The Achievement Whore: Hallow’s End

Welcome to the first edition of The Achievement Whore. In this column we will do our best to feed your need for E-peen stimulation by helping you accrue more pointless achievement points than that other guy living in his mom’s basement. This time around we are going to be covering the upcoming Hallow’s End Holiday Event. The event runs from October 18th to November 2nd. It is a good thing you get a couple of weeks because some of the achievements are going to rely on our friend RNG to complete. So let’s get started:

Trick or Treat!
You get this achievement simply by going to an inn and trick or treating the inn keeper. Just make sure to have your parents check the candy for needles.

The Savior of Hallow’s End
This achievement can be completed at any of the starting area villages. There will be an Orphan Matron that will give you a quest to Stop the Fires! A lower level version of The Headless Horseman will appear periodically to burn the village. Everyone in the area will have to work together to put out the fires using water buckets obtained at a pool near the matron. If you successfully put out the fires, The Horseman will attack and will need to be killed, which is jokingly easy for high level toons. Upon his death you can turn in the quest and complete the achievement. Not that we will ever condone shady dealings, but you can just camp at the local inn and test your luck logging on at a time its been done and just turn in the quest.

Check Your Head
For this one, you must first obtain Weighted Jack-o’-Lanterns from The Headless Horseman or a Crudely Wrapped Gift. You must then place one on the head of one character of each race. Be careful because if they already have the buff you will not get credit and lose your Jack-o’-Lantern. This is cake for 80′s as they can just head to Dalaran. It is going to be a bit tougher if you are lower level. If your able to get to Shat that is the next best bet. If not, you will find yourself touring enemy territory to complete this one.

G.N.E.R.D. Rage
This achievement requires that you get 50 honorable kills while under the influence of the G.N.E.R.D buff.  This buff in obtained by consuming G.N.E.R.Ds which can be obtained from Handfuls of Candy. The Handfuls of Candy can be obtained from candy buckets throughout the world. So if you are doing the event for the first time you should gain enough to do this achievement. The buff from G.N.E.R.D.s lasts 30 minutes but does not last through death. So, you should take a decent amount of them to complete this. It is easiest to do this in a battleground. I suggest AV as there are always a lot of people dying. Since you only need to get a honorable kill, and not a killing blow, this should go fairly quickly if you are in the middle of the action.

Out With It
To obtain this achievement you simply need to consume enough Tricky Treats to cause your toon to vomit like a sorority girl during rush week. It usually takes about 3-5 of these eaten in a row to cause the effect. Tricky Treats have a 1 day duration and are available from candy buckets or killing the Headless Horseman. Again, another pretty simple achievement, especially if you are doing the event for the first time. Just a word of warning to Survival Hunters; last year if you had the Sniper Training Talent you were immune to the Upset Tummy effect and unable to complete this without unlearning your talents. No word on whether or not this has been fixed for this year.

The Mask Task
This is a very easy achievement. All you need to do is obtain one of the flimsy masks that are given by the inn keepers treat bags. You should come across these fairly easily while doing your trick or treating.

That Sparkling Smile
This achievement is obtained from using a Tooth Pick. These are obtained in soul bound stacks of 10 from trick or treating at inns. You will obtain the Sparkling Smile buff upon their use as well as remove those annoying bits of Gnome stuck in your molars.

Sinister Calling
This is where random number generation rears its ugly head. You must obtain both a Sinister Squashling Pet and a Hallow Helm. You can get these either as a drop from the Headless Horseman or from trick or treating. Blizzard has increased the drop rate on these so it should not be too bad. This is one of those cases where without a bit of luck you are going to need to log on several days to get these. Especially since you will be rolling against other players on the drops.

Bring Me The Head Of… Oh Wait
This one is straight forward, head to the Graveyard area of Scarlet Monastery. As with the other holiday bosses he can only be summoned once a day per person. Excluding tricks using alts, you will be able to fight him 5 times a day. You only need to kill him once for the achievement, but if you need the pet, helm, and/or mount you will be killing him far more times.

Rotten Hallow
There is both an Alliance and Horde version of this achievement. For the Alliance version you must complete The Power of Pine and Crashing the Wickerman Festival. Both quests are given by Seargent Hartman in Southshore. The Power of Pine will require you clean up stink bombs left by the Horde in Southshore. Crashing the Wikerman will require you travel north to Undercity and get close enough to the Wickerman to complete the quest. Both are pretty easy, just be prepared for a bit of impromptu PVP.

For the Horde version you must complete both Rotten Eggs and Ruined Kegs as well as Stinking Up Southshore from Darkcaller Yanka outside Undercity. The first quest requires you place rotten eggs in a keg in Southshore. The second quest requires that you place 3 stink bombs in Southshore. Also an easy quest as both can be completed in the same area. As above, prepare for a bit of PVP.

The Masquerade
This one is probably the most boring and tedious of the Hallow’s End Achievements. You must have all the costume wands used on you. You can not use ones on yourself, and costumes granted from the Random Wand do not count. You will find yourself trading and buying costumes in capital cities to finish this one. Just bring patience and some gold.

Tricks and Treats of Azeroth
This is a meta achievement within the Hallow’s End Meta Achievement, and there is a Horde and Alliance version of the Achievement. It will require you to visit various inns in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Outland. As per usual, this is easy if you are max level. It gets harder the lower you get and/or if you do not have all the flight points. Visit these links to see where exactly you need to go:
Tricks and Treats of Kalimdor (Horde)
Tricks and Treats of Kalimdor (Alliance)
Tricks and Treats of Eastern Kingdoms (Horde)
Tricks and Treats of Eastern Kingdoms (Alliance)
Tricks and Treats of Outland (Horde)
Tricks and Treats of Outland (Alliance)

Hallowed Be Thy Name
If you complete all the achievements above you will be granted the Hallowed Be Thy Name achievement and the title “The Hallowed”. Plus you will be one step closer to your flamboyantly-colored Violet Proto-Drake.

A Mask For All Occassions
This achievement is not required for the meta. It requires that you obtain all the flimsy masks that drop from the bags of candy. This is just time-consuming and requires a lot of luck, which is probably why Blizzard removed it from the meta-achievement. Do not be surprised if you do not finish this one.

That is it for this installment of The Achievement Whore. If you have any suggestions for a future installment or just want to correct any mistakes we inevitably made in a previous column, send us an e-mail.