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Dilbert2001
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Goth Beifong said :
So. Re: the Snow Imp Grotto.

This was a surprise promotional sweetener. I don't think any player expected it.

But I feel a little cheated, as I had just purchased the large holiday pack a couple of days before hand and burned through 950 keys that it came with.

So... anyone else miss out on a couple of guaranteed Purple Santa Hats because of this?

IIRC, RS3 used to add extra "surprise" events during the Christmas month, so it is really not a surprise we are getting extra surprise holiday bonus content to me.

Anyway, you can still get your guaranteed Purple Santa Hats with TH keys if your want to, as you can use TH keys on your other characters who haven't opened the required number of presents for the guaranteed "surprise" bonus Purple Santa Hat.

22-Dec-2023 16:49:57

Mel 624
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I liked the return of the snow imps and the quest but it was a bit of a downer to find that I couldn't have him keep tagging along after the quest. I don't even get to see the unique name anymore since you just get 'head snow imp' and the generic interaction dialogue. If we couldn't unlock a snow imp pet to keep him around permanently then it'd be nice to at least get to temporarily have him around for the whole event and retain access to some more dialogue. Zanik's the fan favourite but the snow imp buddy was a good recurring friend with fun dialogue too. Easily a highlight to look forward to every year.

The holiday decorations are nice but the quest feels a bit incomplete. Who stole the decorations and sent the imps hiding? It's clearly an act of sabotage, but we just set the decorations ourselves and somehow just pretend it's all fine? The person who did it has no interest in sabotaging again? Santa doesn't want a deeper investigation on the person apparently threatening the very existence of the land of snow? The whole point of the quest was that the lack of seasonal cheer was an actual danger to them since they rely on it to exist. Are we getting a sequel addressing this next year?

The advent calendar is a serious problem this year. In previous years 1 or 2 gifts were P2P and that was a problem for properly including F2P in the event. This year, there are 6 P2P gifts. 6. On top of that, they don't get the lodge cosmetics, which could've been separate from rolling for the black partyhat with the letters. Players had to get the store hat and scarf to become F2P because all F2P got were letters they could only use if they went P2P during the event, past cosmetics, 2 skilling spots and secret santa, which doesn't see much use in F2P. Even P2P secret santa seems less active this year. There also doesn't seem to be any use for Christmas spirit once you have everything. There's no consumable like wrapping paper to spend it on. How to block a forum user
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23-Dec-2023 05:00:28

Mel 624
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Continuing my feedback, the double daily challenges aren't very helpful when you don't need catching up on the weekly streak. Doubling doubles the amount you have to do and the cost of skipping them in exchange for getting double progress on the weekly bonus. If you don't need that, it's just a hassle for no reason. A better way of getting the basic idea of this would be to pair it with free challenge skips or to make it so manually extending challenges is free instead of auto extending.

The big downer of this event is the black partyhat and purple santa. Once again, christmas events are the grind for rares and MTX "holiday" event. subject yourself to the relentless cruelty of RNG for some pretty looking data that most players will never be able to buy or obtain for themselves. the partyhat at least has the courtesy of being a set number of rolls per player they can obtain relatively easily even if they fall behind, so alts aside, players have a theoretically equal chance so long as they have membership to mail the letters. F2P can easily keep up if they want to get membership but it's basically a glorified membership ad to them. TBH with how badly they got shafted on halloween, I think they deserved to get to roll for it too.

The Santa gift is a bit confusing. How do the odds work once you've gotten one or more of the one-off rewards? Most of the options seem to be one-offs, so it's hard to tell what the actual odds are for getting the santa hat from it. The recent trick with the TH promo is inexcusable. I'm frankly disgusted that Jagex would mislead players who are paying them MTX money to roll for the hat. Many players have spent a lot of keys on Santa's grotto that won't count for progress on the 400 keys. The way the present bonus was set up and changed between promos is also confusing and misleading in a way designed to bait players into wasting keys they would've gotten more out of later. This ruins the event. Never bring back christmas rares. How to block a forum user
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23-Dec-2023 05:30:38

Shi No Neko
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Yeah. I was a bit disappointed when I saw that they had improved the Grotto for the last 2 weeks since I had already used my keys prior to that unannounced update.

The only legacy item in the shop I hadn't gotten was the KBD jumper even though I know for a fact I have completely participated every year and had done all events since I started playing around 2006. I only knew I had somehow missed that jumper when someone mentioned it a couple years ago and I checked the wiki. There was no way I could have missed it, but for some reason it was not unlocked for me until I got this year.

The only other item I don't have and is not in the shop is the wintumber tree since it was a members only item during that year's Christmas event and I didn't become a member until after that. Not sure why they didn't include it in the shop this year, but oh well.

Regarding the drop parties before the weekly Santa appearance: I didn't know about the drop parties and just made sure to be there just after 8 pm (2 pm my time) to participate; therefore, I have missed all of them since I didn't know they were a thing. I did attend this year's parade and short after party in the Village with the jmod giving out stroopwaffles.

I do have to say that having so many events going on at the same time makes it difficult to participate and do our daily/weekly stuff when we have lives outside this game.

Also, on a side note, the free deaths this week are broken for me. I died at the Risen Ghosts and had to run to my grave from Death's office instead of showing up in Edgeville with all my stuff like last time in Nov. This ruins my plans for this week because I was planning on trying to do a few/all of my remaining 4 quests and maybe some combat related stuff I had been putting off since I don't like combat that much and it is hard for me to do in this game. I took these last 2 weeks of the year off and was hoping to use this week of free deaths like I did last time to catch up on questing/slayer.

26-Dec-2023 03:54:26 - Last edited on 26-Dec-2023 03:56:35 by Shi No Neko

Dilbert2001
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Not just a lot of free presents for even free players, but even my F2P newbie alt is afking his way to mid level in Santa Grotto.

RS3 Christmas 2023 is especially great for skillers, with all those easy xp with free unlimited aura resets from AFK activities and lamps/stars from presents.

This week's free death event is most definitely great for pvmers though.

26-Dec-2023 17:55:34

Dilbert2001
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Mel 624 said :
I didn't know about the drop parties at all. That's an odd thing to leave out, especially since stuff like the lodestone balloons and the pumpkin parties got in game messages notifying players of them.

We did get an in game broadcast message every Sunday at 18:30 game time for the drop party, or 30 minutes before the arrival of Santa for the weekly Black Party Hat raffle, exactly as Jagex described the events in their developer blogs.

30-Dec-2023 16:53:17

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