I know it was exclusive to the 2012 Halloween event, but this year’s events have made me realize that there is a hole in my heart. A void that can only be filled with the return of the Witch Hat. Personally, I would be more than willing to pay for the item. It opens the door to so many beautiful cosplay possibilities. Please Arena Net, bring it back! For the good of Tyria, for human compassion, for the sake of my sanity! 200 gems, 300, 500, I would gladly pay any price, as I’m sure others would too.
I’m sure that next year they will do a raffle, and give out 10 witch hats to holders of the lucky tickets. I’m also sure that it will be exactly what you asked for.
(more seriously, look at their answer to all people that asked for 2012 halloween weapon skins. I’m sure you will find it enlightening. Yes, Anet wants to make their players happy… not)
Actions, not words.
Remember, remember, 15th of November
You don’t want it, believe me. This uggly hat makes you totally bald, even for women. That’s why for the witch costume there is something to hide your head.
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
You don’t want it, believe me. This uggly hat makes you totally bald, even for women. That’s why for the witch costume there is something to hide your head.
I agree with you. The witch hat is beautiful, but I dont like that it makes you bald.
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
All but 3 of my toons are asura. It doesn’t bother me in the least. I just want my little wizard tot.
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
Please tell my you’re lying.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
Please tell my you’re lying.
Nope not lying. Here is a picture of my Asura necromancer, Zolan Lazarus, wearing it. He is one of my youngest characters. It first came in on my oldest one a Norn ranger, Aurora Wildborn, but I thought she’d look ridiculous wearing it. She got the devil horns too. One of next older characters got the hat too in her 2 year bday gift.
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
Please tell my you’re lying.
Nope not lying. Here is a picture of my Asura necromancer, Zolan Lazarus, wearing it. He is one of my youngest characters. It first came in on my oldest one a Norn ranger, Aurora Wildborn, but I thought she’d look ridiculous wearing it. She got the devil horns too. One of next older characters got the hat too in her 2 year bday gift.
That’s exceptionally….. unusual
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Gift
List of birthday gifts
Year Birthday gift Contents
1) First Birthday Gift: Mini Queen Jennah, Experience Scroll, Birthday Booster
2) Birthday Gift: Birthday Booster, Experience Scroll, Skill Point Scroll, Birthday Blaster
Not listed in wiki and I haven’t heard anyone say this nor did I see any threads in the forum saying they got anything different than what is listed.
You don’t want it, believe me. This uggly hat makes you totally bald, even for women. That’s why for the witch costume there is something to hide your head.
Someday MMOs will develop the technology for characters to have BOTH hats and hair! I’m sure its a HUGE technological issue but someday programmers will make it happen!
it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
Please tell my you’re lying.
Nope not lying. Here is a picture of my Asura necromancer, Zolan Lazarus, wearing it. He is one of my youngest characters. It first came in on my oldest one a Norn ranger, Aurora Wildborn, but I thought she’d look ridiculous wearing it. She got the devil horns too. One of next older characters got the hat too in her 2 year bday gift.
That’s exceptionally….. unusual
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Gift
List of birthday gifts
Year Birthday gift Contents
1) First Birthday Gift: Mini Queen Jennah, Experience Scroll, Birthday Booster
2) Birthday Gift: Birthday Booster, Experience Scroll, Skill Point Scroll, Birthday Blaster
Not listed in wiki and I haven’t heard anyone say this nor did I see any threads in the forum saying they got anything different than what is listed.
I’m pretty sure that’s where the hat and horns popped up from. I wasn’t paying much attention. It may have been from the 7500 AP chest but I don’t think so and then I got a second hat on my next oldest character. Of course I didn’t need a second one since I already had the skin. The only other rewards she and a few of my oldest characters have gotten was from doing story levels and from completing maps. (I’ve been working on story levels and map completions for my 10 characters).
I received 2 of these witch’s hats recently as part of my 2 year birthday (edit on 2 different characters). I also received the devils horns. So there is hope if you have not already gotten your 2 year Bday gift.
Please tell my you’re lying.
Nope not lying. Here is a picture of my Asura necromancer, Zolan Lazarus, wearing it. He is one of my youngest characters. It first came in on my oldest one a Norn ranger, Aurora Wildborn, but I thought she’d look ridiculous wearing it. She got the devil horns too. One of next older characters got the hat too in her 2 year bday gift.
That’s exceptionally….. unusual
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Gift
List of birthday gifts
Year Birthday gift Contents
1) First Birthday Gift: Mini Queen Jennah, Experience Scroll, Birthday Booster
2) Birthday Gift: Birthday Booster, Experience Scroll, Skill Point Scroll, Birthday Blaster
Not listed in wiki and I haven’t heard anyone say this nor did I see any threads in the forum saying they got anything different than what is listed.
