Yeah not the greatest event, I mean double xp is nice but 100,000 branches, recipes I already knew and not much else to write home about.

I was very disappointed with the lack of stuff to do. The quest only takes a few minutes and after that the whole festival is just getting plunder skulls off existing bosses. Some of the drops from the skulls are ok, but personally I'm always more interested in things to do than items.

Last year I put it down to the Witches Festival being their first ever seasonal event and maybe not having much time to devote to it. After the New Life and Jesters festivals had more of a focus on content I was hopeful they'd add to it for this year, but then we just got the same 1 thing again.

The only good thing is it gave me plenty of time to focus on other games Halloween events where there's a lot to do in a relatively limited time.

It's pretty good if you have never done it before. But pretty meh if you have.

Meh. Just meh.

The achievements were the same as last year, so there was basically zero point to me even bothering with the event on my main account. I got those achievements fairly quickly on my second account and started earning CPs on it.
The drops were also basically the same as last year, but with the new furnishings/plans/masks being harder to get with the loot table seriously diluted by useless branches.

On top of that, the Clockwork City came out a few days into the event for those of us on PC. Well, whatever. Not like I was actually doing the Witches Festival anyway. If I had been, I probably would have been more irritated by that.

The only thing I really liked this year was the new witch hut in Glenumbra. I bought that, and then proceeded to do my best to take the Glenumbra out of it. Fun challenge with a result I liked enough that I wound up buying all the crafting stations and making it my primary residence.

I do hope that the other events have more added to them, though. If they're just going to be exact copies of the original events with some equivalent of branches thrown into the loot tables, then there is a very good chance I won't bother with them. I'll get what I'm missing and call it done.

Last year was awesome, this year missed the mark. Time limit is annoying, drop rates are horrific, plus no new achievements... Something like, You Participated in Witch's Festival 2017...

Too many branches, not enough actual rewards. I thought it was supposed to be fun, not a grindfest!

I'd rather farm bosses than do boring quests any day.

It wasn't as involved as I had hoped it would be. Wasn't around for last year's and thought it would repeatable daily quests like the jesters festival. Instead it's one quest to get the event item and then everyone farming everything to death for plunder skulls. I had better luck than many it seems in regards to acquiring the new masks (doubles of both actually) and the furnishing plans, but aside from those few interesting things it really just felt like a grind for the only achievement I had left to acquire to get the title. Got most of the motif pages from a friend from last year's and acquired the rest myself so all the motif pages this year are useless.

I can't complain too much because at least they did something. I remember the first year or two of the games life they didn't do anything. But if they could maybe try to make next year's something different and memorable that'd be great. I think I enjoyed the crown store offerings more than anything for this month. Probably spent more this month than any other.

Looking at the new life festival achievements list it looks like there is more to do for it than there was for the witches festival. I wasn't around for it either so I look forward to seeing if it's more involved and entertaining than the witches festival.

Pretty much stopped grinding for skulls after the first few days. Got several V2 Masks purchased a thicketman for cheap, got enough motif's to learn Hollowjack on two crafters and levelled a new Stam Warden from 1-50 with the xp bonus, training gear and scrolls. Might have top off another character before this ends. This exented period of bonus xp is the best part of the even IMO.

I mean, it's free and optional, and you don't have to repeat what you did last year but still get rewards this year. What's not to like?

I got about a hundred of those pointless sticks. I ended up just buying the masks. Not very fun.

The Quest: Short, really short, I mean I had everything but the essence. Went to a delve, done. Then the grind....oh the grind. One hundred skulls and I have a complete motif and a mask and some recipies, that's it. If I want anything more from the event I have to buy it with hard cash.

Oh we also have extra XP which while nice, isn't something that make the event feel better.

While I have been having fun during the event, it's not so much the event that is causing me to have fun. In fact if I wasn't required to grind bosses I might be having more fun.

edit: oh, I also have a million sticks!