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yup, the demon of a drifter was added the following year in the October 15, 2019 notes: "The Mad King's Raceway has been refurbished in the off-season and is now open! Two new races featuring the spry springer and nimble jackal have been added, and the returning Roll into Madness roller beetle track has been rebalanced with fewer gravestones, higher fences, and updated achievements, including a new achievement for completing the extreme challenge time! Show off your honed drifting to earn the new Ghostly Racing Scarf, or you can purchase one at a Halloween vendor—your trusty mounts will never know the difference."

I believe the change to 1 minute 30 seconds was for the mad drifter achievement.

I am not sure what skills the rented beetle has and I can't check since I am fully leveled. You would definitely need the speed boost and maybe the drifting ability. I think you could get by without bond of vigor but it would be tough

There is no doubt it is a pain but it is doable - did it on two accounts. But i think it took well over 100 tries each

I always enjoy this festive - clock tower and beetle race are my favorites. I also want to echo something I saw in another thread and thank ANet for several QoL additions this year. (I noticed, for instance that the candy corn gunk that give stability during the Viscount fight is much easier to see and marked with blue circles. Been tons of fun so far

Quite nice. I especially like what you did down at the waterline. Looks very lovely and natural

I will admit I was not thrilled with the 9th birthday gift. But, on the other hand, I had expected the cape to be the 9th anniversary item and we got that for free from the TP today. Plus I only really like two of the dye colors anyway (the rest are just too washed out looking) so I got 50% of what I wanted there. And I use a lot of ports to friend and black lion statuettes. So, overall, I'm moderately pleased with the final results -not thrilling but pretty decent. Si, i for one am willing to say "thanks, ANet."

on the positive side now I don't have to feel bad deleting and restarting some of my 9 year old characters

Looking forward to the new guild hall and building in it. In the mean time here is my Ice castle in our present guild hall https://imgur.com/tQZhPXo.jpg The lower walls are not as straight as I would like but I am right at the max decoration for the area limit and don't dare remove something to make it straighter or the game may very well not let me replace it.

Same problem here

I have been enjoying this event and would also like to see it left permanently. The one thing that does bother me a bit is that the instance limit is, if I am correct, 80 players in the instance. As I recall, when it was an open world event the limit was higher (120 hard cap?) which allowed lanes to more effectively use barricades, arrow carts, ballistas and golems as well as to defend them against the toxic and and molten mobs. I may, of course, be remembering wrongly. I would like to see more utilization of those available defenses.

Not a great picture and kind of run of the mill I think. But I wanted a character that really did look like a stone dwarf. He is as short as I can make a human

I think that is how it supposed to work

It's been hitting me constantly today on both warrior and guardian. The warrior was in the Khan Ur jumping puzzle and, as far as I know, had not been in combat. It made the puzzle very difficult, especially the part with the tree as my warrior was tipping back and forth like a drunken weeble.

I would like the eyes to turn to stone too. Looks kind of weird with the whites of the eyes peering out of a stone face. I would also say it looks better on textured armor than on smooth.

I don't think you get one per DRM per day. Just the 10 dailies and 5 trading materials. Still that is plenty to get the infusion, especially since there is not much else to buy with them.

There is no denying the whole decorating system is really wonky.I find two particular issues: 1) refresh time of the guild hall. Removing a decoration does not automatically set the decoration count back. As cloudsareyum mentioned, sometimes logging in and out will reset the count and sometimes it will not. I have sometimes had to leave the game completely and come back several hours later. I have also had this be an issue the other way, adding a decoration did not increase the count and so I have put more than the allowed number in an area with the result that when I did need to remove one I could not replace it. There does not seem to be any consistent way to refresh the count which is really frustrating when you are working right up to the allowable limit. 2) the placement point of a decoration. Sometimes it is the anchor point. For instance, pirate flags count from the center of the base which means you can sometimes put things at the top of the flag and not have the two objects count as in the same "area." On the other hand, it seems long pieces of race track have the anchor point at one end but the count point at the other. So sometimes I have been able to game the system by turning the track around. For Ominous walls the anchor point is in the center but I have never figured out where the count point is located - sometimes turning them around allows me to add more decorations and sometimes it does not. And don't get me started on ice walls. I may be placing something on one level and an ice wall 3 levels above me will turn red, meaning it is in the count zone when it should be quite a distance outside. The only work around I can suggest is logging in and out, try turning large items around and, if you can, get 5 other guildies to log into your guild hall to force a new guild hall instance and refreshed count. And if the place you are decorating is near an entry point sometimes you can log in and quickly sneak in a decoration before other decorations in the area have loaded.

I noticed this as well. Also a return of a bug that washes out the colors on characters on the character select screen

Not till the 19th. sigh, was hoping for it to be released today. I am not particularly excited about it - just excruciatingly bored with the current DRMs. Don't see much in this trailer to excite me but at least it would be something a tiny bit different to do. I do hope there will not be quite so much NPC yaking in this one. Getting really tired of frosty char dude telling me I should be interested in his salient parts.

Exactly u have finished achievement so dont need otters anymore they hid them so you dont accidently take something thats worthless to u. Not entirely worthless. Any otters you get after the achieve can be used to trigger the visual effect on any character - whether or not that character has the infusion. So some might want the otters for that reason (although you can get more faster by doing the north meta in drizzlewood)

Hmmm not a bug - it just seems the one with more points should be the embellished one.

I am not sure but I think the icon and name of the wintersday star is switched with that of the embellished star

1: strings of Christmas lights2: longer ice walls. The problem with the current ones is that they too quickly fill the local limit for decorations, making it hard to build structures3: gingerbread houses4: ice sculptures that load in the "on" state rather than off.

I'm kind of betting, based on the fact we do not have any other set of weapons anyone has yet datamined and that the dragon slayer weapons recipes were so easy to buy, that on Tuesday when we get the vanguard event we will see recipes at the vendors for the volcanic weapons and dragon slayer weapons boxes will start dropping from missions. Of course, who knows, it would make sense to rotate them like that but not a lot about this release has been logical.

Indeed, and if they drop down to 10g or less each I will probably do so. But what I WON'T do is play the DRMs over and over hoping for one to drop - that's what I mean by "debacle." I won't waste my time trying to get something and only getting junk I don't want or need. So, sure, I will pay a little gold if they come down in price but what I won't do is waste my time playing the "content."