I’m pretty sure that’s where the hat and horns popped up from. I wasn’t paying much attention. It may have been from the 7500 AP chest but I don’t think so and then I got a second hat on my next oldest character. Of course I didn’t need a second one since I already had the skin. The only other rewards she and a few of my oldest characters have gotten was from doing story levels and from completing maps. (I’ve been working on story levels and map completions for my 10 characters).
I really don’t see how they could have come from a birthday present. Those are not a individually designed gift but a mass produced item that’s sent off by the computer when a char dings a certain number of days. For you to have gotten something that no one else has reported from a birthday gift would mean that there is an extremely rare chance of getting something different and you got this not once but twice.
As you said, you weren’t really paying attention. I seem to recall the horns being free for a few days from the gem store around Halloween, possibly the hat also. Perhaps you got them then.
I very seldom visit the gem store, maybe once in the last few months. The first hat and horns showed up in my ranger’s pack a little before Sept 14, when that picture of my necro wearing it was taken. I’m pretty sure it was in the 2 year b Day gift.
Edit: I did buy the phoenix staff for my elementalist in the beginning of Oct, which was around her 2nd Bday. Could they have given me the witch’kitten as lagniappe?
I very seldom visit the gem store, maybe once in the last few months. The first hat and horns showed up in my ranger’s pack a little before Sept 14, when that picture of my necro wearing it was taken. I’m pretty sure it was in the 2 year b Day gift.
Edit: I did buy the phoenix staff for my elementalist in the beginning of Oct, which was around her 2nd Bday. Could they have given me the witch’kitten as lagniappe?
Did you play during Halloween of 2012? Did you play Mad King Says during that time? If so you got the witches hat then and undoubtably the horns also as they were during that time. Possibly they were on a character that you didn’t take to talk to the NPC that changes town clothes to armor until recently and then forgot that you did so. Imo this is much more likely than you got two drops that are so rare that no one else has ever reported it.
I very seldom visit the gem store, maybe once in the last few months. The first hat and horns showed up in my ranger’s pack a little before Sept 14, when that picture of my necro wearing it was taken. I’m pretty sure it was in the 2 year b Day gift.
Edit: I did buy the phoenix staff for my elementalist in the beginning of Oct, which was around her 2nd Bday. Could they have given me the witch’kitten as lagniappe?
Did you play during Halloween of 2012?
Not much if at all.
Did you play Mad King Says during that time?
No. How do you play? I think I tried the jumping puzzle once and some doors in different areas and did go to Black Citadel for Prince Thorn thing.
If so you got the witches hat then and undoubtably the horns also as they were during that time. Possibly they were on a character that you didn’t take to talk to the NPC that changes town clothes to armor until recently and then forgot that you did so. Imo this is much more likely than you got two drops that are so rare that no one else has ever reported it.
Not likely unless I played Mad king says in my sleep. Also I took all 10 of my characters to get their town cloths converted when everything changed over.
Edit: Ok I looked it up. I may have played it back then but definitely did not “win”. And if I had gotten the hat I would probably have deleted it long before the change over to make room in my bank.
I very seldom visit the gem store, maybe once in the last few months. The first hat and horns showed up in my ranger’s pack a little before Sept 14, when that picture of my necro wearing it was taken. I’m pretty sure it was in the 2 year b Day gift.
Edit: I did buy the phoenix staff for my elementalist in the beginning of Oct, which was around her 2nd Bday. Could they have given me the witch’kitten as lagniappe?
Did you play during Halloween of 2012?
Not much if at all.
Did you play Mad King Says during that time?
No. How do you play? I think I tried the jumping puzzle once and some doors in different areas and did go to Black Citadel for Prince Thorn thing.
If so you got the witches hat then and undoubtably the horns also as they were during that time. Possibly they were on a character that you didn’t take to talk to the NPC that changes town clothes to armor until recently and then forgot that you did so. Imo this is much more likely than you got two drops that are so rare that no one else has ever reported it.
Not likely unless I played Mad king says in my sleep. Also I took all 10 of my characters to get their town cloths converted when everything changed over.
The Mad King says is where he makes bad jokes then says something like “The Mad King says laugh” The players then type /laugh (or whatever he tells you to do) in the chat box. There is an instruction on the side of the UI also telling you what to do. If you know how to type emotes like /laugh or /bow, it’s pretty clear from what he says and what the people around are doing.
At the end the chest can be opened up. In 2012 there was the witches hat and 2013 and 2014, a mask.
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The Mad King says is where he makes bad jokes then says something like “The Mad King says laugh” The players then type /laugh (or whatever he tells you to do) in the chat box. There is an instruction on the side of the UI also telling you what to do. If you know how to type emotes like /laugh or /bow, it’s pretty clear from what he says and what the people around are doing.
At the end the chest can be opened up. In 2012 there was the witches hat and 2013 and 2014, a mask.
As fate would have it I stumbled upon a game of it in LA this evening. I managed to type in /cower when prompted as I was running through. Back in 2012 GW2 was my first MMO and I had no idea about emotes until the heart in Ascalon where you have to sit by the lonely cows, threaten some of them, bow to some, etc.
