[Dev Poll] Weekend Events

Hey, there,

The Guild Wars Team is curious: Which special weekend Guild Wars events have you most enjoyed over the last months? Is it access? Is it increased chances of good drops? Is it double benefits during gameplay? A list of some of the special weekend offerings we've presented is posted below. We'd like to ask you to share your thoughts by choosing your top five choices from this list.

In addition to telling us about your Top Five, please post any new ideas that you have for our weekend events, as well.

Double Chance of Drops:

• Keys
• Dyes
• XP Scrolls
• Rare Chest Loot
• Hero Armor Upgrades
• Rare (gold) drops
• Unique (green) drops
• Rare Loot in Elite Missions

Double Benefits:

• Double XP
• Double Hero XP
• Double Fame
• Double GvG Faction
• Double Faction in Hero Battles
• Double Faction in Arenas
• Double Faction in Competitive Missions
• Double Faction in Alliance Battles
• Double Gladiator Points
• XP scroll duration

Access to:

• Elite Missions
• Shing Jea Boardwalk
• Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
• Snowball Arena
• The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
• PvP Character Access to Competitive Missions

Special Item Drops:

• Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover

Now here's how it goes again: We'd like you to pick up to five weekend events that you have enjoyed the most. And we would like you to share your own ideas for the future, too! We will gather your votes over the next week and share them with the development team. Thanks so much for your help with this -- and who knows? Maybe your idea will become a weekend event!

Double Gladiator Points

Keys
Dyes
Rare (Gold) Items
Unique (Green) Items
Rare Chest Loot

Thx!
TabascoSauce

i would say
double fame

#1- Gamer weekend
#2- Anything with Dragon Arena.

But to be honest, I would gladly not have a "Special Weekend" at all in turn for some Bug Fixes and Lag Solutions.

double fame, what can I say, I want my tiger pronto

1. double fame
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2. double glad points
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3. double GvG faction
4. double green drops
5. gamer access

Elite Mission(The Deeps and the Kurzick one ><) should be open all the time. With No one playing Factions, this place is dead. Even if its open 24/7, it probably wont be as full as DoA or FoW/UW. But now its totally usless. Please keep it open.

But for this topic, Ill have loads of fun with the FOW/UW this weekend. I really like the double GvG Faction, along with any Double PvP Faction. Double HA fame again please! That was too much fun

Personally I preferred the weekend events involving special events. All of the double chances of drops, XP rewards, and so on are nice but they don't draw me into the game anymore - my inventory is already loaded with stuff, and I already have all the skills, experience and faction I want.

So, given that, I'd pick:

Elite Mission Weekend
Gamer Weekend
Chinese/Canthan New Year
St. Patrick's Day
Day of the Jade Wind (I forget whether the annual celebration was named as such. Sorry!)

I've always been more interested in the storytelling aspects of Guild Wars (besides being one of those crazy bastards who had to get triple Cartographer titles), so my personal suggestion for future events would be anything that can drive the story a little further. Such as a celebration for the anniversary of the establishment of the Ascalon Settlement in Kryta. Nudge nudge wink wink.

1° Free access to FoW & Uw
2° Double Baltha points
3° Double Gladiator points
4° Gamer Weekend
5° Access to Elite Missions

Access events, in general, are something I like. I can understand limiting access to some of these based on ascension, or its equivalent, but making it so that other players, either through ownership of a town or earning favor, is really unnecessary and a hassle often times.

Outside of that, it seems most double drop events appeal to PvE players and most of the double benefits events appeal to PvP players. As long as there is balance and variety in these most players should be satisfied with the continued events.

But, here's my personal list, in no particular order:

1) Access to elite missions
2) Access to FoW and UW (hasn't happened but sounds great)
3) Rare chest loot
4) Double faction in alliance battles
5) Unique drops

The events team has always been ahead of me for ideas on events so I wouldn't know where to begin to suggest.

Here's an idea: how about letting the events lasting to the beginning of the next event? I'm usually busy on weekends and when I'm not, the lag makes the stupid events unplayable.

Double drops are bad as an event idea because of all the extra people who are farming in that time. You really need triple or more to break even if you ask me. And don't do double drops of one thing, do extra drops of multiple things.


However the double drops seem to be the best idea for the current GW followed by double XP.

If possible, how about a double or triple skill point weekend or a half-price on new skills weekend? Or maybe a weekend where all crafted items are half off.

Double Fame
Keys
Rare Chest Loot
Rare (gold) drops
Unique (green) drops


You could add a weekend where the monsters would drop twice the normal ammount of money or somethin Or a sales weekend where the prices in-town would go lower, everything included (armor, dyes, runes, etc...)

Access to UW and FoW!
Access to Elite Mission
Unique (Green Drops)
Chest Loot
Rare Drops

this is simple:

* Elite Missions
* Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
* Snowball Arena
* The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld

Top Five:
1) Double Fame
2) UW and FoW
3) Double Glad Points
4) Rare chest loot
5) Gamer Weekend

and Top Five Wanted:
1) UW and FoW Forever
2) Double Fame
3) Double ecto drops in UW, FoW and Tombs
4) Remove the favor system please
5) Hey I would love to have free access to UW and FoW

Gaile, it's all good.
I like the variety.. I can go crazy on weekend events I like or take breaks on the weekend events I dislike.
If it's too much of a good thing, people might get burned out.

1. Access To UW/FoW. Why? Not because it should be free, but because it should NOT be linked to favor. Period.

2/3. Rare Loot/Rare Gold Drops.

4. Elite Mission Access -> Actually doing the deep/urgoz was fun, hadn't done that in months.

5. Double AB Faction: My old alliance got really into it and gained 15million faction that weekend, so that was fun

New ideas -> Increased unique drops of either gems or greens in DoA.
->Boss Weekend: Scatter super-powerful bosses throughout the GW world in random spots that can be killed for good loot and XP.

I would have to say the following:

FoW/UW access
Elite Mission Access
Double Key drops
Double Gold drops
Shamrock Ale/Four leaf clover

Well, i couldnt enjoy some of these weekends because i have the necesseity of staying hours and hours with my girlfriend.
But the ones i found more useful to most of the people were:

Rare Chest Loot
Double Gladiator Points
Rare (gold) drops
Unique (green) drops
Rare Loot in Elite Missions

Not necessarily in this order.

I think there are many ways of improving these weekends, i dont think they are useless or dislike them, i just think they dont stay long enough.
You could extend them for the whole week (or 5-6 days), you just have to let the server run, right?

I also think that you should add more benefits per weekend. For example: Double XP, Double Hero XP and Double XP Scrolls for 5 days... or Double Gladiator Points, Triple Faction in Arenas and Double Fame for 5 days... or Double Dyes, Double Hero Armor Upgrades and Rare (gold) drops for also 5 days