Getting ready to summon the Hoebag Headless Horseman.When I first started playing WoW last year, my first toon (Ladelyia), was only in her teens and low 20's, so there wasn't much she could do. I was able to pick up candy from several inns and get a couple of the easy achievements but not much. It was also very annoying to go to the main cities and towns that had waterfronts because there were plague crates that would turn you into a zombie if you got too close. It was for WOTLK and once you were a zombie you could infect other players. Being a lowbie, I found this very annoying because it was an interuption in my questing, I couldn't turn things in or I couldn't get things done in town because I was too busy either avoiding plauged players or trying to find the antidote because I had been turned.
This year, the Hallow's End festivities were way more enjoyable. The one and only thing I had trouble with (on both Kady and Ladelyia) was getting the Hallowed Helm to drop. My hubby (who I love very much) had it drop while trick-or-treating one or two of his toons and I hated him for a while. His lowbie Shaman got Sinister Calling through trick-or-treating, freaking ticked me off. I was running HH almost every night with Lade and Kady for a chance at the helm. I cared about the possibility of the mount too, but mostly the helm. For the people in our guild who semi-cared about the acheivements (there are a few who absolutely refuse or simply don't care at all), they ended up getting the Hallowed title before Garaba and I (who are actually working on the violet protodrake). It got to the point where Garaba was offering money to whoever's summon won him the helm. I managed to get the helm and finish the achievements a day or two before the end of the holiday, thankfully.
Finally, on HALLOWEEN, the LAST day of the entire two week holiday, Garaba finally got the helm. It took an extra summon, but he got it. The first group of guildies to go didn't manage to get the helm to drop. So Super and I got on our other toons (his hunter for him and Kady--who didn't have it yet--for me), Darwe had come on his Warlock so we each got summons, which was awesome. Super summoned first and that helm showed its vindictive little face after a relatively quick downing of the HH. I looked over at Super and asked if it would be mean if I rolled need on it (we'd been rolling need on anything that we actually needed, that way if the others got greed-happy we would still have a chance at looting the helm for the acheivement) since Kady didn't have it yet. That was when he told me that it had been his summon and he'd split the money with me. I'll take in-game money over an achievement on my non-achievement toon, heck yes. I knew how much Garaba was offering too, 500g, so I definitely did that. Since Kady hadn't done her summon yet, I went ahead and did it since we were all there anyway. That damn helm dropped again. Nobody else in the group needed it, Kady was the only one. So now both Ladelyia and Kady are sporting "the Hallowed" titles and Kady got 250g out of the deal!
Ladelyia dressed as a pirate (with a weird tabard glitch) and a weighted jack-0-lantern.
