Oh boy, another Hero Battle weekend

I agree the HB weekend is pretty useless. However, almost all of the ideas listed in the OP are every bit as useless as the HB weekend is.

Double ectos weekend would be a useful weekend worth having. New weekend ideas should be as good as double ectos, or better.

Okay, I don't mind pvp weekends every now and then, but we've had two full months of pvp events with the exception of the special events. I'm personally sick of seeing events with the arenas and especially hero battles. Give us something worthwhile to do...It's like beating a dead horse.

At least when you suggested something to Gaile, they actually took it into account. Well..she did when I suggested alliance faction and eotn weekend in Feb. I don't know how hard they are actually working now on actually listening to people, but I wish they would. They would hear that a lot of people aren't happy about this weekend event and that they could do better.

Waiting for a weekend to get me to play more....i don't know what that will be specifically but.....i know it isn't HB. :P

umm one thign wrong this weekend is not even out yet on my sign in page what the weekend willbe , so the persont hat posted on wiki is wrong needs to be taken down

What percentage of GW population actually cares about HB?

Hell, what percentage of PvP population actually cares about HB? I don't know anyone. I'm sure it's less than alliance battles and even those get a healthy dose from the PvE side of the crowd.

Why must anet be so stubborn and keep pushing this epicfail of a PvP mode?

I have to agree - where is the proof of this? A note written by someone on the wiki who claimed to have heard it is far from proof.

/FAIL

There was also no need to start a new thread to prove your idiocy either....

Its in the Game Dev tracker section in a post written by Gailes replacement (Sorry I forgot how to spell your name).

Well isn't this perfect.. now I'll be studying even more for finals.

Seriously, who really cares about HB? It's a fricking 1v1 battle in terms of human players.. weekends are supposed to bring people together..

no it dont if where give link, i read all she said was she was in pretoday

Ahh, I see. Now if that was simply linked in the OP instead of the wiki article, there would be no question.

EDIT: OT, now that I know this is really the weekend event, I agree with others. That is all.

Or anthing that isn't PVP related.

Yea, this events are geting quite boring for me..i wud like something different, probabbly something that u have added in this post as an idea.

I suggest you check your closed thread that you started for the link.

As an aside, I now realize why they have to have green arrows on the compass.. some people would be totally lost otherwise....

Some things I am pretty sure WONT EVER happen are anything halving the costs of items.
I think we can discount 1/2 price skill weekends and in the same way 1/2 price armour and materials etc as they are anets gold sinks when the rings arent going.
I am just happy we get weekend events, I remember the introduction of them and try not to take them for granted as I realize how little Id look forward to checking the GW site if they werent there.
Slightly off topic, but Im reminded of it because of teh double tome drop mentioned, would be the trading of Tomes added to a merchant (maybe the Rune Trader?). At least then people would have access when they needed some say to unlock skills for a build rather than having to spam a major town.

they have to do the weekend events otherwise people will stop playing the game. for some its one of the only reasons they come back and play again.

ehm is this simply a 2x balthazar faction or 2x commander points aswell?

That would "discourage" people from playing with other players! So it will never happen.

I need another weekend of special things to drop like more holiday type items---sparklers, sweets etc....still need quite a few more points for my titles

so I will be doing the norm this weekend---probably NOT playing and finally enjoying the almost nice weather.....maybe thats what they are hoping we will all do?

no! if they did that you would see iway back in all of its glory with dual orders ranger spikes and 1 e prot bond monks and the old skool spirit spaming builds all resurected! players today would get FARMED against the origonal iway. and if not that then the dual orders ranger spike and smite balls
and dont forget what NR used to do... anyhow if they did a weekend like that, players would be thankful for the nerf bat. and maybe there would be less QQ.

On topic.. i agree that us "PvE nubs" need something more than just a weekend that casues raptor farming to go rampant. i mean really for the last 3 weekends... people have either been raptor farming for whatever is dropping that weeknd OR afk on the rings. its getting boring. this hero battle weekend .. come on its like a quick fix. they picked the easiest script to implement.. and went with it(thats how it seems though i am probably wrong)
i mean i personaly have never even tried hero battles.. because i got a bad taste for them due to HA being over tun with heros a while back, robbing me of a real pvp ecpirience and only fighting 2 humans and 6 henchies.
And many other HA players feel the same way about hero battles(not saying all HA players jsut alot of the ones i know) and couldnt care less about stupid hero way. lets sugest feesable ideas and put the here for anet(hopefully they see it) and maybe we will have our gaming expirence spiced up. Back in the day htere never used to be any weekend events. so.. yeah dont forget that its an extra little thing anety does for us regardless of weather its appealing ot all of us or not.

oh man! not another HB reward... like many others, I dont play HB.

I like to see them do a double rep/faction weekend again. Maybe a 'hair' cut weekend - where you could change your characters hair 'n' stuff.

Maybe a 'special' weekend where everyone is randomly logged in to other peoples accounts. Now THAT would be fun.

As far as this topic goes, I've never even set foot in the foyer for Hero battles, but then again that's true for most PvP in my case as well. So whoopdeedoo for this weekend. :/

Are players still deciding the outcome of hero battles using /roll 100 ?

Last weekend was the anniversary weekend, which was largely a PvE weekend. I think it's fair that this weekend should be a PvP one (even though I don't PvP).

ANet is simple uncreative, they repeat ever only the same stuff in their weekends. Just retarded, when you know, that there are out there like a douzend of possible new weekend events, that anet hasn't used yet.


