[Dev Poll] Weekend Events

I've tried to list mine based on what would improve the game experience of GW. So...

Top Five Weekend Events

1) Access to FoW/UW (because should always be open)
2) Access to Elite Missions (see #1)
3) Double Fame (because Rank has nothing to do with win ratios and therefore creates unwarranted prejudice.)*
4) Double Unique (Green) drops (because they are a cheap way of ensuring players get max weapons that also have the skins they prefer)
5) Double Rare (Gold) drops (see #4)

Bonus Top 5 Useless Weekend Events!

1) XP Scroll Duration (LOL)
2) XP Scrolls (see #1)
3) Double XP (see #1)
4) Double XP for Heroes (see #1)
5) XP Scroll Duration (because it deserves an extra special LOL!)

* 'I can't get the job because I have no experience, and I can't get any experience because I can't get a job.'

* Double Fame
* Double Gladiator Points
* Elite Missions
* The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
* PvP Character Access to Competitive Missions

Like posters before me, there have been too many people against non-ranked PvPers who are just as good as the ranked ones. Hopefully, Double Fame can help the non-ranked get their R3.

I have enjoyed the access weekends the most.
>Elite Missions
>Fow/UW
>Dragon Arena

I don't particularly care for the special drop/xp weekends, but the double faction in AB/CM are cool too.

1. Beetle Races, Beetle Races, Beetle Races!!!

2. Snowball arena, or anything like it

3. Double Faction arenas and GvG

4. Rare Chest loot

5. Dye drops


Suggestion: Forget the weekend, make these things last all week! Not everyone can play on the weekends, and it really stinks when you miss out on these things. I understand they may not be so special if they're done each and every week, so maybe space them out a bit? Ot even if some of them are all week long, and others aren't. Just make at least some of them last longer!

In no particular order or sorting.

*My Top 5*

• Rare Chest Loot
• Special item Drops*
• FoW and UW Access**
• Dyes
• Rare (gold) Drops

*Seasonal and holiday related temporary drops are my favorite weekend events!

**Haven't participated in it yet, but one thing: I hope that the access means that characters from different regions can party up to go into FoW and UW, as currently it's hard for cross-continental Alliances to party together and go through these areas.

My Own Ideas

• Weekend Scavenger Hunts*
• Gladiator Combat**
• Tag/Hide and Seek Arena***

*Takes the form of Quests, the character is given a region to search for various items, success leads to harder regions and more/harder to find items. Sought items would be random/semi-random spawns in the region. Alternatively, it could be run like a mission quest, players are placed in a region and given a set time to locate as many of the items on a list as they can, some items would be on the ground other's dropped by various monsters, randomly or otherwise. Success isn't neccessarily finding all the items but levels of success based on how many you did find.

**1v1 Battles against comp or player controlled opponents using semi-random skill sets based on character primary profession. Or a scaling battle in 1v1 arenas against enemies that get progressively harder, up to facing a boss in a one on one battle royale.

***Players play hide and seek in an arena where targeting is disabled save by actually clicking on your target and holding down CTRL or ALT doesn't display tags (kinda like finding presents was during the last Wintersday event). A touch skill is used to make someone IT. Other random skills for both those IT and NOT IT. Maybe profession specific silliness.

Well, that about covers all I can think of off the top of my head.

Thanks for asking my opinions and letting me be heard.

Rare Chest Loot
Rare (gold) drops
Gamer Weekend
Unique (green) drops
The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld or Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover

- Rare (gold) drops

- Elite Missions

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

- The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld

- Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover

Double Fame/Glad Point

[1] The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld Free Access
[2] Double xp from skill capping
[3] Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover
[4] Keys
[5] Gamer Weekend


as for wants...
how about a mapper's weekend where the circle of influence was doubled making wall-hugging not so necessary or unbearably dull.

I posted earlier about Rare chest loot being my favourite, but I've also thoroughly enjoyed shing jea boardwalk access and hope its open again soon =)

1. Double EXP!!! for my Legendary Survivor Title
2. UW+FoW access
3. Double dye drops


maybe for July 4th, you could have a festive Top Hat or sumething

Favorite Weekends:

-Keys

-Rare Chest Loot

-Rare (gold) drops

-Unique (green) drops

-Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing) .....personally, wished this had also included the Snowball Arena. I liked this event not just for advancing my gamer title, but also all the other titles and goodies it helped me work on as well. Good times.

This upcoming weekend is going to be my first for FoW/UW access, but I'm looking forward to it. Honestly, I really enjoy having all the special little in-game bonuses...and I love the holidays and festivals too. They give GW a depth by helping to create a feeling of cultural history and whatnot. And, um, free stuff FTW.

Could we please get another double xp for elite skill caps added in soon?

