Festival hat

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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.

[edit] 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 player's inventory is full, the hat will generally drop on the floor in the town/outpost 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.

[edit] Properties

Festival hats generally share common properties:

• Festival hats are customized to the original recipient.
• Festival hats have no armor rating.
• Cannot be upgraded with runes or insignia.
• Certain festival hats can be dyed.
• Festival hats cannot be salvaged.

Hats created prior to the December 17, 2009 update could be worn in a character's helmet slot, and could be upgraded with runes.

[edit] Festival hat makers

Main article: Festival hat maker

A festival hat maker can copy a festival hat shown to them. After the festival hat has been shown to the festival hat maker, it is available to craft for all characters on that account for a fee of 10 . The recreated festival hat will be automatically customized for the character who crafts the hat. Festival hat makers will only copy hats that are customized for that account. 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.

[edit] List of Festival Hats

Mask	Name	Acquisition
	Pumpkin Crown	Halloween 2005.
	Yule Cap	Wintersday 2005 if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your District.
	Horns of Grenth	Wintersday 2005 if Grenth is the winner of the event in your District.
	Tengu Mask	Day of the Tengu.
	Dragon Mask	Dragon Festival 2006.
	Furious Pumpkin Crown	Halloween 2006 in Lion's Arch.
	Wicked Hat (Male/female)	Halloween 2006 in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Stylish Yule Cap	Wintersday 2006 if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your District in Lion's Arch.
	Great Horns of Grenth	Wintersday 2006 if Grenth is the winner of the event in your District in Lion's Arch.
	Freezie Crown	Wintersday 2006 if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your District in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Jester's Cap	Wintersday 2006 if Grenth is the winner of the event in your District in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Lion Mask	Canthan New Year 2007/2008/2009
	Demon Mask	Dragon Festival 2007.
	Scarecrow Mask	Halloween 2007 in Lion's Arch.
	Mummy Mask	Halloween 2007 in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Wreath Crown	Wintersday 2007 if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your District.
	Ice Crown	Wintersday 2007 if Grenth is the winner of the event in your District.
	Grasping Mask	Dragon Festival 2008.
	Zombie Face Paint	Halloween 2008 in Lion's Arch.
	Lupine Mask	Halloween 2008 in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Rudi Mask	Wintersday 2008 if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your District.
	Grentch Cap	Wintersday 2008 if Grenth is the winner of the event in your District.
	Imperial Dragon Mask	Dragon Festival 2009
	Charr Hat	Halloween 2009 in Lion's Arch.
	Skeleton Face Paint	Halloween 2009 in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
	Snow Crystal Crest	Wintersday 2009 and Wintersday 2009 Redux if Dwayna is the winner of the event in your district, and from the Wintersday Hat Giver following the 2009 redux.
	Ice Shard Crest	Wintersday 2009 and Wintersday 2009 Redux if Grenth is the winner of the event in your district and from the Wintersday Hat Giver following the 2009 redux.

[edit] Notes

• Before the 17 December 2009 game update, festival hats used your character's headgear slot. Certain festival hats, such as Mummy Mask were able to be upgraded with runes and insignia until then. Now, festival hats are Costume headpieces, and effectively fit on top of your armor, but visually remove and replace whatever your normal armor headpiece is. Hats in inventory that were created prior to that update are still able to be worn in the headgear slot.