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Overview

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The Nights of the Dead (NotD) is the annual live event that roughly coincides with the real-world holiday: Halloween. Like the real-world holiday, NotD celebrates all things spooky in good fun with themes focused on candy and scares.

NotD typically begins in mid-October and ends in mid-November each year. It first appeared in 2005.

To check the exact dates, log into the game and click the EQ2 button in the bottom right of your screen and choose Calendar from the list of options that opens. Keep in mind that the start date and end of (most) events is midnight PST, due to the location of the main office of Daybreak.

Check your in-game mail for the announcement and clues about where to go to enjoy this event. If you accidentally deleted the in-game mail, a copy is near the end of this page.

New This Year

This section highlights new content added most recently. Please move any info into the main article below when/if newer content is live each year.

Added in 2019

This event will run from Tuesday, October 8 at 12:01 AM PT until Friday, November 1, 2019 at 11:59 PM PT

In 2019, there are new event and quest rewards, new things to purchase, new crafted items, and a new collection.

New Quest

TLE Servers

  • On Fallen Gate, you can enjoy all the thrills of Nights of the Dead! (Exception: A lost necklace cannot be looted from A Gleaming Chest in The Hedge Hollow.)

Event Quest Hubs

The quests for this event are primarily found within the following areas:

The areas above are not the only places you may find quests, so keep your eyes open for unusual NPCs (Non-Player Characters) that could offer special event quests when you travel.

NotD Treats and Candy Corn

When you defeat monsters in battle while the event is live, you will loot a wide variety of candy and sweets-themed treats. These serve as both a special crafting material and they can be turned into holiday currency.

  • Treats are from creatures typically associated with the real-world holiday, Halloween (skeletons, vampires, werewolves, etc.), but a wide variety of spooky critters may have candy and sweet treats too. You can get treats from creatures far below your adventure level too (a.k.a. "grey" MOBs).
  • All the treats can be exchanged with the Treat Trader (described below) for Candy Corn, which is used as currency to purchase some event items and Candy Corn can still be used to craft.
  • Additional candy sources:
    • Starting in 2016, picking up purple shinies for A Swinging Wake can yield either a collection item or candy.
    • Players can also compete in the races (described below) and choose candy as a prize.
    • See the Nights of the Dead Treats (Crafting Materials) page for details on the various treats you may loot and tips and tricks on getting more.

Pumpkin Bombs

Pumpkin Bombs are one of the more unusual aspects of the event. These "bombs" are charms you purchase from Haint to throw at other players. Doing so creates a mini-game that ties into collections, titles, a house item, and an extremely rare mount. See the Pumpkin Bomb page for details.

Merchants and Special NPCs

A Nights of the Dead merchant

A Nights of the Dead Merchant sells numerous items in cities all over Norrath.

Grabby Gigglegibber

Grabby Gigglegibber hates Candy Corn. Find him in various cities to trade your looted NotD candy.

Nights of the Dead Ettin Costume (Equipped)

The Dead Ettin (illusion) costume that can be purchased with during the event.


Merchants

For a locations for BOTH merchants, see the page for A Nights of the Dead merchant.

As of 2019, all starter cities (those with player housing) have two merchants.

  • Lil' Boo: sells the current event's new items
  • Haint: sells the prior year's items.

To prevent confusion year-to-year, a list of all available items (old and new) will remain on a single page for Nights of the Dead Merchant.

Merchant item examples include:

  • Pumpkin Bombs - throw these at people/have them thrown at you. They are tied to several collections and an achievement. See the Pumpkin Bomb page for details.
  • Extra-scary mounts, like the skeletal horse, Blightblaze Frightmare (Mount).
  • A variety of spooky house items that suit the event, including tiles and windows.
  • Fun appearance items and temporary "costumes" that can be used to shapeshift the appearance of your character.
  • Seasonally-themed cloaks and armor that are appearance only.

Treat Traders

  • Visit Grabby Gigglegibber - like the merchant selling items, this goblin is found in several cities (see locations on the NPC page) to trade all of your looted treats for Candy Corn. Grabby hates candy corn and is happy to trade with you: this allows you to save space in your bank slots, backpacks, and a guild's harvest depot.
  • In 2018, Grabby has learned to count to much higher numbers. Now he will accept candy corn in increments of 1, 5, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000.


Gigglegibber Illusionists

Sinister robe (Visible)

The Sinster Robe is one of several web-themed appearance gear items that players can craft.

  • If you have illusion forms enabled, you might notice some sneaky NPCs insist you get in the spirit and help them scare their friends by shapeshifting you into a variety of scary forms.
  • If you want to shapeshift on purpose, seek Gigglegibber Illusionists
  • You can opt in or out of seeing these illusions at any time. To do so press C to open the character window, click on the Options tab, and make sure the box to hide/show illusion from is checked or unchecked.