Favorite weekends, in order

1. Triple green drops
2. Gamer weekend (boardwalk)
3. (and far behind 2) double hero armor upgrades (this shoud be made triple, I was getting 100+ pts with no armors in Salahja more often than not, and most Shadow Nexus runs didn't give an armor)
4. extra keys and rare chest drops

Now I WOULD put Canthan elite missions / Fissure and UW access, but those SHOULD NOT be events. Gaile, you promised us alternative Canthan elite access many months ago, and it's a broken promise. And you very well know what the vast majority of the community thinks about favor and Fissure and UW access.

I completely agree.

Favorites:
1. x2 exp from skill caps
2. Gamer
3. Rare Chests
4. Green

The elite areas should be open all the time, not a weekend event.

1: Double greens
2: Double golds
3: everything else not PvP related
4: Everything else PvP related.

Not that Pvp is bad or anything, it just means absolutely nothing to me. Even double XP scrolls has SOME effect on my gameplay, but weekends of double fame/glad points/rank/balth faction, whatever, might as well not exist for me. I know some people love them, and that's great, that's why this is a poll.

Thank you for your responses, and for all the great comments and ideas! This will be very helpful to us.

something different please..

* Weakened Anguish weekend - no environment effects
* Double Monster weekend - give them a chance to get back at us
* Instagib title weekend (turn on for instagibs) - a page from the book of UT
* Speed Weekend - double speed for all!
* Rampage Weekend - full radar aggression!

Or all 5 at once...

Sounds like fun :-)

i like the "Special Item Drops" !!

Those 4 appeal most to me, especially FoW / UW access.

Some ideas I have:

• Events that last for four or five days, for those who can't play on the weekend
  
• An event which allows 12 person parties in DoA, to give assassins, ritualists, mesmers, rangers, paragons, and dervishes a slightly better chance at getting a party there.
  
• "Half Price Skills" Weekend or better yet "Skills Cost No Gold But Require Two Skill Points Each" Weekend
  
• "Let's Not Have a Special Weekend and Instead Focus On Fixing Skills That Were Nerfed Way Too Much" Weekend

1. double xp
2. rare drops
3. gamer weekend
4. double fame

uw/fow
triple greens

I don't really care about the rest, I do have a couple of strong objections for weekends though.
1. Double dye drops
2. Double scroll drops
3. Hero xp gain (kill me now)

That's it, thanks for the poll

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

^-- thats my choise since im more of a pve player

1. Gamer Weekend
2. Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover
3. Double Chance on Keys
4. Double XP
5. Double Chance on Rare (gold) drops

Double Rare (gold) drops
Double Unique (green) drops
Double XP for Skill Capture
Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover Drops

That's my list.

Double Chance of Drops:

• Hero Armor Upgrades*
• Rare Loot in Elite Missions

Double Benefits:

• *
• 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*
• The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld*
• PvP Character Access to Competitive Missions

Special Item Drops:[LIST]*

*-These weekends I don't really participate in either because I don't pvp (I bought the game for the PVE element which I enjoy throroughly). Or I don't play the game enough to be experienced enough (eg. i'm too noobish for) to frewquent these areas.

Double Chest loot/greens/golds/keys/dyes increase the farming of said items so I just wait until they flood the market and dampen the market value of the items then buy them at cheaper prices.

Double/Hero XP/scrolls is nice, but I don't really notice it after lvl 20.

So that leaves the following:
[*]Shing Jea Boardwalk[*]Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
These seem exclusive to Canthans and/or those with access to SHing Jea.
[*]Snowball Arena
I liked this, but I still classify it as PvP, which I usually don't do. I tried it once or twice...
[*]Shamrock Ale and Four-Leaf Clover
These were a nice touch to the events; I'd like to see more of them for future events.

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What I'd like to see more of is events like the one during the wintersday/hallowe'en events. They were playable across campaigns and didn't require some sort of farming (think golden piggie/iron chef in shing jea) or grind ("lfg 5-man green farming" in Vasburg Armoury").

A fun PvP event parallel to this would be nice for those PvPers.

But I had the most fun where you just had to show up and participate (via emotes) and didn't care about working on titles, gathering greens/golds. The sugar/alcoholic treats are a nice touch. These events don't even have to feature a mask/hat/minipet (read sellable commodity) at the end. Just something for all levels to enjoy.


Also, next year is 2008. Instead of making it just the year of whatever it is in Canthan New Year, you can also make it the YEar of the Frog with a special event (maybe turning everyone into frogs or having a leap frog tournament?). since it is also a "Leap" year.

1. Rare item drops (shamrocks etc)
2. Rare (gold) drops
3. Triple green drops
4. Rare chest drops
5. Increased key drops


Suggestions --

1. Double/Triple Merchant Days purchase return (instead of getting 20g for something you would get 60g

2. Rare monster/boss sightings - you never know when and where they will show up... but a rare monster could have a special drop or a special skill to cap.

