Activities
The entrance to these activities can all be found in Lion’s Arch. They are marked on the map as door. The exception is Mad King Says which occurs in Grand Piazza instead. Be sure to check out the vendors as well marked on the map with a candy corn icon.
New Items
Gemstore Items
Mad Memoires Backpiece
Four Mad Memoires Backpieces were added along with their associated achievements. Two of them backpieces are completely new while the other two made a return from 2012 Halloween.
Lunatic Armor Set
You get one set from achievements, the other two weight classes will need to be crafted by buying recipes from Lunatic Alchemists.
Light
Medium
Heavy
New Weapons
Touch of Madness
There is a new rare drop torch weapon from the Treat or Trick Bags. It doesn’t have a graphic and only appears when drawn as a ball of light.
Haunted Weapon Set
You need to do 3/5 of the available Halloween dailies everyday and every 5th day you will be able to get a weapon from Eve of the Mad King achievement completion.
Sword Hammer Longbow Shortbow
Axe Dagger Greatsword Mace
Pistol Rifle Scepter Staff
Focus Torch Warhorn Shield
New Minis
Mini Halloween Gourdon – 20 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Lord Humphrey Faren – 100 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Gustav the Caramel Corn Elemental – Rare ToT Bags Drop
Mini Forgal – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Mini Sieran – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Mini Trahearne – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Upcoming Items
Riding Broom Glider– [&AgHeTQEA]
Awakened Zealot Outfit – [&CzoAAAA=]
Mini Choya Pumpkin Gang – [&AgHpTQEAAA==]
Mini Elonian Familiar – [&AgECTgEAAA==]
Mini Failed Attempt – [&AgEHTgEA]
Old/Returning Items
Achievements
Shadow of the Mad King
Ancient Grudge – 10 AP
Pumpkin Carving – 17 AP, Master Carver Title
Lunatic Wardrobe
A Royal Tradition – 5 AP, Hat Box
Halloween Rituals
Each of these achievements can be repeated 5 times with the exception of Eve of the Mad King
Eve of the Mad King – 10 AP x 10 Repeatable
The entrance to these activities can all be found in Lion’s Arch. They are marked on the map as door. The exception is Mad King Says which occurs in Grand Piazza instead. Be sure to check out the vendors as well marked on the map with a candy corn icon.
- Mad King’s Clocktower – Not much has changed. You get 5 trick or treat bags for running it.If you are really good at jumping puzzles this might be a good option to farm Trick or Treat bags.
- Mad King’s Labyrinth – Basically where people go to farm for Trick or Treat Bags. It is a farming map where you go and follow a commander to run around killing mobs, close doors and carve pumpkins. Use the LFG to find a farming instance.
- Ascent to Madness – This dungeon is being farmed for the chance at Tattered Bat Wings which is used to make the Nightfuy Ascended shoulders. It is a 5 man dungeon and the end chest have a chance to drop the Wings so you can run it as many time as you want for a chance. Use ingame LFG tool to find a group.
- Lunatic Inquisition – Fun PvP/Elimination event bought back this year.
- Mad King Says – Occurs every 2 hrs on the hour at Grand Piazza. Basically you do the emote that Mad King tells you to but only emote if it is followed by Mad King says as he will try to trick you. On every successful emote (or inactivity if he tries to trick you) you will get a stacking buff. Every 4 stacks of this buff you are eligible for a Mad King Chest Key fragment. You can only get 3 key fragments a day and you need 3 fragments to combine together to make a key. This means that you can only only open the chest at end of Mad King Says once a day and you must participate for a specific duration to get rewards. The chest also have a chance to drop Tattered Bat Wings and the Mini Spooky Moa.
New Items
Gemstore Items
Mad Memoires Backpiece
Four Mad Memoires Backpieces were added along with their associated achievements. Two of them backpieces are completely new while the other two made a return from 2012 Halloween.
Lunatic Armor Set
You get one set from achievements, the other two weight classes will need to be crafted by buying recipes from Lunatic Alchemists.
