Ideas for Mini-Events

Here's one that hasnt seem to be suggested yet,

Skill Rebalance Madness Weekend!

A weekend where all the rarely used skills get experimentally buffed, without needing to be "careful" about it. Turn the whole metagame upside and give it a good shake, and get some data about what sorts of changes would be good and what would be bad.

yah. i'd really discourage double ectos/shard drops. Not that i'm rich and have stacks of them (i really have zero of both), just cuz ectos are currently considered money. people trade in ecto's and shard's and its considered the next step up from platinum. So doubling the rate of ecto dropping will just make the economy go downhill and ruin the lives (guild wars lives) of those that have worked hard enough to get to the rich point.

HENCHMEN LOVE WEEKEND: all henchmen are bumped up to level 30 and utilize a full 8 skills

HENCHMEN HATE WEEKEND: all drops are assigned to players

I could say :

Double the Elite Weekend: You can have 2 or 3 elites in your bar at the same time.

Level 40 for a weekend!!! All your lvl 20 chars become lvl 40 for a weekend. Just to see what happens!


Also some weekends on Tyria!! Not only double drops and stuffs like that in Cantha and Elite Missions. People without factions are humans too.

yes, pls do something for us poor people that dont have factions do something fun!!!!
the beer ideas sound like fun and could be very funny
and something for those who suck at pvp a little encouragement or upgrades for the noobs who wana try pvp

-Free access to UW/FOW regardless of favor, and allow use of henchies
-Temporary removal of the Kurzick/Luxon faction border (end of conflict), and open house for faction towns exclusive areas (everyone can access every exclusive areas of Echoward Forest and Jade Sea towns, including elite missions)
-Allow the player to choose any one of the 5 maps on their own choice to play alliance battle, with increased rewards of some kind for playing on harder maps (e.g. Luxons on Ancestral Lands), and without having to go to guild hall (anyone can choose to fight on either side)

Double Elite Skills Weekend, just to prove WHY we're only allowed 1.

Double Gold Drop Weekend, doubles not only the amount, but drop rate.

Double Difficulty Weekend, Non-Mission mobs increase in levels stats and build complexity, but also drop better items then normal. Make those bloody nooblets who get run everywhere learn their friggin class.

Half Cost Weekend, [Merchants] sell basic items for 50% less.

Weekend of the "Insert Class"

Classes designated for that weekend automatically gain 3 more attribute levels in all primary attributes.

Weekend of the "Insert Effect"

During that weekend, players must work under special conditions, such as stone spores for example.

bring back the games i wana work on my title

o and a week of drunkard time is dubled 2min for ery 1 min drunk please

anything thathelps with titles would b gr8

acses 2 nightfall

Every time you complete a mission or quest your character's nose grows longer, or their face or hairstyle changes randomly.

umm tripple dye drop rate?

Reopen the closed Arenas in Tyria!!! Give us Cartographers a chance to explore! It drives me insane I can't explore them aarruruguh!

ooo Find some excuse to reopen the Monastery again! just for a weekend! let the Tyrians explore :P The Grandmasters title is already hard enough to get!

oh and Octoberfest FTW!

Purple for the win weekend:

Purples can drop with max stats like goldens have.

Remarks on other proposed ideas:
- Why would a double dye drop weekend be so popular? All the normal dyes cost almost nothing, silver is not that expensive either and it's not like you would suddenly get black dyes drop all over the place. Also those low cost dyes would decrease your chance to get quality drops.

-mini map weekend
i UW, FOW, The Deep and Urugoz now when u hit "u" u get a map not a blackness

-Green must drop weekend
when You kill a boss the green MUST drop

double somethink is boring, make some new maze or area more interesting. Maby some quest that is an intelektual chalange, not just go and kill.

double the rate of green drops, pls

1st of all thanks to galie for this opportunity to express ourselves. you know we all love you guys

Double dye drops would be good
Double elite weekend - You may use up to 2 elite skills at a time as long as they are from the SAME PROFESSION) this would help to keep IW with HB out of the story.
Double alcohol weekend - half beer prices and they last for twice the time.


I also like the skill rebalance idea (1st on this page).

No to the double ecto/shard thing (IG economy issues)
No to the favorless UW/FoW entry - makes the gods pointless.

make it that there are double chests in HoH so that ppl will see much more fight in it

I know, I got 0 Fame. However, this would be the way of dragging my Quake-loving butt into PvP:

"The Single Player HoH Tournament". The Setup is simple. People enter HoH like they would enter Random Arena. Then they get thrown into Arenas of 16 players. Everybody is an hostile, respawn time is 3 seconds, kills get counted. After a ten minute all out battle the top 4 get to the next stage. In the final stage, HoH, the winner of the last all out battle will be rewarded with a crown.

With this tournament the gods commemorate the "Days of Madness", a time when no alliances existed.

I demand a fun park! Rather, I beg for a place where an idle guild can get about four people together to throw things at each other. That would be a lot of fun on many levels for the veterans. Maybe a few long term "rides" and idle ticket ventures to pass the time with an on and off series of special events? Ring toss for dyes?

