The entrance to these activities can all be found in Lion’s Arch. They
are marked on the map as door. The exception is Mad King Says which
occurs in Grand Piazza instead. Be sure to check out the vendors as well
marked on the map with a candy corn icon.
Mad King’s Clocktower
–
Not much has changed. You get 5 trick or treat bags for running
it.If you are really good at jumping puzzles this might be a good
option to farm Trick or Treat bags.
Mad King’s Labyrinth – Basically where people go to farm for Trick
or Treat Bags. It is a farming map where you go and follow a
commander to run around killing mobs, close doors and carve
pumpkins. Use the LFG to find a farming instance.
Ascent to
Madness
– This dungeon is being farmed for the chance at Tattered Bat Wings
which is used to make the Nightfuy Ascended shoulders. It is a 5 man
dungeon and the end chest have a chance to drop the Wings so you can
run it as many time as you want for a chance. Use ingame LFG tool to
find a group.
Mad King Says – Occurs every 2 hrs on the hour at Grand Piazza.
Basically you do the emote that Mad King tells you to but only emote
if it is followed by Mad King says as he will try to trick you. On
every successful emote (or inactivity if he tries to trick you) you
will get a stacking buff. Every 4 stacks of this buff you are
eligible for a Mad King Chest Key fragment. You can only get 3 key
fragments a day and you need 3 fragments to combine together to make
a key. This means that you can only only open the chest at end of
Mad King Says once a day and you must participate for a specific
duration to get rewards. The chest also have a chance to drop
Tattered Bat Wings and the Mini Spooky Moa.
New Items
Gemstore (Released)
Gargoyle Weapon Skins from Black Lion Tickets
New Eye colors from total makeover kit
New Weapon Skins
These drops from the Trick or Treat bags. Pretty cheap on the TP.
Grim Pact – Pistol
Jailbroken – Focus
Onus –Hammer (Unique Draw Sound)
New Minis
These drop off the Trick or Treat bags and are account bound. Rare drop
except for the raven that costs 120 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Feline Familiar – [&AgEjNwEA]
Mini Thailog the Gargoyle – [&AgE4NwEA]
Mini Charles the Hellfire Skeleton – [&AgFENwEA]
Mini Oxideciomus the Shadow Raven – 120 Candy Corn Cob
New Tonics
Gargoyle Tonic
Shadow Raven Tonic
Hellfire Skeleton Tonic
New Endless Tonic Recipe
This recipe is only for the Gargoyle, Shadow Raven and Hellfire Skeleton
Tonics. The endless versions are account bound on acquire.
In the mystic forge place
2x 250 stacks of one tonic
10x Tattered Bat Wings (from Ascent to Madness or Mad King Says)
1x New Endless Halloween Enchantment (available for 1 Candy Corn Cob
from the vendor)
Endless Ignited Wraith Tonic
Place the three endless tonics (Raven, Hellfire, and Gargoyle) along
with a Endless Halloween Enchantment in the mystic forge to create this
new tonic.
Video courtesy of that_shaman
New Infusions and Refractors
Phospholuminescent Infusion
New infusion, very rare drop from the Trick or Treat bags.
Poly-Luminescent Undulating Refractor (Teal)
Make your character look teal, it is a gem you can slot on exotic
accessories. New drop from Trick or Treat bags.
Unreleased Gemstore Items
Ghostly Outfit – [&CysAAAA=]
Returning Items
Armor/Outfits
Nightfury Shoulders
– Ascended armor skin introduced last year. Very expensive to craft.
Read the linked guide to see the process.
Shackles of Madness (Gloves) – 6 Candy Corn Cobs. Gloves skin
from 2015.
Karka Helm Skin – Very rare drop from Trick or Treat bags
Ghoul
Backpack
– 600 gems from Gemstore. Backpack skin from 2015.
Old Outfits from
gemstore
– 700 gems (Mad King Only)
Shackles of Madness
Karka Helm Skin
Ghoul Backpack
Weapons
Trick or Treat Bag weapon skins
– these are all rare drops but can be brought on the TP as well.
Nest (Scepter)
Nightwing (Pistol)
Pumpkin Smasher (Hammer)
Vassago (Axe)
You can buy blood and madness weapon skins
from Halloween 2013 for 2 Black Lion Claim Tickets at the Black Lion
Weapon Specialist vendor next to the Candy Corn Cob vendor in Lion’s
Arch.
Minis
Minis from 2015
Mini Husk-o-Lantern – 4 Candy Corn Cob
Mini Spooky Moa – Rare drop from Mad King’s Chest from Mad King
Says
Mini Devil Dogs – Trick or Treat Bags
Mini Husk-o-Lantern
Mini Spooky Moa
Mini Devil Dogs
If you missed any of the old minis from before 2015, they are available
on the candy corn vendors.
Mini Candy Corn Elemental – 6 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Ghost Carlotta – 9 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Bloody Prince Thorn – 9 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Zuzu, Cat of Darkness – 18 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Gwynefyrdd – 110 Candy Corn Cobs
Miniature Candy-Corn Ghoulemental – Trick or Treat Collections
Achievements
A Sweet Friend – Meta achievement – 25 pts
You have to do 8 out of the 9 achievements below to get this meta
achievement which grant you 25 AP and Candy Corn Cob
Something Good to Eat – 2 pts
Open 50 Trick or Treat Bags, probably the easiest achievement to do.
