New World: Aeternum – Nightveil Hallow Event Guide

Every year during this time, New World: Aeternum hosts a Halloween event named Nightveil Hallow and players prancing around with their pumpkin baskets can nail some juicy treats by participating in this two-week-long celebration.

This guide will cover everything related to the event, from how to start its main quest, to how to beat the event bosses. So, get your best costumes, and grab your preferred weapons, because it’s time to banish some evil entities.

How To Start The Nightveil Hallow Event In New World: Aeternum

To start the Nightveil Hallow Quest in New World: Aeternum, players need to approach the central areas of every main city and look for a Bubbling Cauldron with a spooky Witchhunter next to it. This NPC is called Salvatore. He will be the handler of the event and its reward shop.

This quest is repeatable, which means players can take it multiple times and hunt down Baalphazu every day. Accumulating Event reputation in the process.

Talk to Salvatore, and select the Start Quest option, then receive Baalphazu’s Fall quest, which will send players to track and take down Baalphazu, a World Boss. Every time players take down Baalphazu, they will earn Event reputation and unlock new rewards in Salvatore’s shop. But first, they need to actually track down and kill the beast, so, let’s do that next: time to check the Baalphazu Fight strategy as well as the details on how to complete the Quest.

How To Complete Baalphazu’s Fall In New World: Aeternum

During the fight, Baalphazu will use the following attacks:

• Circle of Vaccum: Sporadically, the Boss will channel a green circle that will expand. Players in the furthest circle (often Range attackers) will be pulled in, damaged, and stunned.
• Branch Attack: Blockable simple attack, stay in the back of the boss to dodge it, or use a shield or Two-Handed Weapon to block it. Note: Cannot be parried with the Rapier’s ability.
• Branch Smite: Baalphazu will yelp “I Will Destroy You,” and perform an unblockable area strike that will cause a lot of damage, dodge or stay away from it.
• Teleport: Baalphazu can randomly teleport between the corners of the Arena, if left unchecked, it will lose aggro and reset, so watch out for that.
• Summon Pumpkinites, Gourdspewer, Calabashers: Baalphazul will summon adds frequently. Pumpkinites explode and cause Pumpkin Fall in small areas when killed. Gourdspewers and Calabashers drop a small healing AoE when killed, and players need to take advantage of this to survive the fight.
• Pumpkin Fall: After each Pumpkinite summoned is killed, Baalphazu will summon a rain of AoE damaging pumpkins that players need to dodge or take moderate damage. There’s no way to block this attack, and players should stay away from it. After the Pumpkins fall, they will remain in the floor, so players can pick them up and throw them to Baalphazu to stun him.

The best strategy for this boss is to stay as far away from him as possible if players are ranged DPS, that is. For Melee combatants, try to stay on the back of the boss and let more tanky players aggro it and kite him around as the rest deal damage. Dodge the Pumpkinite explosion, then pick up the heads and throw them at the boss so it becomes stunned and everyone can attack him during a brief period of respite.

Tanks should be extremely careful not to get caught by the Branch Smite or the Pumpkin Fall attacks, as they will cause considerable damage to them and cannot be blocked. Manage stamina carefully, and there’s no shame in retreating if health drops below 50%, to let other tanks take charge. It’s a public world event after all.

Healers should always be aware of the Pumpkinites and dodge them as best as possible. Keep using area heal and focus it on the area surrounding the boss, as the rest of the players taking it down will need it. Don’t worry about contribution, all rewards are fixated, but players need to remain inside the arena to receive them, so don’t die.

Once Baalphazu dies, it will drop a reward box as well as some other rewards, including exp, coin, azoth, and probably a spooky costume or two. Now, with Baalphazu’s Ichor in hand, run back to Salvatore’s cauldron, and interact with it to finish the Quest and receive the rewards.

How To Get More Nightveil Hallow Caches In New World: Aeternum

Every time players complete the Daily Quest Baalphazu’s Fall, they will receive a Nightveil Hallow Cache, but there are other ways to receive one:

• From Baalphazu world boss event, at each completion.
• From Spooky Provision Baskets (players need to wear a full Nightveil Hallow costume).
• Purchased from Salvatore’s Shop for Nightveil Coins.

Increasing the Event Reputation levels will allow players to receive even more coins at each completion of the Quest, and Baalphazu takedown, so keep that in mind to farm all the rewards before the event ends. Once players get enough Coins, it will be time to spend them, so let’s take a look at those juicy rewards next.

Nightveil Hallow Event Rewards In New World: Aeternum

Here’s a list of all the rewards that players can purchase from Salvatore’s Nightveil Hallow event shop in New World: Aeternum.

All of these can be purchased for a certain amount of Nightveil Coins, but with a dozen runs of the Baalphazul Boss, players should be able to purchase them all without too many issues.

Some of these rewards are new for the 2024 event, and some like the Skeleton Twirl emote have returned from past events. So take this chance to get as much of these treats as possible, before Amazon banishes them until next Halloween.

The Nightveil Hallow event will run from October 22, 2024, until November 5, 2024.