GW2 Reveals Wintersday 2013 patch details (Ascended armor)

Wintersday is coming back to GW2 this month with returning activities from last year and ascended armor crafting. Read below for more details.

Starting December 10, 2013

The nights may be growing longer and colder, but Lion’s Arch is merrier than ever before! Wintersday is returning to Tyria, along with everyone’s favorite toymaking inventor – Tixx! Celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next in this six-week winter festival!



Events

• 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!
  
  
• DEVELOPER LIVESTREAM—DECEMBER 9
  Sneak a peek at the Wintersday wonders that await you – join ArenaNet devs for a livestream on our Twitch channel on Monday, December 9, at 12PM PST!
  

Rewards

• Tixx’s Toybox
  Tixx’s marvelous miniature toys are available once again! Complete the Wintersday meta achievement to receive Tixx’s Toybox, which will grant you one of Tixx’s toys: a Mini Ventari, Mini Plush Griffon, Mini Princess Doll, Mini Toy Golem, or Mini Toy Soldier.
  

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.
  

Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-10-2013/

Yay to wintersday, epic NAY to Ascended armor. Why Anet, why would you do this to me.

Indeed why, whyyyyyyyy I still need Ascended weapons!!! but epic

Yeah I'm not too happy either :/ No money ingame and still not done with ascended weapons either.

And what about my 'gem bought' transmutation to krytan armour???!!!

Atleast give me a new set of krytan armor then!

You dont HAVE to get it you could just not have ascended armour for a while ... there is a choice.

Not having it means people will be less likely to let me join their dungeon party though.
But if PvP get more integrated into the game, there's no need for that I guess.

I will always want you /hug what more do you need

In that case, I AM YOURS!!!