Reward: 5 Trick or Treat Bags
A Royal Tradition– 3 pts
Complete a round of Mad King Says, pretty easy to do as well.
Reward: 3 Trick or Treat Bags
New Afterlife for Quaggan– 3 pts
You need find Drooburt’s Ghost in Lion’s Arch. He is usually at
Trader’s Forum but he can disappear sometimes. Just hand him 1000
Candy Corn for this achievement.
Reward: Nan’s Candy Corn Cookie (5k karma)
Pumpkin Carving – 17 pts
Find 150 Pumpkin all around Tyria and carve them. The pumpkins reset
if you switch to a different map/characters and also reset daily so
you can just do them in Lion’s Arch and Mad King’s Labyrinth. it is
much better to do them in Mad King’s Labyrinth since it is faster
and there are more of it in a smaller area.
Reward: 10 Trick or Treat Bags, Master Carver title
Shut the Doors – 5 pts
Complete 50 door events in Mad King’s Labyrinth. Pretty simple to do
if you spend enough time there.
Reward: 5 Trick or Treat Bags
A Stomping Good Time – 3 pts
Need to stomp 20 players with Scarecrow of Mad King finishers. You
can get temporary ones from the Trick or Treat bags or buy permanent
ones from the gemstore. You will need to do sPvP or WvW for this
achievement.
Reward: 10 Trick or Treat Bags
Mad King Labyrinth Boss achievements
The following 3 achievements are all associated with Mad King’s
Labyrinth bosses. To locate these guys, look for doors inside the
Labyrinth, they seem to spawn at specific locations.. These bosses spawn
from the doors but they are on a timer so not all doors at that location
will spawn them. These bosses are all group bosses and are not soloable.
They give 2 Aps and 5 Trick or Treat bags each.
Candy Corn Crusher – Defeat Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn.
Use reflects/feedback when he throws out candy corns as these do a
lot of damage to him.
Death to the Undying – Defeat the Skeletal Lich
Bonebreaker – Defeat the Labyrinthine Horror – this guy’s spawn
is a bit random and he can really spawn anywhere. He can join the
fight when you are fighting Viscount or Lich.
Archived Disqus comments
Korey Garabed
Now THAT’S a hammer
Фролов Денис
Now I need shadow raven mail carrier
D4nnyus
There is also a new infusion – Phospholuminiscence infusion
Nick Peterson
bit disappointing
Viking Guy
do the new tonics also give costume brawl skills? (I figure they do,
but at work, so thought I would ask.) 🙂
alecco
they do. raven has some powerfull skills
Viking Guy
thanks
mAttacker
can you make batwing brew endless from the endless recipe?
Archi
Highly doubt it but someone should collect enough brew to try
Braghez
Seems like no.
RKC
Wait, is Mad King everyday now? I thought it was on the specific
Halloween weekend (can’t remember last year).
Viking Guy
yeah…every day…they did the same last year…not sure about
previously…due to giving a few more chances to get the super
rare stuff form his chest. Check out the wiki for what can pop
out of the chest.
Archi
He was on one specific day the very first year but ever
since he has been on this two hour schedule
Skippy the Chimp
A guildie got the hellfire skeleton from the bags. Extremely rare
drop rate though. I think he got one while going through 26 stacks
of bags.
Фролов Денис
So, can anybody advice good way to farm candy corn? I jus found
myself in need of some insane amoutns of it.
Tilveran
The labyrinth is usually the answer to everything, lots of ToT
bags, just follow a zerg around with a staff guardian or other
good mob tagger. Pretty sure I spent a lot of time on my reaper
last year.
Stephen
By far the best outfit they’ve ever made.
Alot
That green infusion is the exact colour scheme of my fully armoured,
fully covered necro :<
Ellie
No Lunatic Inquisition and no pretty costume, pretty much same as
last year…so much let down
Sinis
Almost every MMO is like this anymore sadly. Almost better off
trying a console game…but then again most of those are re-skins
of something else but with slightly better stuff. Since I put it
that way….maybe a board game of Monopoly Empire, Sorry or
Battleship might be better to play lol. Get more satisfaction
out of those maybe lol.
Ellie
Yea I know, I just need to stop expecting things from them,
they seem to get lazier and lazier over time or maybe it’s
true what some people say and all their good employees left
ages ago and all they have left working there are interns.
It’s all good though I don’t plan on wasting money on any
more games since I know none will measure up to the epicness
of gw1, although I might try that sea of thieves game if it
ever comes out it looks kinda fun.
Sinis
I was gonna try Black Desert but that is turning into
ArcheAge 2.0 from what everyone is saying along with
Auto-Run Simulator 2016. Not really interested in Boob &
Soul either. Riders of Icarus likes to ban people for no
reason even when they’ve done nothing so screw that.
