Talk:Weekend events

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Contents 1 Event Ending 2 Double Luxon and Kurzick Title Points! 3 SS/LB 4 PVE? 5 Does Anyone Else Suffer This? 6 needs to be updated 7 Double Exp for vanquishing 8 Vanquishing doubling points - undocumented! 9 Another PVP weekend = 10 Twice a GvG/1v1 Weekend... :( 11 Double SS/LB points 12 WTH 13 Ideas for Special Weekends 14 Making the weekends fair for all... 15 No weekend event?? 16 Help me! 17 Funny thing... 18 Double Double Faction 19 Vanquishing 20 2x TRP 21 Weekend events research 22 Pre Searing 23 1000 faction for amber or jade 24 Weekend Event Start Times 25 Order? 26 What do you get? 27 What are these "certain areas"? 28 No Halloween Redux ? 29 Codex Arena Weekend 30 Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu... 31 Armor greens affected? 32 The skeletons In UW need to GO!!

[edit] Event Ending

What happens if you're in an explorable area at the time the event should normally end. Does it still end at the given time by some small unnoticable update or does it revert back to normal at the next loading screen? -- Nox Coma 06:58, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Last I checked, say its double vanquish weekened, if the event ended and you were still in an explorable area you would keep the event until you zone 68.47.192.6 14:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

The only time I remember being kicked out was out of the EotN preview weekend. Maybe even the Shing Jea Boardwalk, but I was not there when it ended. But that's it. -- Alaris 16:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Special drops will continue until you zone, but 'double points' end at the exact time. 66.190.15.232 17:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thnx! -- Nox Coma 07:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Double Luxon and Kurzick Title Points!

I just personally had to come on and say thank you soooo much for creating an event such as this! Not just for AB or PvP but for all forms of attaining Luxon/Kurzick factions. I know myself as well as many other players in my alliance have been pushing hard for these titles and this really helps a lot. Thanks sooo much again it definitely proves Anet still cares and listens to the players! --O Frost O File:User-O Frost O Sig.GIF 20:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Ehmmm...what? --Silverleaf Don't assume, ask! 21:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh yes! My Guild and alliance are all in good moods for these! This is gonna be one hell of a good weekend in Guild Wars.--ShadowFog 21:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Watch there be some sort of hff nerf on Thursday. =P 66.190.15.232 22:04, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Might wanna elaborate on the comment Silverleaf... ~_~ -- Nox Coma 05:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah a big thnx for introducing this weekend event! This title is a time killer so this event will really help out alot! -- Nox Coma 05:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

You normally get double faction points for transferring faction through your alliance and for "buying" skills. Would that amount double during the weekend as well? For example: I transfer 5k faction through my alliance, buy 1 Kurzick skill (3k) and get 2 Amber Chunks (2x 1k). Normally I would get 10k + 6k + 2k = 18k contributed towards the title. Would that be 36k during the weekend? So that instead of 10k to the title for each 5k faction donated to the alliance, now the title gain would be 20k for each 5k donated? As does 12k for getting a skill instead of the usual 6k, even though it costs you only 3k from your unspent faction? It really got me wondering and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere yet. :S Juriaan Cuthalion 14:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes. -- Nox Coma 18:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

This event isn't new, it's just that we haven't seen it for more than one year now. Nox is right, that's how it works. Erasculio 18:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, Kurzick/Luxon events normally give double points during acquisition via bounty or AB. It's a first that they reward double points during exchange. But it sounds like Juriaan got it right - it's twice what you would get normally, thus 36k in that example. -- Alaris 18:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

AWESOME :). --Silverleaf Don't assume, ask! 18:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

They've done the double for donations before as well. -- Wyn 18:31, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

That's awesome indeed! Thanks for answering guys. Looks like the quest "Duel of the Houses" will be my biggest friend coming sunday evening (I work in the weekends and can only play sunday evenings, so only 9 hours left in the events for me always). And I have never seen this event in this way (double faction upon exchanging) before, but that's probably because I only play since september 2007. :D Juriaan Cuthalion 18:36, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

