Halloween event

The Halloween event is a minor event occurring on Ephinea over the end of October. It lasts two weeks, and features event-exclusive items, two event-exclusive quests, and more quests that, while not event-exclusive, may only be accessed with the use of Halloween event-exclusive items.

Boosts

While the Halloween event does not feature any inherent boosts for normal play, the associated Halloween quests (detailed below) feature large bonuses while played:

• +200% experience
• +50% drop anything rate
• +50% rare drop rate
• +100% rare enemy rate

These boosts are not affected by Ephinea's four rotating weekly boosts, and can only be further increased by playing the quests on Anguish difficulty.

Additionally, while the Halloween event is in progress, playing the Halloween quests grants an additional bonus:

• +20% Halloween Cookie drop rate

Event items

Halloween Cookie ハロウィーンのクッキー A sweet tasty treat. I think someone hungry wants this.. Type : Event Item Max Stack : 99 Hex : 03100E

Main article: Halloween Cookie

During the Halloween event, Halloween Cookies will drop from all enemies (with the exception of scared Rappies), at the following rates:

Difficulty	Rate
Normal	1/5000
Hard	1/4000
Very Hard	1/3000
Ultimate	1/1500

Halloween Cookies will not drop from item boxes.

Associated quests

The availability of Halloween Cookies enable players to access the Halloween quests, which are a series of single-area, single-room quests with extremely high enemy density for each area in every episode. For each episode, they are located in the "Halloween" quest category (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 4).

While these quests may be selected at the quest counter year-round, each Halloween quest requires one member of the party to give one Halloween Cookie to an NPC near the teleporter, in exchange for its activation, for the quest to be played. Only one Cookie must be given to the NPC, and it can be given to the NPC by any member of the party; it does not have to be the party leader, and not every player in the party needs to contribute a Cookie.

Once the teleporter has been activated through the exchange of a Cookie, players will be teleported to a single room in the area of the quest chosen to fight through multiple waves of enemies.

List of Halloween quests

Quest	Area
Episode 1
Hollow Battlefield: Forest	Forest 1
Hollow Battlefield: Cave	Cave 2
Hollow Battlefield: Mine	Mine 2
Hollow Battlefield: Ruins	Ruins 3
Episode 2
Hollow Reality: Temple	VR Temple Alpha
Hollow Reality: Spaceship	VR Spaceship Alpha
Hollow Phantasm: Jungle	Jungle East
Hollow Phantasm: Seabed	Seabed Upper
Hollow Phantasm: Tower	Control Tower
Episode 4
Hollow Wasteland: Wilderness	Crater West
Hollow Wasteland: Desert	Subterranean Desert 3

While playing each quest, a black-and-white filter visual effect is applied to the screen (with the exceptions of Control Tower and Subterranean Desert, due to both accessibility and technical reasons), to represent "color draining from the world."