This is toooo funny …
Hats off to GW

The Lucky weekend is a weekend event which coincides with the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. It has been run on the third weekend of March with the duration extended, if necessary, to cover the 17th of March, St. Patrick’s Day.
So it looks like it will start this weekend..

Event Rewards

Two items are available from killing creatures during Lucky weekend:

* Shamrock Ales.
* Four-Leaf Clovers.

The farming builds in general got slammed.
Its worth a read.

From Wiki
Item rarity link

Most items available in Guild Wars use colors to indicate the quality or rarity of the item. The actual meaning depends on the item (details provided below). As a general guide, white indicates that the item is very common and without modifiers, blue indicates that it has some minor modifiers, purple that it is an uncommon item which may have adequate modifiers, gold that the item’s modifiers are of high quality and/or rare, and green is used to identify a unique item.

Note, for example, that an item in gold is not necessarily superior to an item in purple. The actual value depends on specific attributes of the item and the current in-game trading environment.

The key piece of info is:
that an item in gold is not necessarily superior to an item in purple.
The actual value depends on specific attributes of the item and the current in-game trading environment.
So a gold item is not better or more valuable then a purple item.
It just depends on what the mods are!

The full event takes place in Shing Jea Boardwalk.
But you can take part in Lions Arch and Kamadan.

Why should you want to take part?
This is the best time to work on your Luck Titles playing the game of Nine Rings
The lucky title is what will help you open high-end chests with lock picks.