Only put back the griffons for 1 weekend an remove aoe-updates fo 1 weekend. Just feel how funny was to bash 30 griffons at once.

The only one I have really enjoyed was the one last weekend in Halls.

So another weekend like that please but this time make it last 2 years or so.

Liked the idea for random teams at Halls with possibly double fame again.

Otherwise can’t think of anything else that has not been mentioned.

octoberfest / favorless uw-fow / using non-lethal skills in outposts (galelock someone and slashpoint at them :P)

and while the idea of experimenting with tombs is still fresh, make claim resource a 3-4 cast time skill for testing

hmmmm


Try HoH like how alliance battles are set up 2 random teams of 4. Or go crazy make it 3 random teams of 4.

Although this isn't based on a mini event but I guess it could be. Kill the right bad guy in any zone get droped for entire team xx amt of gold someing that would be about 5 to 10k a player. (this is something I think would make more people to team up and literaly kill everything in a zone were it made a permanant change). Dont make it a boss or something obvious. I would say some totaly random bad guy in any zone so kill everything in a zone eventually you will find the "pot of gold".

A guild wars lotto hidden somewhere in the game untill there picked up are "tickets" those tickets could be worth 25k 50k 75k and 100k have them drop asigned to one player on a team like a wepon drops. Perhaps they could look like a present or pot of gold double click on it to see the amt. Have them drop randomly from anything anywhere from ascalon to imperal scantum.

Paint-your-pet weekend

Free FoW/UW access sounds good

Hunt-the-pet weekend - introduce a weekend where a new mini-pet can be received (only during such a weekend event), which can be received by achieving a certain number of objectives (whatever they may be) - just make them challenging (not impossible).

Town-Tag weekend - Play a game of tag with other people in certain towns/outposts to gain faction

maybe a WE, where you can try to finish your lucky title or sth like this

perhaps to get a free entrence for uw and riss

I would prefer random spawnings of boss monsters from level 10 to level 30
(depending on the highest level of the player's team) in both Cantha and Tyria.
These boss monsters could "carry" campaign specific skills as "reward".

"Good ol' Snowball Arena Event". The setting may be the northern or southern shiverpeaks. Alternatively a revival of the Dragon Arena, that game was so cool.
So we could name it "PvP is just for fun"-Event with both arenas. Access through the RA-Island. Both games could be included, people with Prophecies only can only access snowball, people with Factions only can only access the Dragon Arena and people with both get twice the fun =)

I'd like to fight in the snowball-fight-arena again (winterday!), maybe as an Alliance Fight or a Luxon v Kurzick thing. And the additional reward is beer or things like beer...(wine is okay, too! )

Or a big arena for twelve players like in ancient rome, but "all against all", where every player waits for the countdown in his own little cage, then the doors lift and everyone runs in the middle of the arena to beat the hell out of each other. See below, my sketch.

^^^^

And pls let us use our mini pets in our guild halls!

An what about a trader, who gives items for skill points...

Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit, der gemiitlichkeit
Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit, der gemiitlichkeit
Ein Rosen
Ein Rosen!

Please excuse my poor grammer, german was never my strong point...

But im all for OktoberFest, its seasonal, fun, no-one gets hurt and nothing is unballanced. Also thinking of AJ's love of Chibi things, why not have an event where we can collect tokens (jade orbs type things etc.) and trade them in for Chibi Admin Doll? We could use them as mini pets....hehe...Who wants a mini-Gaile ^ ^

Gods have open house weekend event!
Double ecto and shard drops, favorless and free entrance to UW and FoW, or if ecto's and shards are too much to ask maybe the old double gold from chests drops down there.

Pet weekend event
Add one elusive Elonian pet somewhere in Tyria and one somewhere in Cantha, don't give hints where it is, just say that it has escaped somewhere. It's like a treasure hunt! Plus it's a teaser for Nightfall. Yes, do this, forget my first suggestion, pets, you like pets, I like pets, everybody likes pets. Come on Gaile start whining with the devs, we want pets!

I'm a PvE player, so all of my ideas are PvE related:

Elite Skill Weekend:
* Double XP for elite skill capture
* Optional: Reduced price for SoC's (but limit the number of SoC's you can "store" on a character!)
* Optional: Allow to have two elite skills in the skill bar

Mission Masters Weekend:
* Double XP/Gold for achieving Master's Reward on co-op missions (but not skill points!)

Cartographer Weekend: (a.k.a. the "Wallhugging Weekend" )
* Get a small reward (like 50 gold and/or 50 XP) for every x % of the map you explore.
-- x = 1% if you're < 80%
-- x = 0,5% if you're between 80 - 95%
-- x = 0,1% if you're > 95%

Challenge Mission Weekend:
* Double reward for Challenge Missions (Dragon's Throat, etc)
* Give PvP characters access to Challenge Missions

Blessing of the Gods Weekend
* Gods' blessing have double duration (40 instead of 20 minutes)
* Optional: Half price for gods' blessings (not for Kurzick/Luxon blessings!)
* Optional: All statues in explorable areas are active, regardless of which territory has favor

Shing Jea Quest / Mission Weekend
* Quests on Shing Jea Island become available for Tyrian characters. But: No skills or skill points are given, only XP and gold!
* Missions on Shing Jea Island give Tyrian characters a reward. But: No skill points, only half XP and half gold!