SWTOR went to shit and by the looks of things it is
going even deeper down that tube. Only ones that are
kinda left are Bless and Dark & Light that I’m waiting
for. I’m almost ready to go back to console and the F2P
PvP games like PlanetSide 2, Hawken, Ghost in the Shell
kind of stuff. Used to play City of Heroes and WoW
during WotLK expansion before that Ruby Sanctum patch
hit and ruined everything…don’t wanna touch WoW ever
again thanks to the adults on there literally crying
about gear like a bunch of 5 year old kids fighting over
a toy.
Not really too many decent MMO’s out there anymore…since
Daylight Games or whatever they are called shit canned
my hopes on playing EverQuest Next. I’ll still stick
around on GW2 off and on but my interest in it is almost
completely gone sadly. Dunno on what else to play
besides the ones I’ve listed lol.
Ellie
Well if you like pirates, sea of thieves looks
interesting but yea no games appeal to me either, if
I can’t have as much fun as I had with the original
Guild Wars then I’ll just stop gaming, I play gw2 at
least long enough to get the dailies done though. I
love the armor/outfits & character customization on
Black Desert but I can’t even think about playing it
since my computer can’t even run it.
CatRawr
just play overwatch \^\^
Sinis
Disgusting…
Braghez
Yeah, wonder why they aren’t bringing it back. It was fun.\
Also let’s not forget the other pvp mode added the first year
and then disappeared into oblivion.
Ellie
Who knows what goes on in their heads, every time something
fun or interesting shows up it gets removed that’s just how
it is with them, no idea why. Seems like they’d want to make
the game more fun and appealing but I guess not.
Braghez
My main guess is always manpower. The studio is fairly
small. Probably the arena needed some kind of fix (it
was pretty bugged the last time it was here and there
were some serious iessues where players could hide in
unreachable places for ghosts since they had a lower mov
speed) and they didn’t have anyone that could do it.\
Look at the last AMA too. Many devs were “well, i would
like to do some nice side projects i had in mind, but
i’m always knee deep into some other stuff to
create/manage”.\
The fact that the game is much more complicated to
design (both on artistic to structural level compared to
GW1) and you end up with longer production
times…especially now that they’re trying to push content
pretty hard since it was the main lack of the game and
one of the reasons the xpac didn’t sell much.
That said it’s just a personal speculation…there’re so
many improvable sides to the game. Look at activities.
They could easily become a “endgame” for gw2 if
structured properly and with dedicated rewards (nothing
too big/profitable, just stuff like a dedicated outfit
per activity and some other kind of silly gizmo that
people love, some achievs, maybe a leaderboard and
ta-da). Yet they are always on something else to do and
stuff just slips…and slips…and slips again.
Ellie
Yea I don’t know your guess is as good as mine but I
just feel like the current Anet is a bit
clueless >.< but yea that's just my personal
speculation ☺
Braghez
Unluckily the “general” game situation isn’t
that good. It’s not dire, but neither goind
super well. They’re trying to step the game up a
bit content wise etc, but unluckily something
has to pay a toll for that. And festivals will
always have the short end of the stick :v\
I mean… We just got a new pvp map…another one
seems to be incoming from some datamines.
Another fractal is in the working and a raid
wing too. As well as new story, rewards, map and
so on. Plus the next expansion too. This kind of
split model between xpac and living updates is
really draining the manpower they have.\
Best solution would be to hire more, but i guess
they can’t hire too much right now. Probably
when the next xpac is out and they got a bit
more cash in hands ( seems like most of the cash
from HoT went into buying the publishing rights
for GW2 from NCsoft, which was in danger of
being absorbed by nexon not long time ago, but
it’s kinda just speculation looking at some
events after HoT launch)
Ellie
Well if they do ever consider hiring new
people I sure hope they hire more
experienced armor/ outfit designers
preferably some one who’s a woman and with a
sense of style. The rest I really don’t see
ever improving very much but at least they
could get the armor/ outfits right. ❀
Gost Reiver
this games graphics make me puke
lol
maybe you should try and upgrade your pre 2002 year computer
then. it is pretty clear that you’re running it on lowest gfx
setting or you wouldnt say what you just did…this game has many
flaws, but the graphics is not one of them.
Braghez
I think he meant that it’s not an “shiny glossy blurry
detailed korean level graphic with a rendering distance of
10 meters”
Sinis
Too late. They deleted their comment. All is now null
and void.
Do we all wanna play some Go Fish instead? >_>
Leia Dhoro
World of Warcraft’s graphics make me puke. Clearly you came here
from that shitshow.
Random Opinion
How long does this event last?
BustedSatNav
2 weeks
Sinis
I’d rather do the Christmas jumping challenge than the Halloween
Tower. Forgot how hard that shit was and made me think about my
place in this universe once again lol.
Krystal S. S.
Been away for a year from the game. Ended up doing the jumping
puzzle on my first go, ended up getting the Hellfire mini skeleton,
and the Teal Poly-Luminescent from the bags.
shakah
Congrats, .I hate you\~ but congrats
Krystal S. S.
>.< Thank you. – also ended up getting the Karka
Helmet skin, though i sold it before it became cheap to
purchase.
RoyalPredator
Another proof of how ArenaNet lures players back.\
There is a HUGE list of players reported their amazing loots
right after being away for year+.\
( Could someone link it from offical forums? )
Kristen Wave Snider
Just a heads up Dulfy. Your cost for the Mini Gwynefyrdd needs to be
updated. It’s 110 candy corn cobs this year.
