Oh boy, another Hero Battle weekend

AOD_EaSyKiLL

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Angels of Death

Mo/

Come on, lets get some new ideas out there. The Hero battle weekend is like the 5th in the last year. Then almost all of the last weekends that haven't been special events have been some sort of PvP or faction based weekend.

How about another free UW/FOW weekend or Urgoz/Deep.

How about a Dungeon Weekend, maybe make an area, like the boardwalk, with quick access to all dungeons.

Double drops in Elite areas.

Un nerf skills weekend.

Or how about a PvP weekend where people drop stuff that can be traded for something else? 1/1000 chance a killed enemy will drop a z-key or something.

1/2 price skill weekend or maybe Double chance for tomes

A chest and key weekend

I understand that these events are a special thing any ways, but they are not very special when most of them are double Hero Battle weekends. Yes I am whining and there are lots of others too, so naysayers can stick it, dont read the thread.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weekend_events

Post ideas for the devs.

toastgodsupreme

toastgodsupreme

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

United States

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lol, unnerfed skills weekend. i say do it! show all the new people how things were before anet started with the nerf bat.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

All those sins running the same build...fun..?

RavagerOfDreams

RavagerOfDreams

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2007

somewhere over the rainbow....

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some new stuff would be fun and you forgot all the monks with the same builds malice

sir fluffums

sir fluffums

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Join Date: Apr 2008

Droknar's Forge

Just type slah resign [Noob]

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haha thats agreat idea, but they try do do alot of hero battle weekends because (and i may be wrong) i feel like not alot of people do hero battles. their trying to get new people to play them.

guildwars hero22

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

farming zashien (keys)

R/Me

ANET must give us more than that make it like triple ectos and shards drop because they practile killed off everthing else by choping title in half why not kill amour too?

Morgoth the dark

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

[CDEX]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RavagerOfDreams
some new stuff would be fun and you forgot all the monks with the same builds malice
boon prot ftw.

Murmel

Murmel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

Land of Confusion

[swea]

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Hehe, imagine all the districts in ToA for an free UW/FoW weekend
Glad we have Zin Ku and that other one in NF (I can never remember the name -_-)

I'll /sign for free UW/FoW though

AOD_EaSyKiLL

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Angels of Death

Mo/

Speaking of armor, how about a 1/2 price armor weekend, wether it is 1/2 the material, half the gold cost, or both

How about a profession weekend.

While playing characters of Primary Profession X you will get dbl exp and dbl drop chance for tomes and greens from bosses of Profession X

Then start with Memers

TOPK weekend, double golds and double green drops from TOPK Hard Mode

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

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the pvp weekends are for the raptors....gives them a few days to repopulate!

Tarkin

Tarkin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/N

Its time to invasions...

Like...

Renegade Stone summit army marchs to drokks...

Grawls will attack piken protect the outpost...

Centaurs prepare a strike in temple of ages...

With unique bosses and rewards... max dificult... and sure few chances of farm, with things only a team can make, open gates, stay over triggers...

AOD_EaSyKiLL

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Angels of Death

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by cosyfiep
the pvp weekends are for the raptors....gives them a few days to repopulate!
There are lots of PvE weekend possibilities that don't require special drops from mobs or even PvP weekends that are not faction based like I mentioned in my first post, some kind of drop from other players.

Michael805

Michael805

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Going Out Of Business Sale [GWII]

A/W

WTB double rep point weekend.

dunky_g

dunky_g

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

[SNOW]

HB.

Fun Fun Fun.

Not.

Tarkin

Tarkin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by cosyfiep
the pvp weekends are for the raptors....gives them a few days to repopulate!
LOL LOL i renember the scarab invasion in tyria desert, anyone more renember?
why not a another special invasion like the scarabs? some bigger dinos patroling the raptors LOL

Draikin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by sir fluffums
haha thats agreat idea, but they try do do alot of hero battle weekends because (and i may be wrong) i feel like not alot of people do hero battles. their trying to get new people to play them.
They're not, they're just trying to give the impression that HB still matters to them even though they already gave up on the format a year ago. For an entire year now there haven't been any updates to resolve the real problems with the format, no matter how many times we reported bugs or asked for improvements.

