The compendium entries for all event monsters have been updated with drop information and chances. Just click any of their names in the main post.
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???
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...
No more than traditional polar bears. They are slightly more effective vs holiday monsters, and can only be found in two of the instances.
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.
Christmas Event Rewards Santa's Lair 1st Place - Nightshade (5 Points, 1st Place Trophy) 2nd Place - ToxicSparkles (4 Points, 2nd Place Trophy) 3rd Place - Liberation (3 Points, 3rd Place Trophy) 4th Place - Clam (2 Points) 5th Place - Dalavar Wolfmage (1 Point) Hidden Village Leaderboard 1st Place - Nightshade (5 Points, 1st Place Trophy) 2nd Place - ToxicSparkles (4 Points, 2nd Place Trophy) 3rd Place - Clam (3 Points, 3rd Place Trophy) 4th Place - Mole (2 Points) 5th Place - Dalavar Wolfmage (1 Point) Frozen Continent Leaderboard 1st Place - Nightshade (5 Points, 1st Place Trophy) 2nd Place - Clam (4 Points, 2nd Place Trophy) 3rd Place - Dalavar Wolfmage (3 Points, 3rd Place Trophy) 4th Place - ToxicSparkles (2 Points) 5th Place - Mole (1 Point) Ice Fortress Leaderboard 1st Place - Nightshade (5 Points, 1st Place Trophy) 2nd Place - Clam (4 Points, 2nd Place Trophy) 3rd Place - ToxicSparkles (3 Points, 3rd Place Trophy) 4th Place - Dalavar Wolfmage (2 Points) 5th Place - Mole (1 Point) Notable Awards 1st Ironman, Single Run: Dalavar Archmage - Accomplished with only a trusty horse. (5 Points) 1st Complete Ironman: All 4 Events - Nightshade (3 Points) Worst Score: Markos -1,042 Points, Ice Fortress Event (1 Point) Most Deaths by Elf (30): Jake and Afbro (1 Point Each) Most Deaths by Christmas Boss (11): Moochowder and Mole (1 Point Each) Christmas Event Rewards - Prize Room Picking Order 1st - Nightshade - 23 Points 2nd - Clam - 13 Points 3rd - ToxicSparkles - 13 Points 4th - Dalavar Wolfmage - 7 Points 4th - Dalavar Archmage - 5 Points 5th - Mole - 5 Points 6th - Liberation - 3 Points 7th - Markos - 1 Point 8th - Jake - 1 Point 8th - Afbro - 1 Point 10th - Moochowder - 1 Point Prize Room Item List Santa's Lair Prizes Hue 33 Deer Mask, Named "Santa's Lair 2014" Hue 33 Deer Mask, Named "Santa's Lair 2014" Special Christmas Hair (or) Beard Dye Hidden Village Prizes Hue 1193 Sandals, Named "Hidden Village 2014" Hue 1193 Sandals, Named "Hidden Village 2014" Hue 1194 Sandals, Named "Hidden Village 2014" Frozen Continent Prizes Hue 16 Spellbook & Runebook, Named "Frozen Continent 2014" Hue 903 Spellbook & Runebook, Named "Frozen Continent 2014" Hue 921 Spellbook & Runebook, Named "Frozen Continent 2014" Ice Fortress Prizes Hue 16 Bear Mask, Named "Ice Fortress 2014" Hue 902 Bear Mask, Named "Ice Fortress 2014" Hue 1193 Bear Mask, Named "Ice Fortress 2014" Notes: Each player will recieve 1 selection from the prize room. Prize room items are not blessed, spellbooks are newbied. These items can/will be used year to year in a similar awards ceremony. Scoring for these events was 12/11/14 to 12/31/14. Any data after that point was not used in these calculations.
Yes Noname, that's why we were vauge. The rewards process has been adapted based on event participation. There will be some additional bonus coins given to each player in 1st,2nd and 3rd Place as well.
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.