Ideas for Mini-Events

I kinda like all of them, except the double ecto and shard event, thats stupid imo.

And the free UW / FOW Idea is cool, kinda like the Urgoz / Deep weekend.

+ that octoberfest idea thing sounds awesome too. :P

What this threads starting to get to though is the 'MAKE ME RLY RICH WEEKEND LOL PLZ.'

I mean yeah a fun weekend is cool, but a crash the econamy weekend is pretty stupid.

Tyria/Cantha crossover

It would need something else for the people with both Factions and Prophecies but...

All Factions-only accounts temporarily are given access to Tyria

All Prophecies-only accounts temporarily are given access to Cantha

Maybe all accounts with both Factions and Prophecies get a beta weekend for the next chapter. Then if someone was considering buying Factions/Prophecies they probably would hurry and buy it More money for ArenaNet (people who buy Prophecies/Factions for access to beta or because they liked playing on Tyria/Cantha during the event), more fun for players who get to play in Tyria/Cantha for the first time or get to play in a coming chapter

PVE:

Whatever the event genre is, let it be doable with henchman, and not force grouping with real players. This way players are not left out based on the lack of , or preference of fotw builds. (Tomb of the primevel kings springs to mind).

Make a friend / join a random group weekend event

Just for the weekend have all of the Area Net staff play Guild Wars with the guild wars community under unknown names. You could use standard character builds which would act like noob’s. The staff could join groups randomly and help with a quests and missions. As you play you can talk to us and get feedback 1st hand on concerns, problems, or bugs. After completion of the quest or mission the Area staff member could send a message to the team saying (Thanks for playing with the Area net team member “Special sign only creatable by A-net” for verification) as a reward you will receive a special item. The member would then trade with the players of the team a present that contains a random rare item, dyes, crafting materials, or something special mini pet??.

The ultimate goal of this event would be working together and helping other people out, and making friends. If the A-net players notice bad sportsmanship or conduct then the reward will not be given to that player, and if really bad conduct is observed then that person can get banned. Rage quitters will lose out.

an event were fissure of woe and underworld cost no money

Access to Kurzick and Luxon instances without a need for a taxi over a weekend. To make it fun for everyone, maybe access to them from Tyria via Lion, too.

Might introduce those instances to factions newbies and factions to Prophecies-only people.

random pvp in ha would be fine^^
i would also like a double green drops weekend or double ectos or shards in uw.
or even rarer drops from all chests in uw or fow

How about an event that isn't just a double (insert reward) gimmick? Especially since you're starting to run out of meaningful rewards. Honestly, the only people that care about the double exp scrolls are the powerlevelers. The scrolls just aren't efficient in normal PvE play, even with double duration. The only thing this event will accomplish is lowering the price of rare scrolls, because people will be selling them en masse.

I think everyone liked the double fame weekend, because it made a rare commodity much more accessible, both by doubling the rate at which it was gained, as well as by lowering party size to make it easier for non-ranked players to find groups. However, the end result of this is that lower ranks are even more worthless now than they already were. Pretty much anyone who put in any time during the weekend has at least r3 now, so anyone who earned their rank the hard way is out of luck, and ranks all the way up to r6+ are bordering on laughable for the same reason. If one of the end goals of the event was to invite more people into HA, its success lasted only for the weekend.

Of course, the problem with not offering double rewards is that players won't care about your event otherwise. If they can't get more gold, more faction, more fame, etc. the event just isn't worth their time ... and I think that's kind of depressing.

I'd like to see another Nightfall PvP weekend. We didn't really get enough time to screw around with the new classes, and I think it's the only kind of event that wouldn't require double rewards to grab player interest.

>>>NO IWAY or VIM WEEKEND<<<
but if you ask me, I say we get rid of all the iwayers and vimers for good
...Wishful thinking xD

During one weekend, everyone can use Kilroy Stonekin's shout

My Idea:

An HoH 1on1 Event.

Players have to make a PvP Character which is desined by random.
That means. Random primary class: Warrior or Assasin
Random secondary class: One of the other 6 classes
When the Character is desined every player has some minutes to set his attributes, set his skills and to put runes on his armor.

