Valentine's event 2019 info released

[Shougun]

This is true for some holidays, Brewfest can be done in a day as with Winterveil. Only a few holidays have multi-day's worth of things to do that aren't due to a 24 hour lock out. The year up to Legion was the most active I'd seen these events since Vanilla and yeah... they died again because we pretty much did everything. I prefer the model of each year they change it up with new stories and rewards. I will admit I am glad I don't need to farm/grind current content to just to try and get a Santa hat. (which wouldn't be so bad if WoW was even a half way decent game anymore)

I tend to prefer SE's event style too, although I would really like to see a traveling circus like Darkmoon Faire. Was hoping SE took inspiration from the group that travels around the winning cities in FFXI and mix that in with elements of like Darkmoon (and their own twist of course).

[Gemina]

Dear DRK's,

We are so sorry we made you utter schite for an entire expansion compared to your tanking brethren. Please accept our humblest apologies with an exclusive great sword obtained during this year's Valentione's holiday event!

Sincerely,
The Dev team
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/facepalm

In all seriousness, if they would have made that sword to reflect the valentine's theme with a heart shaped pommel, elegant blade design, and/or giving it a pink-ish hue I would have been all over it. The event rewards of late are like giving vegetables to the Cookie Monster. I honestly believe the dev team has grown tired of having to put these events together. Not much time passes between them, and when they are on the horizon, they are probably sitting back saying, "The next event? Already?!"

That's a lot of hearsay, but it's definitely the vibe I feel. I really miss the days when events were so fun, I would continue to do them even after obtaining the rewards. Now it's, "Let's just get this over with so I can continue catching up."

[Arrius]

Dear DRK's, We are so sorry we made you utter schite for an entire expansion compared to your tanking brethren. Please accept our humblest apologies with an exclusive great sword obtained during this year's Valentione's holiday event!

It's not their only exclusive weapon they got this expansion, though.

[Cabalabob]

Kind of sucks for those that don't play drk. Why would you make an event reward that is only usable by one class?

While it would have been nice to have more general reward like an outfit as well, I support class specific rewards being a thing. I’d like to see rewards for specific jobs that fit for them without SE feeling pressured to create 15 other thematic weapons for “fairness” sake.

That said, gigas sword looks really bland and not really thematic for valentines at all. Not sure where that came from. Maybe testing the waters of adding job specific rewards with some junk weapons to see the kind of backlash they get for it?

[Iromi]

These rewards are pretty terrible. I think this will be the first even I'll skip!

If they released heart shaped weapons for all the jobs that would have been nice! Or maybe an emote like kiss or holding hands idk...

[BiffWellington]

Kind of sucks for those that don't play drk. Why would you make an event reward that is only usable by one class?

To encourage more people to play tanks, maybe?

[Shougun]

To encourage more people to play tanks, maybe?

We've spurned Dark Knight thus far, why can't we keep doing it!?!?! /s of course lol

I think it would have been nice if we could have that pink mammet as minion as well, that responds to dote emote (hearts appear above their head or something).

Just to sort of "everyone gets something", "some of you get something special", "house owners get stuff". To be clear I'm not against some class specific rewards, just think it might be good to make sure everyone (like a minion or "all" item) is part of the reward (houses are not for everyone because.. well they're not enough for some servers, too expensive for some, or not in the right place or size for others lol).

[BiffWellington]

We've spurned Dark Knight thus far, why can't we keep doing it!?!?! /s of course lol

Ah, but isn't getting spurned what Valentine's Day is really all about?

I'm kidding.

[Shougun]

Ah, but isn't getting spurned what Valentine's Day is really all about?

I'm kidding.

Oh ho ho, next valentines day we get introduced to Yotsuyu's little sister - please look forward to it.

[ElazulHP]

Did one of the developers get stabbed in the back by their spouse this year or something? lol... ahh well. Can't really beat 2x mounts from last year no matter what you do. Would have been nice to have the CUL be a mainhand glam though.