Costume Brawl
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Costume Brawl is a PvP minigame introduced during Halloween 2007. It was available for play only during that special event.
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[edit] Official Info
Join us during the Halloween Festival for some ghoulish fun in the first-ever annual Guild Wars Costume Brawl! 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 this special mini-game, speak with a new NPC—Bobby [Costume Brawl]—in the towns of Lion's Arch, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar. Each profession has a corresponding character, so you'll want to join in often to try out the different characters.
Here are the guests of honor at this year's Costume Brawl: see below
After you speak with Bobby [Costume Brawl], you will enter the outpost for the Costume Brawl already dressed in your costume, with yours [sic] skills selected and your weapons equipped. From there, you will join the combat in one of two brand new arenas or two favorites from the Hero Battle series. Each brawl is free of Death Penalty, and each round will last ten minutes. At the end of a match, every player on the winning team will receive a prize.
So join us for this new Halloween treat. It's going to be howlin' good fun!
[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. Similar to Hero Battles, points are awarded both for kills and for morale regeneration from captured shrines.
[edit] Disguises
[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
[edit] Rewards
Each team member receives:
- 40 Balthazar faction per kill
- 20 faction per point scored
- 7 Gamer Points, 1 Trick-or-Treat Bag and 5 faction for each point in a team win (i.e. if 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.
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.
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.
- The team to get 20 points first wins.
- Your team gets one point every time your morale bar to the left is filled up.
- You get one point for each kill you achieve.
- Every shrine adds 1 pip to the morale bar's progress rate. Morale shrines add 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.
- Draw the enemy near your Resurrection Shrine, where you deal 50% more and take 50% less damage.
[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 health or energy keep their effect.
- It is possible to get stuck in the costume brawl. The usual method of leaving by mapping out will not work if you do not have a boat from the Battle Isles back to Tyria/Elona/Cantha on your map. It is possible however to get out with the help of another player. Get someone to invite you to their guild hall then make a team with them then let them map out. You will be pulled along for the ride.
- If you win a game with a full inventory, you will get the Message "Your inventory is full." message instead of the "You receive 1 Trick-or-treat bag.", and gain no bag.
- Since every character gets a weapon for these matches, newly created characters can get nice items here (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.
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