This is the best kind of weekend event for people who work weekends because you can do a bunch of non-repeatable quests during the week, (don't accept any more rewards once your faction bar is near 10k). Then, during the weekend: (1)donate some faction, (2)accept some quest rewards, repeat (1)&(2) until you have claimed all rewards on all of your characters. --69.117.36.57 03:26, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SS/LB

we havent had one in quiet awhile and they are prolly my fave ones

Problem is that it caused a huge favor spike last time, so they are probably waiting for it to come back down before making a new one. -- Alaris 20:39, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

yea prolly but its below 5000 now and they could always just mess with the favor themselves like they did before but w/e itd be nice is all im saying

[edit] PVE?

A lot of the people in GW are doing PVE, and the people get PVP events? Anet? Dav 15:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It's consistently 1 PvE, 1 PvP, with Kurzick / Luxon considered PvE. -- Alaris 16:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It's pretty much a even split between PvE and PvP weekend events, with maybe some favoring of PvE events. Yet, it seems a frequent occurance that someone will complain there's not a PvE event every weekend it seems. Besides, how do you know Dav, that more people are doing PvE than PvP? 75.146.48.190 17:31, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't forget we are about to have 10 days of PvE focused activities for Halloween. -- Wyn 17:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Does Anyone Else Suffer This?

Call me weird, I've been called worse, but when a lot of these events come around I just can't be bothered with them, even though they would help me a lot - the Kurzick/Luxon weekend being a prime example. I was so geared up for heavy faction title chasing but when this weekend came I really just CBA and only did one lot of 10k on the Sunday night. Instantly regretted not getting stuck in come Monday afternoon. Does anyone else suffer CBA syndrome come the right weekend? – josəph 19:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

What's CBA? -- Alaris 23:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to venture he means, "couldn't be arsed". Kokuou 23:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Correct, Kokuou. Translation for our non-UK friends = Can't be bothered. Arse is the UK equivalent of ass, but don't ask me how the saying came about. :) – josəph 12:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Erhm, well.... Sounds like you're a little tired of the game then, maybe lost interest... Go find something else to do for a while to relight the urge to play. -- Nox Coma 09:24, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] needs to be updated

the GW login screen has "halloween is back" along with an update but nothing on the site has been changed yet, idk how to do it.--75.91.65.172 22:20, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Maybe they are waiting for the supposed update of today.--ShadowFog 22:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Double Exp for vanquishing

Well that will be useful. It means that my level 20 character an goup even more levels, wait a minute no he can't. Oh well at least I'll be able to earn lots of skill points (which I can add to my other collection of lots and lots of skill points). So after that little rant and rave I guess my question is, Why? It doesn't help me at all. Surely there are other more useful weekend events that could be put on instead.

Yup. This weekend event has been and will always be utter crap! -- Nox Coma 11:59, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

205.196.178.196 19:24, 13 November 2008 (UTC) I agree... the double scroll drop is somewhat usless (unless you drop a scroll of UW, FOW, Urz) Double xp.. not helpful.. double gold... very helpfull. Maybe triple green drop, EoTN rep points again, Double Lightbringer/Sunspear or even double rare gold drop might be better. As far as guild battles or aliance/factions points... worthless to me but very important to others (but those gvg,hero battles and pvp battle are what seems like every other weekend). We know Thanksgving is comming and christmas events.. can throw in some goodies for thosse PVE peeps. Usil951

What would the "Certain Areas" be to Vanquish? MystiLefemEle 09:58, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Lets face it: This weekends special event is the huge update they released, I don't think anyone cares about double scrolls. --Xeeron 14:35, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I retract my previous comment in this section. Since the new way of attaining faction through VQ this event became very useful =) -- Nox Coma 15:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vanquishing doubling points - undocumented!

