==! Complete Guide to Guild Wars 3rd Birthday Event !==

Table of Contents:

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• General Event Information and Schedule
• Which characters can join in with the Event?
• My character is not from Cantha, how do I reach Shing Jea Monastery and the Shing Jea Boardwalk?
• Where and when will Firework Displays be taking place?
• Event Collectable Item: Birthday Cupcake

How do I collect them?
What are they used for?

• Event Collectable Item - Victory Tokens

How do I collect them?
What are they used for?

• New End-Game Area - Deldrimor Talisman and New Green Items
• 3rd Year Birthday Gift Mini-Pets

- White (Common) Minipets:

Miniature Abyssal
Miniature Cave Spider
Miniature Cloudtouched Simian
Miniature Irukandji
Miniature Minotaur
Miniature Raptor
Miniature Roaring Ether
Miniature Mursaat

- Purple (Uncommon) Minipets:

Miniature Freezie
Miniature Nornbear
Miniature Ooze

- Gold (Rare) Minipets:

Miniature Black Beast Of Arrgh
White Rabbit

- Green (Unique) Minipets:

Miniature Mad King Thorn

• Minigames

Shing Jea Boardwalk Games of Chance

Rings of Fortune
Nine Rings
Dragon Nest

Rollerbeetle Racing Guide - by Feathermoore Rep

Basic Information
Rollerbeetle Skills
Racing Basics
Race Maps and (?) Box Locations
Rewards
Tips and Tricks

Dragon Arena 6x6 (Dodgeball)

Skills
General Tactic
Recommended Tactic
Rewards

• Updates to Guide
• Contributors

General Event Information and Schedule

The event schedule is as follows:


Thursday, April 24:

The event begins on Thursday, April 24 2008 Noon Pacific (-7 GMT).

You can replay the Hell's Precipice end mission for a brand new reward.

Birthday Cupcakes begin to drop from creatures.

As an added treat, fireworks displays will start to light up the sky every hour in Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.


Friday, April 25:

Starting at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT), the Boardwalk will re-open in the Shing Jea Monastery.

NPCs will provide access to Rollerbeetle Racing and the Dragon Arena from Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.


Monday, April 28:

Note: Due to an oversight by A.net, 3rd year gifts have been given out earlier because they didn't take the extra day in this year into account.

Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific, third year miniatures will become available. (Remember that birthday gifts are given all year round, so you will receive your gift on the personal birthday (creation date) of each character on your account.)


Time Conversion Tool:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc




Which characters can join in with the Event?

Any character can join in this event, as fireworks will be taking place in the 3 major towns of Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery and Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.

You will however need to have Guild Wars: Factions in order to be able to enter the Shing Jea Boardwalk.

You will still be able to join games within the Dragon Arena and Rollerbeetle Racing by speaking to the following NPCs:

• Dragon Arena - Captain Li Sah in the Shing Jea Monastery and from the Great Temple of Balthazar

• Rollerbeetle Racing - Rollerbeetle Trainers in Shing Jea Monastery, Lion's Arch and Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.

My character is not from Cantha, how do I reach Shing Jea Monastery and the Shing Jea Boardwalk?

Canthan born characters start at the Shing Jea Monastery. Characters of other campaigns must travel there first by speaking to First Mate Xiang at the Kaineng Docks. You will end up in Seitung Harbor, travel west through Saoshang Trail and Linnok Courtyard.

To access the Boardwalk, talk to the Monastery Keeper NPC at Shing Jea Monastery and you will be sent to the festival area. Talk to the Monastery Keeper on the other side of the gate to return to the Monastery.




Where and when will Firework Displays be taking place?


Firework displays will be taking place every hour in Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, Jewel of Istan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.

There are a number of minigames you can play during event:


Shing Jea Boardwalk Games of Chance:

All games require Festival Tickets that may be purchased for 15 gold a piece. Tickets can be purchased from NPCs on the Shing Jea Boardwalk:

• Rings of Fortune:

Costs 2 tickets to play, which are taken from you each round automatically when you stand in one of the 16 stone rings. Each round, the NPC called Pan counts down - 3... 2... 1... and then one of the stone rings is randomly chosen. An orange glow appears in that ring, and anyone standing in it receives 12 tickets. Horizontally/vertically adjacent rings to the one chosen emit a white glow, and anyone standing in them receives 3 tickets.

