Hallow’s End 2009: A Guide To Hallow’s End 2009

Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday of the year.  To be entirely honest, I don’t really know why though.  I just always remember having fun on October 31st, throughout my life.  Let’s just chalk it up to my insatiable sweet tooth.  Fruity candy, chocolate, hard candy, taffy, I eat, neigh, devour it all like it’s my last supper.  Heck, I even ate the apples the nutritionist up the street used to give us.

With Halloween so well translated in to Azeroth by way of Hallow’s End, you better believe it has remained my favorite seasonal event (whenever it was up-to-date).  Blizzard delivers us a horde of candy, complete with funny names, buffs, tricks, apple bobbing, and the token (updated) special boss mob.

Candy Buckets: It’s time to rot your teeth and fill your pockets.  Hit up all of the following locations to score a bag of treats and almost seven gold per location.  The gold really adds up.

• Eastern Kingdoms: Alliance/Horde
• Kalimdor: Alliance/Horde
• Outland: Alliance/Horde
• Northrend: Alliance/Horde (forum link)

*NOTE* There’s currently a bug for the Northrend buckets that may disable buckets from the rest of the world.  If you are attempting to complete all the achievements for the “The Hallowed” title, then hit up the bucket in the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimodor and Outland first.

Quests:  There remains a lot of quests for Hallow’s End, but none of the them are new.  In fact, nothing seems to have been added to the achievement list since The Burning Crusade.  Not even the (broken) Northrend buckets.

WoWWiki contains a good synopsis of the quests from year’s gone by.  If I come across anything new, I’ll be sure to update the post.

The Headless Horseman:  He’s back and more level 80 than ever!  You’ll need to grab The Headless Horseman, which leads you to the Scarlet Monastery graveyard, and Call the Headless Horseman.  After dispatching him via that quest, it’ll turn in to a daily quest.  With a pet, a temporary mount and his rare mount all available, having the daily quest available will become another hot commodity.  And of course there is his updated loot table.

I wonder how that lie detector is coming…

I’d like to point out how awesome The Headless Horseman’s story was in Warcraft: Legends Volume 5.  If you haven’t checked it out I highly recommend doing so.

There really isn’t anything new in Hallow’s End this year, which is disappointing, but my girlfriend was intrigued by Blizzard’s in-game versions of IRL events.  Her account is still active, could something come of this?!  No, no it won’t.

Who’s off to get a new title?  Who’s already received it?  Me, well, I am just going to do what I always do during Halloween, sugar rush.