Vanquishing is currently giving double the documented number of Sunspear points (10 per kill instead of documented 5). Can anyone confirm this for Kurz/Lux/EotN points as well? --69.117.36.57 23:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

It's happening for Luxon points, as well, so I assume it is for Kurzick points, too. Don't know about EotN points, though. --Kokuou 00:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Could be tied to the currently event? Dominator Matrix 00:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

It's not part of an event, it's part(s) of the last few updates. Go the the update history page and check it out, they've made a lot of changes to faction and other point attainment Supan0va 22:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

That was not the point. The point was that you got doubled faction for vanquishing. as in the original update gave "foes killed x50 faction each" but during this weekend event you got "foes killed x100 faction each" -- Nox Coma 22:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another PVP weekend =

Here we go again.. another PVP weekend. Lets try something new.. how about doing a PVE and a PVP weekend specials at the same time. Since every other weekend event has soemthing to do with gvg,pvp, or alliance.. I only complaining a little bit... I understand that there are over a million pvp'ers that enjoy these weekends..but come on almost every other weekend? How about a Double gold drop or triple green drop might be a bit more exciting. I would even (sarcasticaly) enjoy double dye..lol Sorry to vent but I dont see any great weekends before christmas except if I have a great guild or I am a pvp person 205.196.178.196 20:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Usil951

"PvP every other weekend" also means "PvE event every other weekend" which to me seems rather fair, a balance of the two. I dont play PvP at all so I hate these weekends but you cant have what you want all the time right =)

I think that mixing PvP and PvE weekends might put a high strain on their servers, resulting in nasty lags and then everyone will start to complain about lag instead (^_^)

PvP weekends every other weekend is good balance...and it makes you look forward to the next weekend when there's a PvE event coming =) Like the last weekend of november when there's a very high probability of a thnxgiving event coming along =D -- Nox Coma 10:23, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

205.196.178.196 13:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC) Iagree with what you said... I did go back a revist all the weekend events..there is a balance of the 2. The only thing is that within the special weekends...there seems (actually may not be but seems like) to be more of the same type.. more double scrolls, vanquish (which is ok,but i dont vanquish that much)and dye weekend events. There are afew really good pve ones that always seem to get put on the back porch until a rainy day (the day that most people have plans..lol).

Yes, that I agree on.. Most of the PvE events are crap. Though I have to retract my statement on the VQ weekend event. I said "This weekend event has been and will always be utter crap". Since they added new ways of gaining faction through VQ and that actually doubles during the VQ weekends, that event suddenly bloomed =)

Though I wish they would come up with something new... -- Nox Coma 15:28, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, next weekend should be Special Treats Weekend (Thanksgiving in the US) so all the PvE farmers can make a ton selling stacks of pumkin pie and hard apple cider. -- Wyn 17:49, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Either that or farm them towards their titles, as I know I shall be  :) ^_^ MystiLefemEle 07:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Anet grants you, the gift of manual labour. SniperFox 23:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

OKAY NOW this is crazy!! Another GVG weekend! What happened to PVE then PVP alternating weekeneds. Next we say the thanksgiving was a good PVE.... right? Come on now ANET, lets at least do something for us again.. how about Rare drop weekends in a row or 2 back to back triple green drop weekend. USIL951205.196.178.196 21:31, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

More than likely, the reason is Wintersday. Since we (should) have 2 weeks of it, i guess it makes sense to put together a few PvP weekends now. Not that i like it, but meh.--Fighterdoken 21:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Twice a GvG/1v1 Weekend... :(

I do understand that 2 weeks of wintersday merits a PvP weekend..but.. I rather hoped it was anything but GvG/1v1...--Silverleaf Don't assume, ask! 10:39, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I think it's because of Wintersday.--88.7.86.223 20:21, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Double SS/LB points

Does anybody know what gets affected by the event? Just the SS/LB bounties or also turning in the book "Night Falls"? --Johnnyrodrigues 21:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure, but usually, books are not affected. This is to prevent people from putting lots of work before hand and reaping a huge reward when the weekend hits. -- Alaris 23:46, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

and what about the quests or even the missions that award ss/lb points? there should be some clearer info about what does get affected... Guess we have no way to know rather than testing it out..:/ --Johnnyrodrigues 23:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WTH

is it just me or has there been a majority of pvp events lately, i only dabble in pvp when im bored and tbh i rly want some pve events for once, ss/lb is nice but when u have max of both its kinda useless to u. how bout another EoTN rep weekend or double vq exp. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 99.237.19.17 (talk).

