Costume Brawl
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This article is about the minigame. For the outpost, see Costume Brawl (outpost).
Costume Brawl is a PvP minigame introduced during Halloween 2007. Players fight in the guise of famous characters from the Guild Wars story, using that character's special equipment and custom set of skills.
To enter, speak with NPC—Bobby [Costume Brawl]—in the towns of Lion's Arch, Kamadan, Droknar's Forge, and the Great Temple of Balthazar. You will enter the Costume Brawl outpost already dressed in your disguise, with your skills selected and your weapons equipped. Each gender and profession has corresponding characters. From there, you will join the combat in one of several brawl arenas.
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[edit] Game mechanics
Two randomly-grouped teams of 5 take on the guises of henchmen, heroes, and villains of their respective professions and compete to be the first to reach 20 points. At the end of a match, every player on the winning team will receive a prize.
- Scoring
- You score one point for each kill you achieve.
- If neither team has scored 20 points within 10 minutes, the team with the highest score wins.
- If the teams are tied at the end of 10 minutes, the first team to score a kill wins.
- Shrines
- Any non-Morale shrine adds 1 pip to the morale bar's progress rate, while a Morale shrine adds two pips.
- Morale shrines handicaps with 10% less healing, but allows your party to deal 10% more damage.
- Health shrines raise your party members' health by 120 each.
- Energy shrines lower cost of your party's skills by 20%.
- Battle Cry shrines raise movement speed by 25%, attack speed by 15%, and skills recharge 15% faster.
- Fighting at the Resurrection Shrines grants benefits to the team that resurrects at the shrine: deal 50% more damage and take 50% less damage.
- Rounds
- There is no Death Penalty.
- Disguises are assigned randomly each round.
- Winning teams' members are sent back into the queue for entering battle.
- Modifiers
Costume Brawl overrides any existing modifiers (e.g. Health, Energy, Armor, or Attributes), including:
- Skills that boost attributes (e.g. Aura of the Lich does not offer the +1 to Death Magic, due to the contest's mechanics).
- Runes & Insignias
- Flux effects
- Weakness
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- Disguises use different attributes and skills every year. You can view the disguises from the previous years on this page.
[edit] Weapons
While the skills are fixed in the disguise, the inventory and the equipped weapons stay with the character. For every character a related weapon will drop on the ground when you enter the arena. So either bring appropriate weapons along or pick up the dropped weapon. Any weapon not picked up by the start of the battle will disappear.
[edit] Arenas
- Kysten Shore
- One Center Shrine (Morale Shrine)
- One Battle Cry Shrine
- One Energy Shrine
- Whitefury Rapids
- Two Morale Shrines
- Two Health Shrines
- One Battle Cry Shrine
- Plikkup Works
- One Center Shrine (Morale Shrine)
- Two Health Shrines
- One Battle Cry Shrine
- One Energy Shrine
- Deepway Ruins
- Two Morale Shrines
- One Battle Cry Shrine
[edit] Rewards
Each team member receives:
- 40 Balthazar faction per unique kill
- 20 Balthazar faction per point scored
- 5 Balthazar faction for each point on final scoreboard, 15 Gamer points, and 5 Trick-or-Treat Bags in a team win. For example, if the opposing team resigns while the scoreboard shows 18 points, the victors receive 90 Balthazar faction.
[edit] Tips
There are two ways to victory:
- Kill enemy players
- Keep shrines to gain morale
There are no tactics that ensure a win every time. Winning depends on your players' skill, profession composition and enemy team behavior.
- As a general rule, don't fight when severely outnumbered and especially when the opponent has the Battle Cry shrine. Chances are you will give the opposing team a point with your death before you can finish off one of them. Run away and regroup. If you are lucky, only one or two of the opposing players will chase you, and your team will have the numeric advantage in the skirmish. Draw enemies to your Resurrection Shrine if possible because your damage is boosted and the enemy's is reduced. Conversely, avoid fighting in the opposing team's resurrection shrine.
- In Whitefury Rapids, there are many different tactics. One is to split 2-1-2: two players get the Battle Cry Shrine, two get the Health Shrine and one stays to get the Morale Shrine. The one at the Morale Shrine moves on to the Health Shrine split or directly over the bridge to the other Morale Shrine. Try to encounter the enemy splits in even numbers or, if you know you can handle them, take on the enemy so that you can still win. Once your team has all shrines, repeatedly kill the enemy players at or in their base.
- Be ready at the gate(s) or portal at the start of the game.
- Work out which shrine(s) to capture at the start.
