Guild Wars 2 Guru: A very Merry Wintersday - December 10 Update

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A very Merry Wintersday - December 10 Update

Arenanet has just posted the update page for the December 10th update.  It appears to be a repeat of last year's Wintersday story, revolving around Toymaker Tixx and his travelling factory of toys for all in Tyria.  New healing skills and a major balance update also join this patch at launch.  You can find the page here.

• THE WONDROUS WORKSHOP
  
• Enter Toymaker Tixx’s workshop inside his golem-shaped airship, the Infinirarium, to corral mischievous toys and set things to rights!

• WINTER WONDERLAND
  
• The multi-path Winter Wonderland jumping puzzle is full of beautiful delights and death-defying challenges! Leap from snowflake to snowflake, prance up a stack of gifts, and race giant snowballs on your way to the prize!

• BELL CHOIR
  
• Make sweet music ring through the air with Tyria’s favorite musical challenge, the Bell Choir! Group up with other players to make sweet harmonies and ring in the season.

• TOYPOCALYPSE
  
• Toys are running amok and threatening everyone’s Wintersday! Enter Toypocalypse to defend noble, gift-bearing dolyaks and Tixx’s toymaking machine from the predations of haywire toys!

• SNOWBALL MAYHEM
  
• What good is Wintersday without the opportunity to pelt friends, foes, and total strangers in the face with snowballs? The Snowball Mayhem fight will pitch you against other players in a mission to store up as many presents as possible while laying waste to the opposing team!

• LINGERING POISON
  
• You may have found a way into the Toxic Alliance’s inner sanctum, but this has by no means curtailed their nefarious activities! Kessex Hills and the surrounding countryside are still befouled by the alliance’s evil presence!

This patch also includes some new features:

• CRAFT ASCENDED ARMOR
  
• The Armorsmith, Leatherworker, and Tailor crafting disciplines have a new skill cap of 500, which means that you can now craft your own Ascended armor! Refine, stitch, and hammer your way to 500 to become a Grandmaster Crafter and unlock the ability to craft Ascended armor!

• NEW HEALING SKILLS
  
• Still trying to find just the right healing skill for your build?  Perhaps this will help – we’re introducing a new healing skill for every profession!

• DECEMBER 10 BALANCE UPDATE
  
• Are you looking to fine-tune your build, or maybe hoping to try out something new entirely? Our next balance update is coming, and its focus is on improving traits and trait lines. You can read about incoming changes here.

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Well as far as the balance update  - until it goes live - I just can't comprehend how the changes will affect my class  since I don't want to go into the game ans start looking at it and comparing - I need hands on - so we'll see.

OK - I lied - went into the game and started comparing what I use with what they state they are doing on the Ele.... not a great thing for me.

Many of the things they say they are moving into the adept tier so I don't have to go so deep into the line still makes me go just as deep - when they move 2 things I use into the Adept Tier that means I still have to go to the next level to get both of them and then stating that Windborne Daggers will now work out of combat - well - as far as I'm concerned it was always suppose to - since nothing states it was for combat only and I'm pretty sure early on it did - since it functioned the same as DD for the Necro earlier not sure when they changed that - so as far as I believe - they are just fixing it.

This will cause me to rethink some of my builds - but I'm not actually sure it will help me at all - except maybe on my Ranger - I have a feeling I'll just be playing the same way I am now with some of my skills either doing less damage or just rearranging my traits to have the exact same build.   They sound great on paper - but color me skeptical - I might have to start playing my Engy again.