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Ok.. Let me get this straight. December and Januari were filled with almost three full weeks of holiday joy, which is purely PvE unless you count the games. (They don't reward any PvP points anyway) Guild Wars has always been a very PvP-oriented game and does not want to let down any of its MANY PvP styles (HA, GvG, JQ&FA, AB, HB, RA&TA, ~Games, Tournaments..) Just because of this many options the players are getting less and less into these domains. The only exception being the organized and isolated guilds. Events need to be spread equally over all these domains. And especially with PvE being such a great part of the game they wouldn't like any campaign to dry out of interest. At the moments the Events are doing an amazing job of keeping people interested in all parts of PvE play. The little remaining time is spent on support for PvP players. If you want something else then one of the amazingly cool once-in-a-year events you should just wait two/three weeks. Unless they have another Wintersday in July you'll be filled with PvE joy. ;-) -- Karasu (talk) 13:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Ideas for Special Weekends

For a special weekend I'd like to see AB to be how it was when Anet screwed up and allowed heroes in. At one point I heard there were 12 x 4 per side... Maybe skip the 48 per side and stick to 12 per side, but allow heroes.

And how about a weekend where Soul Reaping is unnerfed temporarily in PvE (e.g. no timer limit)?

no. events are mainly for sweets/alcohol drops, holiday events, and involving titles. allowing heroes in AB takes away the teamwork effort, and what if they die? the heroes will just try to come back to you which will make it easy pickings for the enemy team. just camp rez shrines and kill the heroes as they come. oh and please sign your comments. Daeheru 13:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Making the weekends fair for all...

Currently the weekends appear to run from Noon Pacific (-8 GMT) on a Friday In the UK that means that the weekend starts at 4am on Friday morning. Not helpful if you work (as I do). This means that when I get home from work the weekend has already been running for 13hrs.

The weekends end at 11:59 PM Pacific (-8 GMT) on Sunday. That’s 4pm on Sunday evening so is cut short in prime gaming time.

It appears to me that if you live in the Pacific Time zone you get a huge advantage. This could be balanced by running the weekend to 8am Pacific (-8GMT) which would be midnight here in the UK.

Ok so some committed players will be able to take full advantage of this. Good luck to them if they are that committed. But I for one would no longer feel that I am at a disadvantage.

Thanks. --Jekyl 09:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

You've got it backwards! -8GMT means they're 8 hours behind UK, i.e. Noon Pacific is 8PM UK time, midnight Sunday Pacific times is 8am Monday morning in the UK. --BramStoker (talk, contribs) 10:50, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Now dont I feel like a numpty! We still get the worst deal though. Mabe start at 8am Pacific (-8 GMT) So that we can get those few extra hours in on Friday afternoon... Lets face it there is more chance of getting some free time on a Friday afternoon than there is taking the Monday off to recover from an all night session.....--Jekyl 12:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Count your blessings you don't have 12 or even more hours difference! 76.30.79.54 07:52, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't know how to count. --138.89.241.10 17:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

the UK isn't the only ones at a disadvantage. other time zones are too. anet won't change the time they start their events just so people in one time zone will have an advantage. deal with living in your time zone. it is impossible to make the event start times fair for everyone in the entire world. Daeheru 13:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Even if they couldn't make it completely fair they could easily make it more fair by making it 48 or 72 (or any other multiple of 24) hours long so everybody would have the same amount of nights during one weekend event.

[edit] No weekend event??

Ok its Thursday April 9th 2009 here and Easter is this weekend April 12th 2009. Ussually we know by Wednesday what kind of event will be going on, but still nothing. Are we going to have an easter event? I was hoping for a weekend full of Golden Egg Farming. --Patch 23:25, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

I think someone at Anet went to sleep as I can't see them missing Easter Weekend. It's Friday with less than 3 hours to go until the usual start time of the weekend events and still nothing. Hope the dream was worth it! LOL – josəph 15:19, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Dont worry, if it's all it takes to make some people forget the essential, ANet would be foolish to not exploit it. Yseron - 90.14.103.157 15:39, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

One hour after it usually starts, still nothing. :/ – josəph 18:54, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Still waiting for our Golden Eggs and Chocolate Bunnies. But alas, nothing yet. --Thervold 19:30, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

The Event has started just not on the Announcements yet Tenri 20:10, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, at least one button-presser was awake! GG that one. – josəph 20:27, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

This really was Anet at its most pathetic. Why not announce it? It hardly came as a surprise and it finished before Easter Monday which is a holiday in most countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday 91.109.136.220

[edit] Help me!

