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It’s not Halloween inWorld of Warcraftwithout the chance to get your hands on theHeadless Horseman mount, and Hallow’s End, the game’s annual limited-time event, is here to give you that opportunity.
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Hallow’s End, an event in which you’re able to also go trick-or-treating and bob for apples at inns in major cities, allows you to queue in the group finder forThe Headless Horseman,a limited-time, one-boss dungeon that drops an epic Loot-Filled Pumpkin. No tricks here: That’s the treat you want for your chance at this perfectly eerie Halloween mount.
Queueing for The Headless Horseman
You can queue for The Headless Horseman on any character once a day from the Group Finder. However,onlycharacters level 60 and higher will be awarded an epic Loot-Filled Pumpkin for completing the dungeon, so if it’s the mount you’re after, you’ll want to keep that in mind.
you’re able to only get aLoot-Filled Pumpkinonce a day on each character, but you can queue for The Headless Horseman every day while the event is active, getting a new Loot-Filled Pumpkin each day.This year, the Hallow’s End event ends on Nov. 8.
Fighting The Headless Horseman
The one-boss fight begins after you summon the Headless Horseman from the Scarlet Monastary graveyard. One person must interact with a glowing pumpkin in the cemetery to call forth the horseman. Once the Headless Horseman appears, the tank should immediately taunt him to prevent him from targeting other players.The fight itself is relatively straight-forward, though there are a few spells that players should be mindful of: Most notably his Pumpkin Breath, which spews a fiery Pumpkin Breath in two random directions twice in a row; and Insidious Cackle, which causes players to suffer shadow damage and run away in fear if they are too close to each other.
A complete list of The Headless Horseman’sbase abilitiescan be found below:
Pumpkin Breath
The Headless Horseman commands pumpkin soldiers to spew a fiery Pumpkin Breath in a cone in two random directions. This spell repeats twice in a row, with the directions changing each time. Players who stand in the cone of the Pumpkin Breath will take fire damage.
Vine March
The Headless Horseman summons pumpkin soldiers to fight alongside him. This is an add phase; pumpkin soldiers can quickly be burned down by any form of AOE damage.
Insidious Cackle
The Headless Horseman lets loose an insidious cackle, causing shadow damage and affecting all players with a purple circle. Players need to spread apart so that their circles are not overlapping; if players' circles overlap, they will be forced to flee in fear for 6 seconds.
Flaming pumpkins ignite the ground, inflicting fire damage to players caught standing in the flames.
Also available is an optional hard mode for The Headless Horseman encounter.You will get the same reward, an epic Loot-Filled Pumpkin, but it will have a higher chance at containing the Headless Horseman mount or one of the other rare rewards. The hard mode can be turned on by each person individually by interacting with the five Wicker Men at the dungeon’s entrance and accepting each of their “curses.” Each curse will enhance one of the Headless Horseman’s abilities and will apply the Wicker Man’s Shadow debuff, which will decrease your health by a stacking 10% throughout the encounter.
A complete list of The Headless Horseman’senhanced abilities(exclusive to hard mode) can be found below:
Ember Curse
Players emit Shadowflame around themselves periodically. You’ll want to be mindful of your surroundings and try to avoid being hit by the Shadowflame, because getting hit will add a stack of the Wicker Man’s Shadow debuff, decreasing your health.
Cursed Hot Head
Cursed players manifest hallucinations in front of their location. Moving to the hallucination makes it disappear. Ignoring the hallucination will inflict two stacks of the Wicker Man’s Shadow debuff.
Shadow Curse
Insidious Cackle shackles the souls of players and slowly moves them towards fire. Souls that reach the flames before their shackles are destroyed will inflict wo stacks of the Wicker Man’s Shadow debuff.
Thorny Surprise
Piercing thorns erupt under cursed players periodically, and any players hit by the thorns will receive a stack of the Wicker Man’s Shadow debuff.
You do not need to kill The Headless Horseman on hard mode for a chance at the mount, but completing the event on hard mode (with all curses active) will give you the achievementKickin’ With the Wick.
Loot-Filled Pumpkin Rewards
The most sought-after reward in the Loot-Filled Pumpkin is, of course, theHeadless Horseman mount, but the drop rate is very low, and some players have been chasing after this mount for decades. A complete list of the possible rewards you can get from the Loot-Filled Pumpkin is below:
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