A Short Simple Guide to Winter Festival

**Junside** · 12-27-2010, 02:10 AM

This is not a walkthrough, so I won't be adding every detail to this dungeon. Only what I know. You are more than welcome to add to this, and if you'd like it in the first post, I'll definitely give you credit. Also, if there is any incorrect information, please do not hesitate to correct me.

This dungeon costs 10 Platinum to unlock and consists of 3 stages.

1st: Winter Village
2nd: Father Frost's Factory
3rd: Jolly Old Father Frost

This is where everyone is getting all those Winter Festival Items like Jolly Holiday Hack(sword) and Snowman Helmet(Vanity)

The one thing you should know, if you did not is that the difficulty of monsters depend on the highest leveled member of the party. So if someone is level 50 in your party, you can bet that the monsters will be near impossible to defeat for someone else in your party who is level 15.

The other major aspect your should keep in mind is that the items that come from monsters, or otherwise known as drops, will indeed also be affected by the highest leveled member of the party. If you receive a drop while someone in your party is level 50, and you are level 30, you will receive a level 50 item.

Keep this in mind most importantly when you face Toy Man in Stage 2: Father Frost's Factory. Toy man's difficulty and level of his drops will be affected by highest leveled member of your party. So it's best and recommended to put together a party with people nearly the same level as you or lower.

Defeating Toy Man provides you with rare drops 100% of the time. However, the level of the rare can range from Rare(Green), Epic(purple), or Legendary(pink).
To defeat Toy Man with the most ease, I recommend the following basic pointers:

1. Have at least one enchantress in your party, with maxed heal and revive skills. Enchantresses are vital in fighting him.
2. Toy Man has the something similar to the Stomp skill warriors have. He will use it roughly every other minute and it will knock you back a good distance, and can stun you, leaving you immobile temporarily.
3. To counteract the problem listed in 2, you can stand in the upper right hand corner of the room, or everyone can, and keep attacking him. This way, when you are knocked back, you can still deal basic attack damage to him while stunned as he will still be within distance. This is also easy reaching distance for reviving.

After defeating Toy Man, everyone in your party will be rewarded with a random rare item. If you want to progress, defeat and remaining evil snowmen.

In stage 3, here is where you can start doing quests for an armor. It may not have the best defense, but it raises your other stats by a fair amount.

Father Frost's quest which requires you to collect 250 coal hearts from snowmen is when earlier mentioned tips will come into play. When you finish his quest, you receive the Snowman Helmet. Fanceh! :P

That's about it for now... my thumbs hurt as I've been writing this from my Droid phone.

Things You Should Know:
Winter Festival requires 10 Platinum to unlock
Any kills in these stages do NOT give you experience points
You can replay and face Toy Man as many times as you wish.

ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCED USERS

Originally Posted by Duke

The event dungeon is temporary. Based on comments from the devs, it will last for a total of about 4 weeks. As far as I know, defeating Killjoy does nothing except to "clear" the level, which isn't necessary, since you can jump to every level without having to unlock them one by one.
I don't think I've ever seen an orange drop from the Toy Man, only greens, purples, and pinks. The items generally lack the H/s and M/S regen rates of top items, but they (the rarer ones at least) do provide bonus damage. And they look cool.

Originally Posted by clvv

Nice guide. But I don't think you'll need a mage with revive maxed out, and I don't think a lot of mages do that either. Revive lv 1 is enough.

Originally Posted by Fyrce

Toy Man's wand does a freeze, which will combo occasionally with his stomp. It's important to either stop his stomp, not be in range, or heal freeze ASAP if you solo. In a group, bleh. Just do group stuff.

Originally Posted by SilentKingdom

When he stuns you, you can use heal to become "Clear-Headed" and become mobile again

Thanks and good luck!

**Siqk** · 12-27-2010, 02:44 AM

great guide

**djkrazze** · 12-27-2010, 03:49 AM

killjoy i def hate! so now i got it! basically im screwed if i go n it and theres a level 50 player, im currently doing the snowman quest! ugh so damn potion consuming!

**drewcapu** · 12-27-2010, 04:17 AM

Toy Man's stomp is closer to every 10 seconds than every other minute.
As a bear, I try to time my beckon a little bit before his stomp and it seems to actually stop him from stomping most of the time. Beckon seems to stun him a lot closer to 100% than 50%. Try other stun skills and see if it works.

If you're working on Winter Village and are having problems, try to join an instance which is almost done. That way you can walk around an untie elves without mobs getting in your way.

**Duke** · 12-27-2010, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by Junside

What I do not know yet:
Is this event dungeon temporary?
Any quests involving defetaing Killjoy in Winter
Thanks and good luck!

The event dungeon is temporary. Based on comments from the devs, it will last for a total of about 4 weeks. As far as I know, defeating Killjoy does nothing except to "clear" the level, which isn't necessary, since you can jump to every level without having to unlock them one by one.

I don't think I've ever seen an orange drop from the Toy Man, only greens, purples, and pinks. The items generally lack the H/s and M/S regen rates of top items, but they (the rarer ones at least) do provide bonus damage. And they look cool.

**Junside** · 12-27-2010, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Duke

The event dungeon is temporary. Based on comments from the devs, it will last for a total of about 4 weeks. As far as I know, defeating Killjoy does nothing except to "clear" the level, which isn't necessary, since you can jump to every level without having to unlock them one by one.

I don't think I've ever seen an orange drop from the Toy Man, only greens, purples, and pinks. The items generally lack the H/s and M/S regen rates of top items, but they (the rarer ones at least) do provide bonus damage. And they look cool.

My friend tried to follow me to stage 3: Jolly Old Father Frost and he said he couldn't so I'm not entirely sure about this.

And I believe you're right. I never received an orange drop from Toy Man. Thank you for correcting :P

**Fyrce** · 12-27-2010, 03:01 PM

Toy Man's wand does a freeze, which will combo occasionally with his stomp. It's important to either stop his stomp, not be in range, or heal freeze ASAP if you solo. In a group, bleh. Just do group stuff.