Shayne Hawke

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Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Draikin
They're not, they're just trying to give the impression that HB still matters to them even though they already gave up on the format a year ago. For an entire year now there haven't been any updates to resolve the real problems with the format, no matter how many times we reported bugs or asked for improvements.
/agree

Double reputation weekend would be good to have lots of times. Not this.

Bo Azum

Bo Azum

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

Mongoose United

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Hmmm, I see this ending up in "Give-us-everything-for-free".

However, the 'special invasions' idea sounds rather nice. No extra rewards needed, just extra situations.

Xx_Sorin_xX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by AOD_EaSyKiLL
Come on, lets get some new ideas out there.
i love how you say that..

Quote:
Originally Posted by AOD_EaSyKiLL
How about another free UW/FOW weekend or Urgoz/Deep.

A chest and key weekend
and then suggest these

lol wut.

enxa

enxa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Novi Sad, Serbia

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bo Azum
Hmmm, I see this ending up in "Give-us-everything-for-free".
Well having thought about this, as GW was first concepted to be about skill not equipment, this wouldnt be such a bad thing at all.

Xx_Sorin_xX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by enxa
Well having thought about this, as GW was first concepted to be about skill not equipment, this wouldnt be such a bad thing at all.
mm..it was about skill > time. they obviously believe that some items should be rare or hard to get, otherwise they wouldn't have made it rare/expensive.

AOD_EaSyKiLL

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Angels of Death

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xx_Sorin_xX
i love how you say that..



and then suggest these

lol wut.
While not new, it has been a while since either of those have occured. While we have had multiple Faction weekends since then.

Some more:

Rare Materials weekend

Battle of the Gods weekend: The gods are battling in the Fissure of Woe and the Underworld. Each god has brought his army to do battle, pick your side and join the fighting. Special powers (blessings) related to each god will help you in your fight. There will be extra quests and double the drops from the end chests.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Shrug.
Hero Battles are the WNBA of Guild Wars. Nobody good plays it, nobody watches it, nobody cares.

A.net really needs to stop promoting it because it isn't going to change the fundamentally flawed design of Hero Battles. Even when costume brawls were introduced as a HB tutorial, they still aren't popular.

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

Hero Battles were forced on to the community on more then one occasion. Most players have made it clear they highly dislike if not despise hero battles. ANET continues to try and push hero battles on to people. Hero Battles are broken, boring, and a giant run around in circles game that requires little skill, but rather more micro management then an RTS game (funny thing is, I actually love RTS games...)

Having a weekend event devoted entirely to Hero Battles is dumb...plain dumb. They should at least have a PvP weekend, where GvG players, HAer's, and Hero Battlers all get special bonuses. Shoving hero battles down my through doesn't make me want to suddenly play them more....

PlasticBlue

PlasticBlue

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Join Date: Apr 2008

Middelburg

The Sneezing Dragons

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We had this "weekend to dye for" weekend once. They should do more stuff like that like candy weekend, booze weekend, etc.
There are a zillion weekends they can come up with, a zillion where we already came up with, I wonder why they keep doing the same stuff. Their CM's read the forums right?
I know they are busy with GW2, but it can't be that hard right?

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

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looks like my sentiments have been well expressed by Rahja and Hawk.

Funny thing is I was on the beta tester team for HB, and I hated it then, and haven't done one since. It's just a stupid idea, doesn't work, is boring and no fun.

And there are plenty of better ideas rather than this one which crops up constantly. We all have our preferences, personally I'd like to see better ways to earn Kurz/Lux faction, so double faction/AB, but also some of the new ideas expressed in this and other threads.

I think Anet is just phoning it in now. It's so odd to see a lot of time put towards neat shiny things like Deldrimor items and constant micro-tweaking of random skills, when the game itself is tired and stale. If their scant GW1 resources were allocated differently, there would be life left.

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

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Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms
Shrug.
Hero Battles are the WNBA of Guild Wars. Nobody good plays it, nobody watches it, nobody cares.

A.net really needs to stop promoting it because it isn't going to change the fundamentally flawed design of Hero Battles. Even when costume brawls were introduced as a HB tutorial, they still aren't popular.
If anet really wanted to promote it, they'd add more maps and improve hero AI.

Res Ipsi

Res Ipsi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Canada

Angel Sharks [As]

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I'd love to see another double (Kurz/Luxon) faction weekend. We haven't had one of those in over a year.

