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Halloween 2017 Festival Guide

By Dulfy , Published on Tue 17 October 2017
Achievements / Festivals / Halloween

A guide to the GW2 Halloween Festival 2017 that starts on October 17, 2017.

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 Items

Mad Memoires Backpiece

Four Mad Memoires Backpieces were added along with their associated achievements. Two of them backpieces are completely new while the other two made a return from 2012 Halloween.

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Lunatic Armor Set

You get one set from achievements, the other two weight classes will need to be crafted by buying recipes from Lunatic Alchemists.

Light

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Medium

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Heavy

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New Weapons

Touch of Madness

There is a new rare drop torch weapon from the Treat or Trick Bags. It doesn’t have a graphic and only appears when drawn as a ball of light.

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Haunted Weapon Set

You need to do 3/5 of the available Halloween dailies everyday and every 5th day you will be able to get a weapon from Eve of the Mad King achievement completion.

Sword Hammer Longbow Shortbow
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Axe Dagger Greatsword Mace
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Pistol Rifle Scepter Staff
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Focus Torch Warhorn Shield
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New Minis

Mini Halloween Gourdon – 20 Candy Corn Cobs

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Mini Lord Humphrey Faren – 100 Candy Corn Cobs

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Mini Gustav the Caramel Corn Elemental – Rare ToT Bags Drop

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Mini Forgal – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket

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Mini Sieran – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket

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Mini Trahearne – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket

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Upcoming Items

Riding Broom Glider[&AgHeTQEA]

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Awakened Zealot Outfit – [&CzoAAAA=]

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Mini Choya Pumpkin Gang – [&AgHpTQEAAA==]

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Mini Elonian Familiar – [&AgECTgEAAA==]

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Mini Failed Attempt – [&AgEHTgEA]

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Old/Returning Items

Achievements

Shadow of the Mad King

Ancient Grudge – 10 AP

Arguably Foodlike – 5 AP

Lunatic Fashion – 5 AP

Routing the Rebel Rabble – 5 AP

Shut the Doors – 5 AP

Mad Memories/Mad Mysteries/Mad Mementos/Mad Memorial

Courtly Service – 5 AP

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Pumpkin Carving – 17 AP, Master Carver Title

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Lunatic Wardrobe

A Royal Tradition – 5 AP, Hat Box

Something Good to Eat – 5 AP, Glove Box

Ascent to Madness – 10 AP, Coat Box

Mad King’s Clocktower – 10 AP, Boot Box

Masters of the Labyrinth – 5 AP, Shoulder Box

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Lunatic Racer – 10 AP, Pants Box

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Halloween Rituals

Each of these achievements can be repeated 5 times with the exception of Eve of the Mad King

Eve of the Mad King – 10 AP x 10 Repeatable

Champion of the Labyrinth – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

Knockdown the Doors – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

Carving Across Tyria – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

Clockwork’s Champion – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

Mad King’s Herald in Training – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

Lunatic Inquisition Regular – 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

New Afterlife for Quaggan– 5 AP x 5 Repeatable

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Archived Disqus comments

  • Ayakaru

    At least it’s a bandaid on the ap draught

  • Dosko

    whats with those weapons skins straight out of wow tho… its really puzzling how inconsistent and all over the place their designs are. well, after implementing raids and mounts its just logical to copy the graphics now too i guess

    • Isla

      Variety is a good thing, considering the wide variety of player wants/tastes.

    • Apple Salad

      Not sure which weapon you’re referring to but weapons such as an axe has been having around the same look since stone age. Dig deeper, raids and mounts is implemented from a long history of players requests (might be ex-WoW players?).

  • Isla

    Are there special conditions for the blood to show up on the medium lunatic noble set? I’ve got the full set equipped, but the blood doesn’t show up on my character nor in the preview. I’m wondering if it only shows up at night?

  • Dlew

    That upcoming Awakened zealout outfit tho!

  • commentor

    I approve the Awakened ARMOR SET, not an outfit.

  • Darkye Rhiadra

    I’ll buy the zealot outfit, I really like it. But now that they started adding outfits to BL chests… sigh. I hope that one won’t be a BL exclusive as well.

    • Alicii in Wonderland

      Same thoughts. Looks really good.

  • TJ

    are Joko’s minions in any of the other desert maps?

    • Jansmt7

      One of the NPCs for the Mad Memorial achievment says that some have appeared at beaches northwest of the desert. I haven’t checked myself but try looking there.

    • narg

      elon riverlands or desolation

    • Trillium

      there’s an event and small camp in highlands too

    • Isla

      The south of Elon Riverlands by the Deadhouse is the best, IMO. There has been a consistent group of players farming. Either the deadhouse event, the warden event at the sepulcher, or you can go into the little mini dungeon via jackal sand portal east of sepulchre (by mastery point) – the awakened in those rooms spawn quickly. Had a small group of 5 rolling through, and I think I had the achievement done within 30 min or so.