- Coordinate battles and communicate. Call targets instead of letting damage spread out over several opponents. Direct teammates to control points or away from opponents.
[edit] Notes
- Regardless of item bonuses, player health is set to 600. Energy and attributes are fixed for every profession. Armor and weapon upgrades that do not affect maximum health, energy or attributes keep their effect.
- If you win a game with a full inventory, you will get the "Your inventory is full." message instead of "You receive 5 Trick-or-treat bags.", and gain no bags.
- Since every character gets a weapon for these matches, newly created characters may obtain max-stat weapons by participating in these events, although they will have high attribute requirements.
- While it is possible to adjust your skill bar and reorder your skills while in the waiting area, it will be reset to its default upon entering. After entering, you may change your skill bar to suit your needs, although this may become tiresome after many matches
[edit] Trivia
- Before 2008, this game awarded 7 Gamer points per win. From 2008 to 2009, this game awarded 9+(number of consecutive victories up to 41).
- Before 2010, each profession and gender had only one disguise available.
- Before 2011, all disguises had a unique name and skill description in the effects monitor. In 2011, all disguises appear with the generic Combat Costume name and skill description in the effects monitor.
- It is possible to go behind the waterfalls in the Costume Brawl. A video on how to get in can be seen here.
- It used to be possible to get stuck in the Costume Brawl with no way to map out.
[edit] See also
| Minigames |
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| Halloween: Costume Brawl Wintersday: Dwayna Vs Grenth • Snowball Dominance • Fighting in a Winter Wonderland • The Great Snowball Fight of the Gods Shing Jea Boardwalk: Dragon Arena • Nine Rings • Rings of Fortune • Dragon Nest • Rollerbeetle Racing Canthan New Year: Rock-Paper-Scissors Pre-Searing: The Bear Hunters • The Prize Winning Hogs Eye of the North: Dwarven brawling • Kilroy Stonekin • Polymock • The Leadfoot Race • The Norn Fighting Tournament |
| Disguises |
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| Obtained through tonics |
| Abyssal Form • Archer Form • Asura Form • Avatar of Balthazar Form • Avatar of Holiday Cheer • Avatar of Sweetness • Awakened Head Form • Beetle Metamorphosis • Black Moa Form • Black Moa Chick Form • Bone Dragon Form • Brown Rabbit Form • Champion of Balthazar Form • Charr Form • Crystal Guardian Form • Crystal Spider Form • Eye of Janthir Form • Flame Sentinel Form • Footman Form • Ghostly Hero Form • Ghostly Priest Form • Golem Form • Grentch Form • Guild Lord Form • Gwen Doll Form • Hellhound Form • Henchman Form • Knight Form • Moa Bird Form • Mursaat Form • Norn Form • Ooze Form • Priest of Balthazar Form • Rainbow Phoenix Form • Reindeer Form • Rift Warden Form • Saltspray Dragon Form • Seer Form • Sinister Golem Form • Snowman Form • Spider Form • Swarm of Bees Form • The Black Beast of Arrgh Form • White Moa Form • Yeti Form
Sixth Year Anniversary Celebration |
| Obtained through polymock pieces |
| Aloe Seed Form • Earth Elemental Form • Fire Elemental Form • Fire Imp Form • Gaki Form • Gargoyle Form • Ice Elemental Form • Ice Imp Form • Kappa Form • Mantis Dreamweaver Form • Mergoyle Form • Mirage Iboga Form • Mursaat Elementalist Form • Naga Shaman Form • Ruby Djinn Form • Skale Form • Stone Rain Form • Wind Rider Form • Bone Dragon Form • Charr Flamecaller Form • Charr Shaman Form • Dolyak Rider Form • Dredge Form • Dwarven Arcanist Form • Skeletal Mage Form • Smoke Wraith Form • Titan Form |
| Obtained during missions |
| Corsair • Jade Brotherhood • Kournan Guardsman • Keiran Thackeray • Ne're-do-well • Master Togo • Saul D'Alessio • Gwen • Turai Ossa |
| Obtained in explorable areas |
| Desert Wurm • Spirit Form |
| Obtained during holiday events |
| Rollerbeetle Racer • Going Commando • G.O.L.E.M. Canthan New Year disguises (Pig Form • Rat Form • Ox Form • Tiger Form • Rabbit Form • Dragon Form • Snake Form • Horse Form • Sheep Form • Monkey Form • Rooster Form • Dog Form) Halloween disguises (Agent of the Mad King • Candy Corn Infantry • Combat Costume) |
| Others |
| Lose your Head • Rudi's Red Nose • Stone Dwarf Transformation • Test Buff |
