Tarlok's Wrath Winter Event Official Feedback Thread

[Samhayne]

This Holiday Season, do battle with the Crazed Wizard Tarlok and his many minions!

Please use this thread to post your feedback about the event

Tarlok’s Wrath pits players against the powerful wizard Tarlok and his legion of mind-controlled minions, including an Ice Dragon. Adventurers confront each of Tarlok’s lieutenants and bosses as they fight to save the world of Arlor from this new, wintery assault.

The Tarlok's Wrath event runs from Dec. 9 to Jan. 6.

In addition to the new quests and storyline, the Tarlok’s Wrath event also includes:

• Five pets
• Nine armor sets
• Six vanity sets
• Six weapon sets
• Four bosses
• Two minion enemy types
• One town
• Six crafting recipes

Here is the breakdown of the different aspects to the Tarlok's Wrath event.

Frozen Hope
This is the main hub for your questing and store related needs for the Tarlok’s Wrath Event. Players need to be level 10+ to begin their journey there, and can get access by talking to Frozen Hope guides in all the major cities.

Rodrick the Vendor
Rodrick is the point of contact for all the Winter Event items, purchased with Winterfest Tokens. This is where the Event specific Crafting recipes can be found for purchase.

• All Winterfest Tokens will be removed from players once Tarlok’s Wrath comes to an end
• Winterfest Tokens can be farmed from bosses found in Tarlok’s Rifts
• Winterfest Tokens have a chance to be found in all the Winter Event chests in varying amounts
• Winterfest Tokens can also be purchased from the Store, and Rodrick directly

Daily Quests
The daily quests function similarly to the Halloween event in that there are a number of daily quests which all work towards the goal of a daily Quest Reward Chest. This daily quest reward chest can give out:

Winter Quest Reward Chest
• Frozen Armaments: unique Armor and Helm
• Frosteye Spider Pet Egg
• 1 Winterfest Token
• 5 Winterfest Tokens

Complete 15 days of daily quests during the event and unlock the new achievement 'Savior of Frozen Hope' to receive the Frozen Hope Banner.

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Event Crafting Recipes
There are six special event crafting recipes available for purchase with Winterfest Tokens. Three for Chests, and three for new hybrid gems

• Tarlok’s Wisdom Gem: 6 Glacial Essence, 4 Blood Essence
INT, STR

• Tarlok’s Wind Gem: 6 Fire Essence, 4 Glacial Essence
DEX, INT

• Tarlok’s Blood Gem: 6 Blood Essence, 4 Fire Essence
STR, DEX

• Silver Frozen Chest: combine 2 Bronze Frozen Chests
• Gold Frozen Chest: combine 3 Silver Frozen Chests
• Imbued Frozen Chest: combine 5 Gold Frozen Chests

All of these recipes can be vendored for various values, so that once the event is over can sell them for gold. From Jan 6 to Jan 13 the crafting recipes for the event Gems and combining chests will still be valid to craft. In a patch on Jan 13th these recipes will be removed and no longer able to be combined. The recipe item left in your inventory will be able to be sold for gold.

Tarlok’s Rifts
Rift’s have a chance to spawn off of the many bosses in Arlor, with the exception of Brackenridge or the Gladiator Arena. The likelihood a rift will spawn also increases as the difficulty of the bosses increases, with Elite bosses from Nordr and Shuyal having the highest chance to spawn a Rift. This does not include Ashral Heart because of how that encounter functions. Other elite zones tied to older content will not have an improved rate of rift spawn chance.

There are Four bosses to be found in the rifts. Each one has a different chance to spawn inside one of the rifts as follows.

Ice Tempered Goblin - 40% chance to fight this boss that drops the below:
• 8 Winterfest Tokens
• Chance for Bronze Frozen Chest

Ravenous Tundra Wolf - 30% chance to fight this boss that drops the below:
• 12 Winterfest Tokens
• Chance for Silver Frozen Chest

Thorbold, the Frost Knight - 20% chance to fight this boss that drops the below:
• 24 Winterfest Tokens
• Chance for a Silver Frozen chest or a Gold Frozen Chest

Tarlok and his mighty Ice Drake - 10% chance to fight this boss that drops the below:
• 40 Winterfest Tokens
• Chance for Gold Frozen Chest
• Chance for Imbued Gold Chest

For players looking to farm specific bosses, they can talk to Limae in Frozen Hope to be warped directly through a rift to the boss of their choosing for Platinum.

Event Chests
In order to provide access to the event for all level of players, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Imbued Frozen Chests are NOT tradeable and NOT stashable. This is to prevent an exploitable situation where players can farm for higher quality chests at lower levels to sell to other players, or move to their own higher level players.

Bronze Chests drop one of the below:
• Wintermancer Armor
• Snow Talisman Amulet
• 5 Winterfest Tokens

Silver Chest drop one of the below:
• Wintermancer Armor and Helm
• Snow Talisman Amulet
• 12 Winterfest Tokens

Gold Chests drop one of the below:
• Breezaga Air Elemental Pet Egg
• Frozen Jewel Ring
• Snow Talisman Amulet
• Wintermancer Armor and Helm
• 8 Winterfest Tokens
• 16 Winterfest Tokens

Imbued Gold Chests drop one of the below:
• Tarlok Vestments Armor and Helm (the best gear from the event)
• Tarlok’s Heart Amulet
• Winter Star Ring
• Breezaga Air Elemental Pet Egg
• 40 Winterfest Tokens

Locked Grand Crates of the Watch
Pet Eggs have been added to Locked Grand Crates of the watch only during the Tarlok's Wrath event Dec 9 to Jan 6. These may rarely drop when opening a Locked Crate:
• New Holiday Arcane rarity pet egg: The Brothers Whim
• Mythic rarity pet eggs: Slag, Ripmaw and Abbadon


1 Week Post Event Crafting Period
From Jan 6 to Jan 13 the crafting recipes for the event Gems and combining chests will still be valid to craft. In a patch on Jan 13th these recipes will be removed and no longer able to be combined. The recipe item left in your inventory will be able to be sold for gold.

