Halloween event information

Guild Wars – The Return of Mad King Thorn

It's Halloween in Tyria, and that means one thing: the return of Mad King Thorn ! Similar to years past, the maniacal monarch has come to play, and he's got a bag full of tricks and treats to delight and dismay. But non-tricksters fear not, there are plenty of ways to celebrate Halloween – participate in several special events (a new series of quests and a costume PvP brawl) or explore the decorated cities/towns adorned with Halloween décor.

· Starts: Friday, October 23, 2009

· Ends: Monday, November 2, 2009

http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/halloween_2009/

Been refreshing for quite awhile, but since business started, I wasn't able to keep an eye on it.

New quests? Ok, after Friday, Saturday, and most likely Sunday full of CB, I think I'll have to try them.

okay its nice news. but it doesnt tell me what the new stuff is. neither does the link it gives.

I like the new pumpkin crown.
Hopefully the other hat is a little more original though

I don't remember ever playing Brawl, so I am curious - is it possible to RR it?
Or do you choose the side you enter for?

There's an update this week, and I'm assuming from the curious absence of the log-in announcement so far this week that it is probably the Halloween update and they need to type it all up.

Hopefully we'll find out today about the new quests.

Um, what pumpkin crown? If you mean the one in the banner at the top of the page, that's obviously not from GW.

Can anyone tell me when ToT-bags drop? custom brawl begins?

or is 23 october weekend, just decoration.

It is possible but since you're with other people they also have to agree making it much harder to RR.
Theoretically you can RR gvg and ha.

Disclaimer: That pumpkin crown is NOT for Guild Wars. It has been on the Aion main site for a few days already.

http://na.aiononline.com/

The article is about NCSoft in general, not just GW.

Cool, new quests that I won't even bother with because I'll be too busy playing CB.

Intriguing...

I'm going to have to guess that the new quest line reward will be a batch of Halloween themed Summoning Stones - summoning Mad King's Guards of course (they already have a skillbar).

Of course I'd be delighted with new art, miniatures or functional Halloween headwear, but there seems to be a clear gap in the seasonal summons (a minion master summon would be kind of cool anyways).

I will wait until an official release of info from GUILDWARS.com until I believe anything.

exactly. Kotaku has no way of knowing what the event will hold. We still dont even know if we'll get new content since poor Linsey is busy all the time.

Sweet!
If people decide to do this, I might just play it!

http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/halloween_2009/

There's your official announcement.

Can one of the mods edit the link into the OP?

I hope you get banned then :>

You can't RR costume brawl. The format is random team. It's just not going to happen, without some massive collusion or districts which are designated as cheaters (like all the cheaters go to Japan 1).

WHOA! Underworld quests. Hope they are hard.

I assume they just utilize Underworld landscapes, like some of the Wintersday quests do - of course if they don't and use the actual Underworld that'd be quite the surprise.

Doubly intriguing that a] Mad King Thorn is getting a nemesis or some established villain is returning (assuming it's not all a prank and MKT isn't the Big Bad in the Underworld himself) and b] they're stressing that this new content is for this year only.

I cannot think why they would restrict it so, unless it has some unexpected timing stipulation e.g. a tie in to GW2 or a global change (such as scrapping the Favor system ).

Yay! Quests - Something new to do for my favorite holiday!

Thank you Live Team (and Arenanet in general). It sounds like you guys put in a lot of work to make it happen and I for one appreciate it, especially considering how busy it must be just designing and implementing a new PvP system from scratch.

Otherwise I'm looking forward to my old favorites returning.