I can't see the point in all these bonus XP weekends and + loot weekends.
Bonus XP is of no use to the majority of the longtime (loyal) players as most if not all of their characters will be capped.
The extra loot is also pointless for the same players, because except for a few choice items, Shroud crafting replaces just about everything.
What I would prefer to see is additional Character slots.
I know people who took advantage of the merge have a ton of Characters, and according to the way it works would get nothing until they had enough extra character slots to make a new one available.
Those very peoples accounts prove that the game can support many more slots per person.
I have heard that a lot of quests will have been slightly changed for the new mod, it would be nice to be able to tackle them with a new Character.