[Ravager]

Are there any plans to make the new arcane pet lootable after the event? New arcane pets usually take a very long time to acquire either by looting or saving up.

[Spyce]

Are there any plans to make the new arcane pet lootable after the event? New arcane pets usually take a very long time to acquire either by looting or saving up.

I'm guessing no because it's directly made FOR the WF event.

[Gorecaster]

Does my whole party gain access to a boss fight w the plat purchase?

[Spyce]

Does my whole party gain access to a boss fight w the plat purchase?

No, only you get access because you bought it with platinum, not them.

[Ventus]

Does my whole party gain access to a boss fight w the plat purchase?

Not that i seen. my friend bought the dragon area for me and when i went to join it said i need 5 plat. Im angry at this update more then enjoying so far. WAY to many advantages for plat. the tokens should have been the same for everyone instead of the option to buy them with plat. STS you took this update and made it into more of a money maker rather then a fun update like the halloween one. I spent plat. I probably won't be doing the dailies after today because it wasnt as fun as the halloween dailies.

[JAS]

Not that i seen. my friend bought the dragon area for me and when i went to join it said i need 5 plat. Im angry at this update more then enjoying so far. WAY to many advantages for plat. the tokens should have been the same for everyone instead of the option to buy them with plat. STS you took this update and made it into more of a money maker rather then a fun update like the halloween one. I spent plat. I probably won't be doing the dailies after today because it wasnt as fun as the halloween dailies.

Amen to that. I have to agree. Was looking so forward to a Halloween type event and instead its all about plat users.

[wlsgh15]

am confusing about event crafting racipes.. so basically widgem give stat like 6int +4str? or 6glacial+4blood essence?

[Celine Cruz]

Mobs and bosses are too strong for the low levels and weak players like me .. even with a party .. quests are hard to finish -.- hope they make a consideration for the low levels ..

[hakoom7]

2 question from me that i guess everyone wana ask them.

Does breezaga drop only from gold chests? Or can we farm him?

About golden chests and that plats bosses, i dont understand how we enter and sometimes we get to keep the entery and sometimes we dont... and golden chests only drop from last boss so we need to keep pay 5 plats to farm those chest and then open them to get slightl chance of getting breezaga egg ? Isnt that kinda too much !! Im just confused and really didnt get how it should work.

[CrushOverride]

This is just stoopid. 13 bosses 1 portal for 8 tokens... my frozen chest for daily reward gave a legendary frozen helm with no stats... 508 armor is all it has. Worthless. Tokens for plats, boss fights for plats. Pay to win or even have a chance to have anything cool. Not at all for.the casual player. Fail.

[Zeus]

Arcane Pet's happiness should be adjusted... 10% dodge is relatively useless.. and ignoring those, this would put this pet at the lowest defense pet out of all the 3 arcane pets.

[Alzrr]

So question about the recipe, example will it give you +1 int +1str for the hybrid or what? Deciding if I want to buy

[Excuses]

So..
Do I HAVE TO spend plats to enter Lier to finish daily quest?
Or am I missing other ways to get an excess?

Amd would you share new arcane pet's arcane ability?

[Carapace]

You do not 'have' to spend plat. You can play the game normally for free, and as long as you are not farming bosses in Brackenridge portals will have a chance to spawn. Inside a portal there is a variable chance to get each boss type with all the bosses always dropping tokens.

One thing to keep in mind compared to Halloween is that the Halloween event lasted 12 days, and this event will last a full month. It has been tuned with this in mind, so you can definitely farm the rift bosses for free during this period and potentially get multiple rewards.

Thanks for the feedback guys, keep it coming. We still have time to tweak before we disappear for the holidays.

[Valsacar]

I think the gems should be adjusted a little. Either give ALL combinations (I thought Dex was supposed to be a good secondary for Sorc, or so it was said when the mythic helm was released, but no Int/Dex only Dex/Int). And/or increase the amount they can give, they are limited edition items after all.

Right now, for sorc (I haven't looked at them much with my alts) giving up 2 int for 20hp isn't really worth it.

[Jetzzz]

Mobs and bosses are too strong for the low levels and weak players like me .. even with a party .. quests are hard to finish -.- hope they make a consideration for the low levels ..

Agree with this. I use lv 12 war and lv 12 rogue with best eq but it really take long time to kill the bos, and the skill damage
From bosses is hurt a a lot. Both of my char sometimes die from explosion skill from bosses even though when i have full HP.

Btw does the tarlok helm and armor also available for lv 10?

[Ravager]

Arcane Pet's happiness should be adjusted... 10% dodge is relatively useless.. and ignoring those, this would put this pet at the lowest defense pet out of all the 3 arcane pets.

But the highest attack and speed.

[Youngmurda]

But the highest attack and speed.

Tbh speed isn't that great. Samaels 100 health is way better. Also 10% dodge is definitely useless. Samaels 10% crit is way better

[fritzce]

This is just stoopid. 13 bosses 1 portal for 8 tokens... my frozen chest for daily reward gave a legendary frozen helm with no stats... 508 armor is all it has. Worthless. Tokens for plats, boss fights for plats. Pay to win or even have a chance to have anything cool. Not at all for.the casual player. Fail.

I know that feel bro, i have to hit 20 glob before a low lvl rift for goblin boss appeared.. should've made them appeared to at least in brackenridge just to finish quest easily