I guess it was a bunch of different things. I saw some people the got alcohol and sweets and some were saying the got various mods and stuff. didn't hear of any ecto's or things of that nature though.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
I'd been giving away minipets in Kamadan on Sunday and popped into Lion's Arch for the tail end of this event. I started whispering with one of the guys (Gideon was part of his name) who was giving away a green staff. He said he'd accumulated 120 greens and was giving most of them away.
I see this Wintersday season as an opportunity to clean out my storage. I don't see a lot of sense in accumulating any more gold as there's not going to be a lot more to buy in GW with GW2 starting beta testing sometime in 2008. So I might as well give my excess away to players in need.