Ready for the next edition of the Winter Event? We hope so - after all, your pouches and deposits won’t fill themselves out! Save the date, because we begin on December 23rd.
Who’s your favorite? Old Father Winter or Santa Claus? Santa Claus or Old Father Winter? Whatever your answers, the old rivals have something to prove to each other once again. And you… ally with one of them, help him get at the other one, and loot lots of presents!
INSTRUCTIONS
Duration and limits
The Holiday Event will start on December 23rd at 6 PM CET and end on January 2nd at 10 AM CET.
Once the event is over (on January 2nd at 10 AM CET), a new NPC who exchanges your loot will appear. Make haste, because he won’t stay here long. He’ll be on his way on January 8th at 10 AM CET and all the leftover hats and stars will disappear from your backpacks.
In addition to that, there’ll be a limit of 1000 on how many non-task mob groups you can kill. If you want to check how many you’ve already defeated during the event, use the command /checkEvent.
Rewards and activities
Old Father Winter and Santa Claus will appear in Trentis, Alaril, on the Plateau, and in Beirn. They will give you tasks that vary in difficulty and profits.
Types of tasks:
- trivial (20-39)
- easy (40-65)
- hard (66-89)
- hardcore (90-109)
- almost impossible (110-139)
- extreme (140)
Completing them, as well as killing event mobs if you are lucky, will reward you with presents containing boss tokens and many other utility items. For most of the mobs, we recommend gathering a party to beat them quickly and efficiently. ;)
The maps will also be filled with event opponents who drop hats and stars. They’ll act as a special currency that you can use to open presents. Once the event is over, you’ll be able to exchange the hats and stars you collected for presents or gold. However, gold will only become available when you don’t have sufficient event currency (below 80k hats or stars).
Presents dropping from Santa Claus’ minions can be opened by Old Father Winter and vice versa - both of them will be happy to put their hands on their opponent’s belongings.
At almost every level range, there are three ways of paying NPCs for opening the presents: hats / stars (depending on who you ask to open them), platinum, and gold. The only exception is the lowest range where you cannot open them for platinum.
*You cannot take tasks or open presents from higher level ranges, but you can still exchange stars / hats for presents from them.
**You can take tasks, open and buy presents from lower level ranges.
That’s not all. At every level range, champions will spawn from time to time. They have a 100% chance of dropping presents.
Spawning areas (for each level range from lowest to highest):
- Trentis Hamlet
- Alaril
- Khemenak
- Dmorther Cliff
- Frozen Lake
- Beirn
At the end of the battle between the two old geezers, Old Year will come to Broken Ranks. He will exchange your leftover hats and stars for gold or presents (or he can help you open the presents you have). As the old saying goes: “two dogs strive for a bone, a Taernian runs away with it”.
The store will also feature a unique event helmet skin - Holiday Kabuto. It’s the perfect option to spice up your winter look and not freeze your ears off during winter expeditions. :)
Changes versus the previous edition:
- Changed the way hats and stars drop from normal enemies and the way presents drop from tasks and champions - each player will get the same number no matter how many players are in the party (same way it works with daimonite).
- Adjusted the droprate of hats and stars from normal enemies to accommodate the new drop system.
- Replaced hats and stars with presents in task enemies at all level brackets.
- Changed the way enemies are randomized in all level brackets except for 140 - each task will always feature the same enemies.
- Removed the possibility to lock the party when fighting event champions.
- Updated experience and psychoexperience gains from event enemies.
- Updated the costs of opening and buying presents for gold, hats, and stars.
- Updated the rewards for opening presents.
