Hallow's End 2008 guide [Achievements]

[JoeThePlumber]

(Joe has copy and pass this guide(with small edits and lots of junk taken out and guides added together like I am not that lazy) from wowinsider.com for all your guys that where looking for this.)

Hallow's End is here!, and you know we loves us some candy. There's been a big change to the Achievement needed to get the "Hallowed" title (it's actually gotten a lot easier), the Headless Horseman has a new loot table, and -- well, it's been a year since we've seen it anyway.

Read on for a guide to the holiday quests, the new Achievement related to the holiday, and some fun stuff you can do ingame til November 1st!

Quests

Call the Headless Horseman, which allows you to summon the holiday boss once per day per person in Scarlet Monastery graveyard. If you've never done the Headless Horseman before, don't worry; he's pretty straightforward, Wowwiki also has a nice write-up on strategy for him.

Headless Horseman - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

UPDATE: It looks like each player will get TWO summons the first day, first time with a quest given, and the second time (for the daily) with your regular summon. too bad that its just a one time thing.

Masked Orphan Matron/Costumed Orphan Matron: Commoners in major cities will give you a quest to speak to orphan matrons in Brill, Falconwing Square, or Razor Hill (Horde), or Azure Watch, Goldshire, or Kharanos (Alliance). The matrons will give you a quest called Fire Training (Horde) or Fire Brigade Practice to practice dousing nearby fires with buckets of water. Once you've finished that, you can participate in Stop the Fires! (Horde) or Stop the Fires! (Alliance), which will occur simultaneously in all three of your faction's villages every four hours.

Trick-or-Treating for Orphans: Commoners will also direct you to the orphanages in either Orgrimmar or Stormwind for Hallow's End Treats for Spoops (Horde) or Hallow's End Treats for Jesper (Alliance). These are pretty easy quests that just require you to visit your faction's major cities in order to pick up special candy for your youngster, and will also grant you some pretty nice faction rep.

The biggest difference between the two factions' quests? You'll either engage in some mischief on behalf of the Forsaken, or gate-crash a party if you're Alliance. For the Horde, you can pick up Rotten Eggs and Stinking Up Southshore from Darkcaller Yanka, an NPC outside of Undercity. For the Alliance, you can pick up The Power of Pine and Crashing the Wickerman Festival from Sergeant Hartman in Southshore.

Hallow's End Achievement grants title

Some of these quests are actually Achievements in disguise, here are the steps you need to take for the meta-Achievement "Hallowed Be Thy Name," which will award you the title "The Hallowed"!

Update Blizzard has removed A Mask For All Occasions as a prerequisite to Hallowed Be Thy Name, I assume after realizing that collecting all 20 masks was next to impossible. So the two most difficult quests you'll need to worry about for this Achievement will be getting transformed by all the different wands, and getting the Sinister Squashling pet and Hallowed Helm. Still tough, but a lot more doable than trying to defy the statistical odds behind the mask drops.


Ascending Difficulty:

1. Trick or Treat!: Easy, easy, easy. This is a gimme.

Can be picked up at inns throughout the world.

Contained the following:
G.N.E.R.D.S., Soothing Spearmint Candy, Chewy Fel Taffy.
Each Item may be used for boosting different of your stats.
(Each item stacks up to 4 times.)

Also Erikeightsix did found out you can make a lot of gold of this!
each trick or treat at an inn is worth - 3g75s times 16 inns in eastern kingdoms , 14 in outlands, and 17 in kalimdor = 47 grand total just for the inn trick or treat quests = 176g25s

then you just have to figure how much you spent on flying to all the inns that's just from visiting the inns.




2. That Sparkling Smile: Tooth Picks are random drops while trick-or-treating but not, I believe, terribly uncommon. This is unlikely to be tough.

3. Out With It:If you can make yourself sick on Halloween candy in real life, managing it ingame isn't too much of a stretch. Tricky Treats are "drops" from Headless Horseman kills, and you'll get dozens of them from little pumpkins you can click after a kill.

4. The Savior of Hallow's End: These were easy and fun quests to do last year, so unless Blizzard's changed them significantly, they should be quick. More importantly, doing one will also reward you with a Weighted Jack O' Lantern, and you'll need at least 10 of these to do the Check Your Head Achievement listed below because the Jack O' Lanterns are single-use items.

5. Bring Me the Head of...Oh Wait: The Headless Horseman isn't a very difficult fight -- the real difficulty, as with Brewfest, is going to be finding people able to summon him after your group's exhausted its own summons. But killing him once for this Achievement isn't hard at all.

6. Tricks and Treats of Azeroth: This isn't hard, but it will require a certain amount of time invested running all over the place to visit candy buckets. Doable as long as you've got an hour or two to yourself, or if you can knock off a few buckets per day.

7. Check Your Head: This one won't be tough as long as you've done the Savior of Hallow's End quests enough to get 10 Weighted Jack O' Lanterns, or gotten them as drops off the Headless Horseman.

