The Winter Event 2015

The Winter Event 2015​

Winter Event - from 30th November, 2015 until 5th January, 2016

The Winter Event features the following:

• New amazing Skadi ship design to be won!
• Two brand new pets
• Find Gingerbread men and trade them in for pieces of the ship design
• Old pet and ship designs from previous Winter Events and more available at the black market
• Event treasure chests
• Daily series of quests and special quests during Njord Saga and Yuletide phases
• Ice floes with some handsome rewards​

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The Winter Event will start at 12 noon on 30th November and will end at 12 noon on 5th January.

The Winter Calendar starts in the night from 30th November to the first December and will run until the 24th December.

The “Njord Saga” phase will take place from 12 noon on 3rd December until 12 noon on 10th December.

The “Yuletide” phase will take place from 12 noon on 16th December until 12 noon on 23rd December.

The Black Market will remain open until the end of the day on 7th January.

Please note that all times are Local Server Time.

Skadi design

In order to get hold of the Skadi design you need to collect 4 different pieces of the puzzle. In each of the events you can earn one of these pieces.

To collect the four puzzle pieces you will need :

1st puzzle piece: Event Chest
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One of the 4 pieces of the puzzle can be found in the Event Treasure Chests – the Event Keys can be bought in the Black Market for Pearls. There are many items available in the chests such as Mojos, Snow Ammunition, Winter Lights and many more items as well as the chance to get 1 piece of the puzzle.

2nd puzzle piece: Group Map (Njord Saga phase)
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The second event where you can get a piece of the puzzle will take place on the new Nidhugsheim Group Map. Before you will be able to access the bossmap you need to shoot Bjorgolds in order to receive Ancient Emblems. If you collected enough visit Eona Norling in one of the save haven. Eona Norling will provide a group finder queue, like you know it already from the Path to the beast event, where you need to choose your role in a team with a maximum of 5 players.

After your team is full you will be teleported to the Group Map where you will face the two bosses Nidhug and Hildisvini.

Each boss has two phases.

During phase 1 both bosses will apply debuffs (Nidhug applies a different debuff than Hildisvini) on the player with the highest aggro (tanks). Each application will increase the debuff stack by one, that means the effect gets applied multiple times. Each debuff stack will prolong the duration so the tanks have to regularly switch bosses so the debuffs don’t stack too high. Meanwhile the damage dealers have to inflict damage (in the best case equally) to push both bosses into phase 2.

During both phases the healer has to heal both tanks.

The 2nd phase of each boss will start when they reached a certain amount of HP. During the 2nd phase Whale Nidhug will submerge and spawn minions who will try to steal your loot by attacking the Whale. After the whale died in this phase, he will switch back to phase 1 again and your whole group will be rewarded.
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The group damage share will treat the group as an own entity and share the loot equally in this group. Be sure to be in a group!

More about the 2nd phase of Hildisvini.

When Hildisvini switches into the second phase. he will spawn Freyja minions which will attack the Whale Hunters spawned by Nidhug and hereby save your loot. If there are none of them left, the Freyja minions will despawn after a certain time (be aware when you bring which boss in phase 2!). As soon as any of the bosses died (Nidhug or Hildisvini) the other one gets enraged. The boss who’s left will spawn a zone underneath him which will make him stronger. ​

Two players will be rewarded with a puzzle piece – the player who causes the most damage and the player who causes the last shot on Whale Nidhug. Additionally the player who did the last shot on Whale Nidhug will have a chance to receive the whale pet (Pike) from last year’s Winter Event.

If both bosses are dead, all players will be teleported back to the regular map again. If you didn’t manage to kill both bosses your time won’t show up in the ranking.

3rd puzzle piece: Gift chasing event (Yuletide phase)​

The third event is Yuletide (a gift chasing event) where a player must hold onto the gift for as long as possible in order to gain points and finish high in the rankings.

You are only allowed to pick up the gift on a map of your level range as follows: Map and pirate level 2 – 6, 7 – 12, 13 – 16 and 17 – 20.

If you leave your level range you will automatically lose the gift.

Every 24 hours from 12 noon to 12 noon (Local Server Time), the ranking is reset and the top 5 ranked players will each get a piece of the ship design. In addition, 5 random players in the top 100 ranking will gain a piece of the design per day.

4th puzzle piece: Calendar
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The fourth piece can be gained by opening at least 20 of the 24 doors of the Winter Calendar. The calendar can be accessed directly from the sea chart by clicking on the event ticker icon.


Don’t worry! If you miss out on getting one of the pieces of the ship design, you can get them by trading in your collected Gingerbread men per piece. The Gingerbread men can be gained in several ways such as through destroying the Event NPCs and ice floes or purchased in the payment section.


The ship designs from previous Winter Events available at the black market have the following stats:

• Heimdall: +14% Cannon damage, +10% Harpoon damage, +70.000 HP and +13% damage prevention
• Bifröst: +12% Cannon damage, +10% Harpoon damage, +65.000 HP and +35.000 VP
• Dalendris: +11% Cannon damage, +10% Harpoon damage, +65.000 HP, +15.000 VP
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The brand new ship design available to win through collecting the puzzle pieces has the following stats:

• Skadi: +15% Cannon damage, +7% Hit Chance, +70.000 HP, +70.000 VP​

You can get the new pets as well as the pet from last year’s Winter Event by trading Gingerbread men for them in the Black Market!

