Halloween

i am newer to the game. i have never had a holiday. i heard they give an item. when and where is the halloween one? i have heard there is one but i know nothing about it.

Here you can read and see what the 2 Halloween events in GW offer'd

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Halloween_2006

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Halloween_2005

I can only hope that there will be a new one now in 2007!

Halloween usually takes place in the end of October from my understanding.

to get the item do u have to do a quest to get it or do u just get the item?

You get the items from collectors by trading in something like, Orr emblems, Feathered scalps or Charr carvings ect. It all stands on the site i linked.

You can also get some from King Thorn that allso gives you a Pumpkin Crown or Wicked Hat. But that was last year, no idea what is waiting for us this time!

can u get items from the year before? even if we werent playing? if u can where do u go????

there were items that you got from collectors absinithe ghost in a box witchs brew squash serums and transformer something and there was the hat the npc gave to you when he arrived every few hours and you had to listen to his spiel. but the npc only arrived on the halloween itself the other came a few days before hand. at the event sometimes the hat or mask you have to collect stuff but i think the halloween has always been free

You can't get the Crown or Hat, since they are costomized like all armors for just one player.
You can buy the consumable items from other players yes. But that's the only way.

Best is to be there in the event and earn them yourself.

so can u get older items or not? can u get holiday items from the year before or the last holiday or something? or do u have to be there for the event?

The past Halloween events simply required you to be present at a certain time(usually every third hour on the 31st) to receive the holiday helms. The other Halloween items, however are gained from trading in common collector items to the holiday npcs found in the main cities.

Recently, the other holiday events have required you to have a certain number of holiday tokens as well to receive a helm, the majority of those tokens gained in a series of easy quests. We simply dont know how this upcoming Halloween will be structured, though. Just have to wait another week or so to find out.

The helms, no, they are new and different each year. The consumable items, however should be available again through the above mentioned npcs.

YES you can, but only from buying them from other players that has them.

Like i saied. ONLY consumables (Drinks, Tonics, Ghost-in-a-box ect).
You can's get a Mask, Crown or Hat. (logical)

From past events you can get:

Absinthe
Squash Serum
Ghosts In The box's
Witches Brew
and Candy Corn Tonics

However, right now these items are only availible by buying them from other players who attended the event, and they will definately charge a premium for them (about 100-500g per item, and 500g-1k for the candy corn tonics ).

During the festival, these items are collectors items. So you have several new collectors spawn in the major cities and they trade for local collectors drops, such as Decayed Orr Emblems in the case of one NPC in Lions Arch. during the event when Mad King Thorn comes, and if you respond with the proper emote to his games, you get a number of these items for free directly in your inventory.

Other items you get for free during the event are Hats, such as the Witches Hat or the Pumpkin Crown. However, these are customized to the individule character like any other armor, so while you can trade for them they wouldn't do anything for you other than sit in your inventory. For the past two years, there have been no quests associated with the Halloween Festival, either.

I hope that helps.

I'm hoping this year I can make it for this event (So hopefully we have one :P)

I've always been curious about the event day stuff that they've had, so this topic has been informative for me too

Halloween was great fun last year we drank we danced we partied but most all we played "Mad King Says" and died a lot when we got it wrong.
My soul reaping was going nuts as all the players died around me
Then we got the hats just before he left.

After halloween you can await the coming of wintersday "Christmas" then I think the next festival is the Canthan New Year in Feb

so the people who give the items for the holidays are in the main towns? how long do the events go on for after the holiday? lets say i couldnt go on on halloween and i went on the next day. would i still get it? and y is new years in febuaruy?

Wintersday is the same as Christmas so its late December

Halloween is on the festival of the dead so thats Late October

Canthan New year was chosen for a couple of reasons I suspect, western new year is right after Christmas and thats too close to the Wintersday festval.
Also Cantha and much of Factions is Oriental in style and the Chinese Celebrate the changing year in February.

Cantha has hosted the New year/ the Tengu and the Dragon Festivals

The Other two games had the Wintersday and Halloween festivals they being of a more western nature.

Its all listed on guildwiki that tells you what happened and there are also videos you can see either on the Guildwars website or on Youtube.

All similar in content there are missions and collectables to do and find also games at some festivals.
You collect drinks, food fireworks and special effects potions during the festival itself which usually lasts friday evening through Sunday to Monday morning.
Exact time depends on world time zone.
During the festivals every 3 hours there will be the hat givaways Mad king "haloween" or Emporer Kisu "Cantha" or some other semi devine being

You get a speech sometimes games and other fun then presents drop these have random gifts in them and right at the end hats given out all this takes around 20 minutes.
You then have to await the next visit to have another chance.

You can only get the helm on the day of the event. The collectors for the other Halloween items, however do tend to stay around for a bit, but only for a couple more days.

Actually DarkFlame, in the last couple of events, they have offered to give the helms to people for about a week after the event for those who missed the finale.

so i can get the item the next day if i cant go on that night?

what would u say is the best holiday? i think christmas or halloween sound fun!

Someone should make a topic about farming for those collector stuff for halloween.
Just to lower the prices...