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, and the Great Temple of Balthazar. You will enter the Costume Brawl outpost already dressed in your costume, with your skills selected and your weapons equipped. Each gender and profession has a corresponding character. 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 and Heroes 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.
- You score one point for each kill you achieve.
- Any non-Morale shrine adds 1 pip to the morale bar's progress rate, while a Morale shrine adds two pips.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no Death Penalty.
[edit] Disguises
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- Disguises use different 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
[edit] Rewards
Each team member receives:
- 40 Balthazar faction per unique kill
- 20 Balthazar faction per point scored
- 9+(number of consecutive victories up to 41) Gamer Points, 5 Trick-or-Treat Bags and 5 faction for each point in a team win. For example, if the opposing team resigns at 18 points, the victors receive 90 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. 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, one or two of the opposing players chased you, and now your team has 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 Kysten Shore, it is usually best to capture the center shrine with your whole team and wipe the enemy team that you encounter. Now 3 party members stay there while the other two go capture the Battle Cry Shrine and then the Energy 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.
In Plikkup Works, a versatile tactic is to split 2-3 at the start, with the group of 2 heading to the Energy Shrine, and the 3 heading towards the health shrine. 2 remain to capture the health shrine, while the 3rd goes on towards the Battle Cry shrine to start capturing it. Characters with speed boosts (e.g. Rangers or Paragons) should head for the Battle Cry shrine. Meanwhile, the 2 who went to the Energy shrine should head across the bridge to the Center shrine, or if the enemy has moved on, head to capture the enemy's Health shrine instead, before everybody collapses on the Battle shrine. Control of the Battle shrine is particularly important in this map due to the large amount of running around required.
[edit] Notes
- Regardless of item bonuses, player health is set to 600. Energy and attributes are fixed for every profession. 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 high-end weapons by participating in these events (albeit with 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.
- It is possible to go behind the waterfalls in the Costume Brawl. To get in, hug one of the pillars, preferably the one on the right, then, click on the very tip of the opposite waterfall inside the area. To get out, go to the same pillar as last time, then click on the waterfall that is outside of the area to your right. (this is if you use mouse clicking to move, which can be enable/disabled in your user Options panel/window)
- It used to be possible to get stuck in the costume brawl with no way to map out.
| Minigames |
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| Halloween: Costume Brawl Wintersday: Dwayna Vs Grenth 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 • Polymock • The Leadfoot Race • The Norn Fighting Tournament |
| Disguises | |
|---|---|
| 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 • Footman Form • Ghostly Hero Form • Golem Form • Grentch Form • Guild Lord Form • Gwen Doll Form • Hellhound Form • Moa Bird Form • Mursaat Form • Norn Form • Ooze Form • Priest of Balthazar Form • Rainbow Phoenix 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 |
| Obtained during missions | Corsair Disguise • Jade Brotherhood Disguise • Kournan Guardsman Uniform |
| Obtained in explorable areas | Desert Wurm • Spirit Form |
| Obtained during holiday events | Agent of the Mad King • Costume Brawl disguise • Ox Form • Pig Form • Rat Form • Rollerbeetle Racer |
