There's not much to do for the lunar year, huh?

[Veprovina.4876]

Am i missing something?

 

There's like, 2 activities and 1 race to do, and the prizes are idk, luck, and maybe some junk that's worth a gold or two if you're "lucky" (lol), but maybe i'm missing something so i thought i'd check what everyone else is doing? 

 

Like, other than that one instance, and what i'm assuming is some sort of PvP area, is there anything else to do during this event?

Or does everyone just grind envelopes in the celestial challange and dailies, then max out their magic find and open them before the event is done?

[Mungo Zen.9364]

It’s lackluster compared to other festivals but the value in grinding it can be quite good.  If you care to grind envelopes and max magic find at the end that is. 
 

I actually appreciate how little engagement this festival has as it is quite efficient for my time.  Wintersday, Halloween, SAB are all very dense festivals that can be quite time consuming if you want to engage with all the content. Neither is better, just different engagement levels. 

[HnRkLnXqZ.1870]

Lunar Year has always been a filler festival. If it wasn't for the celestial challenge, the whole dailies would be done in a few minutes. Most of my friends finished the meta-achievement & weekly on day one.

It is mostly used to make cash. What path you choose is up to you. I've tried opening envelopes with sub-optimal 476 % MF this morning. Loot was acceptable for my standards. Mostly used guild-commendation envelopes and those cheap ones you gain from every other activity. 

I just run my dailies and try to unlock a few new (good) skins. It is also a great and very cheap opportunity to get Diviner's exotic weapons for builds. Once unlocked, you can purchase as many as you want.

Sometimes it is just nice to relax. 
 

[Danikat.8537]

Lunar New Year is a smaller festival than most. In terms of activities theres:
Celestial Challenge - various themed events in the center of Divinity's Reach
Dragon Ball - a dodgeball style PvP arena with unique skills
Race event and time trial - going around DR on mounts or on foot.
Firecracker lighting adventure & it's sequel - finding firecrackers around DR.

Other than that it's mainly buying and opening the various kinds of lucky envelopes and using gold and luck to buy skins and items.

[Luthan.5236]

Yes. It actually is a good thing though - with the end of the previous year always being packed with a ton of stuff and the festivals with only small breaks in between. After that the festivals will be slower until Halloween. I think the gap between Lunar New Year and SAB is  even the the biggest. A time to relax from the usual pressure to get the most out of the temporary available stuff.

[Veprovina.4876]

I see. Thanks for the responses.

 

Yeah, it kinda makes sense to slow it down a bit, i mean, there's halloween, wintersday one after another, each packed with content to do - i guess lunar new year can be a chiller filler.

 

I guess i'll do some dailies, that one event when i feel like it and however many envelopes i get, i'll open at the end, with maxed magic find. I'll have to do silverwastes for that, right?  Oh well.

 

 

[SoftFootpaws.9134]

Lunar New Year is the only festival left that I enjoy. The others have extremely inflated prices, massive grinds and are generally very time consuming to even just do the dailies.

 

They're okay if that's all you do, but when you add in home instance, Fractals, daily crafting, etc. it's alot.

[Danikat.8537]

6 hours ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said:

Lunar New Year is the only festival left that I enjoy. The others have extremely inflated prices, massive grinds and are generally very time consuming to even just do the dailies.

 

They're okay if that's all you do, but when you add in home instance, Fractals, daily crafting, etc. it's alot.

I don't think it's a bad thing to get into the habit of prioritising dailies you actually want to do and skipping others instead of trying to do as many as possible each day.

Last year I was in the middle of making Ad Infinitum when Wintersday started and I completely stopped doing Fractals during the festival because I decided I'd rather do the Wintersday activities while they were available. I stopped again when EoD came out so I could focus on the storyline and new maps, then went back to Fractals when I felt like doing that instead.

[Luthan.5236]

Of course you need to prioritize. I have a ton of free time. Other hobbies and games as well though. And for GW2 there is just too much to be able to do everything. Especially if they release stuff close to each other. (Sometimes a new PvP season starting together with a new story step + map released and festival as well.)

We need to look at new players as well though. For veteran players it might be a nice change of pace to be able to grind the festivals instead of their usual repetitive routine. A new player might want to catch up on story and complete the major achievements there .... while still feeling pressured by getting a lot out of the festival. (Instead of ignoring it and starting with festivals only 1 or 2 years later.)

Personally I don't even to strikes. I put fractals on a break since a long time for now I think. Since I prefer to do other stuff. (= spending less time in GW2 after doing the stuff I still do daily) I can imagine it being a ton of work if you want to do all strikes weekly/daily and the daily fractals + the raids until you reach the reward caps. Then also doing the festival. Even for a player that completed all map/story achievements this is a lot to do.

I never really did the daily anomaly even when the mystic coins were at 2-3g per piece. Did the daily krait killer. (Now this is on break as well. Just not worth it. But it was faced and I did not need to wait for a timed event.) The daily 2g for 3 achievements basically is the only thing I never skip. Just too easy and fast.

For festivals it also depends on the festival. Halloween and Wintersday are good to do only 3 for the daily. Lunar's New Year getting all dailies (not onyl 3 out of x) ... is easy to do.

