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Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

21 Mar 2007 at 18:59 - 1

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!

Lord Mendes

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Derka-Derka Land

Steel Phoenix (StP)

E/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:04 - 2

Double Gladiator Points

TabascoSauce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Virginia, US

TFgt

W/Me

21 Mar 2007 at 19:08 - 3

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

Thx!
TabascoSauce

Feme Assassin

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Greece

Reign of Heroes[ROH]

21 Mar 2007 at 19:08 - 4

i would say
double fame

Chop it Off

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Saviors of [EviL]

A/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:10 - 5

#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.

pigdestroyer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Los Chavos Del [ocho]

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:10 - 6

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

Lynnrose

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

SoF Victrix [SoF]

21 Mar 2007 at 19:11 - 7

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

Elthanor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

IL

A/W

21 Mar 2007 at 19:12 - 8

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

Darkhorse

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Me/A

21 Mar 2007 at 19:12 - 9

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.

Skiant

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Belgium

Les Gamrahels

N/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:12 - 10

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

thedeadwalk!

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Atlantis

The Ocean [quay]

21 Mar 2007 at 19:14 - 11

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.

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:14 - 12

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.

Dfx Gladiator

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Portugal - Porto

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:14 - 13

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...)

eggs0wn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

21 Mar 2007 at 19:16 - 14

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

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:17 - 15

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

ctbear

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:17 - 16

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

SlippyJack

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Clan Dethryche [dth]

W/R

21 Mar 2007 at 19:18 - 17

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.

ca_aok

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Xen of Onslaught

E/Me

21 Mar 2007 at 19:18 - 18

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.

Rockby Quickfoot

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Raptor Five [Five]

Me/Mo

21 Mar 2007 at 19:20 - 19

I would have to say the following:

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

Gregslot

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Me/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:20 - 20

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

Gwmaster

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Canada/Quebec

N/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:21 - 21

1-UW/Fow acces
2-double Rare from chests
3-Double Gold items drop
4-double green
5- mmmm

Sub Frost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Portugal

R/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:21 - 22

Top 5(no special order)

Double Chance of Drops:
Rare Chest Loot
Rare (gold) drops

Double Benefits:
Double Fame
Double XP

Access to:
The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld

now regarding ideas... let me see...

Skill's/Signet of Capture 50% Discount
Double XP when in a full human Party
Double Chest Spawn's
Gold Mission/Quest Reward's Increased
Rare Dye Drops

ill add some more if think of something else

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:22 - 23

1. UW and FoW forever. Europe just hogs the favor sooooooo damn much. I really wish this would be instituted not just for the weekend, or at least let every region get the favor for two hours or so every day.

2. Double Glad Points. In addition to getting double glad points (obviously) this also causes a massive congregation of noobs, yielding an even higher chance of glad points.

3. Double XP from caps. I know many people think this is worthless, but I need to get that damn Legendary Survivor -.-

4. Gamer weekend. Meh, I'm just addicted to beetle rolling.

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:25 - 24

These are all of what made the game a lot of fun:

Double Chance of Drops:
Keys

Rare Chest Loot

Rare (gold) drops

Unique (green) drops

Double Benefits:
Double XP

Double Hero XP

Double Faction in Hero Battles

Double Faction in Alliance Battles

Double Gladiator Points

Access to:
Elite Missions

Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)

Snowball Arena

The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld

Special Item Drops:
Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover

Unlink PvP from controlling PvE, it'll be so much nicer. :P
Higher level caps are always good too.

Stoneys Rock

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Wales, United Kingdom

Great Success [GS]

Mo/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:26 - 25

1) Access to FoW and Underworld
2) Double Faction in Arenas
3) Unique (green) drops
4) Gamer Weekend + Snowball Arena
5) Elite Missions

any new weekend event I would like to see would have to be....nah forget it the dev team has already done everything worth doing.

Thermoblaze

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Croatia

New Dragons[NDR]

Mo/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:26 - 26

Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
Shing Jea Boardwalk
Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover
Unique (green) drops
The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld

Beqxter

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Berkeley, CA

21 Mar 2007 at 19:28 - 27

Double Fame
Double XP for skillcaps
Double Greens
Access to minigames

Can't really say I've cared a whit about any of the others.

King Kong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

21 Mar 2007 at 19:29 - 28

The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
Double XP
Unique (green) drops
Rare (gold) drops
Dyes

I would love to see an "all skills half price weekend"

ShadowbaneX

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Heroes of the Horn

A/Me

21 Mar 2007 at 19:34 - 29

Keys
Rare Loot
Elite Missions
The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:35 - 30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marverick

1. UW and FoW forever. Europe just hogs the favor sooooooo damn much. I really wish this would be instituted not just for the weekend, or at least let every region get the favor for two hours or so every day.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10133176

eudas

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Tx, USA

The Infinite Monkeys [TYPE]

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:35 - 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

The Guild Wars Team is curious: Which special weekend Guild Wars events have you most enjoyed over the last months?
(snip)
We'd like to ask you to share your thoughts by choosing your top five choices from this list.

