Talk:Weekend events/Archive 3

Double gold exp etc for VQ

This should be put up. Its already on the login screen.Yumiko ^,~ 20:02, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

I didn't know a weekend event like this even occurred ever. What with the introduction of zaishen vanquish quests I'll be making sure to have 3 quests stocked up when Friday rolls around to get the maximum possible benefit. I guess at this point that would mean NOT doing today's vanquish (and the next 2) until Friday so good thing I didn't do it already. I might suggest that others do the same. 72.220.21.110 05:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Ah, the wonderful science of bonus stacking... | 72 | 13:01, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Aw, too bad Friday's vanquish quest was for Marga Coast and I had already done that beforehand (and I don't like re-doing vanquished areas). Also, if I'd saved the quest for The Breach earlier in the week I would've gotten double gold at the end of that too but I didn't know Friday's quest would be something I'd already done. Oh well, 5 boosted vanquish rewards is fine too. Pjwned 04:13, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

And of course I forget that the weekend event ends at midnight on Sunday so I only ended up vanquishing 2 areas with double gold in addition to accidentally closing the game in the middle of vanquishing Lahtenda Bog and if I hadn't done that I would've gotten 6k gold instead of 3k for vanquishing it. Groan bitch complain whine. Pjwned 09:37, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

It says "relevant areas" which areas are relevant for this bonus xp /gold ,, and even faction173.81.77.130 19:36, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

See Vanquisher#Rewards for vanquishing. --Silver Edge 01:58, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I'd also like to add that which is noted elsewhere on the wiki, due to lack of information dissemination. That is that the announcement does not indicate that there is double reputation/faction, but there is in fact double reputation/faction for double VQ weekends. I figure perhaps someone has to see this in one of the relevant places, since people continue to believe what they see on the login screen, which astounds me, given the history. --Axis 02:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

I vq'd Drazach Thicket this evening and got double faction reward for the clearing: 22k vs 11k normal. ButeoRegalis 03:07, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

dragon festival?

has it started? some of my guildies getting token drops, yet no update or ann0uncementSpark-TBa 19:12, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it has. ♥ Tyloric ♣ 19:15, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

any reason why it hasn't went on their announcements? I know some people are predicting some sort of winds of change update with it. 72.89.217.185 19:19, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Just got a victory token too. Idmz 19:21, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

The Shing Jea Boardwalk is open and the quests are also available now. --Silver Edge 19:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

looking ahead

Would it be a good idea to add the anticipated next event at the top of the page, say in smaller font/italics/other color? It is almost universally predictable and would save going off to other pages for that info.2.26.234.29 09:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

At one point we did have the next week's predicted event "hidden" in the code for the page, but I'm not sure putting up speculative info, even if it's 99% likely, would be the best idea, and it's stated on the page that 2011 will likely follow 2010, which is just a click away.

I think Poke had the idea to (eventually) put all of those activities, as well as the featured article, on an automatic rotation, so maybe this would be something to suggest whenever that may happen? ~FarloTalk 09:43, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Just like the Zaishen quests, it'll happen when I get to it. I've already had accurate predictions running for about a year, but they were wrong last time the schedule changed. The problem seems to be that the schedule gets an annual or semi-annual update to account for the weekends that best correspond to holidays (especially Easter, Lunar New Year, and Thanksgiving), so my predictions require occasional modification. I'll put GWW:BOLD to good use soon. ;) -- Kirbman 23:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Triple key drop rate

Triple nothing is still nothing... :\ Hold Me Closer, Necromancer 20:35, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

I had a lot of lockpicks in NM in EotN this weekend. And a max spiked war hammer, yay! Cynique 03:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Page name

Shouldn't the page name be Weekend event rather than Weekend events? Everything else on the wiki is singular unless it only comes as multiples. -- Kirbman 17:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I don't think so; "Weekend event" would be if it explained the nature of a weekend event, i.e. if it described the "specimen", so to speak. (Such a page could and maybe should exist.) This page, on the other hand, is an actual listing of said events. | 72 | 23:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Annual vs Special

→ moved from User talk:Tennessee Ernie Ford#Weekend events

1. I called them "Regular" and "Annual" because those events occur regularly and annually, respectively. Calling them "Standard" and "Special" removed that descriptive quality.
2. You added "usually" to the description of annual/special events dropping seasonal items, when in fact they all do.
3. What's the point of kludging the name in the description?