I'm a Ritualist in Tyria (the world you call Guild Wars). My will is trapped in the hand of some unseen entity in a world outside of this one. He forces me to wear ragged, gauze-like wraps that hardly pass as clothing. It was all I can do to escape for a few hours and make my way to Sifhalla, Northern Shiverpeaks. I've been building my reputation here and struggling to make a name for myself amongst the Norn, in hopes that they can fashion me a more appropriate set of clothes. I can feel my will sleeping away again. Please, initiate a Bonus EOTN Faction Point Weekend sometime soon, before it's too late! 68.193.113.198

Well, looks like your wish has been granted, mysterious nameless Ritualist. ;) I wonder though... Does this double quest reward apply even to bonus EN faction from Zaishen quests? If so, I'm saving this Nulfastu bounty for the weekend! - Zaxares 02:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Dayum, didn't think about that Zaxares. Probably not though - quest rewards are fixed. -- Karasu (talk) 13:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually, in past double EN rep weekends, the bonus applied to all forms of faction, whether it was gained through killing monsters, or completing quests, missions or dungeons. The one exception was the rep bonus from turning in books. So, there's still hope that the reward faction we get from the Zquests is also doubled! - Zaxares 00:34, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Gods! Just in the knick of time. My unseen master has perused my thoughts, angry at my resistance. But upon seeing the exotic Norn fashion in my dreams - and getting word of the Blessings of Bonuses this coming weekend - his wrath was stymied. He fancies the look, and has decided to take advantage of the Blessings. He's even allowed me some time to myself! Though I feel safe enough to relinquish my will back to him for now; He's diligent with his wants, and I suppose he'll be pleased to see me in that fur and tribal inking. Happy (and decently clothed) times ahead, good day to you all and Gods bless. 68.193.113.198

Wow... dedication and admiration to the fake. Good thing GW doesnt have a RolePlaying channel.--ShadowFog 04:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Sure it does. It's called the Guild/Team/Whisper Channel. :P There's plenty of roleplayers in GW. They just don't do it in All chat.

Anyway, from doing the Nulfastu and G.O.L.E.M bounties today, I can confirm that the rep bonus from Zquests IS doubled by the event. Rejoice! - Zaxares 08:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Grenth, have mercy on this poor soul! 68.193.113.198

[edit] Funny thing...

The upcoming double faction states that jade and amber costs only 1000 faction, when they really costs 5000. Arenanet FTW! ...or does this mean they're gonna change it back to 1000 faction as it was before? - J.P.Talk 00:15, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Copypasta is ANet. --Nerthing 02:12, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

An ancient secret passed from our elderly grand ancestors that is still practiced today. Example: Anet.--ShadowFog 02:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Double Double Faction

"5000 points for raising your alliance's reputation." -> This already awarded 10k to the title. Will this now be 20k? -- Karasu (talk) 12:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Excellent question. I'm hoping this is the case, but I fear it will most likely be double of the bonus rather than a double of the initial donation and the normal bonus. In other words, you put in a donation of 5000 faction, and on normal days you get a 5000 pt bonus. During the dbl weekend I'd guess that you'll get the 5000 initial donation plus a 10,000 bonus for a total of 15k towards the title. But I could be, and hope to be wrong. Anyone know for sure?--209.194.208.116 20:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Donating 5k to your guild will get you 20k title points. They've done this event before. In fact, see the third section on this talk page. - Tanetris 01:34, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Any idea if this works on Shiro's Return books? --Lemming 01:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't affect books, since that faction goes straight to the title (you're not "spending" it). Freedom Bound 15:43, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Vanquishing

