ho-Ho-Tron has been watching!

Can't wait to see the new changes to our beloved Wintersday Holiday. Anyone else excited for this fest?

"Events" in mmorpgs never excite any interest for me personally. They're usually the same old thing every year and, frankly, the rewards from various inevitably grindy events aren't worth the time it takes to get them.

There have been changes?Wonder if Santa charr is doing his thing againt this year.

Halloween got some changes so I'm hoping Wintersday will too. I don't know what they could add though, they added a mount race last year and there's not really been anything else new which lends itself to mini games.

a Trixx beetle race instance maybe?

I have no hope of anything new.

The only way this will change is if we get SAB W3/4 next go around, then maybe i'll think the festival team does more than add rewards.

Gimme all the AP!

My expectations for this one are low, I want to either have fun in this yearly festival or be pleasantly surprised: this year brought back Reaper's Rumble for Halloween as well as Festival of the Four Winds. Has there been an inactive activity in the past 5 years? or does Wintersday has enough lore to expand the story? 2012 was Tixx and Toxx, and regular activities arriving, 2013 had Ho-ho-Tron (now Hero-Tron/Bait-o-tron) and his bard friend explaining how and why they were accepting donations, and 2014 and subsequent years just added a Replica Ho-ho-tron.

Ho-ho-tron is going to deliver me a bunch of coal, which I guess is fine since I need to craft some steel.

I’m a nice guy who likes naughty stuff. >_>

I am excited for Wintersday every year. To be honest I begin to miss it as soon as it ends and look forward to the next one instantly. It is imho the best festival in the game. The atmosphere is awesome, where ever the event is going on people are cheerful and helpful.

The Wonderland became a bit of a grind-arena over the years, but I like it like on the first year. At every start of the events I do the Wonderland every day for several runs and slowly watch how the farmers improve their skill and accuracy. With every new day it gets a little harder for me to outrun them. After the first week it is already difficult, as some of the farmers rely a lot on dodge-jump-skips. They are insanely fast and with impressive accuracy. But luckyly there is about 1 in 50 who is really that good. The others just brain-afk the medium course XD.

What I miss a lot, the event is only in Divinities Reach for a few years now. I remember a year where it was spread among all racial cities and the Infinirarium also moved from city to city, daily. Is it really that difficult to bring this feature back?

I do not really need new stuff. The mount race was nice, especially the part with Toxx XD. But as long as the core-traditions return, I am fine.

EDIT: Idea for Ho-Ho-Tron. People who did at least one player-kill that day, get devil-horns when talking to the NPC. Those who have not get the halo.