Dragon Festival 2008

The Dragon Festival 2008 is an event taking place over the weekend of July 3, 2008. It is announced in the Guild Wars login announcements:

Cantha Commemorates the Dragon Festival ''This weekend, Canthans celebrate the historic Dragon Festival. Enjoy quests and games and prizes, oh my! Visit the Boardwalk, jump into the Dragon Arena, score cool prizes, too. The event takes place in Shing Jea Monastery starting at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Thursday, July 3 and it wraps up at 11:59 PM Pacific on Sunday, July 6.''

Details
Just like the previous years, this festival follows the same mission arc of recreating the first year's festival.

Once again Victory Tokens are dropped and can be traded for a unique mask at the end of the event for 250 tokens. Extra tokens can be exchanged for  various consumable items.

This year's mask seems to be a "Grasp Mask", as seen on the GuildWars website's  festival page and as worn by the NPC on the Grasp page.

Redecorated towns

 * Shing Jea Monastery
 * Kaineng Center

Minigames

 * Dragon Arena
 * Rollerbeetle Racing
 * Shing Jea Boardwalk
 * Dragon Nest
 * Nine Rings
 * Rings of Fortune

Quests
Imperial Guard Hanso (in Shing Jea Monastery)
 * The Rampaging Yetis
 * The Shrine of Maat
 * A Strange Request
 * Darkness at Kaitan

Missions
The missions, which are available at the times listed in the external links, are obtained from Captain Rujiyo in Shing Jea Monastery.

All times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time, which is -7 GMT. Missions will be available for 30 minutes.


 * Monday, July 7th to Sunday, July 13th, 2008
 * Imperial Supply Master Kagno appears and remains in Shing Jea Monastery to exchange Victory Tokens for the new mask.


 * Final Event
 * Every two hours beginning at 2:00 AM; final event begins at 11:59 PM