Two thousand and sixteen pumpkins? That’s way too many pumpkins.
Thanks for the map though.
Solomon Darkfury
If anyone is curious what the Ruby Visage, Poly luminescent
undulating refractor, queen bee, ghostly infusion, and
phospholuminescent infusion look like together just hit me up in
game, Solomon Darkfury.3729
Tilveran
The Lich in the labyrinth seems a LOT easier this year, like no
crazy retal on his skellies and frequent stun phases. Was he like
this last year?
Also I’m really looking forward to that ghostly outfit. Got my gems
ready to go and everything!
名無し
The Lich is much easier this year because people know how to
play the HoT elite specialisations now and know how to break a
break bar. Last year HoT came out very shortly before the
Halloween events, so people were not used to break bars and many
did not have much of elite specs unlocked yet, let alone have
much experience with them for those who did have the full
specialisation unlocked.
Lich could have indeed had a nerf, but so far every map I have
been on that break bar is down in seconds on the Lich each time
it comes up. Whereas last year at this time no one used crowd
control skills in PvE, and the break bar on things like the Lich
would only ever very slowly go down–if at all.
Hemmer van Ukzahn
Exactly my experience, we did the chainsaw skeleton with 3
people, he still does crazy damage, just gets kited and
stunned a lot more.
Tilveran
I’ve yet to see the zerg blow itself up on the lich’s retal
so I reckon it’s been nerfed as well. Probably.
Seriously
Everything in the Labyrinth melts in milliseconds, the bosses
which were somewhat dangerous in past years now get rolled
within a minute. That’s the HoT power creep effect. I wish they
buffed the Labyrinth, too boring now.
Tilveran
Right, I almost feel sorry for the Horror when it emerges
from the wall now… everyone dogpiles it and it dies XD
No, you dont need those infusions. You want those infusions.
Infophile
No, you don’t need to learn about the concept of hyperbole,
the rest of us want you to learn about the concept of
hyperbole.
Momo
No, you don’t need to learn about avoiding the trolls,
the rest of us want you to learn about the concept of
trolling.
Hentai Akuma
These Jedi mind tricks shall not work on me
Alot
No, no. I need that infusion.
Al
Is it actually confirmed that the feline familiar mini is from the
trick or treat bags?
RabbitUp
The opposite is confirmed, it’s not from ToT bags.
Johnathan
The one time I dont save my gems T_T
nadrian3k
Yes, some of the new skins are really cool. Only bad side is
they only “light up” at night from what i noticed. Would have
been nicer if they were constantly on.
At least change the Master Carver title to “4 x Master Carver” to
show that i have done the same stupid achievement every year :/
nadrian3k
They give u AP for the same thing. It’s more then enough. Stop
complaining about small things.
Ra.
What kind of fresh hell am I going to have to get through to get the
Shadow Raven at 120 Candy Corn Cobs?! So. Sad.
Answerer
Just keep doing the Multiloot AB and buy the corn cobs
Alot
A syrupy one \^\^
Soul
Do aura’s work while wearing a outfit?
Answerer
I suppose so, since they’re gems you place on trinkets, rather
than on your armor. “But don’t quote me on that” – Me
Gryphon SK
Yeah they do
Soul
Thank you for answering my question. \^_\^
HadesClutch
Ghostly Outfit, that’s all I like about this!
Qnrad
Why minis are account bound…. let’s make everything account bound…..
Sinis
They’re afraid of having an actual market on stuff that people
want to buy with gold instead of putting in the actual physical
work. Shame on us lazy bastards for wanting an easier route to
take!
Qnrad
I like easier route 🙂
Sinis
I prefer both though depends on what I’m grinding for
lol.
zoombiee
its the same content over and over again why would I ?
Sinis
‘Cause you want to? Hell if I know on what you want to
do…
I dont know why .. maybe its just a bug . But when I will put a
Tattered Bat Wing into the Mystic Forge .. some T6 like Bone , Claw
and Sac will stay like I can use them. I didnt found any new
recipes. Could it be something new perhaps ? o_O
Answerer
With T6 blood it makes a normal Bat Wing for the Nightfury
craft.\
Nothing else on my end, sadly
The Feline Familliar is a random event in the Mad King area! It
wants food but I have no idea what yet. An icon will appear like you
do when you return magic, click it before it vanishes.
I’m so crushed I didn’t have anything it wanted :C
Just to clarify just over the unnamed cat there’s my bat
mini.
taurussieben
The wiki says also frog in a jar, and can be summoned by someone
with an enchanted broom. Than you can apparently communicate
with it and feed it and than it will appear in your home
instance. :
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hungry_cat_scavenger_hunt
Ares Zax
This information is available on the Wiki, but to clarify for
anyone reading this:
1. A player who has the Witch’s Broom bundle item can summon a Feline
Familiar (skill 5).
2. Any player standing next to the Feline Familiar gets a special action
(same as the Counter Magic) to interact with it. This opens a dialogue
similar to the other hungry cats where you can feed it.
