Pumpkin Crowns: the good, the bad

it's for show

The pumpkin crown doesn't have an armor level. It can also be infused.

@Mercury Angel : and to the person who thought he had to check every 15 minutes in LA to see the mad king - the king appears are scheduled times: 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm EST, etc. So it's not really a mystery. That's how everyone knew to expect him.

Just for show. And it is customized, so the economy won't be ruined by it.

Use a ghost in a battle. The enemies target it. Just thought I'd share that.

Great job by the GW team IMO. The Pumpkin heads are great fun, especially when your mesmerising the lower levels at Ascalon City with it.

*golf claps for the whole GW team*

At first I didn't think it would matter if Halloween items went up in value, but after thinking it over I'm not so sure.

Let's assume halloween items are worth 1M each and people buy / sell them for that much. Now at the moment only rich players can would be able to afford them, but what happens to the money? It's passed down to less rich players who then spend it on everyday stuff like common materials, runes, dyes, etc. What's the end result? Everyday stuff gets expensive.

Imagine if woodplanks cost 1k per bundle, black dyes cost 80k, major vigor costs 40k. As long as people buy from traders more than they sell, it continues to drive up prices.

Now that black dyes are 80k, no one sells them to trader anymore but to other players which doesn't help deflate the prices. What happens to the new players who buy the game and enter post-searing? Well they didn't have any witches brew so they're SOL and have to hope for a dye drop or endlessly farm materials to have any sort of buying power.

Ah, but where's that listed?
I heard second hand from a person in-game, and even then, nobody was exactly sure what time zone would be used for the US servers until the first such event.

What I wanted was for the actual site to list it, taking out any need for guesswork.

Normally, I remain in International districts, and leave Talk off except for when absolutely necessary, as most of the spam is pure and utter trash I'd rather not read.
However, it was pure luck that I happened to leave talk on while stopping in LA with a friend to get some screencaps together for the Holiday event, when I happened upon a Korean server native in the international districts who was wearing a pumpkin head, and he filled us in.

The only other potential way I would have found out is through GuildWars Guru, albeit I almost certainly would have.

However, I'm thinking of all of the people who, even tonight at the midnight showing, STILL weren't familiar with the procedure and when he'd show up.

Nah. It wouldnt go up that much. It might go up a bit, but eventually would come back down to normal.

Words can't describe how much I appreciated this event

When I first got on and saw all the halloween changes I was filled with joy. It hadn't crossed my mind that anything this big would happen. Guild Wars has certainly occupied my time this week!

As for the Mad King.. I was super excited when he came. I knew that he would be coming at noon so I was up and about waiting for him. I thought that the event went well. I had to turn local chat off because the vocal majority liked being stupid. After doing it 4 times there are moments when I still get excited and then there are moments when It's sort of boring. I would like to say kudos to the Arenanet team..I'm definetly looking forward to future events ( Thanksgiving - hopefully Christmas - Really hopeful Saint Patricks Day - I can see it now! ) a request for christmas item??? how about a santa costume designed for females and males.

Thank you so much for making me feel like a boy again Anet!

Yeah but nobody is going to care about a witches brew down the line, or any of the items for that matter, so nobody is oging to be buying them for an ecto per or anything like that.

The trader price floats with the price that traders who use in game chats. Probably over 80% of all people use the traders just because buying and selling with real people really sucks. Which means that if the price on common items did rise, it would still reach a peak from multitudes of people selling back those common drops at inflated prices.

I dont really think it matters what happens.

The economy will look after itself

Even in RS the economy remains balanced apart froma few dumb items.

But hey, look at the RW.... i mean faberge eggs?? .. WTF

Old star wars figures?????????????

Many many more examples im sure u can think of some....... and yes i know the RW (real world) economy sucks.. but it allways has sucked... since the begining of time... Star wars figures and faberge eggs dont make it suck any less.

A thriving economy needs balance. high priced goods, and low.. that is the centeral issue.

However predicting how people will react to events and changes, and therfore whether these items will become high or low priced is allways difficult. Trying to "pre-empt" these predicted responces can sometimes cause more problems than you expect.

I promise you Anet will be monitoring the situation... and.... if they feel things get out of hand i think we may well see some kind of halloween sink pop up..... (i wont suggest one here).


However for the meantime, the best responce is probably to sit back, mix some witches brew and absinthe, and have a nice relaxing out of body experiance.

after getting the first crown... i decided that i had to get 2 more for my other 2 rp chars... so here's a pic
thanks alot anet... it was a entertaining halloween

Huh? Is that true you can put sup. runes into the crown?? I'll try that tonight...if so I'll solo UW with a pumpkin rofl.

Still, it doenst have the normal +1 attribute from your scar-pattern

No dis-respect mate... but Guildwars guru had a post up explaining everything from very early in the morning. Its no-ones fault but your own that you couldnt be botherd doing 5 minutes worth of reading.

And also, your wrong to score down just because they didnt tell you exactly where and when, in fact... this should be scored UP.. the excitment of the unknown is a very powerfull. Only impatient kids who demand everything on a plate complain about having to wait.

Leave a suprise left in your life.

I had thought (on another thread and/or topic)
Halloween Items are going to stay for a while.
Many of them are actually very useful, like the ghost in the box for agro and soul reaping.

I don't think that the devs would be stupid and/or careless enough to put festive items with actual *properties* and remove them from the game afterwards.

As all of you have mentioned it would de-balance the economy in-game.
I think they are here to stay.

I happened to like the event. I got a good laugh and actually had fun in
town, 2 things that are becoming a rarity these days.

On a side note, does anyone know if the pumpkin can be dyed?

I cant understand why the hell you would buy a piece of equipment such as the Pumpkin Crown if you cant even wear it.

nop i tried

I guess I would have enjoyed it more if I was 12 Not bad though, just not what I was hoping it would be. I guess hearing about the undead Gwen in the early development of the game had me set my standards too high.