I've found Anvil of Doom to be useful when specced for the stun. Sometimes it's what I use to get a big-bad interrupted out of a huge or powerful telegraph -- at least I think it interrupts when the stun goes down. If nothing else, it helps me control where a boss or add is headed by stunning it briefly when I need it.
I've been using the Spear of the Feywild on my Guardian Fighter, it's quite nice looking -- however, I'm open to grabbing something with a little more panache as Cryptic comes out with more skins.
I like the Winter Festival so far. I feel that it's a lot better than the lackluster show from Halloween for the Liar's Masquerade -- and I understand that holiday content is hard to build up. I think that the event could benefit hugely from an instanced dungeon run involving the lore of Twilight Tor or even the…
I am finding that many of my companions are also not very tough. I suspect that it might need to come out to tuning even the DPS pets towards some sort of survivability (higher defense, greater HP from runes).