Edited January 16 by Luthan.5236

[SoftFootpaws.9134]

7 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

I don't think it's a bad thing to get into the habit of prioritising dailies you actually want to do and skipping others instead of trying to do as many as possible each day.

Last year I was in the middle of making Ad Infinitum when Wintersday started and I completely stopped doing Fractals during the festival because I decided I'd rather do the Wintersday activities while they were available. I stopped again when EoD came out so I could focus on the storyline and new maps, then went back to Fractals when I felt like doing that instead.

For myself specifically this is very difficult, as I have autism and breaking away from a routine is more stressful than not. I usually have to completely burn out on something in order to avoid it.

[mythical.6315]

On 1/15/2023 at 9:24 AM, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:

If it wasn't for the celestial challenge, the whole dailies would be done in a few minutes.

They can be done within a few minutes without celestial challenge having any impact on that. 

[Solvar.7953]

It is probably worse for LNY, but most festivals have some combination where dailies can be done in <1 minute.  It is just that most have more activities, and some of those activities take a few minutes to do, and so it less likely to get a selection where all can be done really quickly.  But for any festival, it is rare to get a set of dailies that would take more than 5 minutes, if all you focus on is the bare minimum for the daily.

For example, for wintersday, when the jumping puzzle or bell choir is part of the daily, you only need to complete one round.  But if you are doing the dailies, you probably also want the other rewards, so more likely to do just more than the bare minimum (3 rounds of each would be maximum karma).  It is just for LNY, there often is not much gain doing most of the activities more than once/day.

 

[Luthan.5236]

I think this also depends on what you mean with "whole dailies". Do you want only the 3/3 and then considering the "whole" thing done? I think that is possible for any festival. Do you also want the 3/3 for the new daily one (that requires champ kills as alternative to the main thing) - I know this can be done fast if you know where to easy find champs. Depends on the playstyle and how of how you want to change maps and/or maybe being online at certain times. (Vs. randomly going for normal champs not associated to events where you might have to wait for them to be up.)

Celesial challenge here even has the possibility to bring the challenge with the 3 champs that need to be killed. Then one celestial challenge might be enough. If you join near the end (getting lucky when it almost ended to get on the map) then the chest opener (once per day for that daily) ... can be done faster.

I try to do most of the small festival dailies even after getting 3/3 on the daily meta counter. Just too fast to do them here. Wintersday I skipped - just too much. Only went for 3/3 + fast stuff. Including slow stuff only if 3/3 otherwise would not have been possible. Never did lair and Infiniarium except for the annuals. And going for the karma (achievement you can repeat 3 times there for the extra karma) ... did not want that. With Toypocalypse and also racing ... that would have been too mach to max everything each day.

On the other hand: The weekly in the last week was easy ... just repeating the JP a few times. For the Lunar New Year this seems more exhausting. (When I think about the last week with mondeay/tuesday left only.) Even though someone claimed they did the weekly on day 1 here. Needs to repeat the challenge or the races/adventures. They feel considerably longer and more exhausting (also boring) to do than a JP. On the other hand easier for people that do not like JPs where in the Wintersday the other stuff might have been grindier if you do not do the JP.

They really should have included Dragon Ball (or at least for winning not participation only) to progress the weekly counter as well. Personalyl I will do low contrib play in last week - in the challenge. Alt-tabbing out sometimes. Chilling at the smartphone. While trying to move a bit sometimes and get 1 stack - to get the 10 points for weekly to grind out the 100.

There is also  unique stuff - when you compare the festivals. Some have currency added to the dailies. (Favor things in the Festival of the four Winds.) Where you specifically want to do those. (Usually super fast.) While for the expensive currency festivals like Wintersday/Halloween and Dragon Bash ... doing only 3 out of 3 ... totally is fine. If the other stuff would just mean a lil bit more currency from the chests I would only get what I get by normally playing. Not change the play style to max out.

Edited January 18 by Luthan.5236

[Danikat.8537]

I suppose it is different if you think of playing a festival strictly in terms of completing the daily and weekly achievements.

I tend to think of it in terms of the number of activities and events available. If I wanted to do all parts of Wintersday that would mean doing the Infiniarium dungeon, Toypocalypse, Secret Lair of the Snowmen, Bell Choir, the jumping puzzle, PvP snowball match, the mount race and donating to Ho-Ho-Tron then defending the dolyaks - 8 different activities. You don't need to do all of them every day for the dailies (and to get all the dailies you need to do some more than once) but they're all Wintersday activities.

It's the same with Halloween; there's the bosses in the Labyrinth (and farming the lab generally), the Labyrinth race, 3 other races in a seperate map, the Clocktower jumping puzzle, the Ascent to Madness dungeon, Mad King Says and the Lunatic Inquisition and Reaper's Rumble PvP modes.

I'm not going to list all the festivals, but it's the same with the others. Whereas Lunar New Year only has 4 activities (Celestial challenge, Dragon Ball Arena, Firework lighting and the race) so if you're looking for a variety of things to do and not simply clearing the daily achievements there's a lot less to choose from. 

[TheQuickFox.3826]

Lunar New Year is not overly interesting. But it's still welcome as a smaller festival. And over a year, you have many festivals to participate in.

 

To me, I'm mostly another source of daily/annual achievement points.