3. Free Cap Sig with every elite boss cap (basically elite free capping weekend!)

4. Rare Pet Sightings - Very hard to find elite pets can be found 1 in a 100 instances chances... if you are a ranger you could wrangle yourself a special pet such as a Rhino, a Cobra snake, an Etheral Beast, a two headed Hellhound...etc.

5. Double Drunk and Sweetness Days - Get double the drunk and sweet tooth points while drunk or on a sweet high!

6. Rare Hero Dye drops - Get rare hero dye drops (very rare) so you can dye your hero armor different colors, yay!

7. Pet Fight Arena Weekends - Get your pet and fight in a round circle against other pets. Outcome is random, pet stats random... could lead to a new Pet Pit fighter title.

8. Coming of the Destructor Weekends - The Great Destroyer is coming... his avatars are appearing all over EACH and every mission / area / zone. There is 1 per area/mission. This avatar is level 25-30 and will spawn away from other groups. (If you are very low level then you can just avoid it until it teleports to another section of the map in 5 minutes). If it is in combat it will reset its timer every minute (so it will not vanish mid fight). The avatar is huge giant monster and has special skills... taking it down will require you to be level 20 at least. If you are in a group and you kill it, you will get 1 mark of faction for killing it. There are special Guardian NPCs in each of the 3 main towns for the 3 current campaigns. They will award you special prizes for killing 10, 25, 75, 150, and 250 avatars of the destructor. Rank 1 a special gold drop, rank 2 a special green drop, , rank 3 a special title, rank 4 a special mini, rank 5 an elite special title. These all tie to the upcoming Eye of the North.

I love Guildwars!

1. Double Faction in Alliance Battles
2. Rare Chest Loot
3. The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
4. Dyes
5. Keys

I would like to see double faction gain in Alliance Battles, we've been having all these double PvP faction, but Alliance Battles have not been included in any of those double faction weekends, why?

Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
Unique (green) drops
Double Fame
Shing Jea Boardwalk
Snowball Arena

Ok in this order:

Access to The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld


Elite Missions

Gamer Weekend
Snowball Arena
Double Fame

When Hard mode is released I think a weekend where you get double Lightbringer and Sunspear points during hard mode would be pretty fun.

Another weekend with Shamrock Ales and Clovers would be cool also, but adjust the item names to fit whatever holiday was approaching.

1) Double keys <-- Please
2) Double XP <-- I need more skill points ><
3) Gold drop higher <-- Wisdom title

EDIT: Double fame would be stupid, as this would make rank become even more worthless as more and more people would be reaching the higher ranks. (9+)

1) Green drops
2) FOW/UW
3) Gold Drops
4) ale/clover (anything for booze)
5) rare chest loot
6) (MOST IMPORTANT) I think it would be nice to have 1 event every other week instead of everyweekend so those of us who play mostly during the week and not on weekends could enjoy them as well as those weekend warriors.

1. Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
2. Keys with Rare Chest Loot
3. Rare Loot in Elite Missions
4. Elite Missions
5. Dyes

1. UW and FoW = best out there! should be available every week!

2. Clover + ales = hot!

3. Green drops = cash in!

4. Broadwalk = my titles!

5. Dyes = black dye rocks!

* Access to: Gamer Weekend (access to Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, Rollerbeetle Racing)
* Access to: The Fissure of Woe and The Underworld
* 2x Rare (gold) drops
* Double Faction in Arenas
* Snowball Arena

Any kind of special holiday is fun...I love Lunar New Year, Day of the Tengu (coming up? pretty please), etc. Whatever that event was w/ the Balthazar's Flames...that was very fun...I still have tokens left though! Hope that trader comes back someday

1. Gamer Weekend
2. Access to FoW and UW
3. Double chance of unique green drops
4. Snowball Arena
5. Shamrock Ales & Four Leaf Clovers

I loved the addition of rollerbeetle racing - minigames are a really great idea that I wish we could see more of. Snowball arena and Dragons nest are other great examples.

Double green drop weekends are great because it encourages people to do things together, and you can readily see the benefits; a nice new greeny for yourself or a hero. With the huge variety of greenies, it can be hard to find a specific one for sale. With the double dye, double chance of gold drops weekends and that kind of thing, its sometimes hard to see the actual benefits since these can drop from anything; around those weekends I saw quite a few people on forums questioning if chances had actually increased at all.

I've included the FoW and UW because it's great not to have to wait for favour; I don't care so much about the free entrance because you get plenty of cash to pay that off when you go in, but I don't believe PvP gameplay should have an influence on PvE when there is no relationship in the opposite direction. Plus it will be great to be able to go there with people in my guild from other regions.

