Hallow’s End World Event Guide

Hallow’s End is a fun and spooky time in Azeroth where everyone comes together to celebrate. In this Hallow’s End guide we will take you through the lore, the quests, and the mischievous activities of this cherished event. Whether you’re aiming to confront the Headless Horseman, hoping to collect eerie treats, or simply desiring to soak in the spooky ambiance, this manual has got you covered. So, light your jack-o’-lanterns and prepare for a hauntingly good time!

How to do Hallow’s End in WoW?

The Hallow’s End event celebrates the Forsaken breaking free from the Scourge. Its celebration coincides with global Halloween, but begins a little earlier – on October 18.

In the world of WoW, undead ignite a massive wicker effigy while listening to an oration from Lady Sylvanas in celebration. However, since Sylvanas will not be able to attend the celebration due to the events of Shadowlands, we will have some changes and a new storyline.

In addition, the main boss of the event, The Headless Horseman, has received significant changes, as well as the rewards it offers. We will discuss all this below.

How long is Hallow’s End?

Hollow’s End duration is 14 days – from October 18 to November 1. During this time, you can complete all tasks and activities and collect enough Tricky Treat to exchange them for rewards, as well as to receive unique achievements dedicated to the holiday.

How do you get Hallow’s End XP buff?

Hallow’s End is a great time to level up because of the XP buff this event gives to its participants. During the Wickerman Festival, two potent buffs (one for the Alliance and one for the Horde) are available. Every four hours, an announcement resonates throughout the city, followed by either Sylvanas or Genn bestowing buffs on nearby adventurers a mere 10 minutes later.

The “Decree of the Dark Lady” buff is bestowed upon players who witness a theatrical event where Sylvanas oversees the Wickerman’s ignition outside the Undercity, interpreting its blaze as a testament to the Forsaken’s might. This buff endures for an hour and remains even after death.

Similarly, for the Alliance, “Greymane’s Resolve” is conferred when players observe Genn Greymane admiring the Wickerman’s flames outside Stormwind, symbolizing the Worgen’s enduring spirit. This enhancement, too, has a duration of an hour and sustains through death.

With this buff, your character’s leveling speeds up significantly, and our Overgear leveling service costs less, so this is a great time to take advantage of this service. However, if you want to go through all the hardships of leveling on your own, then our Leveling Guide will greatly facilitate your desire.

Hallows End Rewards

During this event, the player can receive a huge number of rewards. There are so many of them that we have divided them into sections.

Wands

Distinct from numerous Hallow’s End items, wands aren’t bound by the event’s timeline for their use. This means you can enjoy whimsical transformations throughout the year.

Masks

Masks can be worn either over your face or atop your helmet. Spanky (for the Alliance) and Farina (for the Horde) offer these masks in exchange for 2 Tricky Treats. Additionally, any male or female mask can be found inside the Handful of Treats (obtained from candy buckets and daily tasks) and the Loot-Filled Pumpkin (a reward from the Headless Horseman encounter).

Disguises

Exquisite Costume Set The Lich King

Exquisite Costume Set Xavius

Exquisite Costume SetDeathwing

Exquisite Costume SetGrommash

Every Disguises cost 200 Tricky Treats and have 50 charges.

Hats

Throughout Hallow’s End, players have the ability to transmogrify into the event’s cosmetic attire.

Toys

Pets

Hallow’s End boasts a collection of nine celebratory battle pets. Out of these, five can be caged and listed for sale on the Auction House (AH):

Mounts

The Horseman's Reins

The Magic Broom

The Horseman’s Reins – there’s a mount that players have a daily opportunity to obtain from the Headless Horseman, the main antagonist of the event.

The Magic Broom and Flying Broom are transient mounts, available only during the event’s timeframe. The Magic Broom can be found in the reward chest received for extinguishing fires in starter villages. Meanwhile, the Flying Broom has a daily chance to drop from the Headless Horseman encounter.

The Headless Horseman encounter

Located in the Graveyard of the Scarlet Monastery, the Headless Horseman awaits as a 5-player boss. However, he only emerges for players who access the encounter through the Dungeon Finder. While players from levels 10 to 60 can join the queue, only those level 45 and above receive the Loot-Filled Pumpkin. This pumpkin, awarded once daily, may hold the coveted Horseman’s Reins. If your team lacks a healer, a tank or a professional raid leader, you can buy our WoW Rent a PvE booster.

New Headless Horseman Achievements

There are several new achievements for defeating The Headless Horseman:

NEW A Cleansing Fire – Defeat the Headless Horseman.
OLD Bring Me The Head of… Oh Wait – Killed the Headless Horseman prior to the 2023 holiday refresh.
NEW Don’t Lose Your Head, Man – Defeat any version of the Headless Horseman.
NEW Kickin’ With the Wick – Defeat the Headless Horseman while cursed by all four wicker men.

