Guild Wars 2

So this is what I’ve got so far after messing around with the event:

October 22nd Version:

1. Main Quest: Find 6 ghosts around the world, get their diary pages to unlock a unique back item. I’m assuming this leads into other quests later in the event.
Locations:

1. Right next to the quest giver (she herself is in LA square next to the lion statue)
2. In the sewers through a hole in a grate underwater, swim straight down
3. In the LA harbor underwater. Southwest of the words “Sanctum Harbor”. She’s inside a stone building with the ceiling missing
4. Provern Shore in Gendarran Fields. At the end of the mini dungeon. Champion spider guarding the last room. Ghost is hidden in a corner. DON’T warp back after getting the chest in there also.
5. In the middle of the brambles of Darkroot Cut in Kessex Hills
6. In the graveyard of Shaemore Village, right outside of Divinity’s reach. Inside one of the mortuarys
(The order is all wrong with 4-6, but it doesn’t matter what order you get them in)

2. Find Haunted Doors in Kryta (Gendarran Fields/Kessex Hills): They release goody bags which give you mainly candy corn. Though they can also give you rare dyes and Halloween food items. The doors also spawn unique Halloween monsters which you gain an achievement for killing lots of them. (also note that you can loot other people’s goody bags which means this event is good to do as a group to get lots of candy corn fast) (Also can anyone confirm if they spawn anywhere else?)
3. Halloween Dynamic Event in LA: Something about filling a spectral meter, no idea how this works
4. Candy Corn: You get an achievement for eating lots of them. You can buy crappy temporary items for 150 of them. (which can also be purchased for silver) You can give 10 of them to kids for a “personalized goody bag” though they don’t seem better than the ones you get out of haunted doors.
5. Vendors: Sell temp vanity items, recipes for Halloween food, recipes for Halloween costume potions.
6. Jumping puzzle: In the center of LA there is a jumping puzzle that leads you up to the top of the Mystic Forge. If you get up there and jump in the green goo you are turned into a skeleton, a very good costume for getting king of the costume brawl
7. Costume Brawl: Seems to be here to stay and is technically not part of the Halloween event.
8. Carving Pumpkins: Carve a bunch of them to get a title and a few achievements. They are located all over the place.
9. Black Lion Store: Halloween vanity items in the store and supposedly lion chests have new items too.

I have two questions

1. What’s the deal with the Dynamic Event in LA?
2. What is candy corn used for? You can get it so many different ways, it’s used to power the spectral scanning device and to buy crappy items. (I’m a bit pissy at this point cuz I grinded 150 of them, then spent them not knowing that the item you get is temporary and also buyable with normal money. :(

The candy corn is used as currency for temporary Halloween themed weapons, crafting recipes (though what, I have no idea), and – if you’ve already grinded 150 and spent them already, you’re gonna hate this – for the monthly achievement. You need to eat 150 candy corn for the monthly.

the candy can be

-part of a couple of mystic forge combination that yields recipes to make permanent versions of the temporary items you brought(item intensive recipes tho)
-combine mystic forge for the new rare quality mini pet for the halloween event

possibly more uses as the other acts are unvealed, not to mention that even if you trade the candies for bags and get the skulls ect, those are also used as part of the recipes mentioned for the weapons

I’m not gonna cry about the candy corn thing, I can get more, I probably grinded for an hour or 2 with friends, I can do it again some other day if I want to try to go for the mini pet or something.

I would like that Staff though….

Anyone know the Forge Recipes for the mini and the Staff?

Yeah, the candy corn are extremely easy to get. I think I managed to mine close to 400+ today. I would recommend using them for the monthly, though. Monthly achievement now gives 10 jugs of karma, and each jug gives somewhere around 4k karma.

As for the staff and mini, I’ve no clue. I hear the permanent weapon skins are something akin to legendaries in the materials needed, though.

Ewwww…nevermind then. If it’s THAT crazy I’ll pass. I’m happy with my Necro back book. It goes with my character really well.

I bought one of the temporary staffs that cost 6s or 150 candy corn. That was pretty fun running around with. It has a little lantern hanging from the end of it. No stats, but for my own amusement, it was worth it. It’s called The Crossing.

the dynamic event in LA is the countdown (progress bar is filling) to the main event.

Emmiere.1058:

I bought one of the temporary staffs that cost 6s or 150 candy corn. That was pretty fun running around with. It has a little lantern hanging from the end of it. No stats, but for my own amusement, it was worth it. It’s called The Crossing.

Yea that’s the one. Are those the only three Halloween weapons or are there more that can be crafted?
Some people posted links but there doesn’t seem to be anything concrete out there.

There’s supposed to be 6 rare skins that can be gotten from BLCs, but judging from the uproar, the drop rates are incredibly low. I think those can be crafted. The three from the vendors can be crafted, though? I didn’t know that. I know I did try transmuting the temporary one just for the hell of it, and got exactly what I expected. The temporary ones can’t be transmuted.

After reading the forum a little I realize now a few things:

1. You may be able to turn into other things in the cauldron above the mystic forge.
2. There are two mini dungeon events out there that I have not experienced.
3. There are super difficult Mystic Forge recipes that can be made. (Why is everything related to the Mystic Forge terrible. I never wanna tough that thing…)

Great that you posted this, can we create a comprehensive compiled guide where we add more content as we discover it somewhere?

In addition, I did two new jumping puzzles today which aren’t halloween but they’re nice and new and jumping fun.

1. Dreadhaunt Cliffs – In the corner just under the Sorrow’s Embrace entrance, where the heart is. Go for the vista, from the vista you hop on the icy cliffs and get into a ice cave jumping puzzle maze thing.

2. Fireheart Rise – Vista south east of Keeper’s Sanctum in the middle of the map zone are these jumpy platforms that lead to an asura gate which is a mini dungeon (Vexa’s Lab). Was pretty fun/complicated with mobs and bosses to fight. Some annoying jumpy things though xD

There’s one more i have yet to check out in Mount Maelstrom

I’d like it if this became a comprehensive guide. I’ll edit the main post as I get more concrete details. There’s tons of crap in this event and I don’t wanna edit after every little thing comes in. Once something is clearly laid out and tested I’ll add it.

It’s messy as it is with lots of supposition and missing facts.

the mini from the mystic forge is gotten by combining the 3 halloween minis from gem shop + 250 candy corn

@Chrollo

Here’s info on the jumping puzzles: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11xi02/4_new_jumping_puzzles/

As well, there are two new events in Fireheart Rise (shark thing) and Dredgehaunt (dwarven door)

As well, I remember we heard about a burgling Skritt thief running around. Anyone have info on that?

Another thread says there are high frequencies of paranormal activity from scanners in Godlost Swamp and Wizards Fief, as well as potentially many other suspicious locations. NPC ghosts in Kessex have given teaser messages about portals being reversed to gain access to Mad King’s realm.

I heard third party sites and people have posted up info. So lets research!

In the meantime, do you think you could just add some of these possible points into ur list, and put it as a question section, that we need more info on? Because we need a comprehensive list that for now can help people keep an eye out and also let people who know provide info.

This is the link for items needed to craft The Crossing. http://www.gw2db.com/items/70913-the-crossing

Found it in this thread. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Anyone-know-if-it-s-possible-to-craft-The-Crossing-staff-skin/first#post521127