Talk:Special event

Should the Second Birthday Celebration be moved down to the second level? It didn't have quests or a hat or most of what makes a big event an event, it only had drops and fireworks. Mini-pets don;t really count as many players didn't get their pets during the event, they get them throughout the year. Dancing Gnome 13:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Boardwalk games and things of that sort were still there, making it a much larger event than the "second level" ones. -- Txzeenath 13:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know if theirs going to be a Halloween 2007 Event?
 * I would stake quite a lot on their being one. I would say we can be about 99% sure of it. -- Lemming [[Image:User Lemming64 sigicon.png]] 01:06, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Gaile even confirmed it: User talk:Gaile Gray - Tanetris 01:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanksgiving
Anyone know if there is going to be any thing planned for the Thanksgiving Holiday? I know there has'nt been in the past but I was hoping this year would be different. Could be a Fall Harvest Fest or something. Would be cool. Ghost
 * Thanksgiving is different for each country (for those that have it) I would put the odds of it at very small.--Ryudo 04:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

But Thanksgiving is HUGE in the United States. I think players from other countries would not mind another special event.

I believe there IS this year...the Scribe mentioned two items would be available during Thanksgiving weekend...

Wintersday 2007
When will there be information on the Wintersday 2007 event available for all to view; prizes, mini games, holiday goodies, etc? Mike
 * As soon as ANet announces it. - [[Image:User HeWhoIsPale sig.PNG]] HeWhoIsPale 16:29, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Is there a time frame in which they announce this event.

Canthan New Year 2008
Just a small question, will there be an event ? Gib Resahp 13. Jan 2008

Not a big chance it is unsure @ the moment but do not count on it. Let me refer to the Gaile/Frog talk page. Cult Mephisto


 * I hope there is going to be one, I thought it was such a fun festival last year. I think I heard someone say it is going to be the year of the rat this year. ^^ But I haven't really checked it out personnaly. -- Alien [[Image:User Alien Sig.png]] 15:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Valentine's Day?
Nothing special for Valentine's Day? --- Silverleaf 11:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Guess we have to wait for St. Patty's Day...Dbdghost 04:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Next Event?
Shouldn't we maybe include something on here about what is the next probable event. Like have it listed somewhere that the Luckey Weekend is likely the next Guild Wars Holiday Event?Lintor 03:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Farewell Gaile
If its not a community event, where's the prove that its an official event? Unless I c prove I'm gonna remove it from this article and tag the article for deletion. --MageMontu 18:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Guild Wars.com --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 18:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How the Hell did I not c that. I'm getting blind ><. Sorry about that :P --MageMontu 18:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries. --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 18:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Wintersday in July 2008?
is that even real? If so, proof pls--Ra ph  Tal ky  01:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Load the game, that's the sauce.--Fighterdoken 02:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * lol....ive been playing exteel for the past day......and i couldnt use my computer last weekend......guess that makes me stuck in the game before the update...game...--[[Image:User_Raph_Sig.png|19px]]Ra ph  Tal ky  02:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Confirmed O.oDominator Matrix  02:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * For the Wintersday in July special weekend event, the only thing that will be turned on are the Snow Arenas. source is here if you wanna read it. Fall 02:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I know this is a stretch, but has anyone heard if there's going to be a 2x party points feature this weekend along with the event? in the future? - elviondale  (tahlk) 15:32, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Pwned. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  23:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * So no gifts or boardwalk or mask, right? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Alaris (talk).
 * Woops, sry. -- [[Image:User_Alaris_sig.JPG|Alaris_sig]] Alaris 15:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Mini Pet Day 2008?
Source please. Fall 18:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe the editor (both IP and User:TheMiniPetMan) is the event's creator... poke | talk 19:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I noticed it finally ^^ moved it to player hosted events from official. Fall 19:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Time line?
Can someone make a list/time line of upcoming events as a pet project? like on a user page. I always miss stuff cause I have no idea when events are or that they even exist most of the time. I would do it but I'm so bad at it and I wont be able to maintain it or find all the events, cause some aren't listed on this page that I know of like Blade Radio's minipet giveaway. Please someone with some free time that's kind enough to do this help me out. --Amantis 20:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Octoberfest


 * Where: Dzagonur Bastion (outpost) (International Districts)


 * When: Saturday, October 18th, 2008


 * Time: The event will be at 4EST (8PM/20:00 GMT).
 * __________________________________________


 * King and Queen's Horrorween


 * Where: TBA


 * When:October 30th - Nov. 1st
 * __________________________________________


 * Halloween


 * Where: Kamadan, LA


 * When: Week leading up to Halloween
 * __________________________________________


 * King Frost's Wintersday extravaganza & Elf-Fest


 * Leading up to wintersday-Unknown
 * __________________________________________


 * Wintersday


 * Where: Ascalon City, Lion's Arch, Droknar's Forge, and Kamadan with the finale in Lion's Arch and Kamadan.


