The creepy shadows are once again leaking foulish beasties into Norrath, and it's your job to find out why. Nights of the Dead is all about embracing your fear and need for adventure. It's also all about the macabre and how far you're willing to go for some sweet, sweet loot. Zintris will have new adventures for you in Qeynos and Freeport, while some returning challenges hold some new rewards. Whether you’re digging up a ghoulish good time in your favorite city, hunting ghosts in Antonica or the Commonlands, or investigating any of the other haunted locations on this mortal plane, Terris-Thule is bound to have a good scare in store for you!
Those inclined to celebrate the holiday with a few crafting tricks or treats will find a new book of recipes full of new housing items to craft sold by Lil’ Boo—one of the official event merchants—along with other new items. Haint—the other merchant—sells the returning must-have items. Yes, there is enough between the two of them to create your own haunted house!
New Merchant Items
New Features for '25!
Special Rules Servers
- Zarrakon, Varsoon & Kael Drakkel - The entire event is active, including Headless or Tails & Cadavers of the Corn!
Live servers
- Cadavers of the Corn - NEW Public Quest in Thundering Steppes!
- Where's Your Head At? - NEW achievement
- Cornucopia of Corpses - NEW achievement
- New holiday signs can be marked in select celebration locations throughout Norrath.
- Wake the Dead has a whole new outfit pieces as possible treats!
- Ensured "Nights of the Dead treats" drops as loot from Scars of Destruction undead and creepy crawly beasts. It can either be sold to merchants for coin or be used in tradeskilling.
- 9 New house items and equipment sold by Lil’ Boo, a Nights of the Dead Merchant!
- 2 New costume illusions sold by Lil’ Boo, a Nights of the Dead Merchant
- New holiday recipe book "Celebrations of the Dead XVIII" is available from Lil’ Boo, a Nights of the Dead Merchant.
- 2 New Flying Mounts - Wings of the Webspinner and Skybound Plague Cloud available on the Marketplace
- 2 New Plushie Bundles – Scarecrow Plushie Bundle and Phobia Plushie Bundle available on the Marketplace
Wings of the Webspinner Flying Mount
Skybound Plague Cloud Flying Mount
Scarecrow Plushie & Phobia Plushie Bundles
Returning features
- In-game mail informs everyone of the event!
- Returning merchant items and recipes are being sold by Haint, a Nights of the Dead merchant, available in all player cities.
- “Bite Club” Overseer Quests and Agents
- Headless or Tails (Headless Horseman PQ)
- Added new rewards:
- Season 12 familiars
- Essence of Haunting - New weapon aura!
- Returning Quests
- From Regions Beyond - Repeatable once per year.
- Trick or Treatskiller - Repeatable once per year.
- Night of the Barking Dead - Repeatable once per year.
- The Haunting - Repeatable every 18 hours.
- This Won't End Well... - Repeatable once per year.
- There Will Be Ghosts – Repeatable.
- Petrified Pumpkin Pies - Repeatable once per year.
- McQuibble's Mystery - Repeatable once per year.
- Scary Scarecrows - Repeatable once per year.
- The Troubling Truth - Repeatable once per year.
- A Nightmarish Illness - Not repeatable.
- A Nightmarish Return – Repeatable.
- Train to Zone! - Repeatable every 18 hours.
- Survive the Night - Repeatable once per year.
- Ghost Hunter: Commonlands – Repeatable.
- Ghost Hunter: Antonica – Repeatable.
- A Dream, By Any Other Name - Repeatable once per year.
- Broken Mirrors - Repeatable once per year.
- Returning Achievements
- Calcified Skeleton Hunter [series]
- Wake the Dead
- Candy Crusher
- Baying at the Moon [series]
- Closet Full of Skeletons
- Tricky Treats
- Ghost Hunter Extraordinaire
- Nights of the Dead Devotee
- Returning Collections
- Starving Skeleton Bones
- Facing Your Fears
- Spook-tacular Cookies
- Final Arrangements
- Werehunter's Survival Kit
- Ghost Hunter's Pack
- Grave Memories
- Frightfully Frosted Cupcakes
- A Swinging Wake
- The Hollow Hedge Collection
- Crunchy Candied Crickets
- Deadly Remnants
- Frightfull Fabric
- Ghoulish Masks
- The Great Haunt
- Tradeskill recipe books sold by Nights of the Dead Merchant in cities. The recipes require "Nights of the Dead treats" looted from creatures and low level harvestables as components.
- Celebrations of the Dead I - XVIII
- Wake the Dead event in Qeynos, Freeport, Kelethin, New Halas, Gorowyn, Darklight Wood, Haven, Maj'Dul, and Great Divide.
- New items added to the random treat box
- Sanguineous Healer’s Robe
- Sanguineous Healer’s Mask
- Sanguineous Healer’s Accessories Pack
- Returning items
- Fresh Grave Mound
- Unrest Stone Building Blocks
- New items added to the random treat box
- Pumpkin Bomb sold by Nights of the Dead Merchants.
- Baktor, the Voracious has had its loot chance increased!
- Catacomb Brick Building Blocks has been added as a possible treat!
- Vampire lore and Legend book attainable within the Haunted Mansion.
- Skeletons spawning in Antonica, the Commonlands, and Nektulos Forest agro at player's level and have a 50% chance of dropping Nights of the Dead treats.
- Nights of the Dead celebrators in the player cities that give the background to the festivities.
- Gigglegibber Goblins in the player cities that cast illusion costumes on players.
- Undead and creepy crawly beasts drop "Nights of the Dead treats" (candy) as loot. It can either be exchanged for event coin, sold to merchants for coin, or used in tradeskilling.
- Neriak has some decorations at the docks, New Foreign Quarter & tradeskill area. They are smashable jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins. This is the only zone that has them!
- Decorations in Qeynos, Freeport, Haven, Kelethin, Darklight Wood, Gorowyn, Gnomeland Security in Steamfont, New Halas, Maj'Dul and Thurgadin Harbor in Great Divide.
Nights of the Dead is running now until November 3, 2025 at 11:59 P.M. PT. Don’t let the date creep up on you! Scare you later!