After this "some" minutes the players gets teleported in the first HoH map and tries to kill his enemy, of cause some of the maps can't be played in 1on1, those have to be taken out by ArenaNet.

3v3 or 2v2 random arenas anyone?

monsters instead of henches? Little Thorn replaced by, say, grasp of darkness?

secondary professions primary attribute instead of primary (with primary profession runes, things might get interesting)

random arenas get really random--> play as a monster

i cant think of anything else now

octoberfest is a good idea---need more ale for my title,
double rare drops I really like (especially monstrous fangs--hint hint)
let us all in the FOW/UW is a great idea,
double xp for killing bosses is ok,
char or avacari henchmen....or jade bow henchies......so monster henchies is sounding like fun! (murasat henchmen....dont get to use their special powers)
double xp for scrolls--why?
extra dye drops, yes I need more dye!
cross-over is also very appealing.....

as I am not a pvp-er....the double fame weekend netted me 0 since double of zero is still zero. yawn, but I understand the need to keep as many people happy as possible-----

Hi

Specially a monster which in the play specially a Item for different classes droppt. A LVL thought 40 monsters of. One can defeat the monster if one a Qust solved. Would have to be attainable for all players.


MFG

Wotan

Double complaining weekend! shut the servers down for a weekend and watch ppl complaining about it, lots of FUN!

but really, double party size in random arena would be cool
hmm.. does it have to be a double x idea? if not a barber weekend can be awsome, when u let us change our chars hair style (maybe one time change for each char at weekend)

mabey an idea is a new PvE challange.. where luxon and kurzick fight 2getor to kill the aflicted, where 2 teams of 4 fight 2getor (4 luxon 4 kurzick) vs loads of incoming aflicted. and you gain a small pirze if you kill all the aflicted or maby both kurzick and luxon factions. ^^

Dude, YESS!!! Dibs on Fire Imp!

You can select any lvl 20 version of any monster!!! DUUUUDUEEE!!!

-Alastair

can u imagine maw the mountian heart?
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Maw_the_Mountain_Heart
(srry if this was already posted, didnt read thro every page)

here's one thing i just thought about: for one weekend, if you clear out everything in both the underworld AND fissure of woe, you can get a set of fow armor for one of your characters. may or may not be tradeable (as in collectors items, like the medals.) the benefit of not trading it would mean that you acually did it. if you would be able to trade it, it would probably mean that you would be significantly richer. it would help even out the distrobution of wealth among the players

How bout a build your perfect weapon weekend - where the drops could be more catered to your character so that you could farm for the mods you are wanting for your "perfect weapon". That way I would not have to try to sell mods for a sword in order to get my mods for my ranger, etc.

Old Ascalon Terrorized weekend.

Add monsters from areas like Lion's Arch or possibly the Crystal Desert into a part of old ascalon. Allow people to make groups of 8 to take down a couple of these monsters at a time, and enable cap sigs to be sold at the skills trader to beef up the little guys

Make some Dwarfes to biggest districts and then they randomly slowly walk to any PC and ask "Do you got any ale?". If you ignore Dwarf enough long Dwarf start attacking to player. Dwarf give reward if you offer he Ale and go to other PC.

I am all for this idea.

How about a /kick playername emote just to try out one one weekend to see if it works? Also a guess the new emote weekend would be nice. Just add a few new unnamed emotes. It would be fun with everyone typing all kinds of words and phrases to find out the new ones.

I suggest the following:

Elite mission Double Kunaxai and Urgoz drops (so 6 people get greens), have very select monsters (Aspects of Kunaxai, maybe add an aspect of Urgoz), that drop one green at a rare drop rate.

Award a few amber or jades for a Quarry/Aspenwood weekend, to increase activity in those areas.

As posted as an idea of a sorts in prior posts, a "Threat to all of the Gods of Tyria" UW/Fow, where favor is not needed to enter UW and Fow, but instead of double ectos and shards, you almost double the monsters in the areas.