Headless Horseman Tactic

Thanks to the datamine, we know that Headless Horseman has updated some of his abilities, and also, most likely, added a special difficulty – Hard Mode. However, at the moment we do not know exactly how much the boss fight tactics have changed, but most likely it is not significant. So the guide below will help you anyway. We will update this part of the guide when more information becomes available.

The encounter consists of three straightforward phases:

Phase One:

Focus on damaging the boss until he reaches 1% health. At this point, his head will detach, relocating to a random spot. The detached head has its own health pool. Your goal is to reduce the head’s health to 67% before the main body, which is steadily regenerating, returns to 100%.

Phase Two:

Spread out and concentrate on the boss once more (now with the head reattached). When he’s again at 1% health, the head detaches and relocates. This time, you’ll need to deplete the head’s health to 33% before the main body fully regenerates.

Phase Three:

Focus your damage on the boss and pay no mind to the additional enemies. When the boss is reduced to 1% health, the head will detach for the last time. Your final task is to defeat the head completely.

Headless Horseman Loot

In addition to Boss Loot you can obtain Loot-Filled Pumpkin with a special and very rare rewards.

From Boss:

From Loot-Filled Pumpkin:

Daily Quests and Treats

Tricky Treats are the primary currency of Hallow’s End and can be used to buy various items. To earn them you need to complete daily, or even more frequent quests. Here’s an overview of some of the daily quests and treats available during the event:

“Trick or Treat!”

You can “Trick or Treat” with innkeepers once every hour. You might receive a treat (like candy, wands, or masks) or get tricked into a funny transformation.

“The Savior of Hallow’s End”

The main task of this quest, is to save village from the Headless Horseman’s fire by grabbing water buckets and putting out fires.

Horseman’s Challenges:

These quests are located in various parts of the world where you’ll have to fend off the Horseman’s attacks.

Candy Bucket Quests:

Throughout Azeroth and beyond, inns have candy buckets. Each bucket provides a quest that rewards Tricky Treats.

Where to Find Candy Buckets?

During the Hallow’s End event in World of Warcraft, Candy Buckets can be found in inns throughout Azeroth and beyond. They are part of the seasonal quests where players travel to various locations to collect Tricky Treats from these buckets.

Here’s where you can generally find Candy Buckets:

Eastern Kingdoms:

All major cities (Stormwind City, Ironforge, Undercity, Silvermoon, etc.);
Various towns and outposts throughout the continent.

Kalimdor:

All major cities (Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, Darnassus, Exodar, etc.);
Various towns and outposts across the continent.

Outland:

Each Horde and Alliance inn in the zones of Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest, Nagrand, Blade’s Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley.

Northrend:

Each Horde and Alliance inn in the zones of Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul’Drak, Sholazar Basin, Storm Peaks, and Icecrown.

Cataclysm Zones:

In the inns of zones like Mount Hyjal, Vashj’ir, Deepholm, Uldum, and Twilight Highlands.

Pandaria:

Inns located in The Jade Forest, Valley of the Four Winds, Krasarang Wilds, Kun-Lai Summit, Townlong Steppes, Dread Wastes, and Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Draenor:

In the inns of zones like Frostfire Ridge, Shadowmoon Valley, Gorgrond, Talador, Spires of Arak, and Nagrand.

Broken Isles:

Located in inns across zones like Azsuna, Val’sharah, Highmountain, Stormheim, and Suramar.

Zandalar & Kul Tiras:

For BFA players, inns in Zuldazar, Nazmir, Vol’dun, Tiragarde Sound, Drustvar, and Stormsong Valley.

Shadowlands:

In each covenant capital and in Oribos.

Dragonflight:

Valdrakken and various towns and outposts across the Island.

How to Obtain Tricky Treats?

Tricky Treats is your main currency for the duration of the event, which you can exchange for unique rewards. There are a huge number of ways to get Tricky Treats:

You can collect Candy Buckets all over the world. Above we wrote where you can find Candy Buckets.
You will also receive a certain amount of Tricky Treats for completing quests. For example players can douse fires in Razor Hill or Falconwing Square, and for their efforts, they’re rewarded with Tricky Treats. Other daily quests related to the Headless Horseman may also grant these treats as rewards.
Defeat the Headless Horseman. Engaging the Headless Horseman, the special 5-man boss for the event located in the Scarlet Monastery’s graveyard, offers a chance at receiving a Loot-Filled Pumpkin once per day per character. This pumpkin might contain Tricky Treats among other potential rewards.
“Trick or Treat!” with Innkeepers. Every hour, you can “Trick or Treat!” with innkeepers throughout the game world. While this might give you various effects or transformations, it can also provide you with a treat that contains Tricky Treats.
Special Hallow’s End Dailies. Some event-specific daily quests outside capital cities and other areas might also reward Tricky Treats upon completion.
World Quests. In Dragonflight areas, special Hallow’s End themed world quests might become available, rewarding Tricky Treats.