• Nine Rings:

Costs 10 tickets to play, which are taken from you each round automatically when you stand in one of the 9 stone rings. Each round, the NPC called Teilah counts down - 3... 2... 1... and then one of the stone rings is randomly chosen. An orange glow appears in that rings, and anyone standing in it receives an amount of tickets decided by which ring it is. Corner rings give 55, side rings give 40 and the middle ring gives 25. Horizontally/vertically adjacent rings to the one chosen emit a white glow, and anyone standing in them receives 15 tickets.

• Dragon Nest:

Costs 1 ticket to play, which is taken from you when you enter the playing area (talk to Ki Leung to do so). Up to 8 players can participate in each game which takes 4 minutes. The aim is to get as many points as possible by 'tagging' hatchlings (simply touching them). Black hatchlings give you 1 point. White hatchlings give you 2 points and cripple other adjacent players. Red hatchlings give you 0 points and knock you down on touching. There are 4 rounds in this game, and in the last round points are doubled.

Tip: When you play this game, you can select and tag the nearest hatchling by pressing 'v space'. Keep in mind that both normal and red hatchlings are called 'Hatchling', so you will need to take a look at what you're heading to before you get carried away with v-spacing.

Rollerbeetle Racing Guide - by Feathermoore Rep:


Basic Information:

The Rollerbeetle Racing Arena can be accessed by talking to the Rollerbeetle Trainers in Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, Jewel of Istan and Lion’s Arch.

Once inside the arena there are many NPCs that you can talk to in regards to Rollerbeetle Racing. The most notable NPCs are:

• Kokusai [Beetle Designs] - For 100g, you can change the main design of your beetle. The possible options are:

• Plain
• Racing Stripe
• Flames
• Peace Love and Harmony
• Tiger Stripes
• Wing
• Eyeball.

Note: That this does not change the colour of your beetle. The colour of your beetle is randomly assigned to you when you load into the arena or into a race. The random colours include green, blue, cyan, yellow, purple/pink and red.

• Eldrid the Ancient [Records] - This NPC lists all the daily, monthly, and quarterly records.

• Little Jack [Rewards] - Little Jack is holding prizes for the 100 best Rollerbeetle Racers, to be given out after the festival. The prize is a Miniature Greased Lightning.

• Rollerbeetle Master [Rollerbeetle Racing] - Will transport you back to the last town you entered the arena from.

Rollerbeetle Skills:

Your skill bar is replaced with the fixed skill set below:

1. Rollerbeetle Dash: For 5 seconds you move extremely fast.
2. Harden Shell: For 4 seconds, you cannot be knocked down.
3. Ram: Skill, For 2 seconds, all adjacent foes are knocked down.
4. Distracting Lunge: All of target Rollerbeetle's Skills are temporarily disabled for 5 seconds.
5. Spit Rocks: You spit (3) rocks at target Rollerbeetle. If they hit, that target is knocked down.
6. Rollerbeetle Echo: For 20 seconds, this Skill is replaced with the next skill that you use. Rollerbeetle Echo acts as this skill for 30 seconds.
7. Rollerbeetle Blast: Target Rollerbeetle is knocked down.
8. Super Rollerbeetle: For 10 seconds, you move extremely fast and can not be knocked down.


Skill Notes:

• In order to use the skill Spit Rock, you must have line of sight to your target. Otherwise you will get a obstruction message and your attack will missed.
• If you use Rollerbeetle Echo and run over an additional box, there is a slight chance that you may randomly get Echo again. However, Echo will not be refreshed. Also if you have used Echo completely and run over another box or enter a checkpoint, the Echoed skill will not recharge.

Racing Basics:

• In the race, you compete against 5 other players until everyone finished or time runs out. There is a set time limit of 3 minutes to complete the race.
• Each player starts out with 600,000 points and the points decrease by 1,000 every second.
• At the start of the race, everyone has the skills Rollerbeetle Dash, Harden Shell, and Ram available. Once these 3 skills have been used, they will not be recharged until the next checkpoint.
• Overall there are 7 check points during the course of the race.
• During the race there are boxes marked with a (?) power-up box. Running over these boxes randomly unlock one of the other 5 skills for a one time use. After the box has been run over, the box will re-spawn approximately a second later.

