Christmas Event Presents

So what exactly are in the presents other than possible spawns? Is this a kill 100 to get a badge thing? Can anyone list what is being found?

If you get naughty.. snowmen spawn! If you get nice.. you get a "present". Make sure you have an inspiration slot open to receive it though.

New exclusive inspirations, a LUMP OF COAL, Winter Hordes (if you kill 100 you get a badge), and a Temp Power that's one-time use only but you get to summon a very cool Winter Horde.

Overwhelmingly, people seem to be getting "YOU'VE BEEN NAUGHTY!", which spawns a ton of evil snowmen. Killing 100 snowmen gets you the Cold Warrior badge like from last year.

A "Nice" present gets you a number of rewards. You usually get a present, an inspiration that does something really good but is a surprise until you use it. Gift of Life is a humungous AoE heal, Gift of Power is Radiant Aura, and Gift of Experience is protection from debt for an hour.

Rarely, you might also get a temp power, Summon Snow Beast. It's a one use pet summon, that brings in one of the snowman bosses for 5 minutes. Given that the snowmen scale from 1-50, this is potentially a useful power to hang onto. Purportedly, you can also get snowballs that will last for 12 days.

Collecting a ton of presents also nets you the Toy Collector badge. Not sure how many, exactly, or if it matters whether you're naughty or nice.

I want a present. Work has never moved more slowly. That's saying quite a lot too.

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Collecting a ton of presents also nets you the Toy Collector badge. Not sure how many, exactly, or if it matters whether you're naughty or nice.

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Was this confirmed somewhere?

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Collecting a ton of presents also nets you the Toy Collector badge. Not sure how many, exactly, or if it matters whether you're naughty or nice.

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Was this confirmed somewhere?

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Yeah? I collected over 50 so far...

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Collecting a ton of presents also nets you the Toy Collector badge. Not sure how many, exactly, or if it matters whether you're naughty or nice.

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Was this confirmed somewhere?

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Yeah? I collected over 50 so far...

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Outdated post. Collect 100 Nice presents.

Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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I believe they do.

Somebody owes me cookies! I DEMAND SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT THIS!

Santa has not fulfiled his bargain! I WANT THAT BLASTED PONY!

You may also collect a ton of debt. Mu naughty presents either spawned level 2-4 snow monsters, so no XP as a lvl 10, or spawned lvl13 bosses and lewies and immediate death and debt.
Collected 3 bubbles worth of debt in about 10 presents.

You got that blasted pony, Craban. Remember? You blasted it...

-Sandolphan

Has anyone gotten the SnowBeast temp power first, and then Snowballs later on?

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Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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I believe they do.

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Thanks Positron.

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Has anyone gotten the SnowBeast temp power first, and then Snowballs later on?

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I have the SnowBeast power, still looking for the Snowballs. I don't have the collect 100 nice badge yet; a little over half way to it. Maybe I'll get lucky and pick the right place and time for the Snowballs temp present.

If anyone manages to have both powers trayed at once, I'd like to know. I'm really hoping it's not "you get one or the other, and that's it" sorta thing.

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Has anyone gotten the SnowBeast temp power first, and then Snowballs later on?

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I have the SnowBeast power, still looking for the Snowballs. I don't have the collect 100 nice badge yet; a little over half way to it. Maybe I'll get lucky and pick the right place and time for the Snowballs temp present.

If anyone manages to have both powers trayed at once, I'd like to know. I'm really hoping it's not "you get one or the other, and that's it" sorta thing.

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Other people have confirmed getting both.

However I got the SnowBeast twice now, but not a single Snowball, and it's worrying me.

Any ideas how long this event will last?

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Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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I believe they do.

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Posi's right. They do. I didn't get the badge last winter, although I came pretty close. But today, I got Cold Warrior by defeating only 15-20 snowmen.

sniff... all I wanted for Christmas was two front teeth... but they were rotten so we had to throw them out.

BRING IT ON FROSTY! I GOT HOSTILITIES TO VENT!

*goes present hunting*

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Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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I believe they do.

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I can confirm this. After killing only three snow-babies I was awarded the badge.

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Collecting a ton of presents also nets you the Toy Collector badge. Not sure how many, exactly, or if it matters whether you're naughty or nice.

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Was this confirmed somewhere?

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Yeah? I collected over 50 so far...

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Outdated post. Collect 100 Nice presents.

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Getting 100 nice would be rough but doable, but with the map server crashing and rolling back all progress every 10-15 minutes, I'd call it a pipe dream, and a waste of time. Hope Cryptic gets their servers fixed soon.

This is going to get a handful of people irate: statistics.

You see, if the special temp power is rare, then a few lucky people will get both quickly.

The overwhelming majority will eventually get both after a long, long present-hunting crawl.

And they'll be a few unlucky who won't have both, even after hundreds and hundreds of clicks. They'll scream it's bugged. But that's statistics. And this is almost guaranteed to happen... unless... there's a streak breaker in the code (e.g., if someone has clicked 300 nice presents and hasn't gotten a temp power, then a temp power will be given).

So, what are the odds that a streak breaker was written in the random generator?

Aww man, they're the same badge as last year? Well, at least there's the accolades this year. It'd be sort of neat to get a snowman for a gladiator (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?)

I heard that you can get presents from missions, I don't know if that's correct or not though...