Have guild alliance weekends, where one weekend, rating is farmed by the alliance in gvg, and awards are given to the top 16 alliances (can be limited edition cape colors, some pve rewards such as a customized only weapon/offhand award). In other weekends, alliances compete for Kurzick/Luxon faction, where the top faction farming alliances for the weekend get similar customized only rewards, or even gold prizes, or rare minipets, something like that.

A titles weekend, where select titles get special treatment - drunkard title requires less ale, cartographer title has special areas reopened where they couldn't access (Tyrians exploring locked Canthan areas), luck title (bring back tickets for a weekend) champion title (applies to high level gvgs where you beat a 1300+ rated guild with double the reward, can be done even during an offseason to get rid of extreme rating farming setups), skill hunter title (you can cap any elite despite primary/secondary class at the time), treasure hunter title (double points), wisdom title (double points), alliance titles (double faction actually donated towards titles). - All to encourage pvp and pve in a weekend, and help restore, at least for a little while, the increasing lost sense of community to GW because of people leaving, quitting, idling because of inactivity, etc.

Run "experimental mods" weekend, where features such as LFG tombs and gvg pug guild boards are added to the game, even in game voice chat, for a little while, and use it as a way to get feedback on different features that may/may not be added to the game, before it is even fully implemented. Logistically hard to implement, but it may be possible for several features, as who knows, it may be done but waiting for the next chapter.

Other things for pve: rare material drop increase (apart from ectos and shards, that will probably create mass GW market crashing, uber market speculation = chinese farmers smiling as they sell more and more in game gold), have occasional drops for materials like deldrimor steel, bolts of damask, etc..

New greens weekends (to become permanent), where some old, unpopular greens (Sorrow's Furnace, Tombs pve drops) are replaced with new skins or by entirely new greens, or can be additional possible drops to their otherwise traditional green drops.

Pvp suggestions: Create a 6v6 arena.

Restore 6v6 tombs, double the fame, but bring back the old tombs layout/modded layout (2 team UW, 6 team Burial Mounds, 3 team broken tower, 6 team scarred earth, rest as the same layout, with a 5 team HoH each time).

Eh, since these are suggestions basically, I also suggest reducing the price of Prophecies/Factions after a given period of time, so that new players to the new chapters can buy the old chapters (I highly doubt many will buy prophecies at 49.95 at the online store if Chapter 5 comes out , but may at say, 19.95).

how about as a nightfall pre-release event, the elonians return to amnoon to 'kinda ask for help so to speak' and reopen the arena place at the back of amnoon and have some mini games there?

PLAY AGAINST THE DEVS WEEKEND!

Give them a break and enjoy the game they worked on, plus test your skill more.....and for those of u mad at a balance they made u can take your aggresion out lol :P

I just thought it would be fun to have like a "Royal Rumble" were everyone battled it out for themselves

How about double the drop rate of Greens? I think that would be cool.

How about a return to Pre-Searing? Special missions could be given in the Catacombs or across the wall with the Char. Just create a character in Old Ascalon that will transport poeple there.

I have the best idea for Heroes Ascent...Make it RANDOM! Thats right random as in you go to Heroes Ascent and just click enter mission then you get a random team of 8... In doing so you eliminate the groups that can own you in 8 seconds and it alows people to have thier own personal build along with the 7 other people on the team. I really think this would be the coolest ever!

Or how about free-for-all weekend like huge battlefields where you have like everyone versus everyone and when you kill some one you get the exp and faction so you dont have to share it. This would be cool because you could have sweet battles where its EPIC!

There are several things that would work for me,

First as of right no there are no ways for u to get or finish the lucky or unlucky title why not bring a way for that to happen the top teir takes 45 days so we need someone to bring that back few a long while :P

Second the title survivor we need a weekend where we can do somthing to remove the death count, even if its only 1 at a time it would be worth it,

Beer ideas are good cuz 160 hours for the top teir drunk title is crazy, who wants to sit there for a week non stop clickin on the ale icon every min,

I also think they should give your somthing everytime u gain a title, maybe 5000k exp or gold or somthing

Make a weekend where specific rare skin items like Crsytaline Swords, Dwarven Battle Axes, Dwarven Hammers, etc have higher drop rate from the various chests they drop from

DOUBLE FACTION WEEKEND: Get double faction on challenges (attrum ruins, Zos shivros, Jade Quarry, Outpost, aurios etc.)