Race Maps and (?) Box Locations:


The Starting Gates

You cannot use any skills till the race begins. You can however begin moving about to build some initial speed:





(?) Box Locations

There are 19 boxes that can be found on the map:



Rewards:

• First place receives 7 Victory Tokens and 7 Gamer Points.
• Second place receives 5 Victory Tokens and 5 Gamer Points.
• Third place receives 3 Victory Tokens and 3 Gamer Points.
• Fourth place receives 2 Victory Tokens and 2 Gamer Points.

• Each other Player will also receive 1 Victory Token if they reach the end of the track.

• You also earn 50 Balthazar Faction for Consecutive Wins and for Flawless Victories.

Tips and Tricks:

• If you roll about around in the starting gate just before the start of the race, this will help generate a small amount of momentum to help your beetle get moving.
• To avoid getting knockdown at the start, put up Harden Shell as soon as you exit, or even a few seconds after.
• Also use Ram or Rollerbeetle Dash combined with Harden Shell, to put yourself in the front.
• Conserve your skills! Don't always use that Dash as soon as it recharges. Sometimes, its better to use your speed boosts at strategic times, like after a knockdown or at the bottom of a hill.
• Be wary of other players. Use the "c" button and "tab" to keep track of people closest to you. These buttons allow you target the other players to see what skills they use. For example, if someone is on your tail, target then to make sure they don't sneak up and use Ram while you don't have Harden Shell up.

Rollerbeetle Guide Credit: Feathermoore Rep and GWaddit




Dragon Arena 6x6 (Dodgeball):

To travel to the Dragon Arena invisible outpost, simply speak to Captain Li Sah in the middle courtyard of Shing Jea Monastery. Captain Li Sah can also be found in the middle circle in the Great Temple of Balthazar too.

In this arena, two randomly formed teams of 6 battle against each other. The first team to reach 20 kills wins.

When you enter a battle in the Dragon Arena, you have 'Spirit of the Festival' on you. This takes your health to 100 and your Armor to 60. All your attributes are set to 0 and you cannot attack.

Therefore even if you HP is higher or lower then 100, it will be adjusted to 100 no matter what armour you are wearing.

In the arena every player has the same 8 skills on their skillbar:

• Dragon Blast: No cost. Casting time = 1 second. Recharge time = 5 seconds.
  Skill. Send out a projectile that kills target foe if it hits.
• Imperial Majesty: No cost. Casting time = 3/4 second. Recharge time = 10 seconds.
  Skill. Target touched foe kowtows before you and takes 50 damage. (Target is knocked down and takes damage)
• Trade Winds: No cost. Casting time = 3/4 second. Recharge time = 5 seconds.
  Skill. For 10 seconds, you move with the swiftness of the Canthan fleet. (Best guess is +33% speed)
• 5 Resurrection Signets

Updates to Guide:

Note: Updates at the bottom of the list are most recent...

• Correct a few minor errors and typos
• Added images for all Deldrimor weapons. Thanks to everyone for the various images
• Added datails of the new end game area and the weapon crafter in that location.
• Added picture of mini cave spider
• Uploaded loads of images in regards to 3rd mini-pets
• Added information for the different colour groups of the new mini pets
• Uploaded final pictures of new mini-pets

Contributors:

RTSFirebat, Guildwiki, Guild Wars.com, Diddy bow, Songbringer, IlikeGW, Hot Bill, matsif, Jumping Is Uselss, Zinger314, Unlucky Slayer, Kusandaa, cosyfiep, Omnidragon42, Little Shenanigan, WhiteWasabi, take_me, nomoretacos4u, SirJackassIII, Ruby Lightheart, Divinity Sword





So what help do I need?

You can help by sending me information, corrections and mini-guides via a forum PM. Generally I'm requesting any of the following:

• Pictures and information about new event items
• Information and if possible pictures of any new in-game bugs introduced during the event.
• Any pictures of interesting locations such as towns, event NPCs or quests.
• Information, tips and mini how-to guides for any event mini-games.
• Any information on event quests or missions.

Guidelines:

• I will not accept any screenshots with interface stuff like health bars and skills bars blocking things. Please send clear screenshots only.
• Please do not submit any massive images such as ones at file size: 1024 x 1280. Please resize them to 640 x 480 first.
• All information submitted must be accurate and confirmed! Speculation or similar information won't be accepted..

Also please make sure to submit all information via a PM (Private Message), as I won't actively be checking feedback in the event thread.