 * When: Starting week Before Christmas
 * Am I missing anything?--Amantis 22:13, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

This is in responce to the question about Blade Radio. I will be building a full wiki page for it soon. Though its called "Nights Of The Mini Pets"...its a 3 day long event. From October 30th-November 1st...for those 3 days straight Blade Radio is giving away 400+ minis valued at over 5.6 million in gold's worth. If you have more questions, please feel free to hit me up on my wiki talk page. - Tesla   06:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Events in order
For the sake of making it easier to find a player run event, would it be possible for me to arrange the player run event listings into alphabetical order? Frozenwind 04:05, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The only issue I see is that they are now in temporal order, which makes it easy to find the new events. If you want to have both listings, then go ahead. -- [[Image:User_Alaris_sig.JPG|Alaris_sig]] Alaris 13:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Make a sortable table with date and name entries. [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]Rose Of Kali  19:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There not in order when date is concerned, some at the top are before or after others. Simply put, its a mess =D Frozenwind 03:29, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't like them in Alphabetical order like TEF put them just now, even though it's the easiest way to give them any kind of order. They're more useful in chronological, maybe with dates next to the links as well, making them easier to organize in the future.  Alpha order is completely useless if you don't know if the event is coming next week or ended 2 years ago.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]Rose Of Kali  18:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't have an order preference. However, previously, the section provided no information to someone like me who was unfamiliar with the events. A more useful list of events would be a sortable table (rather than an unsortable list); columns could include event name, last date, annual vs. one-off, highlight(s), and perhaps # of times held, sponsors, etc. Tennessee Ernie Ford 23:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

will they?
which events will repeat, which ones wont, and which ones are undecided? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.150.27.87 (talk).
 * Those that seem to occur every year, those that don't seem to occur every year, and those that ArenaNet hasn't decided yet. -- ab.er. rant User Ab.er.rant Sig.png 05:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

5th Year Anniversery
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Or about the event, if any? 4th year had some pretty big events and updates, 5th is surely more important, looking forward to this. &mdash; The preceding unsigned comment was added by Likealemon (talk) at 13:25, 01 April 2010 (UTC).
 * I wouldn't mind a BMP to help bridge the gap between GW1 and GW2. --Ravencroft0 13:28, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Some stuff was added to the .dat file during the April 1st update, see here. Whether it's a red herring or not...only time will tell. ~Celestia 13:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Rrrriiight... interesting names they got there. No NRA gimmick? lol --Ravencroft0 13:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * guns? GUNS? sweet, i doubt they'll be added, maybe not usable as weapons but a party item? either way, i suspect something big happening--Likealemon 16:32, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The previous update evidently added a new version of Talmark Wilderness, and the names of three of those weapons (fiery, icy, vampiric dragon rifle) suggest that they are more than decorative, so my guess is some sort of shooting mini-game. Manifold [[Image:User_Manifold_Jupiter.jpg|19px]] 17:29, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * lol charrzooka :P -- Nick 123  User Nick123 sig.jpg 18:08, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, the devs know that players comb gw.dat, so that might have been a joke on us. :P Would be cool if those could be used in place of a bow. :] [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]Rose Of Kali 21:12, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Reworking the Reoccurring events pages
I went looking through the four major events in GW, and I think all four should be done in the style of Wintersday - that is, each event (CNY, birthday celebration, DF, Halloween, and Wintersday) should hold all information of the event that reoccurs (i.e., don't include 09's halloween quests or that tombs was decorated for 05's wintersday on their respective pages) and have the year pages be more of holding the historical content - including what hats were released that year along with other non-repeating event. For CNY, a non-repeating aspect that'll be on each page will be the lunar tokens as they are based per year. As it stands, Wintersday is the only complete article. -- Konig / talk 21:32, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd actually prefer to put some of the info on new pages; specifically he NPCs and so. There was an update to the engine so that there are new versions of several locations that are only available during the event. Before, they used to change the normal location with a new build, not needed anymore. That way we would have a shorter cleaner main article, and be able to exacttly document the changes to the cities as well as have many screenshots of them. Backsword 21:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

weird order of events
am I the only one who thinks it would be easier to find events if they would be sorted by date? Why spliutting the "main events" from the recurring events if both of them will happen every year? And why put the one time events like goodbye to gaille inbetween (and split into two parts) instead of moving them to the end as "one-time events"? As it is now we have to check two lists that are even divided by another part and compare which one fits where inbetween. Speaking of it, wintersday in july is at the end of the second list even though it happens much earlier in the year. your input please. 80.137.34.128 19:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)]]


 * I could see moving the one-time events into a separate historical section (I've never much seen the point of keeping them prominent or in navbars.) I do see the point of distinguishing major from minor, since they have a different impact on the game. However, they could be combined into a single table with a column for size. And that table could be sortable, so that people can look at it by date, by title, or even major/minor. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:22, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd rather not remove the one-time events from the navbars, but I don't mind putting them together - the major and other events are separate because they're on a completely different scale - the former has quests, finales, special NPCs, special PvP formats and so forth; the latter has drops, maybe event collectors and DA/RBR as well. They're very different, so a separation of the two make sense. However, the article is larger than it needs to be. I propose turning the two repeatables into a single table. -- Konig / talk 23:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)