Ideas for Mini-Events

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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.

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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.