      Any awakened mob will do, though.

  • Wtfwtf

    Wait, the vampire is medium armor only. Wtf

    • Anon

      Same thoughts here. Not being able to use it on necro is just weird, they use blood magic after all.

      • Wtfwtf

        Yep, that was my intention too!

        • Nerfed

          What a bad day to be a nerco main

          • Alot

            As a necro main, I’d just like to point out that Necros have no ‘blood’ or ‘draining’ themed skills (besides one ranged dagger skill) – and our skill color pallet is mostly bright green and black (and now sand colored with scourge). Fashion wise having a blood stained tunic and face would conflict with all my fx anyway.

            If they could add a infusion which added the green sheen effect on the vampire clothing however, now that would be appreciated.

            • Marksman

              Yet we have skills that inflict bleeding on our enemies, as you would know if you were a necro main.

              • Alot

                One of my countless condition icons is bleeding. Big woop.

              • Avair

                Oh right not to mention the entire specialisation called Blood Magic and the fact that it has the Blood Bond, Vampiric and Vampiric Presence traits which revolve entirely around siphoning health from enemies to heal yourself. If you have both a power and a condi necro like I do, you’d know that it’s invaluable in the condi necro spec. As well, Signet of vampirism would like to disagree with your statement of necros not having any “draining” skills.

                Please tell me again you’re a necro main and have no idea what your skills do and are.

                References/Proofs:\ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Vampirism\ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Life_Leech\ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_Bond\ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vampiric\ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vampiric_Presence

              • Alot

                Again, big woop. You could rename the “Blood Magic” line “Rituals of the unicorn princess” with descriptions of “heal allies who attack your target with praise”, “motivate downed players not to die” and “Heal yourself with the power of joyful persistence when hitting a foe”. There are just no animations to back up the theme.

                I’ll reiterate the point I started this with. The necromancer color pallet is not red and and of the (about) 95 skills the class has, 2-3 are blood themed and about 90 are ‘life force’ themed – with the pallet of green, black, blue and sand colored.

                Ps. The fact that I equip the signet of the dolyak on my pve beserker does not, in actual fact, make him a dolyak.

              • Julia Oceania

                Making foes bleed is something ALL classes do. Warriors can inflict bleeding, guardians can inflict bleeding, The entire point of a vampire is that they feed on the lifeforce of their victim. They don’t just make their victim bleed, they consume the lifeforce in the blood. And not all vampires drink blood, there are energy vampires, as well.

            • Avair

              I don’t know if you’ve ever been downed but uh necro’s entire first skill revolves around draining their foe to heal themselves. Some necro man you are :/

              • Avair

                main*

              • Alot

                You can cast life siphon with a dagger or an equivalent life siphon while downed. Congrats on the clarification.

            • Julia Oceania

              Necros have an entire skill set based on blood magic.

  • Earendilgrey

    The Courtly Service worked for me by just putting the merchant out. So saved 4 gold.

    • Guest

      There’s two tiers.

  • Alot

    They made some nice additions this year. Now all I have to do is manage to finish the clocktower clock jumping puzzle. 25 times -.-

    • Jakob Stjerndorff

      Why would you need to do it 25 times?

      • Alot

        Achievement points are hard to get once you hit the daily achievement point limit – and there is a repeatable achieve worth 25 ap which requires 25 runs to get – I believe.

        • Char

          Worry more about the 900 Pumpkin carvings

          • Alot

            Dude, those get auto-completed by farming. I’ve never actually managed to complete the clock tower -.-

        • Darkye Rhiadra

          It requires 15 completions. The acheivement is for 3 complete jps and gives 5 ap, with a max of 25 ap.

          • Alot

            Good to know. That’s only 15 more times then I’ve never completed it – as opposed to 25.

    • S1M0N

      I can’t do this JP once ;_;

    • Thanathos

      15 times I think.

  • Draglek

    Will the achievements stay for ever ? I mean the 1000 pumpkins.. It’s only for 2017 and will reset next year or no reset and i’ts an all time achievement ?

    • Alot

      They did state these would be available for completion every year.

      • Draglek

        Nicuuuuuuuuuu ! Thx for the reply 🙂

      • Sefer

        1k pumpkins every year? no thanks I guess xD

        • Alot

          I believe I worded that very badly. You can get back to completing this achievement every year but there will not be a new stack of it to complete. I believe.

    • Darkye Rhiadra

      They said the achievements can be completed next year if you can’t finish them now. I’m curious though how they will go about doing that since there can be issues.

      My advice finish it now if you can. The pumkins one is indeed horrible, but just make sure to do all the pumkins in the maze while you are running with a squad. Changing instance in the maze will reset all pumkins by the way. So you can do some farm with a squad, then lfg to another squad, change instance and do the pumkins again.

