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Halloween 2016 Festival Guide

By Dulfy , Published on Tue 18 October 2016
Achievements / Festivals / Halloween

A guide to the GW2 Halloween Festival 2016 that began on October 18, 2016.

Activities

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.

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New Items

Gemstore (Released)

New Weapon Skins

These drops from the Trick or Treat bags. Pretty cheap on the TP.

Grim Pact – Pistol

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Jailbroken – Focus

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Onus –Hammer (Unique Draw Sound)

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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]

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Mini Thailog the Gargoyle – [&AgE4NwEA]

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Mini Charles the Hellfire Skeleton – [&AgFENwEA]

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Mini Oxideciomus the Shadow Raven – 120 Candy Corn Cob

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New Tonics

Gargoyle Tonic

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Shadow Raven Tonic

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Hellfire Skeleton Tonic

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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

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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.

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Video courtesy of that_shaman

New Infusions and Refractors

Phospholuminescent Infusion

New infusion, very rare drop from the Trick or Treat bags.

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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.

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Unreleased Gemstore Items

Ghostly Outfit – [&CysAAAA=]

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Returning Items

Armor/Outfits

Shackles of Madness Karka Helm Skin Ghoul Backpack
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Weapons

Trick or Treat Bag weapon skins – these are all rare drops but can be brought on the TP as well.

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 Mini Spooky Moa Mini Devil Dogs
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If you missed any of the old minis from before 2015, they are available on the candy corn vendors.

Achievements

A Sweet Friend – Meta achievement – 25 pts

Something Good to Eat – 2 pts

A Royal Tradition– 3 pts

New Afterlife for Quaggan– 3 pts

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Pumpkin Carving – 17 pts

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Shut the Doors – 5 pts

A Stomping Good Time – 3 pts

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.

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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.

  • 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

  • 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.

      • \///

        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!