Shadow of the Mad King 2024

Shadow of the Mad King, our annual Halloween festival, returns with ghoulish capers, spooky fights, and holiday fun! Gather together with the citizens of Lion's Arch to enjoy another year of tricks, treats, and terrible jokes. — Official website

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Shadow of the Mad King, our annual Halloween festival, returns with ghoulish capers, spooky fights, and holiday fun! Gather together with the citizens of Lion's Arch to enjoy another year of tricks, treats, and terrible jokes.

— Official website

Shadow of the Mad King is a Halloween-themed festival that will launch from October 15 to November 5. There are several decorated festival areas outside the capital city of each race: Plains of Ashford, Queensdale, Wayfarer Foothills, Metrica Province, and Caledon Forest. Festival merchants, as well as ominous portals to the Mad Realm, are also present during the festivities.

Returning features

Primary article: Halloween

Lion's Arch loading screen

Items and rewards

For list of all Halloween rewards and items, see: Halloween/items

Activities

• Mad King's Labyrinth - Bloody Prince Edrick has taken over parts of the Mad King's Labyrinth and is controlling the undead armies in the Mad King's Realm. The Skeletal Lich, Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn, Harrower Veltan, Hollowed Gourdbinder, and the Labyrinthine Horror lie in wait.
  • Labyrinth Race - Take part in a race through the Labyrinth on your mounts. (Occurs roughly every 20 minutes)
  • Time Trial: Labyrinth Lunatic
• Mad King's Clock Tower - Tyria's most maddening jumping puzzle thrilled players during last year's Halloween event and returns better than ever.
• Stopped Clock Tower - Normally unavailable to visitors during maintenance, the Stopped Clock Tower is open to guests looking for a more leisurely incarnation of the tower’s daunting climb.
• Ascent to Madness - Fight against the Mad King Thorn himself, as he trades in his usual jokes and pranks to face you head on.
• Mad King Says - Join the Mad King Thorn as he commands you to perform actions, or attempts to trick you.
• Lunatic Inquisition - Attempt to survive the night as a villager while the Lunatic Courtiers hunt you down.
• Reaper's Rumble - A fast-paced PvP format where players compete to recover pumpkins and spawn hordes of skeletons to attack the enemy team’s base.
• Mad King's Raceway - On the fields of Reaper's Rumble, join the new races or try your skill at the adventures. Rental for the respective Mounts available for a small fee.
  • Time Trial: Roll into Madness
  • Reach the finish line! (Roll into Madness)
  • Time Trial: Pumpkin Paradise
  • Reach the finish line! (Pumpkin Paradise)
  • Time Trial: Li'l Eddie's Bunny Bounce
  • Reach the finish line! (Li'l Eddie's Bunny Bounce)

Halloween achievements

•  Halloween Daily
•  Halloween Rituals
•  Shadow of the Mad King
  • Mad Maleficence collection.
  • Mad Memoires scavenger hunt
•  Lunatic Wardrobe

2024 features

New achievements

• Halloween Daily: Daily Bonus Rewards: Homestead Trick-or-Treating — Ring a haunted bell at a guild hall or another player's homestead. (0)
• Halloween Rituals: (Weekly) Homestead Trick-or-Treating — Ring haunted bells at guild halls or other players' homesteads 7 times. (0)

New vendors

Deft Lahar

New skins and equipment

• Clawing Shadow Plate
  • Clawing Shadow Plate (light)
  • Clawing Shadow Plate (medium)
  • Clawing Shadow Plate (heavy)
• New Courtly weapons
  • Sanguine Focus
  • Sanguine Shield
  • Sanguine Staff
• New Candy Core weapons
  • Candy Core Axe
  • Candy Core Dagger
  • Candy Core Focus
  • Candy Core Greatsword
  • Candy Core Hammer
  • Candy Core Longbow
  • Candy Core Mace
  • Candy Core Pistol
  • Candy Core Rifle
  • Candy Core Scepter
  • Candy Core Shield
  • Candy Core Short Bow
  • Candy Core Staff
  • Candy Core Spear
  • Candy Core Sword
  • Candy Core Torch
  • Candy Core Warhorn