Anyone know if the "title points" includes any of the EotN titles (Asura, Norn, Vanguard, Dwarf)? --JET 20:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to assume you're talking about the upcoming vanquishing weekend rather than the past Lux/Kurz weekend and therefore move your comment to a new section. I apologize if that is not the case. To answer your question, yes, title points refers to Asura, Norn, and Vanguard points for vanquishing (not Dwarf, as there are no Dwarf zones that can be vanquished), but note that it only applies to the end reward for a successful vanquish, not for bounty points. - Tanetris 21:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Do you also get dbl pts for each foe you kill in hard mode, or just dbl of what the vanquish bonus is? Like instead of 20 pts per kill in hard mode, you get 40?--209.194.208.116 22:31, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Everyone go prepare for DTSC and MQSC ^^ -- Karasu (talk) 08:39, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 2x TRP

I'm assuming this won't effect the points gotten from voting? 68.193.113.198

[edit] Weekend events research

has anyone already done some research about frenquencies of different weekend events ? (apart the fact there is exactly one per week...) ? Elephant 13:46, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Pre Searing

Will the double green drop also affect Charr Bag drops in pre searing? I'm wondering because they are different from most green items (wepons). Hasaple 05:11, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Possible, since they are bosses. --MystiLefemEle 11:08, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 1000 faction for amber or jade

It hasn't been 1k faction for amber or jade for long time someone should change this.Red Qyeen 22:25, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

That's ArenaNet's job. We just document what they say or do, no matter what bullshit it might be. - J.P.Talk 22:49, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

K wasn't sure just saw it and realized it hasn't been that in long time if only it was true for this weekend. Red Qyeen 01:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Scrolls take 1000 faction, tho, and I have been getting 2x faction for that, too (although that was left out of the announcement).   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 04:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Look back to May, then ask wtf. 66.190.15.232 07:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

See this May 22, 2009 edit, it was changed from the quoted "1,000" to 5,000. So it means that Anet never updated the announcement. --Silver Edge 10:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I assure you, the edit at the time reflected a change in the actual login announcement. How they went back to the error this time is beyond me. - Tanetris 14:02, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Weekend Event Start Times

Okay, I think I have gone though every talk page and I have not found any agreement on exactly when the events start. Anyone? 76.14.39.250 20:00, 28 August 2009 (UTC)Thizzzguy

It's usually noon PST for weekend events. --8765 20:03, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

And it usually starts on a Friday. --Silver Edge 02:06, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Apparently, ANet pays the Announcement copywriter by the word, otherwise the text would do a better job of specifying the start and stop times (since newer players are unlikely to know what time events usually begin/end, particularly if they do not live in Pacific Time.)   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 03:22, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added a note at the top of the article about weekend events' start and end times. --Silver Edge 07:18, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Good solution. Thanks for that.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 08:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Noon Pacific Time -7GMT (beginning) and Ending on the date indicated around Midnight or 23:59 hrs PST (-7GMT) MystiLefemEle 09:07, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Order?

Are the events in any type of order?

I believe one of the staff members chooses them as he/she sees fit. | 72 {U|T|C} 01:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I think John Hargrove deals with the weekend events. (though I could be mistaken) -- Wyn talk 15:22, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] What do you get?

So, this weekend (which, btw, still has to be updated on the main page, but I've called for that too many times to do so again) is listed as double experience/gold for vanquishing. Do you also get double faction rewards if you vanquish in Factions, or double SS/LB points if you vanquish in Nightfall? There seems to be two types of language used, one that explicitly states double faction (see May) and one that does not, like this one, so I'm wondering if they're the same, or if they are in fact different. I suppose I could just wait and see, but that's no fun. -- FreedomBound 15:13, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

No, this is not double reputation points, only gold/xp. -- Wyn talk 15:21, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Judging from the titles "Double Rewards for Vanquishing" versus "Double Gold, Scrolls and XP for Vanquishing", they are probably two different events. --158.121.88.54 15:26, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Too bad, I was hoping for a useful event. -- FreedomBound 15:29, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