Gregslot

Gregslot

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Me/

I think they should schedule all weekends and reveal it to us and leave it until GW2 comes out
With that they should abbandon GW1 and focus on GW2 to launch it as fast as possible. I dont like the idea of having them "fixing" what they never could entirely fix before and waste time and people on a dead game. Dead because they already announced they will make a better version of it and they are working on it, so as a economist i see no reason to keep on wasting time on something that will go away in some time short.
The only reason i see for keep on playing GuildWars to get the titles for GuildWars2, without beeing able to transfer, i would surely stop playing.

I think we all wnat guildwars 2 to come out as fast as possible therefore we should come to our senses and leave as it is and hope that the time they would be using on the remnants of GW1 they create something better or faster at GW2

Star Gazer

Star Gazer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Zerohour Enterprises [ZHE]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarkin
LOL LOL i renember the scarab invasion in tyria desert, anyone more renember?
yes, i quit guild wars for quite a while after that.

Zesbeer

Zesbeer

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

LLJK

HB is a joke. a special arena weekend would be nice, like a weekend were you could do eather dragon arena, costume brawl or snowball.

Foe

Foe

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms
Shrug.
Hero Battles are the WNBA of Guild Wars. Nobody good plays it, nobody watches it, nobody cares
so true
can we get some lolzcats now plzzzzz?

OOshadeOO

OOshadeOO

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

UK

Stop Stealing[agro]

W/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by Res Ipsi
I'd love to see another double (Kurz/Luxon) faction weekend. We haven't had one of those in over a year.
not double ab but double points towards title loved that weekend DVDF and KaiZ had a good time farming that weekend :P

Alex the Great

Alex the Great

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

America.....got a problem with that?

[Lite]

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hero battles suck, and a vast majority just ignores them. They go againt the common logic that guild wars is a team game, and after trying to play them when nf came out, they literally made me sick to my stomache


I hate Hero Battles. I want free Urgoz/Deep weekend, that weekend was so fun last time.

Res Ipsi

Res Ipsi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Canada

Angel Sharks [As]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by OOshadeOO
not double ab but double points towards title loved that weekend DVDF and KaiZ had a good time farming that weekend :P
I think I went from R1 to R5 that weekend..was an amazing run. And yes, I meant double points towards the title ^^

OOshadeOO

OOshadeOO

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

UK

Stop Stealing[agro]

W/A

think how many stoneweavers we got that weekend :P

cebalrai

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2007

Mature Gaming Association

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I majorly despise hero battles. They're horrible... And yeah, another yawner of a weekend event...

Horseman Of War

Horseman Of War

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

The Cult of Doom

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Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms
Shrug.
Hero Battles are the WNBA of Guild Wars. Nobody good plays it, nobody watches it, nobody cares.

A.net really needs to stop promoting it because it isn't going to change the fundamentally flawed design of Hero Battles. Even when costume brawls were introduced as a HB tutorial, they still aren't popular.
while i agree with you on the analogy...

costume brawl was introduced as a way for anet to test certain aspects of the BMP... a year after nightfall went retail.

hero battles have been around since nightfall. nightfall preview weekend was the test for heros. (flamingo army anyone?)

Anet's Main Failure was not having a title for it from the beginning... It was months after NF that the HB title was introduced "slash roll commander"

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

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You are missing my point Horseman. Costume Brawl was HBs (with HB maps and rules) with real people instead of Heroes and 5 man teams. Not only did they test the BMP set up, they also introduced the rules of HB to anybody who had never played it. Even then, it didn't suddenly get people interested in HB.

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

Last time we had Double Hero Battle:

Quote:
* Hero Battles offer double reward -- 12 February 2008

Participate in Hero Battles this weekend to earn double Balthazar faction for points scored and HB victories, as well as double Victory Points to bolster your Commander title. These double rewards will be offered from Noon Pacific (-8 GMT) on Friday, February 15 through 11:59 PM Pacific (-8 GMT) on Sunday, February 17, 2008.
However, this time it says nothing about the Commander title and Victory points.

Quote:
* Double Faction in Hero Battles -- May 2, 2008

Starting Noon Pacific time (-7 GMT) this Friday, you can earn double Balthazar faction in all Hero Battles. These double rewards extend through Sunday at 11:59 PM Pacific time (-7 GMT).
EDIT: I discovered through Regina's post about the Victory points. Nonetheless, as I mentioned in another thread, I'll just end up letting other people get free wins...