3. The item the Feline Familiar wants is a MASTERWORK Frog in a Jar,
purchased from Lionscout Tunnira (the Heart vendor in Bloodtide Coast
just outside the southern exit of Lion’s Arch). The Fine version of the
item will not work.
4. Once fed, the Feline Familiar shows up in your Home Instance where it
hangs out around the Candy Corn node. It occasionally plays the So in
Love! animation next to it.
\///
Been standing near feline familiars, but no interaction at
all, no special skills too 🙁
Ares Zax
Make sure it’s one that has been summoned via the
Broom’s skill, and not the Feline Familiar miniature.
I’m also unsure if you need HoT to interact with it
(being that it’s a special skill and all).
Dark Angel Seductions
You will need to have at LEAST one of the hungry cats
already in your home instance in order for the F5 function
to show up when you are standing next to the feline
familiar.
Answerer
Grim Pact Pistol: Squeeze the hand to fire Stem Cells with great
force
I wonder when they will release the Ghostly Outfit. I would have
loved to be able to chose just the headpiece but it seems it’s a
whole set thing 🙁
Seriously
That’s 100% my thoughts. Definitely could use the headpiece on a
couple of my chars but sadly the rest of the outfit seems so
generic and plain.
Ellie
That’s pretty much every outfit they make, they all look the
same. I don’t think they even have a armor/ outfit designer
seems they make the same exact boring plain outfit over and
over but with a different hat each time and maybe a few
trinkets here and there to try to disguise the fact that
it’s the same outfit they’ve been making over and over.
Taiwan Wolf
It’ll be outfit only and probably next tuesday at the rate they
been goin lately.
VOjta Šostok
Achievment “A Stomping Good Time” can be also done in Guild Hall
Arena .. easily farmable in few min when others from your guild will
help you with it :3
Taiwan Wolf
It also give you credit the moment you charge the stomp, so you
can cancel it and recast over and over to finish fast.
Boop
Do the bat wings drop from mobs in AtM or from Mad King himself
after you defeat him?
The Soviet Union
Chance to drop from the chest that appears after clearing AtM.
Suffie
I just ran around around in LA and suddenly there was a picture of a
cat in a witch’s hat where the countermagic skill is, and I think it
said commune on it but it disappeared so fast I barely had time to
blink. I wonder what that was?
Фролов Денис
Gonna say, after amounts of gold I dropped into that raven, he
looks… rather small. Half of the time you can’t even see the damn
critter.
El Sitrik
i found black infusion … are ther any other colors ??
Arik Ringer
Soooooo……\
Most important question: When will the Bat Wing Glider Combo be out
again???\
It was first time released on Halloween 2015 so I thought they will
bring it in again for sure! Please say that they will be present
this Halloween, at least for one day via gem store or something but
pls put them in the game again!
Archived Disqus comments
Korey Garabed
Now THAT’S a hammer
Фролов Денис
Now I need shadow raven mail carrier
D4nnyus
There is also a new infusion – Phospholuminiscence infusion
Nick Peterson
bit disappointing
Viking Guy
do the new tonics also give costume brawl skills? (I figure they do, but at work, so thought I would ask.) 🙂
alecco
they do. raven has some powerfull skills
Viking Guy
thanks
mAttacker
can you make batwing brew endless from the endless recipe?
Archi
Highly doubt it but someone should collect enough brew to try
Braghez
Seems like no.
RKC
Wait, is Mad King everyday now? I thought it was on the specific Halloween weekend (can’t remember last year).
Viking Guy
yeah…every day…they did the same last year…not sure about previously…due to giving a few more chances to get the super rare stuff form his chest. Check out the wiki for what can pop out of the chest.
Archi
He was on one specific day the very first year but ever since he has been on this two hour schedule
Skippy the Chimp
A guildie got the hellfire skeleton from the bags. Extremely rare drop rate though. I think he got one while going through 26 stacks of bags.
Фролов Денис
So, can anybody advice good way to farm candy corn? I jus found myself in need of some insane amoutns of it.
Tilveran
The labyrinth is usually the answer to everything, lots of ToT bags, just follow a zerg around with a staff guardian or other good mob tagger. Pretty sure I spent a lot of time on my reaper last year.
Stephen
By far the best outfit they’ve ever made.
Alot
That green infusion is the exact colour scheme of my fully armoured, fully covered necro :<
Ellie
No Lunatic Inquisition and no pretty costume, pretty much same as last year…so much let down
Sinis
Almost every MMO is like this anymore sadly. Almost better off trying a console game…but then again most of those are re-skins of something else but with slightly better stuff. Since I put it that way….maybe a board game of Monopoly Empire, Sorry or Battleship might be better to play lol. Get more satisfaction out of those maybe lol.
Ellie
Yea I know, I just need to stop expecting things from them, they seem to get lazier and lazier over time or maybe it’s true what some people say and all their good employees left ages ago and all they have left working there are interns. It’s all good though I don’t plan on wasting money on any more games since I know none will measure up to the epicness of gw1, although I might try that sea of thieves game if it ever comes out it looks kinda fun.