MAD SKILLS WEEKEND: Elite Skills on PvE has 2x the Duration (or maybe PvP)


MATS ABOUT YOU: Double rate on rare crafting materials drop on "non" UW map (to avoid the sudden drop of price for the highly coveted ecto and shard)

MONSTER WEEKEND: Double monsters count, which means double rate on drops (except unique bosses)

BE MY FRIEND WEEKEND: Players with minimum friend of Kurz/Luxons title has pass on outposts gated area where you can receive discount on merch or go to Elite Mission (HzH/Cavalon gated area)

Close FA Weekend

Close Aspenwood so people learn Jade Quarry and learn to like a balanced map.

Battle Isle Celebration
Come join us on the Battle Isle for our tribute to Balthazar!

Event includes;
PvP arena (like the dragon fest)
Flames and Medallions are back
30 Medallions -> Spirits of Balthazar (like the firewater), Strength of Balthazar (like brule and red beans)
150 Medallions -> Will make you look like one random god, not balthy. (30s? only in towns?)
250 Medallions -> Will make you look like Balthazar. (60s? only in towns?)

Ticket games:
The people on the sides use like a crossbow system of some sort. These games affect (Un)Lucky.
Small arena
A group of people (? max) enter an arena for a ? ticket cost. Some others are on the sides. The people on the side fire Flares (cost ? ticket) at those inside, hit wins ? tickets (and the hit person is ejected from the arena) while a miss the person targeted wins ? tickets.
Nine Rings & Rings of Fortune
Could come back. Or make something more interesting.
Something else
Another game, quick. Maybe even a GW themed Pachinko game for faster wins and losses.


Can make a larger arena, maybe give a snare spell for ticket cost. Trade tickets for Medallions? Some sort of balance would need to be done or trade tickets for prizes directly (probably better). Also a good time to release a balthazar faction Title . The look of the gods will come from the Dervish transformation, save coding and gfx time .

After School Special
For PvP:
-Make the PvP arenas into: a school (including hallways), indoor gym, outdoor gym
-PvP special arena: Lunch time food fight

For PvE:
-Special Mission: get to school on time (with special funny cinematics)
-Special Item Currency: Lunch money
-Special Item: Textbook, Comic Book, Bubblegum
Textbook- your character randomly spouts out random facts (counts as drunk time)
Comic Book- Read a GW funny (in comic book format)
Bubblegum- Gum all over a x-radius area - slows any character/NPC down by 33% while in that area.


Hows that? :P

The Search for Gwen's Diadem

Kill monster bosses for the chance they will drop the headpiece, Gwen's Diadem. While wearing Gwen's Diadem the /dance emote will create a mini Firestorm at your location. Gwen's Diadem is tradeable.

Any boss in Tyria or Cantha can drop Gwen's Diadem. Lower level bosses will have a much lower chance to drop it (so high level players can't abuse fast kill ability). Higher level bosses will have a higher chance to drop it (rewarding skilled players for their dedication). Or have drop chance matched to player level versus boss level. Gwen's Diadem should be difficult to attain, but not out of reach for a casual gamer. Only one Gwen's Diadem can be in a player's possesion at any time.

Amulet of the Rifts

Over the weekend bosses of Tyria and Cantha have a chance to drop an Amulet of the Rifts. This amulet will be just like the Amulet of Mists. Lower level bosses will have a much lower chance to drop it (so high level players can't abuse fast kill ability). Higher level bosses will have a higher chance to drop it (rewarding skilled players for their dedication). Or have drop chance matched to player level versus boss level.

Create some useful, but not top level (well maybe), greens that can be traded at a Weapons Crafter for an Amulet of the Rifts. These greens will be of elaborate skins contributed by the game community, much like the Design A Weapon Contest.

A Farming Weekend... only thing that changes is no aoe run trigger, no rendenchants in UW/FoW , no scarabs in desert and something like 50% more chests.

This gives everyone 48hrs to earn what they can like days of old. This also puts alot of rare skins into the market but not enough to flood it.

Let the new comers feel what is was like to be an original " 55 "