Recipes

The following no-trade recipes all sell for 60s 90c while the event is live and the items within can be crafted all year long.

Available Recipes

Adventure Quests

Ghoulish Night Cloak (Visible)

The Ghoulish Night Cloak is a possible reward from the This Won't End Well quest

In addition to the quest rewards, NotD quest zones have fun hidden masks and Lore & Legend books. Explore as you go or see quest pages for the locations of these clickable items.

Non Repeatable Quests


Repeatable Once Per Year

Quests in Qeynos, Freeport, Kelethin, Frostfang Sea/New Halas and Gorowyn

Quests in Nektulos Forest


Quests within the Haunted Mansion
Note: You must get the first quest from NPCs in the either Freeport or Qeynos before you travel to the Loping Plains.


Quests found at McQuibble's Farmhouse (in Antonica)


Unlimited Repeatable

At Hedge Hollow (in Nektulos Forest


At the Haunted House (in North Qeynos or West Freeport)


Guide Quest

Races (Unlimited Repeatable)

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Mask options as of 2016. Top, L to R: Nightblood, Amygdalan, Black Cat, Cursed Scarecrow; middle row: Cursed Skeleton, Goblin, Hatchet, Infernal Skeleton; bottom row: Black Mask, Noxious Scarecrow, Sinister Scarecrow, Snarling Werewolf

The Ghost Hunting races are held in two locations and have identical rewards.

  • Races reward Candy Corn and/or various house items and appearance gear, depending on how successfully you gather candy.
  • The races are one of the easiest, fastest ways to accumulate Candy Corn without combat.
  • Those who really work at it can even gain a special title.
  • Play in either location:

Collections

This event has more varied collections than any other. The sections below explain what makes each a little unusual.

Purple Shiny Collections

When you pick up purple "shinies" around the various Quest Hubs and get either a collection item or Nights of the Dead Treats (Crafting Materials).

The Hedge Hollow Collection

The Hedge Hollow Collection is a normal collection quest, except the purple shinies are only found inside the The Hedge Hollow.

  • The Hedge Hollow purple shinies have a question mark floating above them and will attack when you try to pick them up, so be prepared for battle.
  • In order to complete the meta-collection you also need to buy Pumpkin Bombs from A Nights of the Dead merchant to get the rare collectible (Jack's Lantern).
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The reward for completing A Swinging Wake collection.

Pumpkin Bomb Collections

The following are all tied to the Pumpkin Bombs purchased for 2 candy corn from A Nights of the Dead merchant.

The bombs are then thrown at other players. Each toss generates tiny pumpkins around the other player. You (or anyone) can pick up tiny pumpkins to get collection items. In addition to the collection items, players have a chance to get a house item or rare mount.

See the Pumpkin Bomb page for full details

The Great Haunt

The Great Haunt is a meta-collection, which simply means it's comprised of collection items given to you when complete and turn in other Nights of the Dead collections.

Achievements

Titles

The following titles are tied to achievements:

TLE Servers

In-Game Mail

Each year players get an in-game mail announcing the event. The body of the mail may change somewhat if new quests are added. The Letter All players will receive an in-game letter:

From:Grabby Gigglegibber
Subject:Nights of the Dead!
Boo "Player Name"
New and returning stuffs to celebrate during Nights of the Dead! Buy costumes or get one of the Gigglegibber cousins to cast an illusion on you! And join us goblins and ghoulies, in your city, but go away from Deekat, Gigglegibber faker! Trap! Instead, visit our haunted house in North Qeynos or West Freeport, or hunt ghosts in Antonica and Commonlands! Help cure-heal a mysterious icky-sick man at the Nektulos Docks. Grab others to help squish the Headless Horseman in Nektulos Forest or the Scarecrow King in Antonica. And no forget to squish creepy crawlies and bump-night things for special treats. They be to craft items! Me tummy rumble for all candy-treats cept candy corn. Icky! So, you come to me with any Nights of the Dead treats and I give you candy corns. Deal? Yay!
Grabby Gigglegibber
Treat Trader

Event History and Retired Quests

Trick or Treating

An amygdalan mask (Visible)

The Amydgalan Mask is one of several masks rewards that were moved to the Ghost Hunter races when Trick or Treating was retired.

First introduced in 2005, this activity was a timed quest in which players ran around and hailed NPCs in Freeport or Qyenos to trick or treat. Afterwards, treats were taken to goblin; depending on which treats you had and which treats he wanted, you were awarded a choice of several NotD masks.

Trick or Treating was removed when Freeport and Qyenos were updated (2012) with a improved graphics and merged to cut down on needless zoning between areas of those cities.

Night of the Dead Devotee Challenge (Changed)

In the past, players used to get an in-game mail with a coin that offered this as a quest. Players had to go to various locations to find and click on items. In order to get the titles once offered by this event, now players must simply complete all of the various NotD Achievements

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