PS I like what you did with the tables. -- Kirbman 17:58, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

1. The rest of the wiki calls special events "special events"; standard is parallel to special; regular...is a term I associate with good diet, not with events that repeat several times a year. Annual isn't bad term, but it's unnecessarily inconsistent. For the others, I would be okay with recurring, common, etc. — just not regular.
2. I added usually b/c I meant to double-check (I figured it was easier to notice/remove usually than the reverse).
3. This wiki's guideline is to use a link not bold-face in the introduction. I support your idea that Weekend event is a better title; when it's moved, then it won't be a kludge (until then, I see no harm).
4. Thanks. (Also consistent with the special events article).

– Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 18:07, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Fuss, fuss. "Regular" gets the dietary sense (an Americanism that you don't find in the UK) because of the sense meaning "occurring at a consistent interval", but there is the colloquial sense meaning "ordinary", as in "regular guy". However, I'm fine with not using this term if that means people won't think of (size=big)constipation(size=notbig)...  ;) Cynique 18:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

So little faith in me on #2 TEF :P (I had already checked). As for #3, can we change that guideline? It seems pointless at best and it's the opposite of how Wikipedia does it. -- Kirbman 20:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Halloween

No reason to think - other than automation - that this weekend will be Halloween, is there? AR

Many reasons. Primarily because it provides roughly the right number of days for the festival, which always ends after the 31st. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 19:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, the Halloween festival always includes two weekends and the week in between. This upcoming weekend should be the first of those weekends for this year. -- Kirbman 20:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Tables...

The tables of event descriptions and durations/occurrences-per-year are informative, but they break the ability to quickly drop into the page and see the list of past events, because that list is off-screen. Even worse is the fact that the majority of the events in the second table aren't even weekend events, so don't belong here anyway. The only saving factor here is that the predictions for this week and next week are clearly visible above the tables.

Well, visible, anyway. It might be a good idea to draw attention to them a bit more so that they don't look like just part of the text.

Opinions, anyone? Cynique 12:44, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

They actually all are weekend events, since the term weekend event doesn't mean it has to be only during the weekend, but even if it did, most would still be weekend events. I put the predictions above the tables because seeing what comes next is typically more helpful to players than seeing what came last. -- Kirbman 21:10, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Hmm. OK, so a suggestion: how about adding the {{weekend}} template to show the detail by the predictions? Cynique 04:40, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

What gets doubled during double weekends?

We used to have notes (somewhere?) that clarified what would get doubled during a double-x event weekend. Could we restore them to the current table format? For example, this weekend (2x eotn reputation): which of the following apply?

○ Reputation-like bounties (e.g. from Beacons of Droknar)

○ EotN quest rewards (e.g. by turning in the pieces for Deeprunner's Map)

○ Other quest rewards (e.g. Zaishen bounties)

○ Completing missions or dungeons (which offer rep bonuses as they are completed, not when speaking to an NPC).

○ Turning in a storybook.

– Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 03:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

All of the above except turning in storybooks would get doubled this weekend. Turning in storybooks not being affected is noted in the current login screen announcement: "Complete quests and defeat foes while under the effect of a shrine bonus this weekend to earn double Asura, Deldrimor, Ebon Vanguard, and Norn reputation points. Points for completed books are unaffected. This boost will last through 11:59 PM Pacific (-8 GMT) on Sunday." I believe the notes you are referring to are the "Guild Wars Wiki note" appended to the login screen announcements that are listed on this page (see Weekend events/2011). --Silver Edge 04:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry if my point wasn't clear: every time one of these bonuses come up, people ask, "what exactly gets doubled?" The wiki used to address that directly. In particular, the text Silver Edge quoted is missing from this article, which means that people would have to wait for the announcement and/or look up an old one to see whether they should drop quests or bank them to turn in latter.