Light
Medium
Heavy
New Weapons
Touch of Madness
There is a new rare drop torch weapon from the Treat or Trick Bags. It doesn’t have a graphic and only appears when drawn as a ball of light.
Haunted Weapon Set
You need to do 3/5 of the available Halloween dailies everyday and every 5th day you will be able to get a weapon from Eve of the Mad King achievement completion.
Sword Hammer Longbow Shortbow
Axe Dagger Greatsword Mace
Pistol Rifle Scepter Staff
Focus Torch Warhorn Shield
New Minis
Mini Halloween Gourdon – 20 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Lord Humphrey Faren – 100 Candy Corn Cobs
Mini Gustav the Caramel Corn Elemental – Rare ToT Bags Drop
Mini Forgal – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Mini Sieran – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Mini Trahearne – 3 Black Lion Mini Ticket
Upcoming Items
Riding Broom Glider– [&AgHeTQEA]
Awakened Zealot Outfit – [&CzoAAAA=]
Mini Choya Pumpkin Gang – [&AgHpTQEAAA==]
Mini Elonian Familiar – [&AgECTgEAAA==]
Mini Failed Attempt – [&AgEHTgEA]
Old/Returning Items
Achievements
Shadow of the Mad King
Ancient Grudge – 10 AP
- Kill 150 of Joko’s minions. Any awakened mobs will work. Go to a map like Desolation and just kill them en mass
- Consume 150 Candy Corns
- Collect an item of each armor slot from the Lunatic set. See Lunatic Wardrobe section below.
- Kill 150 mobs in Mad King’s Labyrinth.
- Complete 30 door events in Mad King’s Labyrinth.
- These are related to the Mad Memoires backpiece. See guide here
- Go to the middle of the Mad King’s Labyrinth and see the Steward. Talk to him about serving food (5 gold) and you will get the Courtly Service achievement.
Pumpkin Carving – 17 AP, Master Carver Title
- Find 150 Pumpkin all around Tyria and carve them. The pumpkins reset if you switch to a different map/characters and also reset daily so you can just do them in Lion’s Arch and Mad King’s Labyrinth. it is much better to do them in Mad King’s Labyrinth since it is faster and there are more of it in a smaller area.
- Mad King’s Labyrinth map taken from /u/Evio on reddit.. Lion’s Arch map from /u/Oonk_Golemancer on reddit. Other maps by reader Brutal Beauty 9542.
Lunatic Wardrobe
A Royal Tradition – 5 AP, Hat Box
- Complete a round of Mad King says
- Open 50 Trick or Treat bags
- Complete the Ascend to Madness dungeon
- Complete the Mad King’s Clocktower jump puzzle
- Defeat all three champions in the Mad King’s Labyrinth
- Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn. Use reflects/feedback when he throws out candy corns as these do a lot of damage to him.
- Skeletal Lich
- Labyrinthine Horror – this guy’s spawn is a bit random and he can really spawn anywhere. He can join the fight when you are fighting Viscount or Lich.
- Complete the lunatic race around Mad King’s Labyrinth in under 2 minutes.
- Race starts regularly, just have to keep an eye out in the middle.
Halloween Rituals
Each of these achievements can be repeated 5 times with the exception of Eve of the Mad King
Eve of the Mad King – 10 AP x 10 Repeatable
- Complete 3/5 of the Halloween daily achievements everyday for 5 days.
- Rewards the Haunted weapon set on completion (pick one).
- Defeat 5 bosses (High Viscount, Lich, or Labyrinthine Horror)
- Complete 50 door events in the Mad King’s Labyrinth
- Carve 200 Pumpkins
- Complete the jumping puzzle 3 times.
- Complete the race event in Mad King’s Labyrinth 3 times
- Do the Lunatic Inquisition event 3 times
- You need find Drooburt’s Ghost in Lion’s Arch. He is usually at Trader’s Forum but he can disappear sometimes. Just hand him 1000 Candy Corn for this achievement.