So what's with the certain area's? Sounds a bit vague. 84.28.164.252 19:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Dunno about that, but if you look up farther on this discussion page, and reference the 2008 weekend events in the archive for November, it looks like there might just be faction rewards as well, as the discussion indicates that you get double faction/SS/LB points even though it's undocumented... Who knows. Guess we'll just have to wait and see. -- FreedomBound 19:45, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Just like the Double Luxon and Kurzick title points weekend, they went back to outdated text. 24.197.253.243 08:27, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm thinking (and hoping) that's the case. Probably faster to wait for the weekend than to ask Anet. -- FreedomBound 10:41, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Faction is indeed doubled. 24.197.253.243 22:51, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Faction is indeed doubled... at least for the DTSC I was involved in =D -- Alaris 19:03, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] What are these "certain areas"?

I just vanquished some NF areas and received no bonus gold nor exp. Whats going on? Is this event exclusive to certain areas and if so which ones?? ☼ Kasei 19:54, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

By certain areas I think they meant areas that give you bonus to a certain faction too, like kurzick, luxon, sunspear or lightbringer. I vanquished Melandru's Hope three times and got the bonus each time also for Plains of Jarin I got the double bonus too. I do not know if Eye of the North faction areas(Vanguard, Norn, etc...) count too.--Wealedout 03:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I have been getting double points in Plains of Jarin(3 times vanquishing for spearmarshal rank). Have been getting double points. personn5 03:57, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I believe for the Eye Of The North, those are seperate event days, which are nice when they roll around :) MystiLefemEle 09:09, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] No Halloween Redux ?

Why does Anet have NO consistency in anything about weekend events? 2008 had a redux but well... thats random... randomly they do redux... its just to make people angry or something like that ? Anet keep on deceiving me more and more, oh yeah btw, great idea to introduce Codex in the middle of Halloween, so that way people who do Codex cant do Costume Brawl meanwhile and vice versa .... worst Halloween Event i saw so far, absolutly no consistency or no good whiling on this, they just care about theyr Codex new baby, and im sure statisticaly its a big failure anyway Also thank you for teasing us 2 days with the decoration in LA/Kamadan so whe tought theres gonna be redux ... while theres not of course. Its the first year theres quest and they dont do the redux this time... ill not forget this 82.224.68.40 09:01, 4 November 2009 (UTC)randomplayer

There was a redux for Halloween 2008 because the event ended a day earlier than it was suppose to, hence why there isn't one this year. --Silver Edge 09:12, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Redux isn't even the right word for 2008. It was more of an extension. 24.197.253.243 13:48, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Codex Arena Weekend

Shouldnt be in the same weekend with Random Arena?? Lily Anne 03:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidently not. The Team and Random arenas were linked because when you won repeatedly in the random arena, you were moved into the Team arena. That doesn't happen with random and codex, so there's no reason to link the weekends. -- FreedomBound 12:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

I capped ~90 elites last weekend. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.131.56.200 (talk).

I will...THIS weekend. Mwahahaha! ~ Dragon 16:18, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Armor greens affected?

Are the hero armor greens (Primeval, Deldrimor) drops gonna be affected as well? --Sageofprofession 09:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

It says "from bosses", so doubtful. -- FreedomBound 13:35, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The skeletons In UW need to GO!!

I recently began solo farming in UW when all of a sudden the Halloween Event came along and introduced a new element making it Impossible for me to Perma farm for ectos =(. I had hoped it would only last for the weekend but the skeletons have decided to stick around for who knows how long and have since put a big dent in my GW wallet. Does anyone have any idea how long these skeletons are going to be in UW or how someone would go about getting rid of them? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.190.164.16 (talk).

Considering that the reason they're there (one of them at least) is to combat what you're complaining about, I'm pretty sure you're pissing up the wrong rope. -- FreedomBound 20:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Your complaint shows that they are exactly do what they are supposed to be doing. Perma-kickass for perma-sins ^^ just kinda annoying that the price for ectos goes up and up since that update. ~ Dragon 20:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Anything that the destroys perma-sins is a good thing. Maybe people will go back to actually forming groups. Ramei Arashi 15:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)