In short, is there some reason why we don't include a note and/or the specific text used by ANet on this article? – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 19:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

It was missing from this page because no one had added it. --Silver Edge 04:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

thanks for adding this week's. My point was about people planning for upcoming weekends: the article lacks the clarification until ANet announces the weekend. However, the mechanics have been consistent from year to year. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 07:00, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

The "Descriptive name" section of table on the page can be altered to be more specific, e.g. "Double all Asura, Deldrimor, Ebon Vanguard, and Norn reward points, except those acquired from storybooks." --Silver Edge 07:32, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Since I agree with TEF and find no naysayers, I'll make the change. I find it incredibly helpful to know at the top of the page what each of the weekend events do, for planning purposes.A Liability 19:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Canthan New Year etc. predictions fail

This page displays weekend events using a cycle similar to last year's. This is not a correct prediction. One error was already documented on this very page: Sweet Treat Weekend. This page should instead use a template that correctly predicts future weekend events taking into account the holiday events that follow different calendars, for example predicting that Canthan New Year will be the weekend nearest Chinese New Year. --67.87.76.241 01:07, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

The "Occurrences per year" column of the table is also incorrect. It may be similar to the number of occurrences in the year before the table was added, but it does not predict the number of occurrences that will occur this year. The number of occurrences of events can vary from year to year because the events linked to "lunar" calendar holidays replace the events linked to a 53-week cycle. In other words, these holidays can fall near different weekends each year and they will take the place of different events. For example, lets say that Chinese new year falls near AB weekend this year. Then Canthan New Year will occur that weekend instead of AB weekend, and therefore AB weekend might occur 3 times this year instead of 4. "Occurrences per year" could be documented correctly on this page as a range like 3-4. --War_Pig5 01:36, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Canthan New Year or Keys, Lockpicks and Lucky?

According to this site: [1], next weekend event will be Canthan New Year, not Keys and Lucky Gaudy Gourd God 13:02, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Chinese New Year is today, that means it has to be 86.88.86.253 14:52, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

"At this time we're speculating that the CNY (Canthan New Year) finale..." Only ANet knows, and judging by the snow up there, they might be a bit behind schedule. ~FarloTalk 17:16, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, I guess you're right, even though I'd prefer it to be Canthan New Year. Really like that festival (any festival for that matter) Gaudy Gourd God 20:01, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I never bothered to figure out how this template works, but perhaps we shouldn't have unconfirmed information on the main page? Especially since there's no where on that page that says it's purely speculation/based on previous years. Spreading potentially false info might throw off a lot of people. ~FarloTalk 04:30, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I can see your point, and I do agree with it. However it does say "Predictions", and I think there are also a lot of people who would like to know what the next weekend holds (impatient people like me for instance). So making it more clear that it's only speculation, would be good in my opinion Gaudy Gourd God 09:42, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I get displaying it as a prediction here, but earlier it was up on the main page, where there is no statement that it's not official, and that's what I was concerned about. Since it's not up there anymore, my point is moot. ~FarloTalk 10:01, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Alright. It most definitely didn't belong on the main page(yet), so glad it's gone Gaudy Gourd God 10:07, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The weekend event prediction template works the same as all of the other prediction templates: It assumes that a repeating pattern will continue to repeat. -- Kirbman 04:18, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

They are referring to when you edited Template:Weekend to display Canthan New Year 2012 as the weekend event for the week of 24 January, which turned out to be false, causing speculation to appear on the Main Page. --Silver Edge 07:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

It was planned for that weekend at that time, but Anet announced that it was being delayed shortly afterward and the main page was changed. There's also been a weekend where the in-game message on the login screen was wrong and the template was right. -- Kirbman 06:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

"It was planned for that weekend at that time". Source? --Silver Edge 07:11, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, has yet announced

