Lunar New Year helped me get the gold I needed to finish my Howler finally, except I discovered I needed a high-level Leatherworker to make the wolf statue. Additionally, I had forgotten entirely about the Nightmare Maze that opens up at the end of vinewrath and was an absolute blast to take part in. I was also lucky and got into most groups at the start of the meta event. I had a ridiculous amount of fun when I could find groups working on it. I always liked SIlverwastes, but I got burned out on it before Heart of Thorns, so I hadn’t been back in a while. With this giant magic find bonus is when you want to open your stockpile of envelopes. After clearing out Vinewrath, you’ll have a large magic find bonus. The way this meta works is you take all your envelopes from Lunar New Year, take them to SIlverwastes, and do an entire meta event clear (from capturing and holding the bases through the end of Vinewrath). What was even more surprising, I enjoyed doing the Lunar New Year gold meta. I logged in most days for no reason other than to do those. Therefore, Lunar New Year seemed well-timed to make some extra gold easily but I was determined to stick to my ideal of “if the activity isn’t fun, I’ll stop.” Surprisingly enough, the actual activities were a ton of fun, especially the race and the Celestial Challenge. However, I had realized I was extremely close to finishing my Howler, and I needed 100g so I could buy the Icy Runestones for it. I’ve never really done much with Lunar New Year, and I’ve never bothered with the envelope meta for earning gold before. If Wintersday got the ball rolling, then Lunar New Year gave it a good kick in the pants. However, I still wasn’t logging in most days. I could do a little bit whenever I had time, and I could make meaningful progress. This meant that I didn’t feel hopelessly behind and like there was no possible way I could catch up. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that I could easily earn enough Tyrian Defense Seals to catch up on all the emissary rewards I had missed out on through doing the daily DRM missions. ![]() This is where I started occasionally logging on to do the daily DRMs and participated in the efforts with the allied factions. The flow of this chapter felt like it was well-paced, and I enjoyed the DRMs we got with it. Then near the end of January, the “Power” chapter of the Champions episode was released, and it just continued my reawakening. All of Wintersday was a blast, and it was the first glimpse of me still having the capacity to enjoy playing GW2. I looked forward to doing the race, choir bells, the jumping puzzle, and even doing the Infinirarium. I didn’t get to play every day, but I wanted to. I played through it and had fun but wasn’t motivated to do more. I did have some fun with the Champions update we got in November, but it didn’t rekindle my desire to log in very often. My resurgence with GW2 started with Wintersday.
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