Starting at Noon Pacific (-8 GMT) this Friday, players will receive double experience for capturing elite skills. Instead of gaining 250 times their level in experience, players will receive 500 times their level in experience. Players will also have double the odds of receiving green items from bosses. This bonus will last through 11:49 PM Pacific (-8 GMT) on Sunday.
Now we get .002 chance of a green.
Double XP for elite captures and double green item drop rate Weekend
Darcy
Kook~NBK~
Excellent timing!!! I've got a survivor that needs to get maxed out & a bunch of skill points & gold to waste on this. 
As for the greens - who cares? Most greens are merchant fodder anyway.
As for the greens - who cares? Most greens are merchant fodder anyway.
FengShuiDove
Expect a "WTS 10+ Galigord's Stone Staff" thread in Sell forum from me.
Mesmer in Need
Oh boy. Now time to get me some claws of the broodmother.
Rieden Sindefy
Woohoo, A low blow to the dead horse we call "The Green Economy".
fireflyry
*.....yawn.....*
Icy The Mage
Woot double Aegis of Augh drops :P
CrustyEarl
Sounds Like fun.
AceeBlueEagle
This does not apply to EOTN dungeon chests though, right?
zelgadissan
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This does not apply to EOTN dungeon chests though, right?
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Edit: I guess actually what I meant was yes. Whatever.
Daesu
Years ago, many Greens were prized and highly sought after. Then people complained that their rares have sucky mods and sometimes even worse mods than purples. Perfect rares were hard to find and there were no such thing as inscriptions.
It is the endless whining that caused the drop in value of Greens.
It is the endless whining that caused the drop in value of Greens.
slowerpoke
greens are so 2005
blue.rellik
This might mean I can finally outfit my heroes with something decent
JupiterStarWarrior
Yay. Double nothing, you still get...
NOTHING!
NOTHING!
Puebert
/care
Useless
Useless
MagmaRed
Not that I really care, as I don't need or want any greens, but I always wondered about one thing. Some of the bosses don't drop a green, but have one named after them. Since the greens only come from the dungeon chest, there is no double chance to get them, but there should be. That, or allow the boss to actually drop the greens, and not put it in the chest.... but that is more work than is worth doing.
The extra XP doesn't matter to most people, as they are usually already level 20. Only people working on Survivor care about the XP, unless they are low on skill points and this will help them gain enough points to keep capping for the title.
The extra XP doesn't matter to most people, as they are usually already level 20. Only people working on Survivor care about the XP, unless they are low on skill points and this will help them gain enough points to keep capping for the title.
Zodiac Meteor
WTS Claws -100 gold, that's right, I pay you to take them.
Hammer Drawn
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WTS Claws -100 gold, that's right, I pay you to take them.
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StormDragonZ
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Players will also have double the odds of receiving green items from bosses.
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Riceboi
Does anyone remember the first green introduced into Guild Wars?
Black Metal
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Does anyone remember the first green introduced into Guild Wars?
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That's where I cut my teeth in farming.
Aeon221
I know the coolest, and it has +9 against your moh^h^h^h^h^gres.
Yama Sutra
Wow , just what i needed , with over 15.000.000 xp and almost 1000 skill points :-)
Anwyn
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Wow , just what i needed , with over 15.000.000 xp and almost 1000 skill points :-)
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I have a survivor Paragon on 1,150,000XP and this weekend will be her finale into survivor3...
I can't wait for it, and maybe I'll get a hero weapon or two...:P
snaek
sowrie...but this is really buggin me...
is someone gonna fix the typo already? o__o
is someone gonna fix the typo already? o__o
Lord Sojar
Oh joy.... the weekend I have been looking forward to for ages and ages!
wait...wut?
wait...wut?
own age myname
Cool, I needed a few greens for my some heroes 
Snograt
This time I am determined to get a Yakslapper. I have trawled Grenth's Footprint literally hundreds of times for this useless staff, purely for its cool name - no joy. If I hadn't trashed them all, my storage would be full of Stingers, Thornbeard's Other Crap Bow, the necro guy's crap offhand and the pretty-but-crap hammer that the wazzer drops.
No, I don't want to buy one - I want the damned thing to drop for me. Same applies to Victo's Axe - sod your 40/40 sets, with all the drops I've had from Tombs, I can run with and one of several crap/crap sets.
No, I don't want to buy one - I want the damned thing to drop for me. Same applies to Victo's Axe - sod your 40/40 sets, with all the drops I've had from Tombs, I can run with and one of several crap/crap sets.
Apollo Smile
I'll hafta take my survivor on a skill cappin' adventure.
Perkunas
People are so hard to please.
A guild mate and I have have been capping a couple hours a day this week. I don't have enough skill points to finish capping all the missing elites. This may well help. Thank you Anet.
A guild mate and I have have been capping a couple hours a day this week. I don't have enough skill points to finish capping all the missing elites. This may well help. Thank you Anet.
BrettM
I've been waiting for the double-green weekend to return so I can go after Hajok's Prism and Joff's Focus for my earth ele. My ele already has Legendary Skill Hunter, but this weekend will be a good time to send my other chars after a few more elites.
Being a fan of Galaxy Quest, I may also take advantage of the opportunity to snag Grabthar's Hammer, though I have no idea what I'll do with it once I have it.
Sure, this event may not rank up there with triple-lockpick or double-faction weekends, but I have no complaints about it being in the rotation for PvE weekends.
Being a fan of Galaxy Quest, I may also take advantage of the opportunity to snag Grabthar's Hammer, though I have no idea what I'll do with it once I have it.
Sure, this event may not rank up there with triple-lockpick or double-faction weekends, but I have no complaints about it being in the rotation for PvE weekends.
ele pl
Whos going with me to SF to gain some 2005 cool greens? Rago's for example.
Arduin
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sowrie...but this is really buggin me...
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There you go.
Sir Skullcrasher
Time to hunt SF and few other spots for some green weapons!! My heroes need to be upgraded again!!
Scarlett Romanov
<3 greens
<3 skill caps
<3
<3 skill caps
<3
Eragon Zarroc
=( what a bummer of a weekend. does this make the guaranteed drops in tombs double?
Sir Skullcrasher
question to everyone
If I take heroes and henchies with me to farm greens. Should I expect any to drop for this with the double drop rate in effect? I know it's best to solo it but some areas, without other players it's nearly impossible to do.
If I take heroes and henchies with me to farm greens. Should I expect any to drop for this with the double drop rate in effect? I know it's best to solo it but some areas, without other players it's nearly impossible to do.
Liam016
good weekend event i suppose, just now means i have to get the motivation to get my survivor out xD
Darcy
Here is the official stand on Loot Scaling (what is not affected by party size)
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Loot_scaling
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Loot_scaling
MisterB
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question to everyone
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As to whether you can expect any drops, meh. Random(small) chance is doubled.