World of Warcraft's Hallow's End began on October 19 and runs through November 2, Wowhead reported, with the holiday updated for Midnight and extended into the game's housing neighborhoods for the first time. Candy Buckets now appear in every zone, including new ones scattered across Quel'Thalas.
Each neighborhood is randomly assigned a theme at the start of the holiday — Duskwood, Felwood or Drustvar — bringing themed cosmetic features, candies and daily quests from Nomi. Players start by picking up the "A Haunted Home" breadcrumb quest from a Holiday Enthusiast, who directs them to Yin in their neighborhood.
Neighborhood Tricky Treat Traders exchange Neighborhood Candy for Tricky Treats at rates that vary between neighborhoods and refresh each day. A world quest, Community Candy Crawl, runs for 15 minutes every hour around Founder's Point and Razorwind Shores, where collecting 10 Neighborhood Candy from buckets outside occupied player plots earns experience, two Tricky Treats and three Neighborhood Candy. A visible Neighborhood Contribution bar fills as residents complete holiday quests, adding decorations and more lootable candy around the neighborhood Candy Bucket.
Hallow's End celebrates the Forsaken's break from the Scourge. Fun and mischief reign as the Innkeepers of Azeroth dole out treats and tricks to those who partake in the festivities.
Six achievements are new for 2026: Tricks and Treats of Midnight, Sweet Tooth, Duskwood Caramel Crafter, Drustvar Choc-O-Drop, Felwood Fudge Bite Former, and I Ain't Afraid of no Ghost.
Decor costs hotfixed down by 90%
Before the holiday opened, Blizzard sharply cut the price of Hallow's End decor bought with Tricky Treats in a late-night hotfix, Wowhead reported. Items that had cost 200 Tricky Treats now cost 20 — a 90% reduction — across pieces including the Candlelit and Unlit Shrieking Jack-o'-Lanterns, their Ogre variants, the Filled Candy Bucket and the Horrific Head of the Horseman.
Wowhead wrote that Tricky Treats take a while to collect and that at the earlier prices, buying everything — let alone multiple copies — would have run players thousands of pieces of candy.
Reward vendors sell the Tricky Treat decor now that the holiday is live, though the Horrific Head of the Horseman requires having defeated the Headless Horseman through the group finder. Two crafting recipes, the Apple Bobbing Bucket and the Spidery Witch Hat, cost 20 Tricky Treats each from reputation vendors and need a Scribe and a Tailor to make. Some decor went live the previous week and is sold for gold by the neighborhood vendors Holly Twinklebright and Jolli Maxiboom.
The Headless Horseman encounter is again available through the group finder. Its 2025 additions include the mount The Headless Horseman's Ghoulish Charger, which drops only from the first Loot-Filled Pumpkin a player opens each day.
