Festival hat

Festival hats are costume headpieces that are typically only obtainable during special events. The festival hats may be considered prestige items as they demonstrate the players were around when a certain event occurred.

Acquisition
Festival hats are acquired from certain special events, such as the Dragon Festival, Halloween, and Wintersday. Different festival hats have different requirements to be obtained. Requirements generally include gathering a certain number of a specific item, being present at a specific time during the event or talking to a specific NPC. When obtaining a festival hat, if a character's inventory is full, the hat will generally drop on the ground in the town and be assigned to the character.

Festivals and festival hat pre-requisites are often announced on the log-in screen and on the events page on the official Guild Wars website.

Other characters on an account can also acquire a festival hat after it has been shown to a festival hat maker. Although festival hats are tradeable, they cannot be used or copied by characters that are from another account. This means buying festival hats is not recommended.

Properties
Festival hats share common properties:
 * They are customized to the original recipient.
 * They cannot be salvaged.
 * They have no armor rating and cannot be upgraded with runes or insignia.
 * Unlike other costumes, most hats cannot be dyed.
 * Dyeable exceptions are: Tengu Mask, Dragon Mask, Sinister Dragon Mask, Imperial Dragon Mask, Mirthful Dragon Mask, Lion Mask and Jester's Cap.
 * They can be identified once, although this will not reveal any value nor allow them to be sold to a merchant.