Looks like it's Triple keys/lockpicks AND double the (un)lucky points this weekend Gaudy Gourd God 20:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah lol Vanq'd 3 areas, farmed Vaettirs & Raptors for awhile and 2 picks dropped lol boooGhostlymass 07:12, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

In my opinion, the drop rate of keys and lockpicks is infinitely low. And 3 times infinite is still infinite, so the only true value of this weekend is the double lucky/unlucky points from using lockpicks lol ^^ ... doubt anyone actually successfully farm for keys and lockpicks Gaudy Gourd God 11:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

I've had more Pink Dye drops than I've had in 3 months. But not a single key or lockpick. What's up with that? --Robokev 16:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

"Canthan New Year festival in early February"

"can't confirm the exact dates at this point due to the weather disruptions" -ArenaNet Community Manager --War_Pig5 21:31, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

If they are going by Last years event schedule, then Canthan New Year will happen the weekend of the Superbowl, 2/3/12 - 2/5/12 - Queenbee 7:40pm EST 24 January 2012

Year of teh Wabbit?!

Can someone point out to Arena Net that they must have made a spelling error: at the log-in screen to Guild Wars they announce The Canthan New year, and celebrating the year of the Rabbit(must admit it was a bit funny). Date looks correct however Gaudy Gourd God 18:58, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

April 2012

Since the login screen announcements is currently bugged and is displaying the "Double XP for elite captures and double green item drop rate" event (even though it occurred during last weekend from 30 March to 1 April) and didn't display an announcement for Sweet Treat Weekend (which was active for the week of 2 April), I thought I'd go test and see if it was "Arena Bonus Weekend" even though an announcement for it didn't appear on the login screen. The result was I received double Balthazar faction for wins and flawless wins in Random Arenas, so it was "Arena Bonus Weekend" during the 6 - 8 April weekend. The double faction ended as usual at 11:59 PM PDT on 8 April (06:59 GMT/UTC on 9 April). --Silver Edge 07:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

So we had sweet drops and hidden double secret b-faction on the same weekend? Sigh. ANet's calendar is getting more borked every week. Thanks for keeping the wiki details up-to-date, even if ANet is attending to other things. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 17:53, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Lateness of weekend event announcements

Weekend starts in 3.5 hours. Where is the announcement? This isn't the first time they've left us hanging. Please do better. 66.87.90.178 15:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Probably double eotn rep File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 16:28, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Double EotN rep points does not appear to be in effect at the moment. Maybe that was last weekend (swallowed by the birthday celebration) and Heroes Ascent is being doubled right now? -- FreedomBound 20:19, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

This weekend (May 11-13) is definitely not EOTN. Tried it and got regular reward, not double. Tenebris 14:32, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Someone deleted my comment, but last weekend during the birthday celebration (May 5 weekend), it was double Sunspear/LB points. There was no announcement of it.

@ person who didn't sign: it's because during the Birthday Celebration almost ALL of the weekend bonuses were in effect at the same time(double faction,reputation points, title points, sunspear&lightbringer points, xp from elite capture, etc.) Gaudy Gourd God 15:37, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Didn't notice that all bonuses were in effect at that time. In any case, the current schedule now seems off from what is predicted.

No problem ;) and yeah, it's completely messed up lol Gaudy Gourd God 21:47, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

someone on support forum said its double rewards in HASpark-TBa 19:17, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

If it is indeed HA and someone can confirm, then it is not messed up but is following the schedule from 2011. The only thing that isnt happening now is the announcements so it may need some checking to confirm along the same lines as with Nic and his whereabouts each week.

