Wintersday mini crafting materials

[Tekoneiric.6817]

Years ago the Wintersday crafting items Plush Griffon Frame, Princess Doll Frame, Toy Golem Frame, Toy Soldier Frame, Ventari Frame, Mystical Cog, Wad of Enchanted Stuffing, and Drop of Magic Glue were made unavailable in the game. Since GW2 is being released on Steam I'd suggest this coming Wintersday might be a good time to bring them back for the influx of new players who will experience Wintersday for the first time.

[Linken.6345]

Cant you craft those minis another way now?

[Danikat.8537]

I don't see the need to bring them back. The only purpose for those items was to make the toy minis (Plush Griffon, Toy Golem, Toy Soldier, Princess Doll and Toy Ventari) and those are already available from the selection boxes for doing Wintersday dailies on 5 days or from the WvW reward track, so anyone who wants them can get them during the festival. IMO the new method is actually less restrictive than the original, which required running the wintersday dungeon over and over.

[Tekoneiric.6817]

They could use the materials to craft new plushy minis. Just add different frames.

[Ayrilana.1396]

Why are you hard set on these items, which haven’t been used since 2012, being used to craft minis?

[Tekoneiric.6817]

> @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> Why are you hard set on these items, which haven’t been used since 2012, being used to craft minis?

 

Nostalgia maybe. It seems a waste to have items in the game code that aren't used.

[kharmin.7683]

What does a Steam release have to do with anything?

[Tekoneiric.6817]

> @"kharmin.7683" said:

> What does a Steam release have to do with anything?

 

Influx of new players. First time experience. I personally think collecting all that goofy stuff for crafting from early days of GW2 Wintersday was fun. I think it would be nice if the new players got that experience from the early days.