Sinis
I was gonna try Black Desert but that is turning into ArcheAge 2.0 from what everyone is saying along with Auto-Run Simulator 2016. Not really interested in Boob & Soul either. Riders of Icarus likes to ban people for no reason even when they’ve done nothing so screw that. SWTOR went to shit and by the looks of things it is going even deeper down that tube. Only ones that are kinda left are Bless and Dark & Light that I’m waiting for. I’m almost ready to go back to console and the F2P PvP games like PlanetSide 2, Hawken, Ghost in the Shell kind of stuff. Used to play City of Heroes and WoW during WotLK expansion before that Ruby Sanctum patch hit and ruined everything…don’t wanna touch WoW ever again thanks to the adults on there literally crying about gear like a bunch of 5 year old kids fighting over a toy.
Not really too many decent MMO’s out there anymore…since Daylight Games or whatever they are called shit canned my hopes on playing EverQuest Next. I’ll still stick around on GW2 off and on but my interest in it is almost completely gone sadly. Dunno on what else to play besides the ones I’ve listed lol.
Ellie
Well if you like pirates, sea of thieves looks interesting but yea no games appeal to me either, if I can’t have as much fun as I had with the original Guild Wars then I’ll just stop gaming, I play gw2 at least long enough to get the dailies done though. I love the armor/outfits & character customization on Black Desert but I can’t even think about playing it since my computer can’t even run it.
CatRawr
just play overwatch \^\^
Sinis
Disgusting…
Braghez
Yeah, wonder why they aren’t bringing it back. It was fun.\ Also let’s not forget the other pvp mode added the first year and then disappeared into oblivion.
Ellie
Who knows what goes on in their heads, every time something fun or interesting shows up it gets removed that’s just how it is with them, no idea why. Seems like they’d want to make the game more fun and appealing but I guess not.
Braghez
My main guess is always manpower. The studio is fairly small. Probably the arena needed some kind of fix (it was pretty bugged the last time it was here and there were some serious iessues where players could hide in unreachable places for ghosts since they had a lower mov speed) and they didn’t have anyone that could do it.\ Look at the last AMA too. Many devs were “well, i would like to do some nice side projects i had in mind, but i’m always knee deep into some other stuff to create/manage”.\ The fact that the game is much more complicated to design (both on artistic to structural level compared to GW1) and you end up with longer production times…especially now that they’re trying to push content pretty hard since it was the main lack of the game and one of the reasons the xpac didn’t sell much.
That said it’s just a personal speculation…there’re so many improvable sides to the game. Look at activities. They could easily become a “endgame” for gw2 if structured properly and with dedicated rewards (nothing too big/profitable, just stuff like a dedicated outfit per activity and some other kind of silly gizmo that people love, some achievs, maybe a leaderboard and ta-da). Yet they are always on something else to do and stuff just slips…and slips…and slips again.
Ellie
Yea I don’t know your guess is as good as mine but I just feel like the current Anet is a bit clueless >.< but yea that's just my personal speculation ☺
Braghez
Unluckily the “general” game situation isn’t that good. It’s not dire, but neither goind super well. They’re trying to step the game up a bit content wise etc, but unluckily something has to pay a toll for that. And festivals will always have the short end of the stick :v\ I mean… We just got a new pvp map…another one seems to be incoming from some datamines. Another fractal is in the working and a raid wing too. As well as new story, rewards, map and so on. Plus the next expansion too. This kind of split model between xpac and living updates is really draining the manpower they have.\ Best solution would be to hire more, but i guess they can’t hire too much right now. Probably when the next xpac is out and they got a bit more cash in hands ( seems like most of the cash from HoT went into buying the publishing rights for GW2 from NCsoft, which was in danger of being absorbed by nexon not long time ago, but it’s kinda just speculation looking at some events after HoT launch)
Ellie
Well if they do ever consider hiring new people I sure hope they hire more experienced armor/ outfit designers preferably some one who’s a woman and with a sense of style. The rest I really don’t see ever improving very much but at least they could get the armor/ outfits right. ❀
Gost Reiver
this games graphics make me puke
lol
maybe you should try and upgrade your pre 2002 year computer then. it is pretty clear that you’re running it on lowest gfx setting or you wouldnt say what you just did…this game has many flaws, but the graphics is not one of them.
Braghez
I think he meant that it’s not an “shiny glossy blurry detailed korean level graphic with a rendering distance of 10 meters”
Sinis
Too late. They deleted their comment. All is now null and void.
Do we all wanna play some Go Fish instead? >_>
Leia Dhoro
World of Warcraft’s graphics make me puke. Clearly you came here from that shitshow.
Random Opinion
How long does this event last?
BustedSatNav
2 weeks
Sinis
I’d rather do the Christmas jumping challenge than the Halloween Tower. Forgot how hard that shit was and made me think about my place in this universe once again lol.
Krystal S. S.
Been away for a year from the game. Ended up doing the jumping puzzle on my first go, ended up getting the Hellfire mini skeleton, and the Teal Poly-Luminescent from the bags.
shakah
Congrats, .I hate you\~ but congrats
Krystal S. S.
>.< Thank you. – also ended up getting the Karka Helmet skin, though i sold it before it became cheap to purchase.
