It will either be today or tomorrow. I'm hoping today so then we will have more time (especially to get the new borders), but they might extend it into November a bit anyway, especially if there's technical issues like these events sometimes have. If the links to the different places appear on the news page, you know it will start soon. The news post announcing it should explain everything.
If the items are showing up in the directory, usually that means the event will be starting today :) There will be a special Morostide event forum section with guides as well as details in the news post when the event starts that should help you out with some of the specifics.
In addition to the patch and trick or treating, you can zap your avatar for a chance to unlock seasonal skins (existing ones and potentially new ones - I don't see any new ones in the wardrobe currently, but I'm not sure if those would show ahead of time or not) and there are floating item pumpkins that show up around the site and can be carved either as food items or for the carved pumpkin collection (during the next event, Fireside, Fantine also requests that you bring her pumpkins, carved or uncarved, in exchange for a chance at some pumpkin baked goods)
There are also several achievements to work on if you're into that :)
It's getting late for me now, I hope there's a news post soon if it's not starting today.
items in the directory got me in the spooky spirit finally, SO HYPE
There's also egging and TPing users and floating pumpkins that can be carved, all of which have achievements.
Thank you for this write up. I'm hoping that my HA issues are worked out sometime during the event, or that maybe the Zapper possibly debugs me lol.
I'm too too excited to see the new skins!! I believe I have all of them so far.
Can’t wait until it starts ..Waited all year for this🎃
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