During the coming weekend, you'll receive double Balthazar faction per point scored, and double Balthazar faction for each victory in all Hero Battles (1v1). The double rewards will be offered from Noon Pacific on Friday, April 13 through 11:59 PM Pacific on Sunday, April 15.

Source: http://www.guildwars.com

Ahh... good. I was waiting for something like this. But alas, I have "other" plans this weekend. My suggestion to title farmers out there, throw a bunch of matches right now. In other words, lose on purpose. Get your rank REALLY low... log in, log out, log in, log out. Once your rank is sufficiently lowered, you're prepared for the event. Collect some easy wins with double the reward.

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Michael Garofalo
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It's party time for us 4Goaly builders! Go go 4goalyteamotron! (I know its lame .)

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I don't know, what do you think? Am I ready for this weekend?


I might be able to get a few hours of gametime this weekend. I shouldn't have to work too hard for those first few wins. Once you're below the 1000 point rating mark, you pretty much have to go out of your way to lose. I actually won three battles tonight, while just messing around.

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Photics always prevails. I mean your website is still up right? You kept on where other websites stopped at factions, Like my old guilds . But you kept on, and even did everything in your power to keep on, and found something new. You will do that with hero battles. You will find a way to improve 4 goalie build without eating a sandwich. And heh, the mighty don't ever stay down

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That's a great post, but I'm not trying to be the best at Hero Battles. It used to be my way to relax after a long day. But wow, it's too intense now. Being in the top 1000 is hard work. Sure, there are rewards to be won, but I would feel bad about collecting those rewards. My relationship to ArenaNet is too close. I don't need to win Guild Wars prizes. They already send me lots of free stuff. HA! My heart is not in this victory.

I'm just quietly preparing for Guild Wars 2. The Crusaders will rise again. That is what I'm waiting for. Izzy was on last night. He's a dev. I was breaking his chops. I said something like, "After all these years, you finally listened to me." That's exactly the way I see it. If I was building Guild Wars, it would look more like GW2 than GW1. We're heading towards the golden era of Guild Wars.

The four goalie build was to point out the oddity of Guild Wars PvP. That's no longer necessary, as the game is on the road to success... if ArenaNet truly learned from the past.

Looking at TANK's rank, it tells you something. Roughly 30,000 players tried Hero Battles since the ladder was released. That's not a very high number, especially considering that Guild Wars is essentially a free MMORPG. Hero Battles is actually pretty good, but I think too many players moved on already. Starting from scratch is a great way to recharge the community.

Meanwhile, some title farming is fun. If your main goal is to max out the commander rank, staying at the top is difficult. In a short amount of time, you can easily throw your rank low enough to collect some easy wins.

Which fansites went away after Factions? Aren't all of the major fansites still around. Although, now that there's an official Guild Wars Wiki, I don't know what's going to happen to GuildWiki.

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Guild wars 411. A lot of guild websites, i dunno look around you'll find some. I agree with your commander title farming method . Ya I'm trying to get as many titles as I can . I want as much of the free stuff as I can unlock in Guild Wars 2. Heh so I don't have to pay the extra for a collectors edition and still get cool stuff no one else has. Heck thats why I love mallyx the reaver so much, less people have a mini-mallyx or one of his weapons than the collectors and pre-order stuff. In fact the market is flooded with mini Vareshes, and I haven't seen one mallyx so far.

Guild wars wiki will still stay around, They have more complete information. I like them better so far. But I haven't figured out how to make a wiki-page on the official one yet.

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman,"Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.-George Carlin

I never have really gotten into the hero battles. For me GW is about playing on a team and somehow Dunk, Koss and Tahlk just don't make the cut - lol.

Lately I have been pretty intensively working to get Protector on as many of my guys as possible before hard mode is introduced.

Ya but guess what? The hard mode is gonna decrease difficulty for normal mode in some areas, so I'd wait TILL hard mode.

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman,"Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.-George Carlin

I may be wrong but I am betting that I won't lose the KoaBD progression which is why I am doing this now.