Merry Christmas and Happy New Year THF!

Each year the THF staff actvivates the holiday events in addition to double experience and godly points we also have this little gem that gives you several chances at rare items, Lullu's Magical Distillers and Vial of Prismatic Dye.

Santa Claus

Begin your holiday festivities by visiting Santa Claus himself in The Hidden Forest. He has a task for you to deliver 10 presents around the world of The Hidden Forest. Upon completion of his task you are awarded one Pristine Ornament which are needed to access the Polar Bear King raid instance.

Stolen Presents!

Visit Santa's Lil Helper in forest to obtain her task to gather and return the stolen presents. You will need to visit the following zones in order to collect the presents.

Butcherblock Mountains
Steamfont Mountains
West and East Commonlands
Northern and Southern Deserts of Ro
Greater and Lesser Faydark

Collect the presents from the thieves that have stolen them and combine them in Empty Presents Satchel and return it to Santa's Lil Helper in the forest. Upon completion of this task you are awarded 1 of each of the following the first time you complete it:

Trinket of the Hraquis hunter
Red Adventurer's Pouch
Lillu's Magical Distillers
Vial of Prismatic Dye
- On each completion after you are awarded one Lillu's Magical Distiller and one Vial of Prismatic Dye.

Holiday Scavenger Hunt

Visit Polar Bear Prince, 4686.92, -3248.58, 93.49, in Everfrost to obtain the scavenger hunt task. You can complete this task once per day during the holiday event.
You will need to visit the following locations to collect the stolen presents. Puffda's post on Scavenger Hunt clue locations:

Great Divide - -7743.47, -304.94, -837.29 - In river west of port in
Wakening Lands - 499.54, -1072.20, -20.94 - Base of tree to port to PoG.
Iceclad Ocean - -4498.69, 9185.66, 316.68 - Near EW Zone line
Eastern Wastelands - -4052.99, 486.05, 147.57 - Just outside the zone to CC
Everfrost Peaks - 1754.71, -6471.44, 58.24 - Just inside gates to permafront in room to right
Great Divide - -1499.45, 1746.17, 181.39 - Inside middle cave to kodiaks
Siren's Grotto - 42.37, -52.20, 4.86 - On step in area where you drop down
Cobalt Scar - -911.47, 892.42, 299.45 - Drop down off ramp you port in on
Iceclad Ocean - 5615.31, 978.05, 153.86 - Near Chaotic StormFeather spawn point
Iceclad Ocean - 1677.15, 2929.50, 120.03 - Just a little west along the wall of ToFS where you zone out from ToFS

Raid Bosses

The Abominable Snowman

Located in The Dreadlands in a cave on the south side of the zone.

T2 Difficulty

Loot

The Misfit Toy Maker

In Everfrost south east of the LDON camp you will find The Misfit Toy Maker in his temple.

T3-T4 Difficulty

This even consists of 7 waves.

The Toy Maker will be in the middle of his temple surrounded by 10 Toy Dolls.
Attack the first wave of Toy Dolls to begin the event.
Upon each Toy Dolls death it will split into two Toy Parts which also must be dispatched.
- Use Caution the next wave spawns upon the death of all of the Toy Dolls not the Toy Parts.
Next Wave is 10 Toy Golems.
- Some Golems Spawn Toy Soldiers which like toy parts have impact on triggering the next wave.
Wave of 10 toy giants spawns upon the death of the last Toy Golem.
Wave of ## Creepy Toys.
Wave of 4 Toy Dragons.
Upon the death of the final Toy Dragon The Misfit Toy Maker goes live.

He is a straight forward tank and spank battle from this point. Loot

The Winter Warlock

The Winter Warlock can be found on the east side of Everfrost at the entrance to Permafrost.

T3-T4 Difficulty

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Loot

Polar Bear King

Head over to Everfrost, by the Polar Bear Prince, he will give you the scavenger quest for ornaments.

There is a portal (4531.19,-3118.20,-94.35) which you hand in Pristine Ornaments to start the raid event.

The amount of Pristine Ornaments determines difficulty shown below.

1 Ornament = Tier 1 Difficulty
2 Ornament = Tier 3 Difficulty
3 Ornament = Tier 6 Difficulty
4 Ornament = Tier 8 Difficulty
Each tier has a 24 hour lockout by guild once completed.

Your entire raid will be transported into the instance. Good luck!

The Fight

-You will need two casters that can spam Remove Greater Curse non-stop. Using only 1 seems to not have time to cast enough RGC's to finish the event (more on this later.)

-You will need a toon who's PRIORITY purpose is to watch for 3 emotes and click the gumdrop trees on either side of the king in the proper fashion.

-And you will need someone with an aggro spell (can be the person who originally tanked the king, as by the time you need to start kiting, the king goes invuln and drops out of combat for the remainder of the fight) to kite the mummies at the end of the event.

NOTE: You CAN use the Shissar Empire Badge of Honor for the RGC clicks. It drops off any trash mob in SSra, and is almost as fast as a healer actually spamming the real spell.

The event starts by the tank engaging the king (rooted NPC) and spinning him so he's facing away from the raid (towards the wall that was originally behind him). Have the toon who has been delegated clicking duty already standing at the left gumdrop tree (left when looking at the king from the hallway you entered from) at the start of the fight. At about 89% he will emote that he glares to his left side, at that point, that left gumdrop tree will need to be clicked within at the most 1.5-2 seconds. If not, he will spawn two bears which can make tanking more difficult. After that power fades by properly clicking that tree, have that player run to the one on the right side. He will emote again about at 65%ish? (forget what %, just have that player looking very carefully), in which he will glare to his right. Again, click the tree. If the tree isn't clicked, the king's DPS will ramp up significantly. Again, have this toon run to the left tree, again, and prepare for the last emote, which will occur around 50% (I forget what occurs when this is not clicked, I think it may be another dps boost, or it may be more adds...). At this point, just full DPS burn the king. He will go completely invulnerable at 34%, so you may want to pull all DPS classes quite a ways away. Have your tank standing between your healers and the king, and have those healers spam RGC on the king non-stop. Every 3-4 or so casts, a mummy will spawn that will initially run to the closest PC, but use your tank to cast an AGGRO spell on it (they are invuln to damage, but aggro spells work great) and kite it around until the next one spawns. After the tank aggros the mummy, it moves quite slow (though they seem to move slightly faster the higher the tier event, or maybe thats just me.) You will need to cast RGC quite a deal of times, and you will get 5, maybe more mummies in that time period, that will need to be kited. But once enough RGCs are casted, the king is cured, depops, and you get your chest which you can /open for your phat lewtz.

Valdeholm

New for 2020 Valdeholm and Frostcrypt

Find Voodek in the Forest
NPC's:
- Wraithguard Hunter Grethmar (Aug Turn-in)
- Renegade Kryol (Icey Wand of Beltron Quest)
- Sheval (Headhunter Quest)
- Bleekin (Aug Info)