Guild Wars 2

General:

• Bring back Lunatic Inquisition
• Bring back Blood and Madness (if we aren’t getting new stuff, at least let’s not lose anything)
• New stuff, not just a rehash
• More doors, nodes, activities outside Lion’s Arch
• More items for Candy Corn Cobs for those who don’t want minis or tonics
• Adjust price of Halloween Pail to reflect market (it should not be cheaper to sell cobs and buy regular bags)
• Provide recipe for crafting Endless Batwing Brew from Batwing Brew (Night Fury Skin should not be so RNG dependent; you already have to farm the Tattered Bat Wings)

Trick or Treat Bags:

• Adjust drop tables of Trick-or-Treat bags to avoid massive duplication (people should not be getting the same rare item in 25+ quantities, while never seeing large portions of the drop table at all)
• If Finishers are going to be such common drops, have a greater variety (most have so many of the two available that they won’t run out before NEXT Halloween)
• Remove commonly available items (Bloodstone Dust, Empyreal Shards, Dragonite Ore, Charged Quartz Crystal, Essences of Luck, T6 Mats)
• Remove Pillowcase from drop table once acquired (multiples are worthless)
• Add Open all option for ToT bags.
• Add consume all option for finishers
• Give tonics vendor price so they can be easily disposed of

Mad King Says:

• Correct Mad King Says area of activity to match the map graphic
• Properly randomize him so he doesn’t do the same thing 15 times (yes, that does happen)
• Fix his appearance so he isn’t invisible part of the time
• Fix key awards so you don’t get shortchanged or counted as participating in one you didn’t participate in, but were in LA at the time it occurred.

Ascent to Madness:

• Shorten the Mad Kings speech at the start of Ascent to Madness (AtM) and/or get rid of “mini Mad King Says” segment
• “Mini Mad King Says” should not insta-kill all Necromancer minions
• Make the DR on AtM clear (should not be able to return 8 hours later and still be under DR)
• Have mobs in AtM drop loot
• Correct platform distances to prevent some professions from suffering guaranteed falling death based on Vitality and/or lack of fall-mitigation trait.
• Correct bug where Mad King returns to middle platform after going to the bottom
• Provide mitigation measure for being feared off the platforms (rather than being stuck as dead for the rest of the run; no fun for anyone)

Mad King’s Labyrinth:

• Give Viscount rewards commensurate with the length of his fight, to discourage skipping
• Compensate for Zerg behavior in drop rates (large tendency for those not at the very front of the zerg to not get credit and loot for most of the mob kills)
• Fix autoloot to work with chests from Lich and Viscount
• Generally make more interesting and less grindy
• Enable gliding in Labyrinth

Mad King Clock Tower:

• Put in Normal instance (remove timers, remove pseudo-PVP)
• Better Rewards (allow time to take chests, better chest at top for completions after first ever)

I like your suggestions and I would add:

• Have other new guild hall decorations purchasable with fangs/nougats/skulls.
• Have other new personal rewards purchasable with the refined fangs/nougats/skulls.
• Make Lich/Viscount chests give loot each time & make them auto-loot.
• Remove DR from personalized ToT bags from Ascent to Madness.
• I don’t mind the bloodstone dust/dragonite/empy fragments, but give the foods/tonics at least a 1c vendor value so I can sell them rather than mass delete all the time.
• Give the finishers a “Consume all” option.

Isn’t a little late?

Ardid.7203:

Isn’t a little late?

I assumed these suggestions are for next year’s Halloween.

I agree with most of the suggestions, the only one I’m strongly against is the removal of Charged Quartz Crystal, Essences of Luck, an T6 Mats. The ones I agree with most are to give fangs/nougats/skulls more use.

With the amount of finishers we get every year, I say just give us the permanent versions. I still have hundreds left from a few years ago.

They weren’t going to change anything while the festival was ongoing. This is for next year. Programming needs lead time.

Mirai Okumori.6205:

With the amount of finishers we get every year, I say just give us the permanent versions. I still have hundreds left from a few years ago.

Heh, I have thousands. A permanent one would be nice, but in lieu of that consume all would be nice.

I like most of these suggestions, but since I (finally) started crafting Ascended items, I actually LIKED getting Empyreal Shards and Dragonite Ore from the ToT bags.

On the other hand, there are currently 5.5 MILLION plastic fangs for sale on the Trading Post at the minimum possible price, as well kitten .4 MILLION chattering skulls, 5.1 MILLION nougat centers, and 1.08 million candy corn custards. There are also a combined 2.6 million strawberry ghosts, candy corn almond brittles, glazed pear tarts, and sharpening skulls, all at the MINIMUM price!

Since all of those will probably NEVER sell at that minimum TP price, I vendored thousands of those things myself and countless other players probably did the same.

Perhaps it’s time for a.net to either reduce those drops OR find other uses for them. Candy corn is used in several recipes, and spicy pumpkin cookies are more useful than some of the other items above, so those two are still somewhat in demand and haven’t hit rock bottom prices.

Anything that drops is in place of other things that didn’t. Since you can get the ascended mats elsewhere, take them out so we can get more stuff that only happens here.

For those wondering why I mention the duplication issue for ToT bags, I got 27! Onus, 14 Jailbroken and 12 Grim Pact, but almost nothing else from the rare tab (one each of endless batwing, Vssago, Nightwing, and Karka Helm), and I was running ATM as fast as it would reset the entire event. There is pretty clearly an issue with the distribution if things are skewed that badly.

Mirai Okumori.6205:

Ardid.7203:

Isn’t a little late?

I assumed these suggestions are for next year’s Halloween.

I agree with most of the suggestions, the only one I’m strongly against is the removal of Charged Quartz Crystal, Essences of Luck, an T6 Mats. The ones I agree with most are to give fangs/nougats/skulls more use.

With the amount of finishers we get every year, I say just give us the permanent versions. I still have hundreds left from a few years ago.

I also agree with most of the OP, but I also agree with your exceptions.

OP: regarding the Mad King being invisible at the beginning of Mad King Says, that’s on purpose. He rises from the ground when he is ready.

Hellfire Skeleton as an Outfit, and make the Risen Disguise ( from https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_the_Order_of_Whispers_instigate_a_fight_between_krait_and_Risen ) an Outfit. Please and thank you