Design-a-Weapon (2007)

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Players love new and special items, and we love including players in the creation of those items! We'd like to invite you to participate in our Guild Wars Design-A-Weapon Contest, where you have an opportunity to submit your vision of a cool new weapon and to possibly see it become a permanent part of Guild Wars.

We are looking for creative and appealing new designs for all sorts of weapons: swords, axes, bows, hammers, spears, rods, wands, scythes, staves, and daggers. Not to be forgotten are the shields and focus items that are also used in combat. You may draw your design inspiration from any of the regions: Tyria, Cantha, or Elona.

To enter the contest, simply send us a drawing, sketch, or printed image of an original new weapon, shield, or focus item and submit it to us for judging. The prize? Up to twenty of the best designs will be placed permanently into the Guild Wars world, and the designers of these weapons will win website recognition and Guild Wars goodies, too!

— Official page

The Design-a-Weapon (2007) contest ran in the Spring of 2007 to design concept art for weapons that would be included in the release of Guild Wars Eye of the North. There were over one thousand entries with a hundred and seven winners, seventeen of which were implemented in-game.

File:Glacial Blade DaW07.jpg

The concept for the Glacial Blade

Prizes

Winners: Each of the eleven winners received their choice of a copy of Guild Wars Nightfall (standard edition) signed by the Guild Wars Development Team or a full set of Guild Wars Skill Pin Set #1 or a PvP Unlock Pack. In addition, each winner will receive a Guild Wars Nightfall t-shirt and a code for a Guild Wars character slot, if character slots are available in their location.

Honorable Mentions: Each of the seventeen honorable mention recipients received A Guild Wars Nightfall t-shirt, a Guild Wars character slot, and two random Guild Wars Skill Pins.

Finalists: Each of the seventy-nine Finalists received two random Skill Pins.

Winners

Weapon designed	Original Artwork Submitter	Country
Celestial Compass	Anthony Lopes	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Eaglecrest Axe	Caroline Coronel	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Draconic Scythe Draconic Scythe (unique)	Li Li	File:Chinese flag.png China
Frog Scepter	Zane Bryan	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Glacial Blade	Andre Roux	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Bone Dragon Staff	Rebecca Sinclair	File:Canadian flag.png Canada
Dryad Bow	Marcus Lamprecht	File:German flag.png Germany
Storm Daggers	Ben Chaney	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Archaic Maul	Kura Jorma	File:Finnish flag.png Finland
Ceremonial Spear Ceremonial Spear (unique)	Michael Chang	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Demonic Aegis	Deivis Slavinskas	File:UK flag.png United Kingdom

Honorable mentions

Weapon designed	Original Artwork and Submitter Name	Country
	Fengzhijun	File:Chinese flag.png China
Emerald Blade	Findur Calenardhon	File:German flag.png Germany
	Maho Rit	File:French flag.png France
	Jesus Garcia Menendez	File:Spanish flag.png Spain
	Metra	File:Japanese flag.png Japan
	Tony Hoei	File:USA flag.png United States of America
	Venus Aridia	File:French flag.png France
	Apache Queen Raven	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Draconic Aegis	Jesus Galan Coronado	File:Spanish flag.png Spain
	Shannon Novak	File:New Zealand flag.png New Zealand
	Todd Harry	File:USA flag.png United States of America
	Camaban Von Myrtana	File:German flag.png Germany
	Prizren Brespapaj	File:Swiss flag.png Switzerland
Serpentine Reaver	Alexander (Minze) Thümler	File:German flag.png Germany
Rose Focus	Lucy Bell1	File:Australian flag.png Australia
	Landon Carroll1	File:USA flag.png United States of America
	Nymph of Meliai1	File:UK flag.png United Kingdom

¹These three entries were similar enough to be combined as one design.