RoyalPredator
Another proof of how ArenaNet lures players back.\ There is a HUGE list of players reported their amazing loots right after being away for year+.\ ( Could someone link it from offical forums? )
Kristen Wave Snider
Just a heads up Dulfy. Your cost for the Mini Gwynefyrdd needs to be updated. It’s 110 candy corn cobs this year.
Brutal Beauty 9542
Lions Arch 2016 Pumpkins https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f7354947a6b4178b9a4f8dac542021ce547259d67ba4ecfc9871946b9b71d054.jpg
Tilveran
All 3 of those maps look super handy, thanks a lot.
RuffianX
Thanks for the maps – saved a lot of time!
Brutal Beauty 9542
Queensdale 2016 Pumpkins https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d15f4f65eaaaddbb69b89d3fabd15d4a59f28ac7ca201ce89cc32d92d70b6b5.jpg
Brutal Beauty 9542
Wayfarer Foothills 2016 Pumpkins https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/db5abb96aac903184e8a8d7b2d47f10125ad70c622c991708eeb3f4ec2157ea3.jpg
Gewgulkan Suhckitt
Two thousand and sixteen pumpkins? That’s way too many pumpkins. Thanks for the map though.
Solomon Darkfury
If anyone is curious what the Ruby Visage, Poly luminescent undulating refractor, queen bee, ghostly infusion, and phospholuminescent infusion look like together just hit me up in game, Solomon Darkfury.3729
Tilveran
The Lich in the labyrinth seems a LOT easier this year, like no crazy retal on his skellies and frequent stun phases. Was he like this last year?
Also I’m really looking forward to that ghostly outfit. Got my gems ready to go and everything!
名無し
The Lich is much easier this year because people know how to play the HoT elite specialisations now and know how to break a break bar. Last year HoT came out very shortly before the Halloween events, so people were not used to break bars and many did not have much of elite specs unlocked yet, let alone have much experience with them for those who did have the full specialisation unlocked.
Lich could have indeed had a nerf, but so far every map I have been on that break bar is down in seconds on the Lich each time it comes up. Whereas last year at this time no one used crowd control skills in PvE, and the break bar on things like the Lich would only ever very slowly go down–if at all.
Hemmer van Ukzahn
Exactly my experience, we did the chainsaw skeleton with 3 people, he still does crazy damage, just gets kited and stunned a lot more.
Tilveran
I’ve yet to see the zerg blow itself up on the lich’s retal so I reckon it’s been nerfed as well. Probably.
Seriously
Everything in the Labyrinth melts in milliseconds, the bosses which were somewhat dangerous in past years now get rolled within a minute. That’s the HoT power creep effect. I wish they buffed the Labyrinth, too boring now.
Tilveran
Right, I almost feel sorry for the Horror when it emerges from the wall now… everyone dogpiles it and it dies XD
Brutal Beauty 9542
Kessex HIlls 2016 Pumpkins https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/668fae2736e35e2e04a8b51b7adff03f1f06e290dc70ff808f448dfb3648c76b.jpg
Hentai Akuma
I need those infusions
Io
No, you dont need those infusions. You want those infusions.
Infophile
No, you don’t need to learn about the concept of hyperbole, the rest of us want you to learn about the concept of hyperbole.
Momo
No, you don’t need to learn about avoiding the trolls, the rest of us want you to learn about the concept of trolling.
Hentai Akuma
These Jedi mind tricks shall not work on me
Alot
No, no. I need that infusion.
Al
Is it actually confirmed that the feline familiar mini is from the trick or treat bags?
RabbitUp
The opposite is confirmed, it’s not from ToT bags.
Johnathan
The one time I dont save my gems T_T
nadrian3k
Yes, some of the new skins are really cool. Only bad side is they only “light up” at night from what i noticed. Would have been nicer if they were constantly on.
Brutal Beauty 9542
MadKing Labyrinth 2016 pumpkins
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/742786226d87aa753e91b78ba4e127dd861365eeeb596c19128e591a9eda66a9.jpg
Dulfy
Thanks for those, I will put them up in the guide
Bratwurst
At least change the Master Carver title to “4 x Master Carver” to show that i have done the same stupid achievement every year :/
nadrian3k
They give u AP for the same thing. It’s more then enough. Stop complaining about small things.
Ra.
What kind of fresh hell am I going to have to get through to get the Shadow Raven at 120 Candy Corn Cobs?! So. Sad.
Answerer
Just keep doing the Multiloot AB and buy the corn cobs
Alot
A syrupy one \^\^
Soul
Do aura’s work while wearing a outfit?
Answerer
I suppose so, since they’re gems you place on trinkets, rather than on your armor. “But don’t quote me on that” – Me
Gryphon SK
Yeah they do
Soul
Thank you for answering my question. \^_\^
HadesClutch
Ghostly Outfit, that’s all I like about this!
Qnrad
Why minis are account bound…. let’s make everything account bound…..
Sinis
They’re afraid of having an actual market on stuff that people want to buy with gold instead of putting in the actual physical work. Shame on us lazy bastards for wanting an easier route to take!
Qnrad
I like easier route 🙂
Sinis
I prefer both though depends on what I’m grinding for lol.
zoombiee
its the same content over and over again why would I ?
Sinis
‘Cause you want to? Hell if I know on what you want to do…
RabbitUp
They said on reddit they are changing that.
deerbot36
you have a source link for this?