Loot-Filled Pumpkin Locations

The Loot-Stuffed Pumpkin in World of Warcraft isn’t something you find in specific locations throughout the game world. Instead, it’s a reward given to players once per day for defeating the Headless Horseman during the Hallow’s End event.

Here’s how to obtain a Loot-Filled Pumpkin:

Queue for the Headless Horseman Encounter: Open the Dungeon Finder tool (default key ‘I’ on your keyboard). Under the ‘Special Event’ category, you’ll find the option to queue for the Headless Horseman. This is a special event dungeon available only during the Hallow’s End event.

Defeat the Headless Horseman: Once your group is assembled, you’ll be taken to the graveyard in the Scarlet Monastery. Engage and defeat the Headless Horseman. The fight is divided into several phases, as the Horseman and his head become separate targets.

Obtain the Loot-Filled Pumpkin: After defeating the boss, you’ll automatically be awarded a Loot-Filled Pumpkin in your inventory if it’s your first victory of the day. This means you can get one Loot-Filled Pumpkin per day for each of your characters.

Inside the Loot-Filled Pumpkin, you might find various rewards such as:

Tricky Treats
Masks
The Horseman’s Reins (a very rare mount)
Rings, helms, and other gear of varying item levels (dependent on the level of the character that opens it)
Wands and other novelty items related to the Hallow’s End event

Remember, you can only earn one Loot-Filled Pumpkin per character each day, so if you have multiple characters, it’s a good idea to run the encounter on each of them to maximize your chances at the desired loot.

Where are the vendors in Hallow’s End?

In World of Warcraft, during the Hallow’s End event, vendors play a pivotal role in selling various festival items, including pets, masks, toys, and more, which players can buy using the special event currency, Tricky Treats. The primary vendors for Hallow’s End are located in the major faction capitals:

Undercity for the Horde:

Dorothy: Sells masks, wands, food, recipes, pets, and toys.
Farina: Offers a range of Hallow’s End masks.

Note: With the events of Battle for Azeroth, the Undercity has been destroyed. However, during Hallow’s End, there is a portal in the Ruins of Lordaeron that takes players to an instanced version of the intact Undercity where they can find these vendors.

Stormwind for the Alliance:

Katrina Shimmerstar: She’s the primary Hallow’s End vendor for the Alliance and sells masks, wands, food, recipes, pets, and toys.
Spanky: Offers various Hallow’s End masks.

Neutral Vendors:

Wand Vendors: During Hallow’s End, neutral wand vendors are available in villages and towns throughout Azeroth. They sell a variety of fun wands that can transform other players into different creatures or give them festive appearances.
Candy & Apple Vendors: These vendors can be found in various locations and sell festival-specific candies and apples.

Always make sure to have a stash of Tricky Treats on hand, as they’re the primary currency these vendors will accept for their special Hallow’s End goods.

Weighted Jack-O’-Lantern Locations

During the Hallow’s End event, players can participate in various activities, including the hunt for weighted jack-o’-lanterns which can be used to throw at other players, placing a pumpkin on their head.

Here’s a general approach to finding these items during the event:

Visit the Starting Area for Hallow’s End: This would usually be in towns like Goldshire for Alliance and Razor Hill for Horde. Look for the seasonal vendors and special event NPCs.

Daily Quests: The event may offer daily quests that allow you to use or gather weighted jack-o’-lanterns as part of completing the objectives.

Loot from Headless Horseman: The Headless Horseman is a special dungeon boss during Hallow’s End, and he might drop special items, including the weighted jack-o’-lanterns.

Search around major cities: Major faction cities will be decorated for Hallow’s End and may have NPCs or items related to the event. Check places like Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Ironforge, Undercity, etc.

Engage with Other Players: Join in the fun! Players often throw these weighted jack-o’-lanterns at nearby players, especially in high traffic areas or when waiting for the Headless Horseman to spawn.

Hallow’s End Achievements

During Hallow’s End, 21 unique achievements await your discovery! As you don your spooky Hallow’s End masks and indulge in sweet treats, make sure to chase after these achievements. Successful completion grants you the coveted title – %s the Hallowed!

Meta Achievements:

Other Achievements:

The Mask Task
A Mask for All Occasions
Tricks and Treats of Northrend for Horde players
Tricks and Treats of Northrend for Alliance players
Tricks and Treats of the Cataclysm Alliance / Horde
Tricks and Treats of Pandaria
A Frightening Friend

We hope this guide served as your trusty compass, leading you to the hidden corners of this spooky celebration. Until next year’s Hallow’s End, keep your wits about you, your candy bucket full, and always remember the timeless joy of coming together in Azeroth’s most haunted of traditions. Happy Hallow’s End to one and all, and may your adventures continue to be legendary!

Changelog

18 Oct. 2024 Event date updated

Hallow’s End World Event Guide