Interesting, the current announcement is AB bonus weekend, If its not, and just double Allegiance weekend, the messages may be on a set pattern. Anywho, if it is AB bonus weekend, EOTN reputation should be next ;) - 0754 UTC A_Liability (too lazy to sign in).

so can any one confirm its double ab bonus?A Liability 20:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

er did it myself, wonder if they will skip a few events to match up the year cycle?A Liability 20:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Weekend 5/25-5/27

It's not double EotN, quest and bounty rewards are still normal amounts. -- FreedomBound 19:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Not Lightbringer nor Kurz/Lux double - have tested both and rewards are the same. Anybody test if it really is Alliance Battles a 3rd time in a month? Rosedawn 19:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Looks like Double Gold, Scrolls and XP for Vanquishing weekend - just tested in Zen Daijun and got 10 xp/gold for 1 kill (Factions char post Unwelcome Guest). This could mean we've returned to the 2011 weekend pattern but no announcements. Rosedawn 19:59, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

So whats up with the lack of weekend anouncements from anet lately? Roland Of Ka Tet 20:52, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Another sign that the game has been completely abandoned, as if the state of affairs over the last few years were not a blindingly obvious indicator already.

talking of signs, how about signing posts, lol. from my experience the log in announcements are automated and normally sort themselves out after little glitches, and the game is far from abandoned, if that was the case we wouldnt be given lots of new stuff to do. support forum things getting sorted show that they do still care or they wouldnt bother imo.Spark-TBa 16:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Weekend 6/1-6/3

Is it double AB again? I know the announce didn't change for 2 weeks, but it seems to be again double reward in AB... Any Idea?

Seems to be. Getting double faction. Sardaukar 06:49, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

just AB or all competitive formats?Spark-TBa 09:35, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

The 5/17 game update increased the AB faction awards by quite a bit. Are you sure what you're seeing isn't just that increase? It doesn't make sense for them to be stuck on AB every PvP weekend.

It's definitely double AB rewards.

PLEASE ANet, can't you just assign 1 person every Tue or Wed morning to update the weekend announcement? 5 minutes max? Please? Rosedawn 17:51, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

I know, right? You wouldn't think it'd be so hard. I know they are all preoccupied with Guild Wars 2, but it's like they don't even know what Guild Wars 1 is anymore.--Saera Serena 14:35, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

So...what is the weekend prediction for 6/8?

We don't seem to be following the 2011 schedule. DarkSpirit 20:59, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Verified - Double Sunspear/Lightbringer points, including Zaishen awards for missions and vanqs. The posted announcement is accurate and hopefully we are back to the 2011 schedule. Rosedawn 01:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Weekend 8/3

What is it this weekend? GWEN faction again? --90.136.28.155 20:03, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

2011 suggests next weekend is Codex. zzz.. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 20:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Tested and it's not the Eye of the North Reputation Weekend again this weekend, even though it's still listed on the log-in screen announcement. It's most likely Codex Arena Bonus Weekend this weekend based on the 2011 order. --Silver Edge 09:38, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

8/10 weekend

On Twitter, it was mentioned yesterday that the weekend events would be officially announced via Facebook and Twitter ([2]).

As of about an hour ago, this weekend was announced to be "Double Luxon and Kurzick title points" ([3])

Cheers. 76.164.65.219 19:20, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

The wording at the client login screen is different to that shown on the Weekend Event page, has it changed since original note was added, as client text implies that the points earned could also be from AB?. It currently reads: Starting at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) this Friday, you will receive double points for exchanging 5,000 faction for Jadeite or Amber, for exchanging 3,000 faction for an alliance skill, and for transferring 5,000 faction to raise your alliance's reputation. This bonus will last through 11:59PM Pacific (-7 GMT) on Sunday. Lady Elyssa 23:23, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

seems someone edited out the "this week" entry... I'll look for a reason why but if I don't find one I'll remove the comment out.72.253.181.235 03:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

The "this week prediction" was hidden because it was displaying "Double Luxon and Kurzick title points", which was incorrect based on the log-in screen displaying the announcement for "Double faction in competitive missions" at that time (on 8 August and for part of 9 August UTC). Since then, Twitter has announced this weekend being "Double Luxon and Kurzick title points" and the log-in screen has since been changed to display the "Double Luxon and Kurzick title points" announcement. It was also mentioned here. I have since changed Weekend events and all the other related pages. --Silver Edge 05:26, 10 August 2012 (UTC)