Hey RTS! What if I want to donate something to you?

Let me make it clear that I make these guides in my spare time (I have a lot of it ). I make them because I love Guild Wars and enjoy helping out the community.

So if any would like to donate anything has thanks, that is fine.

Let me also make it clear that this is not some sad indirect form of begging or QQing for items.

Some people have asked me if I'll accept tips or donations, and the short answer is yes.

I will not accept gold, but anything like a Party items or sweets or even an in-game PM to say thanks is more then welcome.

in your DA bit you say dead allies are ressed every minute, its every 30secs (unless this was changed)

nice job otherwise (i will try to contribute something)

PMs ¬_¬ Please But thanks, I'll correct that.

How did you get a full guide up so fast, Firebat??

thx for the usual guide
nice job as always ^^

(btw, Victory Tokens aint dropping yet i guess? )

sorry, only just noticed the big red writing at the very top

I put guides together days before they come out, I have my sources And plus events kend to be the same with a few added things so I have a lot of older material to work with

Thanks.

They don't drop :P And its only a best guess base on last year. They were reward items during Dragon Arena and Rollerbettle Racing.

We find out for sure tommorow

You say that you can get Victory Tokens from:
"Zaishen Supply Masters (in exchange for 10 Victory Tokens)"
That is true, but that comes from the festival prizes, right? You don't turn in 10 for one token. xD

Corrected, but again you all need to learn to use PMs. I don't have time to search this thread for corrections once it gets beyond page 2+.

But thanks.

Longbow

Short/Recurve Bow

Scythe

Sword


NEW WEAPON CRAFTER

Axe here :P

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1306/gw157xk3.jpg

Some extra info....the Hells precipice endgame area is the old Droknars arena. Be warned, the portal to Droknars is active, so if someone runs through it you'll all be teleported into the city, regardless of whether or not you've claimed your deldrimor talisman/endgame item.


[edit - this has now been fixed]

My sword and Shield
2nd account

main account


Looks cool to me, I love these skins reminds me of the skins from BMP

Oh.....i just completed Hell's last night >.> Day late!
Gotta do it again >.> Oh well........

not me but

Its a close up of the sword sideways, looks better from this view to me at least.

Can we still get these weapons after the event?

yes you can get them any time from now on

Deldrimor Spear right here;

So, you actually get the same weapons skins as end-game and with a weapon crafter too?

yes, same skin as end game but gold, insc

Great guide yet again RTS! Thanks for all the hard work you do putting these together and keeping them up to date.

Can't wait to do HP again and to see the new minis in action.

what is with anet and Sundering weapons and the shealds with the Received physical damage -5 (Chance: 20%) worthless crap if you ask me.

Because they are the most general mods, they also happen to be the most expensive ones so I'm not complaining.

Dude plz just go buy the gold one and let me be happy with my worthless crap.

As this are gold weapons again and end-game, something like dessie weapons: Will these weapons we able to use in HoM?

i would rather have other mods all the end game items are about the same mod wise. which i find to be a huge disappointment.

I'm gonna make a fortune on all this iron and steel I've saved up lately...

Very Nice guide RTS, thanks for taking the time to set this up.

a Friend of mine said that they look like all the BMP weapons combined and i kinda think so to lol

Deldrimor Hammer is BAD@$$

Good guide!

Personally I don't think the black beast of Aaarrrggghh or however it's spelled will be a minipet, as he's just a big black rollerbeetle, and we already HAVE a minipet for that, albeit rare however.

um ...maybe rollerbeetle contest reward

how is it badA$$?? it looks like EVERY other dwarf style hammer, but bigger. it looks POORA$$

guild wiki has posted a pic of the mini spider

Got my third Birthday present, screenshot below



(just sold 100k+50 onyx. Might worth more.. or less). They will be 5k in a few months anyway





EDIT: not mine, but I prefer this one... much more

O_o what's that under his head ? it looks...weird.

But I'm pretty sure that my necro will be getting that one xD.

That's it's right front paw. Yes it looks weird.

And it seems like there's a lot of early mini pets popping up.

just for reference some of the new minipets i've seen roaming around town

I what that White Rabbit mini, but it looks kinda big in the pic from nomoretacos4u if that is the mini. I was also hoping for some blood around the mouth at least it has reddish eyes . When/If I get one, he will be named "The Killer Rabbit"!