Guild Wars turns Three!

This week / weekend marks the 3rd anniversary of the release of Guild Wars: Prophecies; the 2nd of Factions, and 1.5th of Nightfall.

To celebrate, ANet did one of their typical event weekends, with extras and what not.

For awhile now, there have been "mini-pets" in the game. They helped ruin the economy. Oh but also, they make a small version of some type of creature to follow your character around. (It is completely useless; but some are very very rare --people like to show off their "l33tn3ss" in online games, so they pay ungodly amounts of money for the rarest ones - see: ruined the economy.

There are a few ways to obtain a mini pet. On a character's birthday (works just like human ones) a little blue box will appear in its inventory. Double-clicking this box will open it up and a small icon of one of the game's creatures will appear in its place. Double-clicking on this icon will summon that thing at your feet, at a scale of oh 1/4 to 1/20 the size of the actual thing it is a mini of. (think Minime or is it Mini-me?)
There are other ways to get one.. such as buying a certain issue of a magazine, or defeating many many others in a GvG or what have you. (Guild vs. Guild)
Each year has its own set, (that might not make sense, or maybe what I next say won't) A green, 2 golds, 3 purples, and then 8 whites. The color determines the rarity and how much you can sell one for if you opt to do that.

Some mini pets cost about 500g to buy. That is .5 k. Then there are a few that go around oh, 8 mil. which is 8,000 k. Thanks for destroying the economy ANet. They also want ectos.
After seeing this year's list of mini-pets, I can't say I am all that pleased. Some are just basic re-skins of already existent ones. Others are just lame things to begin with, but ANet seems to find it so incredibly hilarious.

Seriously, get the damn Ooze out of LA, Kamadan, and KC. That thing is bloody annoying.
-They decided to make a mini Ooze. And its not even one of the whites- its a fricken purple! Omg, why!?

The Black Beast of Arrgh, is basically the rollerbeetle mini, with just the slightest change to the skin. Eh, c'mon guys. really? And its gold.

Now the nornbear, that one is pretty cool, its a purple and I'm bound to buy one if one of my characters doesn't get lucky enough for that.

-More to come. I think.