8. G.N.E.R.D. Rage: I'm not positive but I think these are a new addition to the holiday; I don't remember them from last year and I can't seem to find much information on them. I'm guessing they'll be a random drop from Treat Bags you get from innkeepers, or from the Smashed Pumpkin Loot you get at the end of doing the Savior of Hallow's End quests. If so, 50 Honor Kills shouldn't be too hard as long as you're hitting the BG's regularly -- the only trouble will be getting enough G.N.E.R.D. candy to re-buff yourself after a death (unless the buff lasts through death, which I doubt it does).

UPDATE drano found out that The G.N.E.R.D.S come from the candy buckets next to the innkeepers, not from the actual innkeepers, just to clear up any future confusion.

9. Rotten Hallow: The Horde and Alliance counterparts are (respectively) Stinking Up Southshore and The Power of Pine, and Ruined Kegs and Crashing the Wickerman Festival. Not too hard, particularly if you do the quests with a few friends as a precaution against being ganked by bored players camping the quest spots.

OK. All of these are reasonably easy and will just require some time invested, and a 5-man group for the Horseman. But this is where things get a little trickier, and far more dependent on luck.

10 The Masquerade: This is the easiest of the three harder sub-Achievements, because the wands involved have multiple charges. The wands are random drops from Treat Bags and Smashed Pumpkin Loot, but there's a pretty good chance that, if you're going for this Achievement with a few friends, between all of you you should be able to cover the wands needed. So, while there's an element of chance involved, Hallow's End spans nearly two weeks and odds are very good you'll run across each wand if your posse is diligent.

Update StolenLegacy wrote a great Guide to getting the rods more easily to the list. read all about it here


11 Sinister Calling: This is where you need one hell of a lot of luck, unless Blizzard changes the abysmal drop rate on the Sinister Squashling. Wowhead lists it as a 2% drop, which I can well believe after killing the Horseman dozens of times and never seeing it last year. You'll also need a Hallowed Helm for the Achievement, although the drop rate on that is considerably better at 9%.

So, in summary, if you really want this title -- do the innkeeper trick-or-treating and Savior of Hallow's End quests enough to get 10 Weighted Jack O' Lanterns, and as many chances as possible at the costume wands. That will cover all the "drops" you need to worry about outside of the Horseman event. Beyond that, it's a lot of running around and then just prayer once you've actually killed the Horseman. Hallow's End runs from October 18th (this Saturday) to November 1st, and don't forget Blizzard's penchant for ending events at midnight on the last day (i.e. as October 31st becomes November 1st, that is). Good luck! :wave:

[T3h Sorrow]

i love you.. i was just looking for this... +rep

[drano]

8. G.N.E.R.D. Rage: I'm not positive but I think these are a new addition to the holiday; I don't remember them from last year and I can't seem to find much information on them. I'm guessing they'll be a random drop from Treat Bags you get from innkeepers, or from the Smashed Pumpkin Loot you get at the end of doing the Savior of Hallow's End quests. If so, 50 Honor Kills shouldn't be too hard as long as you're hitting the BG's regularly -- the only trouble will be getting enough G.N.E.R.D. candy to re-buff yourself after a death (unless the buff lasts through death, which I doubt it does).

The G.N.E.R.D.S come from the candy buckets next to the innkeepers, not from the actual innkeepers, just to clear up any future confusion.

[T3h Sorrow]

NERD RAGE! lovely candy.

[StolenLegacy]

You might want to add my "Guide" to getting the rods more easily to the list.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...nt-easily.html

regards,
Stolen

[erikeightsix]

also add how much gold you'll make in total from getting this achievement. its not a bad money maker.

each trick or treat at an inn is worth - 3g75s
times 16 inns in eastern kingdoms, 14 in outlands, and 17 in kalimdor = 47
grand total just for the inn trick or treat quests = 176g25s
then you just have to figure how much you spent on flying to all the inns
^ thats just from visiting the inns.
someone check my math please lol.

i was planningon writing a guide for this, but you beat me to it :[. so i'll also calculate the total time it takes to fly to each place to help ya out!

[JoeThePlumber]

Ok I will edit it in now

[Rosulm]

Do you have any idea how to make the collect all the masks part easier? any way to lose the debuff so you can trick or treat more? (dying doesn't do it)

[DivineDistant]

MOST of this was just copy and pasted.
Planning for the Hallow's End title - WOW Insider

[T3h Sorrow]

MOST of this was just copy and pasted.
Planning for the Hallow's End title - WOW Insider

Read the first line of his post...


(Joe has copy and pass this guide(with small edits and lots of junk taken out and guides added together like I am not that lazy) from wowinsider.com for all your guys that where looking for this.)

[gezus]

Might wanna take into consideration that you completely left out a damn near impossible achievement.

A Mask for all Occasions

GL.

[JoeThePlumber]

Gezus I did not: Blizzard has removed A Mask For All Occasions as a prerequisite to Hallowed Be Thy Name, I assume after realizing that collecting all 20 masks was next to impossible. So the two most difficult quests you'll need to worry about for this Achievement will be getting transformed by all the different wands, and getting the Sinister Squashling pet and Hallowed Helm. Still tough, but a lot more doable than trying to defy the statistical odds behind the mask drops.


A Mask For All Occasions is 80% sure to be removed complete of the list in the next tueday Patch!