Some people were asking me about this last time, so here it is; a tutorial on how to use the Xunlai Tournament House, and recommended picks for each month.
You can find this XTH on the official website here. What this is more or less is "horse racing", without the risk! Every month, you get to pick the top 8 contenders in the Guild Battle and Hero Battle Monthly Automated Tournament. The more accurate your predicted top 8, the more "reward points" you recieve. (You can see "reward points" on the Hero panel, Account tab, next to the Hero Battle rating info.) Even guessing just a few contenders to recieve 25 reward points is extremely easy.
So, what can you do with these Reward Points? Well, if you have a permanent PvP character, you can buy cool-looking skins of weapon and armor. Or, you can make Golden Flames of Balthazar, which will give 3k Balthazar Faction to any player that uses it. But most people are interested in Zaishen Keys, which allow you to open the fabled Zaishen Chest in the Isle of the Nameless testing area, right outside the Temple of Balthazar. The Zaishen chest drops a fair number of creme brulees and firewaters, but it also drops gold items, as well as some extremely rare items like rare skins, minipets, and transmogrifier tonics. If you aren't interested in those, you can readily sell the keys to other players for 2-3k a pop using party search.
So for minimal effort, you can get free items/gold every month. You don't have to play PvP at all... you don't even have to watch PvP or keep up with the latest teams, because this thread will do it for you! I have yet to get less than 25 points (5 keys) for making predictions, and often enough gotten 50 or 75, so I'll post my top 8 picks each month, and you can simply copy them and share in the success. My top 8 basically comes from reading the top 100 player's prediction posts on forums like Guru and QQ, so they are somewhat informed. Those few others of us may have their own predictions and opinions, they are more than welcome to post their picks as well, and the rest of you can judge where to place your bets. (Just please use the full names of guilds, tags don't show in the Xunlai lists and not everyone here will know who you are talking about.) Note that you can also see a featured "PvP Predictor" choose the top 8 every month on the Guildwars.com website too.
To sign up, you need to give them a valid e-mail address through the sign-up link. (They won't spam you) Then, you need to give them your guild wars login. There is no error-checking to make sure that you entered your account name correctly, so please triple-check it, otherwise you will just be left wondering where your rewards went to. (Keep in mind, you can sign up once per account, so you can play this game multiple times if you have multiple accounts.... and reap double the rewards.) The password field is just for XTH login, it doesn't have to be your GW login password.
After signing up, you click on "make my GvG predictions" or "make my 1v1 predictions". On the left you'll see a list of qualified players/teams, which you can navigate with the arrows at top. Then you drag the player/team name into the respective slot on the right you think they will place in. You can also drag teams slotted on the right between empty slots. Click to save your predictions and you're done!
Once the tournament is finished, there is a one to two week delay before the reward points become avaliable. The Guild Wars update notes will state when they are avaliable. Then you simply need to talk to a Xunlai Tournament Agent in a port city or the Great Temple, and they will hand you your reward points. Once you have those in hand, you can speak with Tolkano [Tournament NPC] in the guild hall to spend them however you want.
You can find this XTH on the official website here. What this is more or less is "horse racing", without the risk! Every month, you get to pick the top 8 contenders in the Guild Battle and Hero Battle Monthly Automated Tournament. The more accurate your predicted top 8, the more "reward points" you recieve. (You can see "reward points" on the Hero panel, Account tab, next to the Hero Battle rating info.) Even guessing just a few contenders to recieve 25 reward points is extremely easy.
So, what can you do with these Reward Points? Well, if you have a permanent PvP character, you can buy cool-looking skins of weapon and armor. Or, you can make Golden Flames of Balthazar, which will give 3k Balthazar Faction to any player that uses it. But most people are interested in Zaishen Keys, which allow you to open the fabled Zaishen Chest in the Isle of the Nameless testing area, right outside the Temple of Balthazar. The Zaishen chest drops a fair number of creme brulees and firewaters, but it also drops gold items, as well as some extremely rare items like rare skins, minipets, and transmogrifier tonics. If you aren't interested in those, you can readily sell the keys to other players for 2-3k a pop using party search.
So for minimal effort, you can get free items/gold every month. You don't have to play PvP at all... you don't even have to watch PvP or keep up with the latest teams, because this thread will do it for you! I have yet to get less than 25 points (5 keys) for making predictions, and often enough gotten 50 or 75, so I'll post my top 8 picks each month, and you can simply copy them and share in the success. My top 8 basically comes from reading the top 100 player's prediction posts on forums like Guru and QQ, so they are somewhat informed. Those few others of us may have their own predictions and opinions, they are more than welcome to post their picks as well, and the rest of you can judge where to place your bets. (Just please use the full names of guilds, tags don't show in the Xunlai lists and not everyone here will know who you are talking about.) Note that you can also see a featured "PvP Predictor" choose the top 8 every month on the Guildwars.com website too.
To sign up, you need to give them a valid e-mail address through the sign-up link. (They won't spam you) Then, you need to give them your guild wars login. There is no error-checking to make sure that you entered your account name correctly, so please triple-check it, otherwise you will just be left wondering where your rewards went to. (Keep in mind, you can sign up once per account, so you can play this game multiple times if you have multiple accounts.... and reap double the rewards.) The password field is just for XTH login, it doesn't have to be your GW login password.
After signing up, you click on "make my GvG predictions" or "make my 1v1 predictions". On the left you'll see a list of qualified players/teams, which you can navigate with the arrows at top. Then you drag the player/team name into the respective slot on the right you think they will place in. You can also drag teams slotted on the right between empty slots. Click to save your predictions and you're done!
Once the tournament is finished, there is a one to two week delay before the reward points become avaliable. The Guild Wars update notes will state when they are avaliable. Then you simply need to talk to a Xunlai Tournament Agent in a port city or the Great Temple, and they will hand you your reward points. Once you have those in hand, you can speak with Tolkano [Tournament NPC] in the guild hall to spend them however you want.
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