GW2 Halloween 2016 Festival Guide

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.

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)

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 these old 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

4 Candy Corn Cob Mini Spooky Moa – Rare drop from Mad King’s Chest from Mad King Says

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.

Mad King’s Labyrinth map taken from /u/Evio on reddit.. Lion’s Arch map from /u/Oonk_Golemancer on reddit. Other maps by reader Brutal Beauty 9542.

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.