Why can't they make for example more often Weekends, where the Minigames can be accessed, so that we can work on more often on our Gamer Title, than only every 3 mionths like, thats crap and it sucks - let us work more often on this title or give us better direct Dragon Arena, Costume Brawl and Rollerbeetle Racing permanent and create for the sooooooooo important special holiday events 2 new minigames.


Holiday Events should be then also combined with Double Gamer/ Lucky&Unlucky Points and the 3 Money Titles, to make holiday events more special and interesting over normal gamer weekend events.
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Yes, there could be also more often weekends, where skill npc's would charge no money fee, where players have just to charge the Skill points, or at least only half cost.

Event for higher Dye, Tome, Rare Mats and Golds drop rate...

Event for triple money rewards from Dungeon Quest together with double Chest Drops.

Event for double faction points for your title, when you donate some to your alliance, so instead of 20k points for donated 10k, you'd get then 40k points towards your title.

More often Events, than only on holiday events, where monsters drops alcohol, sweets and party stuff, to reduce the grind to those titles.
Must not be very special stuff, hunter ale, fruitcake and rockets do it all - simple 1 point stuff without any special effects in form of buffs

event for reduced armor prices would be really neat (including any trade npcs)
Say an armor piec costs before the event 10 Platin and 75 of mat 1, 5 of rare mat 2
In the event it costs then for example only 5 Platin, 50 mat 1 and 1 rare mat 2

event for FAME POINTS in PvE !!!!!!
Beat the Campaigns and get say 50-100 Fame Points, whenever you beat either the Lich ,Shiro or Abaddon. 50 NM, 100 HM.
Together with some new repeatable quests for this event, which reward you with 5 Fame Points , when you make them

more often Events with much better rewards for vanguishing. the money rewards needs to get trippled so or so anyway, vanguishing is atm as it is for people way to uninterestign for its effort and lots of stress it will give you at certain areas

Events for much higher lockpick drop rate and retain rate.

Events for tripple wisdom/tresure hunter points together with some items that drop from enemies and give you points towards those titles, like the golden eggs !!! a great way to reduce the ridiculous grind of those both titles

event for double commander points

event for easier Gladiator points, lettign each win in RA/TA count 1 point and a winning row lets increase the points you get per win, like in HA

there should be 2 special holiday events more in the game over the year, 1 for the luxons and 1 for the kurzicks

more often events again for double exp from Elite Skill Capping or general events, where monsters give double to tripple the exp ,than normal, what would be especially nice for tyrian characters, which level in comparement to canthan or elonian ones extreme slow due to the crappy quest exp reward difference of tyria, where you get higher exp rewards only near the end of prophecies...

and what not else all for events ... but fact is, theres alot of stuff, thats unused yet and was yet never in for a WE, I especially emphazise my bolded wish, because it sucks to be forced to play pvp, just to get fame points, when PvE could also have to its own ways to let players earn soem fame as "heroes of the world" which save it several times, you ARE famous!!!

Yea,let's trash the economy! -.-'

why not combine PvP hero weekends, with this for the PvE'ers?
...i need more Mysterious Armors!

Every time you post i die a little more inside =(

You take this all way to serious and bring up loads of ideas which destroy an other factor of the game =(

Idk... I like the pvp events :/

hero battles =/= PvP

HBs are the worst designed type of "PvP" I've ever seen in any game.

That said, I am glad ANet doesn't give me a reason to waste yet another weekend in front of my PC.

Oh boy, another QQ thread.

i would love that too - i've always regretted the hair i chose for my sin and that's why he wears the mask of the mo zing

gg like it alot :P HB weekend for the win :P

im lazy with comments 2day :P

can anyone explain what the hell does this mean!? and also WHY please?

like i said on my previous post, stop bothering about GW1 and give us GW2... FAST

For the ideas I left out: Some ok ideas but mainly more crap to ruin the economy. Yes I know people want to get rich fast...

As for the quoted part...

Ok so you want a PvP-only title for PvE players. Fine.

I demand Legendary Cartographer cause I am pretty sure I walked over every spot on (almost?) all maps HA has to offer.

Furthermore I demand Legendary Vanquisher for killing a lot of teams during the last 3 years.

Next would be max Lucky title for having hundreds of Hall skips and max Unlucky title for hundreds of teams I faced running the exact counter to my team while being unable to kill anyone else. Add hundreds of times I got stuck in The Vault to Unlucky points.

Of course everyone having his name up on the world-wide hall winner announcement should be GWAMM.

I want Legendary Survivor for hundreds of flawless victories.

Treasure Hunter for all the chests opened there.

And finally Protector, Guardian and Defender of the GW World for all the Rifts/Unworthy/Ghostlies that died before they could take over Tyria.

But hey, PvP has 4 titles (won't count Faction Allegiance since AB is at most "Player that plays worse then environment vs Player that plays just like environment"). How many PvE titles are there? Yet you still demand credit(fame) for not actually doing PvP? There have been enough ways to farm fame. Air Spike -> Dual Smite -> Spirit Spam -> IWAY -> MM -> Necro Bomb -> Healing Balls -> Hamstorm (haha sry had to add it ^^) -> RSpike -> Sway and a lot of other easy FOTMs. HA is already dead and a lot of the people there jumped on the easy grind per fotm train to get ranked. Please dont make it worse.

It is already horrible enough to hear "Sorry can't reroll to [profession]...have only PvE chars and my [profession] is in Remains of Salami farming LB/SS" more than once.

GOREDENGINE is the filter for "naughty" on GWG,and it was a retarded idea.

I believe this thread is over.