The Day of the Dead is Near

The Day of the Dead is Near

During the Day of the Dead, the people of Azeroth gather in graveyards to celebrate and cherish the spirits of those they have lost. One can find the festivities in the cemeteries of any major city where celebrants cook, drink, Don costumes and more.

Event Details

When: November 1st - November 2nd
Where: Graveyards of all Capital Cities (Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, Exodar, Orgrimmar, Undercity, Silvermoon City, Thunderbluff, Shattrath City, and Dalaran City)
Learn More: Wowhead, Wowpedia, Wowjuju, WoWfan.cz (Czech)

Activities

Can you feel it? The spirit world draws close during the Day of the Dead. This is why we decorate the graves of our dearly departed with flowers and candles and offerings: to welcome them back, even if only for a time.


Dance with Catrina
Let us cherish and honor those we have lost in their ghostly presence, so that they might eat and drink and smile and know that they are loved. Dance with Catrina and you will be transformed into a skeleton and unlock an achievement.

The Grateful Dead
Purchase some Orange Marigold or Bouquet of Orange Marigolds from Chapman and use them to see the otherwise invisible spirit in the graveyard. Acquire some Bread of the Dead and give it to the Cheerful Spirit.


ITEM REWARDS

Vanity items:

  • Bouquet of Orange Marigolds
    These beautiful flowers are said to attract spirits and help one communicate with the departed on the Day of the Dead, and also will help you detect invisibility during that very day.
  • Recipe: Bread of the Dead
    This delicious bread will help you recover your health and mana.
  • Whimsical Skull Mask (seasonal)
    You can wear this grim mask during the Day of the Dead only.
  • Macabre Marionette (seasonal)
    Your reward for the Grateful Dead quest is a Macabre Marionette, a small pet that looks like a skeleton wearing a sombrero and holding a pair of maracas. This pet can only be used during the Day of the Dead event - it cannot be learned and kept like other small pets.

OTHER REWARDS

Achievements
The Day of the Dead currently offers 1 achievement (Dead Man's Party) that grants 10 achievement points.

Check out our Day of the Dead screenshot gallery!

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Vurtue
Aerie Peak
Vurtue
09/05/2013
i didnt
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Baulte
Nagrand
Baulte
08/11/2012
Too bad i missed it!
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Assassia
Aggramar
Assassia
02/11/2012
Macabre Marionette (seasonal).

Come on blizz, make it a perma pet for pet battle!, the undead pet master just outside Dalaran have it, so why cant we? (ofc tons of other pet master NPC have re-colored / skinned mobs we cant have that i had love to be able to tame, but still).

If it have anything to do with japanese cant see bones, then make it a EU / US pet only! (just like japanese server have pigs / cats / dragons that only they where able to gain), so, i dont think its unfair that we are able to get 1 pet they cant, when they have like 5-7 we cant get.

Another sulution is to make it like "winters / fathers little helper pet", make it say stuff like "wow wow wow, its not the day of the dead yet, imma go back to my sleep!", but still give us the option to use it for pet battle (even tho this sulution will suck for ppl who kinda like this pet).
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Strongarms
Ragnaros
Strongarms
02/11/2012
@Assassia: Great ide of the undead pet i rly liked it. Seems good that we can atleast have one pet that japan cant use and they got alot so very nice ^^
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Hellian
Burning Steppes
Hellian
06/11/2012
@Assassia: There aren't any pets exclusive to Japan. I think you're trying to refer to the exclusive pets on the Chinese and Korean servers.
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Good.
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Uski
Burning Legion
Uski
01/11/2012
What city for pandaren?
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Sumyla
Drak'thul
Sumyla
01/11/2012
Where to take quest The Grateful Dead if iam pandaren?
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Dandis
Sylvanas
Dandis
31/10/2012
Cool Czech site, thanks a lot, I didn't even know it exist ! :)
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Flurryo
Aegwynn
Flurryo
31/10/2012
Blizzard should offer more permanent Rewards for this. No Epics necessarily, but things like for example a Skull Tabard, oder Transmoggs, A Mount maybe, that would be nice:) Seasonal Reward are ok, but some minor permanent ones would make it more interesting, and offer more chances to make Characters unique...
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@Flurryo: Surely that would take away more from the meaning of what this day actually stands for. It is only 2 days long aswell, to have mounts and all these extra items during 2 days!
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Sumyla
Drak'thul
Sumyla
31/10/2012
Thanks for post czech website its so nice :) and now make drakthul server official czech :P
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Jackichanda
Earthen Ring
Jackichanda
31/10/2012
Now we just need a event like the zombie scourge event that also lasts one day... Please?
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Mogadon
Darkmoon Faire
Mogadon
31/10/2012
Reminds me a tad of Grim Fandango.
And thanks for linking to the czech site, appreciated.
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Frrostclaw
Terokkar
Frrostclaw
31/10/2012
nice 2 day thing there, you should add an achievement though for doing everything and receiving everything `:)
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Соломея
Grom
Соломея
31/10/2012
I wish this pet could be used for always (not only for two days) - it would be my favorite pet -)
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Wheila
Defias Brotherhood
Wheila
31/10/2012
Nice
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Wixox
Quel'Thalas
Wixox
31/10/2012
<3