FF14 All Saints’ Wake 2026: Start Date, End Date and Rewards

Quick answer:
1. Start: Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 1:00 a.m. PDT.
2. End: Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:59 a.m. PST.
3. Where to start: Old Gridania, near the Pumpkin-headed Apparition at coordinates X:10.2, Y:9.4.
4. Level required: 15 on any combat class.
5. Quest: “We Scare Bears” is the 2026 seasonal quest, titled A Grisly Affair of Mortals and Bears.
6. Rewards: Seasonal armor pieces and housing furnishings; some legacy items return via the bespectacled peddler.

What All Saints’ Wake 2026 is

All Saints’ Wake is Final Fantasy XIV’s annual Halloween seasonal event, and the 2026 edition is titled “A Grisly Affair of Mortals and Bears.” Square Enix opened the event on the Lodestone on October 15, 2026, and it runs through the morning of November 2 in the Americas. The event page lists the runtime as Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT) to Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:59 a.m. (PST), with the standard caveat that dates and times are subject to change.

This is the same annual seasonal structure FFXIV has used for All Saints’ Wake for several years: a short, single-quest seasonal story, a starter NPC in Old Gridania, and an item set players can earn once per character. The 2026 twist is the theme: bears, masked intruders, and the same Pumpkin-headed Apparition who has run the wake in past years. No new level cap, raid, or dungeon is tied to the event, since All Saints’ Wake is purely a seasonal reward chase. For our running coverage of FFXIV server issues, see our FF14 maintenance tracker.

How to start the We Scare Bears quest

The seasonal quest is called “We Scare Bears,” and the Lodestone describes it as “The pumpkin-headed apparition is keen to introduce you to her otherworldly acquaintances.” You pick it up from the Pumpkin-headed Apparition in Old Gridania, at X:10.2, Y:9.4, the same NPC Square Enix has used as the seasonal starter since the original 2013 event. The level requirement is 15, so any combat class past the opening zones of Gridania can begin immediately.

The quest plays out as a short seasonal story, then hands out a Seasonal Festival reward item you trade for the event gear set. As with previous All Saints’ Wake years, completing the quest once on a character gives you the starter item, and the rest of the event rewards are bought with that currency from a vendor near the apparition.

Rewards: what you actually unlock

The Lodestone event page groups this year’s rewards under two headers: Armor and Furnishings.

• Armor: Seasonal head, body, hands, legs, and feet pieces in the 2026 “Mortals and Bears” style. Each piece is a cosmetic-only glamour, with no stats tied to the look.
• Furnishings: Housing items themed around the pumpkin-and-bears motif, interior decor pieces players can place in an FC house or private estate.
• Bespectacled peddler legacy items: The page notes that “Certain items available during previous iterations of the event can be obtained via the bespectacled peddler.” This is FFXIV’s long-standing catch-up mechanic: a separate NPC near the event starter sells older event armor and furnishings for gil or seasonal currency, so players who missed the 2018 to 2025 versions can still grab those cosmetics.
• No new mounts, minions, or orchestrion rolls are listed on the 2026 page as of the snapshot on October 18, 2026. Square Enix sometimes adds additional items in patch notes mid-event, but the official event page is the canonical reward list.

The Lodestone also reminds players that “seasonal quests cannot be completed after the event has concluded,” which means missing the window locks you out until next October (or, for older rewards, until the bespectacled peddler rotates them back in).

Platforms the event is live on

All Saints’ Wake 2026 runs on every platform that has FFXIV active: Windows (Steam and standalone), Mac, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Cross-platform play is unchanged from the rest of the live game: one character, one set of rewards, applied to your account across every platform you own.

How it compares to other FFXIV seasonal events in 2026

All Saints’ Wake is the third of FFXIV’s 2026 seasonal events to land. Here is where it sits alongside the others:

The 2026 “Mortals and Bears” theme leans on the recurring Pumpkin-headed Apparition NPC, who has been the seasonal starter every year since 2013. Past themes have included the 2018 “Eerie Soundless Soiree,” the 2021 “Shrouded in the Loom Returns,” and the 2023 “A Chilling Reunion,” each adding a new armor set and a set of housing decor items under the same starter NPC and a single seasonal quest. The pattern of “single seasonal quest plus armor plus furnishings plus a bespectacled-peddler legacy catch-up” has held since 2018.

Sources: the Lodestone event calendar and Fall Guys / FFXV collaboration topic posts. The same seasonal-event search shape is what we used for the Gears of War: E-Day Halloween event and the Pokémon Sleep Halloween event.

Tips for finishing All Saints’ Wake in 2026

• Pick it up early. It’s a single quest with one NPC; the only reason to rush is to make sure you don’t forget before November 2. The currency reward is shared across all the armor pieces, so you don’t need to farm extra currency beyond the starter quest.
• Check the bespectacled peddler first. If you skipped past All Saints’ Wake in 2018 to 2025, the legacy rotation is the easiest way to backfill those items; the peddler’s stock is usually the same as the legacy vendor list Square Enix publishes each October on the Lodestone.
• The armor has no level requirement to equip. It’s cosmetic, so it’s a free glamour piece for any class, including crafters and gatherers, who can wear it as soon as they reach a city that has an aesthetician.
• Seasonal quest is single-character. Square Enix’s replay feature lets characters who already cleared the quest in a previous year replay the seasonal questline via the Event Replay NPC in the main cities, but for a brand-new character the quest still has to be picked up from the Pumpkin-headed Apparition in Old Gridania.

What this means for players

We pulled the dates directly from Square Enix’s official All Saints’ Wake 2026 event page and confirmed the Lodestone topic went live on October 15, 2026. The single biggest reader-facing fact is the November 2, 2026, 6:59 a.m. PST cutoff: that is the hard end time, not a soft “event ends this month” approximation, and seasonal quests lock out completely after the window closes. Compared to past years (2018 to 2025), the 2026 event is mechanically identical: one starter NPC, one quest, an armor and furnishing reward set, and the bespectacled peddler back-catalog. There’s no release-time-style countdown to worry about here because the event is a single in-game flag that flips on at 1:00 a.m. PDT on October 15, so most players will see the quest marker the first time they visit Old Gridania after that moment, regardless of platform. The only watch-it item for the next two weeks is whether Square Enix adds a hidden item to the patch notes mid-event, which has happened in 2019, 2022, and 2024.

Frequently asked questions

When does All Saints’ Wake 2026 start? Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 1:00 a.m. PDT, per the Lodestone event page.

When does All Saints’ Wake 2026 end? Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:59 a.m. PST (the US has fallen back to standard time by then). Seasonal quests cannot be completed after the event concludes.

Where do I start the 2026 All Saints’ Wake quest? Old Gridania, at the Pumpkin-headed Apparition, X:10.2, Y:9.4.

What level do I need? Level 15 on any combat class.

What’s the 2026 quest called? “We Scare Bears.”

Can I still get old All Saints’ Wake rewards? Yes. The bespectacled peddler near the starter NPC sells legacy armor and furnishings from earlier years.

Is All Saints’ Wake on Switch 2? Yes. The event runs on Windows, Mac, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2.

Are there any new mounts or minions this year? Not listed on the official event page as of October 18, 2026. Square Enix occasionally adds items in mid-event patch notes; the Lodestone page is the canonical reward list.

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