Quote Originally Posted by Gwaeron View Post

6. Skirmish. A special type of mission (grand company joint military exercise) where we were sent to an island to battle a series of bosses, and get good rewards (Giantsgall weapons, which used to actually be good due to them being the best type of weapon that could be melded). There were two, Locke's Lie and Turtleback Island.
It's called PvP now. You can queue up for it. The rewards I want are glamour items. I don't think it should be a gateway for Best Weapons in PvE.

They also tried something like that for PvE with "islands in the sky" (aka Diadem), but everyone post-ARR appears to have taken a dislike to it.