      Pumkins and doors will be the slowest and grindiest. And clock tower the most frustrating lol. Everything else is easy peasy.

  • Jasmine Lock

    They better not make that Mini Elonian Familiar a BLC drop.

    • Alot

      The Elonian familiar looks at you expectantly. It seems to want a black lion chest key.

  • idk

    i dunno about anybody else but i cant find the pumpkin in LA near the sanctum harbour waypoint

    • Isla

      It’s not there. Might be hidden or moved due to refugee stuff.

  • Higusa Atlitl

    That touch of madness is exactly what I was looking for, now if they put again the bat wings this will become my best halloween event haha.

  • Mr. Principal

    Is there any other way to get the “Boot” piece..? I can’t do this mad jp thing.. I’ve already wasted time trying but always have to glitch midway and fail.. Tying something to a jp is a No-no..!

    • Garthan Belyth

      crafting is the only other way i know of.

    • visher

      You can buy a recipe from npc in LA called “…something… Alchemist”.\ As for cocktower i suggest you to watch a guide of someone doing it and try to mirror exactly the movements of this person.

    • ♥Nui♥Harime♥

      Buy the recipe with cobs and craft them.

      • Mr. Principal

        Oh I didn’t know about crafting them.. thx!

  • Lakemine

    Is there a guide for which is the most expensive to craft out of the 3 new armor sets? ie: Pick the most expensive set form the boxes and then craft the other 2. Just cant find a guide for it, anyone know?

    • Clockwork

      leather is more expensive currently

    • \///

      it’s like normal exotic craft (same + halloween mats), and leather being the most expensive atm -> medium the most expensive.

  • RoyalPredator

    Done Labyrinth Race multiple times under 2 minute using Daredevil (No mounts) and didnt gave me the achievement. P2W?

    • Verthiss

      You mean you don’t have PoF but wanted to get an achievement?

      • RoyalPredator

        Yep. I can kill 3 every 5-10 minute in Mount Malestorm… So I’ll have so much fun until 150 kill. O.o

    • Jasmine Lock

      It’s a MOUNT race, what do you expect?

      • RoyalPredator

        I expect it being beatable smartly with core game.

    • The One Copper Bard

      Buy Path of Fire and do the story along with hearts at the mount ranches to get the mounts. No such P2W about mount races.

      • RoyalPredator

        “Buy PoF” isn’t an alternative solution….

        • The One Copper Bard

          If you want the achievement via mount related such as the race it is the only alternative solution.

          • RoyalPredator

            I’ve expected it being beatable by my daredevil with the teleportation skills and speed buffs… I’ve done it under 2 minutes but the achievement didn’t unlocked… Nowhere it says it requires a mount for application tho! :/

    • Jacob Keller

      Did it give you actual race completion success? It’s possible you can’t even qualify unless you’re mounted at the start?

      • RoyalPredator

        I’ve beat the time but yes… seems like I’m disqualified to the achievement with lack of mount. 🙁

        • Booty McNipples

          Make sure you didn’t start too early. Even people with mounts get disqualified. Btw, the game p2w? Dude, seriously? Please…

          • RoyalPredator

            I’ll check that out, tho the checkpoints were leading to the end and I get a little reward upon competition.\ About P2W: Depends what you call it. When HoT & PoF required skills/builds absolutely rule in WWW/PVP, I say it’s basicly P2W.\ … At least until the balance patch which comes Nov. 7.

  • Jacob Keller

    Some of the locations of carving pumpkins in the maze have been updated this year.

  • Suan

    So while waiting for “Your Mad King Says” I started to read story journal for PoF because I forgot to do it after finishing the story, and while there I noticed that in Act 2 it shows that I did not do all achievements. So I guess they added a new hidden one [or more perhaps?] to Act 2. Anyone has any idea what it is? Can we inform Dulfy about it?

    • Franco Rossel

      There’s a bug that resetted them. No new achievs.

      • Suan

        Oooh, okay. Thanks for letting me know. Damn you ANet!

  • Bryan Turner

    These weapons look like trash, especially that Great Sword.

  • CPick

    For those without PoF, there are Awakened that spawn in Mount Maelstrom.

    • Fallout Bum

      agreed they look like hot garbage.

  • mhm

    It is worth mentioning that all repeatable achievements in Halloween Rituals category will return every year from now on with saved progress so you don’t need to farm your self to death this year to get all possible AP.

    From patch notes:\ “Halloween achievements have been split into 3 categories: Halloween Rituals for repeatable achievements, Shadow of the Mad King for one-time achievements related to Magister Tassi’s investigation of the Mad King’s past, and Lunatic Wardrobe for one-time achievements related to the Lunatic Court’s fashion. These achievements are intended to return in future years, so don’t worry if you find any of them daunting—you’ll be able to continue them during a later Halloween celebration with this year’s progress intact”.