Sale?

[Kuro]

Steam Halloween is on sale, will there be a discount on Guild Wars 2 DLCs?

[ebaG-gamma]

Please check the end of the 2nd-to-last section of this guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3335333185

Originally posted by my guide:

Expansions frequently go on very attractive* sales.

*especially the older (and, imo, at the same time best) ones.
Note that Ultimate Editions (those that contain 50 bucks worth of gems) never go on sale and even get taken off ArenaNet's store page during sales. The Elder Dragon Complete Collection has been discounted -50% numerous times in the past.

Check here for recent sales history:

⛲ Sales history[isthereanydeal.com] and Sales History[gg.deals], personal, manually curated list of giveaways and sales by community member Dak393[wiki.guildwars2.com]

[RotherHans]

Always make an Anet account.
Steam users always have some weird crap problems and the worst sales AND YOU own the account instead of Gabe(Steam).

[ebaG-gamma]

Originally posted by RotherHans:

YOU own the account

As with all live service games, you are still out of luck when Anet should shut down GW2 servers, but at least there is one fewer middle man.

The issue is quite simple:
If there is any issue on ArenaNet's side, you'll have a problem regardless if you're on a standalone account or on one made through Steam.
If there is an issue on Valve's side, you'll have a problem if you use an account made through Steam only. Not a hard choice in my book. That is just one of the reasons, and not the biggest one for me.

[Kuro]

Originally posted by RotherHans:

Always make an Anet account.
Steam users always have some weird crap problems and the worst sales AND YOU own the account instead of Gabe(Steam).

Can my friend send me a gift from arena net?

[ebaG-gamma]

Originally posted by Kuro:

Can my friend send me a gift from ArenaNet?

You mean via the gem store? Yeah, there shouldn't be any difference there.
Your friend makes the gift purchase and you receive it via ingame mail.
Or did you mean something else?
They can't buy an expansion from ArenaNet for your Steam account, only for another standalone Anet account. They could only gift you a DLC on Steam for a Steam account.