Finalists

Submitter	Country	Submitter	Country	Submitter	Country
Aaron Dietrich	File:USA flag.png United States of America	actionjack	File:USA flag.png United States of America	André Scollick	File:German flag.png Germany
Andrew Everitt	File:English flag.png England	Aps	File:French flag.png France	Ayashi no Ceress	File:French flag.png France
Basonim Scoslett	File:German flag.png Germany	Casey Withers	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Cason	File:German flag.png Germany
Christian Chapelle	File:French flag.png France	Christian Jahn	File:Austrian flag.png Austria	Chuker Sokhara	File:French flag.png France
Cyriel Breissen	File:Netherlands flag.png Netherlands	Dennis Kelley	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Dracia Anderson	File:German flag.png Germany
Edgar Holzem	File:German flag.png Germany	Emanuel Schütz	File:German flag.png Germany	Esa Melune	File:German flag.png Germany
Fire Salamander	File:Belgium flag.png Belgium	Flower Power	File:French flag.png France	Frédéric Miquel	File:French flag.png France
Gao Mingming Yang	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Gunner Matz	File:German flag.png Germany	Hao Cai	File:Chinese flag.png China
I Tay Trefenwyd I	File:Swiss flag.png Switzerland	Its Harvest Time	File:USA flag.png United States of America	リール	File:Japanese flag.png Japan
Jason Bishop	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Jennifer Hunt	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Jesus Garcia Fernandez	File:Spanish flag.png Spain
Jianhao Hoo	File:Chinese flag.png China	Julien Rousseau	File:French flag.png France	Kii Mii	File:French flag.png France
Lamees Ghaznawi	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Lucyma Dudo	File:Polish flag.png Poland	Madat World	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Magorian the Black	File:Italian flag.png Italy	Marc-Till Wildan	File:German flag.png Germany	Marie Angel	File:French flag.png France
Mark Allison	File:German flag.png Germany	Marko Cvetkovic	File:Serbian flag.png Serbia	Martina Heinonen	File:Sweden flag.png Sweden
Mauro Mazzerelli	File:Italian flag.png Italy	Nadia Morales Perez	File:Spanish flag.png Spain	Nastassja Benesch	File:Austrian flag.png Austria
Patrizia Crimi	File:Italian flag.png Italy	Ping Xu	File:Chinese flag.png China	Pitch Saralamba	File:Australian flag.png Australia
Rebecca "BeXoR" Irwin	File:Australian flag.png Australia	Rebein Alexander	File:German flag.png Germany	Rising Black Sun	File:German flag.png Germany
Robin Molde	File:English flag.png England	Roland Opatz	File:German flag.png Germany	Ross Kasher	File:USA flag.png United States of America
Sebastien Guichard	File:French flag.png France	Sergio Santillana Cabanillas	File:Spanish flag.png Spain	Stady One	File:German flag.png Germany
Starr The Insane	File:USA flag.png United States of America	Stephanie Winkler	File:German flag.png Germany	Sun Lifeng	File:Chinese flag.png China
Suria Lightbringer	File:Hungarian flag.png Hungary	Susann Vollrath	File:Netherlands flag.png Netherlands	Thomas Klieber	File:German flag.png Germany
Thomas Mason	File:English flag.png England	Tzu Guo Tin	File:French flag.png France	Velvet Valour	File:UK flag.png United Kingdom
Vir Gin Jui	File:German flag.png Germany	Wang Cheng	File:Chinese flag.png China	Willi Vetsch	File:Swiss flag.png Switzerland
Wilwariu Aeressea	File:Spanish flag.png Spain	Wu Fan	File:Chinese flag.png China	Xaek I	File:Spanish flag.png Spain
Xander Delano	File:Canadian flag.png Canada	Xiaohui Xing	File:Chinese flag.png China	Xx Eluch Nekro xX	File:German flag.png Germany
Yanbin Liu	File:Chinese flag.png China	Yao Yu Zhong	File:Chinese flag.png China	Yupeng Ding	File:Chinese flag.png China
Zhiwei Fan	File:Chinese flag.png China

Special recognition

Weapon designed	Submitter	Country
Darksteel Longbow Darksteel Longbow (promotional)	Marko Cvetkovic	File:Serbian flag.png Serbia
Hourglass Staff Hourglass Staff (promotional)	Bora Vergili	File:Turkish flag.png Turkey

Related articles

• Design-a-Weapon (2005)

Notes

• Marcus Lamprecht's name was incorrectly stated as "Marcus Camprechf".

External links

• Contest Winners
• Official rules and conditions
• Official details for the Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack

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