I'm not a fan of the nine rings or rings of fortune; everyone just goes afk on those and its a big moneysink. I realise the lucky titles now have a use for new lockpicks which makes me kick myself a bit for not playing more, but really no one was having fun doing it, and I think a big part of the weekend events should be fun.

So my suggestions for future events: more minigames! Just silly fun stuff that people can enjoy and that can add in some small way to titles. I loved being able to get more alcohol for my drunkard title at the Lucky Weekend, and same with all the special items at Wintersday.

I would love to see a Valentines Day Event, or something similar...maybe thats because I'm a girl, but I think it would be great to see everything decked out in mushy pink stuff with lots of cute quests to solve NPCs relationship problems - think Rurik in pre sear trying to find a gift for Althea. More candy for sugar titles could be included - boxes of chocolates maybe? rose wine for drunkards? gift boxes; special auras where you have a higher chance of luck. A fluffy winged minipet? Pink dye for all?

Something for April Fools could be fun; lots of prankster kind of stuff with silly items that contribute towards a prankster title. A bit late for this year perhaps though.

There is a bit of a lack of festivals in the middle of summer, isn't there? Perhaps some sun worshipping festival on the longest day of the year, to celebrate nature?

I really enjoyed the theatre sidequests in Vabbi; maybe a nightfall cultural festival encouraging interest in theatre and music and the arts in general with related sidequests and items? I realise GW is all about killling stuff but a bit of culture wouldn't kill us either -_- I think a lot of humour could be incorporated into something like this.

Oh and I saw someone suggested double ecto and shards drops; that would be really really really nice, but would prob have to be paired with an open event for UW and FoW.

better drops of any kinds (ok no more scrolls until you get them to stack again!)
better loot from chests
more gold item drops....yeah they are pretty good now, but a double chance would be great and triple well, bless my soul we have a winnah!

I dont pvp so glad points etc mean nothing to me

access to fow/uw is good
access to elite missions is good too
access to boardwalk, rollerbettle etc is a nice time waster so its ok as well.

bad double stuff like xp, faction etc...

would like to see a weekend where gems dropped and rarer dyes (like blue, green, black and white).

like that double merchant idea too
and the free sig of capture would be great with a new expansion coming up

Top Five weekend events: in no particular order
-Double Green Weapon Drops(I'm personally a big fan of green weapons, I like some of the unique skins and the accomplishment of getting that weapon you've been waiting for is awesome, that being said it can get old to go back and kill the same boss a million times and not get a drop...so the occasional boost in the odds is always nice)
-Double Hero XP(This one is great for starting up a new character or leveling up a new hero or two. having level 15 heroes on my level 20 character means i don't ever use those heros.
-Double Dye drops(dyes are expensive and hard to come by, but i really like colouring up my characters...so these weekends increase the available dyes and lower prices...a good thing for me)
-Gamer Weekend(sadly i missed this weekend the first time it came around however having fun events like the roller beatle racing just seem like such a fun idea that I'd definately be happy if it happened again
-Shamrock Ale and Four Leaf Clover(mainly for the clover as i'm not a big drinker. I really like having rare one of(or a few of) a kind items that have use to them. going around and gathering up a bunch of clovers over a weekend and then being able to selectively use them during tough missions and the like makes the game alot of fun)

Suggestions for other weekend events:
-more rare item drops(like the clover) that have uses in game. armor boosts, DP reduction, health or energy regeneration boosts. Adding a temporary boost to your PVE character can be the edge to get the master reward on that one mission, or finally completing the high difficulty quest. For a beginner character like me, a little boost now and then can help.
-Special unique games or events(like the gamer weekend) different ways of interacting with other players and with your characters allows for some variability in the game which can be really fun. having fun rewards similar to the transmogrify potion would be awesome(i'm a big fan of having more disguses or shape-shifting elements in the game)
-Hero Access weekend: I'm thinking about areas like FOW and UW which, if i'm not mistaken you're not allowed to bring heros or henchmen in your party. while i agree with this for most of the year, having a weekend or two where you could take a team of henchmen and heros into FOW or UW to explore a little bit(especially for new players who haven't been there yet) that might be really fun(i'd definately enjoy it at least.

That's my thoughts. I'm loving these weekends overall...keep them up!

1. Access to: Shing Jea Boardwalk
2. Access to: Gamer Weekend
3. Double Chance of Drops: Rare Chest Loot
4. Double Benefits: Double XP
5. Access to: FoW and UW

1. Rare (gold) drops
2. Rare chest drops
3. Triple green drops
4. Gaming weekends
5. Rare item drops (shamrocks etc)

Although, given the demise of GW and the coming of GW2 in 2008 (I am convinced aNet will have to release something for revenue in 08) it may make more sense for title related items.

Secondly, can't you just look at server stats and see which one was most popular? Will you tell us which ones were most popular by people attending?