RabbitUp
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/588ind/lessons_learned_from_mini_gwynefyrdd/
Lirabelle
Oh man, I really hope so.
VOjta Šostok
I dont know why .. maybe its just a bug . But when I will put a Tattered Bat Wing into the Mystic Forge .. some T6 like Bone , Claw and Sac will stay like I can use them. I didnt found any new recipes. Could it be something new perhaps ? o_O
Answerer
With T6 blood it makes a normal Bat Wing for the Nightfury craft.\ Nothing else on my end, sadly
VOjta Šostok
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a0e13b107df46ebddff4a8050e0f969110b4769f76ec79555fa94f3620c82de2.jpg
Kuro
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1e8bc2cc1e875c63104f53d0673e956cadb62e646d337e1caabebe5e83610248.jpg
The Feline Familliar is a random event in the Mad King area! It wants food but I have no idea what yet. An icon will appear like you do when you return magic, click it before it vanishes.
I’m so crushed I didn’t have anything it wanted :C
X
Someone on the forum said frog in a jar
Hea ven On ea rth
I can confirm it’s the frog in a Jar, the Green one. And no I don’t have the mini. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98dda58366b3a088caa7f5952b2b5330c5d2eee38fe5175f7c8ae1837bfc1e2c.jpg
Hea ven On ea rth
Just to clarify just over the unnamed cat there’s my bat mini.
taurussieben
The wiki says also frog in a jar, and can be summoned by someone with an enchanted broom. Than you can apparently communicate with it and feed it and than it will appear in your home instance. : https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hungry_cat_scavenger_hunt
Ares Zax
This information is available on the Wiki, but to clarify for anyone reading this:
1. A player who has the Witch’s Broom bundle item can summon a Feline Familiar (skill 5).
2. Any player standing next to the Feline Familiar gets a special action (same as the Counter Magic) to interact with it. This opens a dialogue similar to the other hungry cats where you can feed it.
3. The item the Feline Familiar wants is a MASTERWORK Frog in a Jar, purchased from Lionscout Tunnira (the Heart vendor in Bloodtide Coast just outside the southern exit of Lion’s Arch). The Fine version of the item will not work.
4. Once fed, the Feline Familiar shows up in your Home Instance where it hangs out around the Candy Corn node. It occasionally plays the So in Love! animation next to it.
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Been standing near feline familiars, but no interaction at all, no special skills too 🙁
Ares Zax
Make sure it’s one that has been summoned via the Broom’s skill, and not the Feline Familiar miniature.
I’m also unsure if you need HoT to interact with it (being that it’s a special skill and all).
Dark Angel Seductions
You will need to have at LEAST one of the hungry cats already in your home instance in order for the F5 function to show up when you are standing next to the feline familiar.
Answerer
Grim Pact Pistol: Squeeze the hand to fire Stem Cells with great force
Lacsap
The other mini’s are also back through Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket.\ https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/677926431891661c9a436d246c5a9a38c08c97aa7b24a667ce5725a9cbdc0dbe.png
Maddy
the game downloaded more than 3gb of content with this patch but still isnt playable\ exactly how big is the update size
Mark
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cacc0921f0383a2158f9d70eedf1675dfff4467517cb64dfac0bb89840bab60e.jpg
nadrian3k
Dat color tho’
Mark
changed the color
nadrian3k
Haha, much better. Thanks 😀
nadrian3k
I wonder when they will release the Ghostly Outfit. I would have loved to be able to chose just the headpiece but it seems it’s a whole set thing 🙁
Seriously
That’s 100% my thoughts. Definitely could use the headpiece on a couple of my chars but sadly the rest of the outfit seems so generic and plain.
Ellie
That’s pretty much every outfit they make, they all look the same. I don’t think they even have a armor/ outfit designer seems they make the same exact boring plain outfit over and over but with a different hat each time and maybe a few trinkets here and there to try to disguise the fact that it’s the same outfit they’ve been making over and over.
Taiwan Wolf
It’ll be outfit only and probably next tuesday at the rate they been goin lately.
VOjta Šostok
Achievment “A Stomping Good Time” can be also done in Guild Hall Arena .. easily farmable in few min when others from your guild will help you with it :3
Taiwan Wolf
It also give you credit the moment you charge the stomp, so you can cancel it and recast over and over to finish fast.
Boop
Do the bat wings drop from mobs in AtM or from Mad King himself after you defeat him?
The Soviet Union
Chance to drop from the chest that appears after clearing AtM.
Suffie
I just ran around around in LA and suddenly there was a picture of a cat in a witch’s hat where the countermagic skill is, and I think it said commune on it but it disappeared so fast I barely had time to blink. I wonder what that was?
Фролов Денис
Gonna say, after amounts of gold I dropped into that raven, he looks… rather small. Half of the time you can’t even see the damn critter.
El Sitrik
i found black infusion … are ther any other colors ??
Arik Ringer
Soooooo……\ Most important question: When will the Bat Wing Glider Combo be out again???\ It was first time released on Halloween 2015 so I thought they will bring it in again for sure! Please say that they will be present this Halloween, at least for one day via gem store or something but pls put them in the game again!