Double Chance of Drops:
Keys

Rare Chest Loot

Rare (gold) drops

Unique (green) drops

Double Benefits:
Double XP (for Skill caps)

There you go. Top 5 (in no particular order).

Eudas

actionjack

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Kali

W/E

21 Mar 2007 at 19:36 - 32

Double Pentra.... uh... I mean... Double Gaile Weekend.

Yoom Omer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

Israel

One Life to Live Again [Life]

E/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:38 - 33

1.Free Fow+ UW
2.Gamer weekend
3.Double loot (everything is good)

And what would i like to see.... Some "Lore Tellers" weekends... I mean something that will tell about the lore game and not just free drops and so...

yesitsrob

Elite Guru

Join Date: Sep 2005

Manchester, England

SMS/Victrix

21 Mar 2007 at 19:45 - 34

1 - Double Fame
2 - Double Glad Points
3 - Double Champ Points (in like a month)
4 - Gamer Weekend
5 - UW/FoW access (im in ur uw, farmin ur ectos - need gold somehow

)

Ideas:

Prophecies Weekend - like. No Factions or Nightfall anything! No recall! No Rits! No Paragons! No Melandru's! No Corrupted Isle! No Jade Isle! GvG could possibly own for a weekend!

5 wins = a glad point weekend. Now this one would really help me farm my epeen size some more.

1100 = champ point weekend - meh, dunno... i mean, it makes more sense than a double champ point weekend which only 22 or so guilds could compete in. And it's not like there isn't already a bunch of noobs with rank 4 champion

Jalinka_Vail

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

Kansas

Legend of Five

R/Mo

21 Mar 2007 at 19:45 - 35

First I'd like to say: I like how diverse the weekends are becomming. It's the spice of life ya know! You all are doing a great job with these weekends, I really look forward to each of them.

My Top Five as requested:
1 Elite Missions (I played a ton those weekends!)
2 The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld (This should be great!)
3. Unique (green) drops (I love getting those greens for my hero's!)
4. Rare Chest Loot (Almost went #3, I love those weekends sooo much.)
5. Any special (NEW) item drop weekend. Ale's, Shamrocks ect. (It's to much fun to run around with friends looking for these items.)

My idea for a weekend? Since you asked.
New Bosses in old area's. Put a new level 28 boss in Talus Chute for example. Give him a few to five level 24 critters to help him. Give him a new drop or a drop from a like boss in tyria. The drop should be green and either have the same stats as a current item with just a different name.
Make a whole theme. "The Hill Giants are taking over the Southern Shiverpeaks this weekend, stop them!"

Rare Chest Loot

God of Killing

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Kitchen Pirates [CKIE]

Mo/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:48 - 36

1) Double fame, the less 6v6 w/ kill count I have to endure for my tiger, the happier I will be
2) double faction

Talon one

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

ice

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:48 - 37

my fave 5:

Double Fame
Gamer Weekend
Access to Elite Missions
Access to The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
Special Item Drop weekends

new idea:
double elite access token drop weekend (the token that drops only from bosses in hard mode and grants access to elite areas without favor/holding a town)

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:51 - 38

Gamer weekend
Special drops (clovers, etc.)
Double greens
Rare Chest loot
Rare Gold drops

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

21 Mar 2007 at 19:51 - 39

I've enjoyed the weekends that allow access to content which is normally unvailable the most. (Elite mission, UW/FOW, Shing Jea Boardwalk and special games)

The double drops/double faction really don't mean much to me because it doesn't really change the game significantly. We can farm drops and faction anytime. We can get more of it on the weekend events, but still it's the same old thing.

Since you asked for ideas, here are a few. How about some special contests on the weekend. Perhaps something similiar to the roller beetle racing you offered recently.

I tried the roller beetle game and soon discovered that I was absolutely no good at it, so that event really didn't do much for me, but I liked the concept of competing against others for prizes in something other than the standard fights. With that concept in mind, here are my suggestions.....

- Special Challenge Mission weekend. The Teams with the top 5 scores in the Dragon Throat mission win rare sigils or weapons.

- Scavenger Hunt Weekend. A special NPC character spawns in LA for the weekend. He offers a quest where you must bring him 40 different items. Once you deliver all 40 items to him you obtain a special reward. (Similiar to the chef requirements, but in this case you must collect all the items yourself)

Gargle Blaster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

21 Mar 2007 at 19:52 - 40

in no order my top 5...

Elite Missions (including Fissure of Woe and The Underworld)
Shing Jea Boardwalk
Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
Snowball Arena
Special item drops (Green Beer...)