The pets have the following stats:

Habrok: +10% hit chance and +25,000 Hit Points
Munin (new pet!): +15% Hitchance
Elivagar (new pet!): +20% Dodge chance​

There will be a whole host of items available in the Black Market where you can trade in your collected Gingerbread men! These items include various buffs, action items like Candles, Snowmen or Event Keys. During the whole event of course you will be able to buy Snow Ammunition as well.

During the whole event three NPCs (Urd, Verdandi and Skuld) will sail around on all PvP Maps.
Urd can be shot with gold ammunition while Verdandi, Skuld and Bjorgold can only be attacked with elite ammunition.

Snowball ammunition will cause extra damage against these as well as on all other Event NPCs!

Depending on how much damage you cause against Urd, you will be rewarded with Experience Points, Elite Points and Snow ammunition. Additionally you will receive either one Winter Light, Gingerbread man or further Elite Points.

Verdandi will drop Experience Points, Gingerbread men and Elite Points depending on how much damage you cause against him.

Depending on how much damage you cause against Bjorgold, you will be rewarded with Experience Points. After Bjorgold got sunk, some little gifts containing Ancient Emblems will spawn. You will need to collect them like glitters to get rewarded!

!MISSING SKULD REWARDS! To be inserted when information is issued.

Tomorrow 1st December at 12 noon the payment packages will be available.

Then we will have the main event part, the Njord Saga, starting on Thursday, the 3rd December and the Yuletide Phase starting on Wednesday, the 16th of December.

Points can be obtained by making the most damage against any of the Event NPCs mentioned above. At the end of the event the rewards will be as follows:


Njord Saga

1.Place

1x Puzzle piece
15x Firestorm
1x Polished Ruby: 16% cannon damage (Level 16 !!)
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Chiseled Sapphire: 55000 VP (Level 11)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag​

2.Place

1x Puzzle piece
10x Firestorm
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

3.Place

1x Puzzle piece
5x Firestorm
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

4.-5. Place

1x Puzzle piece
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

6. - 100

1x Puzzle piece

1st Radom

1x Puzzle piece
10x Firestorm
1x Cut Sapphire: 50000 VP (Level 10)
1x Kings's Booty Bag

2nd – 5th random

1x Puzzle piece
1x Cut Sapphire: 50000 VP (Level 10)
1x Kings's Booty Bag​

Yuletide:

1.Place

1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 500x Gingerbread Men)
24x Dragon Fire
20x St Elmo's Fire
10x Swiftstone
5x Bloodlust

2.Place
1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 400x Gingerbread Men)
16x Dragon Fire
10x St Elmo's Fire
8x Switfstone
2x Bloodlust

3.Place

1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 300x Gingerbread Men)
8x Dragon Fire
5x St Elmo's Fire
4x Swiftstone
1x Bloodlust

4.Place

1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 200x Gingerbread Men)
4x Dragon Fire
2x St Elmo's Fire
2x Swiftstone

5.Place

1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 100x Gingerbread Men)
1x Dragon Fire
1x St Elmo's Fire
1x Swiftstone


Random 1-5

1x Puzzle piece
(Fallback: 50x Gingerbread Men)
8x Dragon Fire
10x St Elmo's Fire
4x Swiftstone
1x Bloodlust​

Global Event Ranking Rewards:

1.Place

15x Firestorm
1x Polished Ruby: 16% cannon damage (Level 16 !!)
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Chiseled Sapphire: 55000 VP (Level 11)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

2.Place

10x Firestorm
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

3.Place

5x Firestorm
1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

4.-5.Place

1x Polished Lapislazuli: 80000 HP (Level 16 !!)
1x Emperor's Booty Bag

1st random

10x Firestorm
1x Cut Sapphire: 50000 VP (Level 10)
1x Kings's Booty Bag

Next 4 Random

1x Cut Sapphire: 50000 VP (Level 10)
1x Kings's Booty Bag


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*Random players who finished in position 1 - 100 in the event ranking.

Please note that due to the prizes being given out randomly, players can win more than once!

Ice Floes:

Which can be shot using Harpoons, contain a range of items including Snow ammunition, Snowmen, Event keys and many more precious treasures. Opening an Event Chest could get you Items like Mojos, Snowmen, Candles, Winter Lights, Snow ammunition or others.

Of course as mentioned above, a piece of the puzzle is a possible reward as well! You are also guaranteed at least 1 Gingerbread Man upon opening an Event Chest.​

There is a quest-giver – Haldor Olafsson!

You will be able to complete several quests during the Njord Saga phase and the Yuletide phase. Every quest completed is rewarded. The quest-giver can be found in one of the Safe haven!

Watch out for the repeatable quests!​

If you have any Gingerbread men left at the end of the event they will be replaced with an ingame item to be revealed near the end of the event.

The Event Chest Keys will be replaced by normal chest keys.

Ancient Emblems won’t be exchanged.

 

The Event has ended but the black market will stay for 2 more days, until the 7th of January , 23:59 pm (CET). So on the next day, 8th January at 12 noon, after the Black Market has closed, the Souls (gingerbread sorry) will be exchanged for Snow Ammo at a ratio of 1:100



Event Keys will be changed at a ratio of 1:1 for Treasure Chest Keys.