There seems to be a lot of people confused about what they can actually get out of Halloween as players that don’t have a lot of gold, so here’s a compilation thus far.
Free Stuff:
Mad Memories (back accessory) – It is an awesome book that is displayed on your back, and you get it from completing the scavenger hunt. There are a few guides for the hunt around the place, but the best place I think is the Guild Wars 2 wiki. Back pieces are rare, so definitely go for this if you don’t go for anything else this Halloween.
Devil Horns (town clothes hat) – This is, it seems, the equivalent of festival hats that you got from events in Guild Wars 1. It’s from the Gem store and it’s free! If you’ve played Guild Wars 1, you’ll know that in those events this was pretty much the ONLY thing you got free (aside from consumables, etc), and was pretty much the main reward for participating in the event.
Cheap stuff:
You can still get in the spirit of Halloween with some of the cheaper items that even poor people like myself can buy.
Various skull themed shoulder pads – Just look up ‘Deathly’ on the trading post for the full list. At present all of them go for under 2 gold, which is nice! They are obtained from Black Lion chests and Mad King chests, but they can be traded which is why you can get them cheaply off the trading post. Worth a look!
Temporary cool weapon skins – 6 silver (or 150 candy corn) for these, obtained in Lion’s arch by the candy corn vendor next to the mystic forge. Though few of us will ever be able to get the real versions of these, for Halloween you can try them out.
As well as all this, if you participate in the events you can get trick-or-treat bags and candy corn, which I will not go in to detail about, although I will say it might be an idea to hold on to these (as well as the crafting components that come out of them) as this is only Act 1, and in later acts you may be able to do more with them!
And so there is plenty to get out of Halloween for those on a time and monetary budget (scavenger hunt takes about half an hour if you don’t have waypoints). Don’t be disheartened about all the complaints of not getting rare weapon skins. And also, thank you Arena Net for all this great content!