New items

• Trader's Grim Machine Chest
• Candy Core Chest
• Mini Pummel Spider
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 1
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 2
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 3
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 4
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 5
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 6
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 7
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 8
• Homestead Recipe Book: Halloween, Volume 9
• Recipe: Antique Bell
• Recipe: Flame-Bearing Gargoyle
• Recipe: Gargoyle
• Recipe: Haunted Bell
• Recipe: Warclaw Rental Post

New decorations

• Guild hall decorations
  • Antique Bell
  • Flame-Bearing Gargoyle
  • Gargoyle
  • Haunted Bell
  • Warclaw Rental Post
• Homestead decorations
  • Antique Bell
  • Bat Lanterns
  • Bundle of Corn Stalks
  • Clock Tower Gear
  • Clock Tower's Broken Beam
  • Creepy Jack-o'-Lantern
  • Decorated Casket
  • Demon Statue
  • Ephemeral Spider's Web Floor
  • Ephemeral Spider's Web Wall
  • Eternal Flame
  • Flame-Bearing Gargoyle
  • Gargoyle
  • Ghostly Dining Chair
  • Ghostly Dining Table
  • Gramophone
  • Grand Clock Tower Gear
  • Hanging Tree
  • Haunted Armchair
  • Haunted Bell
  • Haunted Love Seat
  • Jack-o'-Lantern
  • Mad Moon
  • Mausoleum
  • Ominous Fortress Wall
  • Ominous Fortress Wall: Angled
  • Ominous Fortress Wall: Corrupted
  • Pot of Chrysanthemums
  • Primordial Leviathan Rib Cage
  • Primordial Leviathan Rib Cage: Curved
  • Primordial Leviathan Rib Cage: Left Curved
  • Primordial Leviathan Rib Cage: Right Curved
  • Pumpkin Lanterns
  • Raptor Rental Post
  • Reaching Twisted Tree
  • Scarecrow
  • Seance Candle
  • Shattered Stairway
  • Skewed Stairway (Left)
  • Skewed Stairway (Right)
  • Spider's Web Floor
  • Spider's Web Wall
  • Spooky Cauldron
  • Spooky Dining Chair
  • Spooky Dining Table
  • Thorny Jack-o'-Lantern
  • Unchained Platform
  • Visage of Madness
  • Warclaw Rental Post
  • Writhing Twisted Tree

Gem Store

• Graceful Bladed Wings Package
  • Graceful Bladed Wings Backpack and Glider Combo
    • Graceful Bladed Wings Backpack Skin
    • Graceful Bladed Wings Glider Skin
  • Graceful Bladed Right Wing Backpack and Glider Combo
    • Graceful Bladed Right Wing Backpack Skin
    • Graceful Bladed Right Wing Glider Skin
  • Graceful Bladed Left Wing Backpack and Glider Combo
    • Graceful Bladed Left Wing Backpack Skin
    • Graceful Bladed Left Wing Glider Skin

Mail

Magister Tassi Happy Halloween! Once again, Halloween falls across Tyria. The doorways between our world and the Mad Realm are opening, and the ancient Krytan monarch, Mad King Thorn, walks the streets of Lion's Arch again! I've assured the Captain's Council that it's all relatively safe—this time—but I'm sure they'd appreciate a brave adventurer like yourself making an appearance. Not to mention the opportunities for field research in the Mad Realm itself ! Visit me at the Grand Piazza at your earliest convenience! —Magister Tassi Piece of Candy Corn (5) Lion's Arch, built upon the wreckage of the Krytan City of the same name, has grown and prospered in the years since the rise of the Orrian Dragon. Founded by pirates and dependent on trade, the city has become a common ground for all the races of Tyria.  Trader's Forum Waypoint —

Gallery

See also: Shadow of the Mad King 2023#Gallery

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External links

• Shadow of the Mad King 2024 Is Now Live!, Guildwars2.com
• Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds Launches Today!, Guildwars2.com

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Festivals

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2024 Festival and Special Event releases

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