Can we get a way to obtain the deathly shoulder skins this Halloween?

[Crystal Black.8190]

There exist three deathly shoulder skins featuring either a human, a bird or a bulls skull.

They were once obtainable during the Halloween event in 2012 and never again in any of the following Halloween festivals. Please Anet can you give us a way to obtain them this year?

[Mortifera.6138]

And bring back the Mad Memoires (original color).

[Danikat.8537]

I agree, these should come back. All the other items from the 2012 black lion chests/mad king's chest have been made available again so I'm not sure why these haven't.

 

> @"Mortifera.6138" said:

> And bring back the Mad Memoires (original color).

 

What's the difference? I have both versions of the first skin (the green one which is just called Mad Memoires) and they look the same to me. I never got the Complete Edition in 2012 but looking at the Wiki both the [original](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Edition_(discontinued)) and the [2017 re-release](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Edition) appear identical.

[Vallune.8150]

I did get hold of these within the last year or two - all three shoulder skins are currently available within the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock / Guaranteed Armor Unlock.

But yeah, those are rng unlocks and making older skins more available is always a good thing, so I'm all for a way for people to work towards them at Halloween.

 

P.S. Bring back the Boxing Gloves for costume brawls while you are at it - not available since 2013 :)

 

[Solanum.6983]

I'm not sure why they'd lock Event items like that, You'd think any Halloween related items would get rerelease yearly, Surely them only popping up every year makes them exclusive enough.

 

[Danikat.8537]

> @"Solanum.6983" said:

> I'm not sure why they'd lock Event items like that, You'd think any Halloween related items would get rerelease yearly, Surely them only popping up every year makes them exclusive enough.

 

In this case it's not so much that they locked them as the way they were obtained was removed and they never added a new one to replace it. They originally came from Black Lion Chests, during Halloween 2012. This was the first time Black Lion Chests were updated after launch and the first time they offered cosmetics as a possible drop. The first implementation of that system was...controversial. I can't remember all the details but I remember the low drop rate for skins was a nasty surprise for some people, there was no alternative (like claim tickets or statuettes) to let you get the drop you wanted if you weren't lucky and I think there were other issues too. The [Mad King's Chest](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_King_Chest_(historical)) was added as a way to allow players to turn the junk items they got from chests into a second chance at the skins and they promised to offer better systems in future.

 

For Wintersday 2012 they went with an entirely separate loot box which only dropped a small list of festival themed items, but that was still pretty controversial (especially because it was possible to get account bound duplicate items) and they kept experimenting with different options in successive releases. Bazaar of the Four Winds in July 2013 gave us Kite Fortunes, which dropped an early version of black lion claim tickets, then the tickets themselves were added in the next release.

 

But then Halloween 2013 (and 14) was a re-vamped event with a lot of changes from the 2012 version (which was also the first in-game event they'd done) with all new rewards so the 2012 stuff didn't come back. But the time they started bringing back stuff from the original Halloween event I suspect these were forgotten.

[lokh.2695]

Would be nice.

[Crystal Black.8190]

Another Halloween skin that was available in 2012 and never again is the witch's hat. A comback of it would also be nice.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

> @"Crystal Black.8190" said:

> Another Halloween skin that was available in 2012 and never again is the witch's hat. A comback of it would also be nice.

 

It's available, and has been for some time: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Witch%27s_Hat

[Crystal Black.8190]

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> > @"Crystal Black.8190" said:

> > Another Halloween skin that was available in 2012 and never again is the witch's hat. A comback of it would also be nice.

>

> It's available, and has been for some time: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Witch%27s_Hat

 

Oh thats nice, something to look forward for next month.

[Ashantara.8731]

> @"Danikat.8537" said:

> > @"Mortifera.6138" said:

> > And bring back the Mad Memoires (original color).

> What's the difference? I have both versions of the first skin

 

There is no difference besides the binding and the stat selection (the newer one is account bound instead of soulbound and has more stat combos available).

 

And as you know, there are also several other versions of this skin:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Edition

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Ignition

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Superstition

[sorudo.9054]

i just hope they will not attach it on an achievement, just sell them for 3 corns or something.

[Esterie.7409]

Yes, please! The skins are so cool and would look amazing on a few of my characters (especially the avian ones, love that corvid skull aesthetic~). As others have said, even having them available at the vendor for cobs would suffice.