Christmas on Renaissance - New Holiday Event

What are the chances of the scrolls dropping?

It's over 9000!!!

Probably too late for anything to change this year but my feedback for future events would be to not introduce gimmicks that make this suggested difficulty a joke and turn the events into a 1 template snorefest. It reminds me of entering cheat codes into a game and wondering why all the fun is suddenly gone. Before the gimmicks were discovered, players were grouping up, gearing up, and strategizing on the best way to accomplish the events. Dalavar IRONMANED santa's lair on a dexxer! Now it is honestly a bore. Original post should be updated;

1 Player - Easy
2 Players - Even Easier
3 Players - So gosh darned Easy
4 Players - Even Easier then gosh darned Easy
5+ Players - SO EASY!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone who wants to ironman every single one of these can now do it in their sleep thats to said gimmicks, which in my opinion defeats the purpose of the "challenge mode".

Anyone who wants to ironman these events, just tame a group of the polar bears found in the events and say all kill. Come back a little later and collect your trophy.
No exaggeration, less then 25 seconds to kill any of the mini bosses with a pack of these gimmick bears.

Battle mages dead in 9 seconds, seriously?
Ice golems dead in 4.3 seconds???
Dark elf spirit (final boss on continent scroll) dead in 33 seconds???

You mean the ones in the cages at the end?

In the cages in the end of fortress, and all just meandering about on continent.

So you can just bring a pack of them with you from the start, pre-tamed?

I wonder how the bears will fare on Continent and Fortress. Aren't they like 200-300 HPs? I feel like the Spirits or Commanders area damage might do them in. Who knows though.

Also, are the bears 3 control slots? Just going off of memory from last year.

The bears are 1 control slot. They are 200-400 hp and the spirits and commanders die literally so fast that the aoe only brings the pack of bears down to like 50% health before dieing. In my test the spirits died in about 30 seconds to 1 pack of bears.

That's funny because last year these bears never made it out of the event and it seems you can take them out now and use them in other events.

I'm just hoping that these uber bears aren't able to be used to farm traditional monsters with ease. This has been done here before with event tames...

FYI to those who had intentions of taming up some bears and competing for the top score, they now take up 2 control slots each.

Is this not how prizes are going out anymore?

So much sexy trammel. That deer mask is particularly lovely.

Favorite memory for me was getting all the presents back to the Hidden Villagers with about 35 minutes left to 1v1 the Grinch with my dexer. Feeling super confident. And wailing on him for 35 minutes with a valorite runic warhammer, only to see him sitting pretty with 80% of his health still remaining. Apparently the Grinch also stole some f'ing armor from the villagers, because I look in the compendium and he has 120 AR.

Favorite anticipated memory is Blaise pledging his soul and all his worldly possessions to NNA for that purple hat.

to wet the beak..

you look like a bag of skittles, do you wear those ed hardy shirts?