Guild Wars 2

This post is for players of Guild Wars 1 who may be able to tell me some stuff about Halloween. Right now I’m playing a mesmer, but I’m also considering a necromancer, more and more as Halloween drawns near. The costumes you can get would seem more appropriate for a Necromancer I would think, but I’m not quite ready to devote to such a buggy class, so for Halloween I’ll probably be rolling a mesmer.

So to my questions. The post today mentions various costumes you can get from Halloween. Are these costumes only going to last for as long as the event does? Or are they going to be a fun new way to customize your gear pallet?
I’m wondering mostly If I get these things on my mesmer and decide later I want to play a Necromancer, will I be able to send these cool costumes to my necro or will they be soulbound or deteriorated long ago.
And also, will most of the Halloween event be limited to level 80’s? Because my mesmer is only level 32 right now and I don’t want to be left out.

We won’t know for sure until the update releases, but can take some semi-educated guesses. Other town clothing outfits are bound to your account, not to a specific character, so the clothing costumes will probably be tradable between all your characters. The weapons are referred to as “skins”, and most skins are typically single use items. And I seriously doubt the holiday content will be made for level 80 characters — that would exclude a lot of the population. Guild Wars 1 holiday events had very low level requirements.

So costumes are likely going to be town clothing, not able to be used as aesthetics in combat?

they have a mechanic where you can graft the appearance of one equip to the stats of another… If the halloween equips aren’t just town clothing you should be able to have a halloween look year round… if you have the gems. If they do have halloween equips, but don’t let you graft them… that would be kind of a waste.