Blood and Madness (Halloween 2013!)

Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-15-2013/

October 15, 2013
A grim specter lurks in the shadows of the Mad King’s past.
The Bloody Prince is coming to Tyria!

Events
THE BLOODY PRINCE EMERGES
Halloween is drawing near, and Magister Tassi’s instruments are picking up some unusual energy readings. The Mad King isn’t the only one breaking through the barrier between realms—prepare to face the son of Oswald Thorn, Bloody Prince Edrick!

MAD REALM DOORS
Haunted doors are appearing all over Kryta, where brave travelers can dare to
trick-or-treat!

MAD KING’S LABYRINTH
The Bloody Prince has taken over part of the Mad King’s Labyrinth! He’s controlling the undead armies in the Mad King’s Realm, while his father retains command of the plastic spiders, candy corn elementals, and other festive frights. The Skeletal Lich, Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn, and the Labyrinthine Horror await interlopers.

MAD KING’S CLOCKTOWER
Race against the rising madness in the Mad King’s Clocktower, Tyria’s most maddening jumping puzzle! Can you make it to the top in time?

LUNATIC INQUISITION
Join in player vs. player madness and mayhem with the Lunatic Inquisition, where you’ll play as either a Villager, desperate to survive, or a maniacal Lunatic Courtier. Discover survival tools and hidden secrets within the Labyrinth, and try to survive the night!

DEVELOPER LIVESTREAM – OCTOBER 14
Take a spooky sneak peek at the Blood and Madness release with ArenaNet devs during the preview livestream on our Twitch channel on Monday, October 14 at 12PM PDT.

Features

Combat Quality of Life Fixes
With new ground targeting options, improvements to targeting, and a new, optional way to display condition damage numbers, we’re bringing in some great improvements to the way our combat works!
Trait and Skill Tooltips
We have improved the tooltip system for traits and skills. Traits now display numbers, and skill tooltips will show how skills are affected by equipped traits.

Balance Updates

We’ve made a balance pass on existing skills and traits with a focus on improving support builds in all parts of the game for all professions.
Introducing the First World vs. World Season
Starting on October 18 and running through December 5, we’ll be hosting the first WvW season! We’ll be splitting up worlds into leagues, and each world within a league will compete against every other world over the course of the season. Not only will you be rewarded for your team’s season-long performance, but you’ll also be rewarded each week that you participate!

Rewards

Sweet Rewards
Get yourself some sweet rewards by participating in Blood and Madness content! Complete the Blood and Madness meta achievement to receive a Mini Candy Corn Elemental , and follow the storyline for a Candy Corn node for your home instance!

Candy Cornucopia

You can trade Candy Corn for new Halloween items like a Mini Bloody Prince, a 20-slot Halloween Pail, and special crafting items needed for Halloween weapons!

Mask of the Night

Participate in rounds of Mad King Says to prove your ability to obey the maniacal monarch’s whimsies and earn yourself a Mask of the Night!

Yay Halloween events :D  

I'm glad the MAD KING’S LABYRINTH is back that was fun to take big groups and just kill mobs, loot was good too.  The tower puzzle is back ewww oh well beat it last year will again this year lol

I hope everybody is excited last year was fun and this year should be too 

Aaah! So many wonderful memories of last year's Halloween. The frustration of the clock tower (that I never stopped running well after I finally figured it out!), the scavenger hunt, Mad King Says and his amazing bout with Tassi, pirate Quaggans, and sooo soooo soooooo much candy corn (I kept about a quarter of a bank tab full from last year). The Mad King's Labyrinth returning makes me happy too, as that's when I first really started to get a feel for my guardian (saving my entire team from being feared off the edges as I sacrifice myself to do so was great, but my improved build means I'll get saved too now. I've been preparing an entire year for this, Mad King and son). Can you tell I'm excited?

Yay for Halloween coming back, always one of my more favorite holidays in MMOs.

Glad to see they are trying to inject some story into the Mad King's realm so it isn't a straight rehash of last years Halloween event.

Yes Im super excited too! I just hope that the dungeons  aren't hard to do if you're not 80. Im very close but probably won't make it to 80 before the event kicks off.