Dye Weekend
* Double drop rates for "standard" dye
* Tripple drop rate for silver dye
* Quadruple drop rate for black dye
* Optional: Add "test dyes" to the dye trader, available free of charge, so you can test any dye combination. All test dyes will disappear after the weekend and all items dyed with test dye will go back to default color after the weekend.

Morale Boost Weekend
* Double morale boost for killing bosses
* Half death penalty for being killed

Crafting Weekend
* Double drop rate for materials
* Double chance to salvage rare materials
* Slightly reduced prices at all crafters (incl. artisans, 15k armor crafters, weaponsmithes, etc.)

Collector weekend
* Collectors demand only half amount of input (rounded up)

Quest Weekend
* Double reward items for quests, but only the following:
** Monastery Credits
** Imperial Commendations
** Equipment Requisition
** Luxon Totem

Favor of the Gods Weekend
* Favor of the Gods for all!
* Half access fee for UW/FoW
* Double duration for blessings (see: "Blessing of the Gods Weekend")

Insignia Weekend
* Give Tyrian characters access to the Insignia quests (incl. skill rewards!), but make the opponent MUCH harder to beat.


... more to come ...


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And last but not least I want to suggest not a special event, but a contest:

Name the Location Contest:
I love the fact that all the places on Shing Jea Island have names. I mean not only the outposts/town, but also the places in explorable areas. (You know, these little signposts.) It gives the island so much more atmosphere. You can feel that every place has some kind of background story. Why was that done only on Shing Jea Island, but not on the Cantha mainland?? Very often I looked at some extraordinary object or location and thought: "I wonder what's the name/history of this place!"

How about a contest? People should submit name suggestions for places/objects (identified by screenshot and marker on map), complete with a background story that fits well with the game lore. The winners' locations will get a signpost with the location name ingame, and maybe an NPC in the area can tell some of the background story.

Sorry, I know it's OT, but I had to use the chance.

I am a new user to guild wars after being recommended by a work Colleague (I wish he never introduced me now because bang goes all my spare time) and he was talking bout the dragon fest that was run a few months back.
being new to guild wars i am concentrating purely on PvE.
All i am seeing at the moment is a lot of stuff for PvP which is something that i am not doing at the moment so is there any chance that a few "fests" can be run for the likes of me and others who is only running PvE.

thanks

spike dan

A lot of nice suggestions so far. Personally I'd like:

• Douple (quadruple) dye drop rate with increased drop chance for silver and black
• A PvE Balthasar weekend: killing an NPC gives Balthasar Faction equal to the NPCs level / level x 5 for bosses
• Increased range of sight weekend for cartographers - unlock map areas at double range
• Drunkards weekend - NPCs have a chance to drop alcohol (2 types: 1 min (common) + 3 min (rare)) plus drunk time is counted double
• No trade spam weekend - trade window is disabled, items you picked up cannot be dropped during the wekend.

Yes please!

I like this idea. Open cities for all.
/agree

For fun GvG weekend.

A short ladder season over a weekend, top 10 guilds get a special prize.

or Double Faction GVG weekend.

I don't think "Double your <insert statistic here>" can really accurately be described as "several ideas for events" it's just one idea with different variation

I'd like to see more actual events like previous holiday events. Maybe have some epic long quests (which can't/don't encourage endless farming and solo'ing) or lots of little ones for PvE. Not sure what could be done for PvP side of things, maybe something similar but it involves fighting other players along the way?

If it takes longer to implement fine, I'd rather wait several weeks/once a month or maybe a bit longer for a decent well thought out event than just some generic variation of "double your stats" event every other week.

Also I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere yet but:

Monster Mash - players can take the role of (various) monsters. Maybe be involved in quests against the evil humans! and fight it out in arenas/PvP too. Of course this would be purely just for fun


Edit: to elaborate, one way of doing this would be via a "special monster skill" perhaps like the Dervish God Avatar thingy... this would alleviate the need for an extra slot. A variation could be temporary change (think werewolves and such...)

I'd like to have a "Get the Top 16 Guilds their silver Trim"-Event

the double fame event was the worst one ever - and it lasted longer than all the others...

it looks like anet creates events in order to make all the titles worthless and unsignificant...


why dont you start an event with triple fame if you lose?


ps: sorry for crying but thats what it was like...

Worship Weekend

Where the gods appear at an outpost (each one at a differnt one). Everybody dancing in front of one of the gods will gain towards his "worshipper of Xxxx" Title Track. After one hour the gods randomly skip town and appear somewhere else. For the whole duration of the event, the favor of the gods shall shine on all continents allowing universal Fissure/UW access.

Could be a good way to meet people, talk to them and see the community get together. Imho, that seems to have been the best about the weekends so far.