Winter Convergence Festival
Winter is Coming
While we swelter here in the southern hemisphere, our online avatars can escape to a cool fantasy of celebration. This year the Winter Convergence Festival is starting on December 10th. While there doesn’t look to be anything new this year, it’s still a great event with a shop full of skins and emotes for new players, and crafting resources for the rest of us.
To participate in this event, you’ll need to be level 25 or higher, while the recommended level for taking on the Winter Warrior is level 60+.
Contents
Winter Villages
There are four seasonal icons on the map, showing where the Winter Village are. You’ll need to travel to one of these Winter Villages to purchase items from the Event Shop with Winter Tokens, as well as collect your gifts from the Gift Sack and convert Gleamite. Winter Villages are located in in Everfall, Monarch’s Bluff, Brightwood and Weaver’s Fen.
In this Winter Village you will find the Winter Wanderer, who will give you quests to start earning event reputation. You can also find the following:
- Event Store
- Token conversion carts
- Lore notes
Getting Winter Tokens
Due to some of the more desirable items having cooldowns, you’ll probably want to earn Winter tokens as quickly as possible to activate your first cooldown period.
To access the Event Shop, players will need to level up their event reputation by completing the quest. Those of us who did this last year will already have the reputation and be able to access all levels of shop rewards.
Winter Tokens can be gained from Gifts, Gleamite, Recovered Presents, and the Winter Warrior.
- 1 Winter Token per Hastily Wrapped Present
- 3 Winter Tokens per Beautifully Wrapped Present, plus a chance for a Premium Winter Token
- 5 Winter Tokens per Exquisitely Wrapped Present, plus a chance for a Premium Winter Token
- 1 Winter Token for 3 Recovered Presents
- 1 Winter Token for 6 Gleamite
- 2 Premium Tokens for 1 Warrior’s Hailspikes (from world boss)
- 25 Winter Tokens = 1 Premium Token
Gleamite Meteors
This year, there are more Gleamite Meteors than ever, making it easier to collect gleamite for your Winter Tokens. You can consume a holiday food to increase the amount of gleamite you get from each node.
You then take the Gleamite to a cart in the Winter Village and convert it to Winter Tokens.
World Boss
The Winter Warrior World Boss is a good source of Dark Matter, dropping 15 three times a day. If you do it regularly, you can collect enough Dark Matter over the four weeks of the event to upgrade two Artifacts.
The Winter Warrior also grants 1 Warrior’s Hailspike per kill, with a limit of 3 per day. Each Hailspike converts to 2 Premium tokens.
The zones he spawns in are Great Cleave, Ebonscale Reach, Shattered Mountain, and Brimstone Sands.
Present Piles
Like most seasonal events, settlements are transformed to have collection points for event goodies. The difference with the Winter Convergence is that you don’t have to waste azoth and time going to every settlement. Town gift piles give 4 presents each, with a limit of 3 per day, so you can just pop into three of your favourite towns to get your full quota of 12 town gifts. And you only need to go to one Winter Village to get all your gift sack presents for the day.
Gift Piles in Towns
- 4 presents per pile
- 2 Diamond Gypsum and 1 random holiday food
- Limit of 3 per day
Gift Sacks in Winter Villages
- 3 presents per sack
- 1 random holiday food
- Limit of 1 per day
Presents give better rewards the bigger the pile. You can upgrade your settlement’s gift pile by doing Town Projects.
Hastily Wrapped
- 1 Winter Token
- 1 Lockbox – 100 gold, silver ingot
Beautifully Wrapped
- 3 Winter Tokens
- Premium Winter Token
- 1 Lockbox – 100 gold, silver ingot
Exquisitely Wrapped
- 5 Winter Tokens
- Premium Winter Token
- 1 Lockbox – 100 gold, silver ingot
Note:
- Premium Winter Tokens are random bonus items, so are not guaranteed.
- Lockboxes appear in the first three presents you open per day.
Event Shop
There are a range of new rewards in the Event Shop, including Skins, Emotes, and housing decorations. What has most people excited is the 700GS crafting mats:
Chromatic Seal
- Limit of 1 per 3 days
- Total of 9 over the event
- Worth 5000 gold each at the Faction vendor
- Cost: 10 Premium Winter Tokens
Azoth Inductor
- Limit of 1 per week
- Total of 4 over the event
- Worth 25000 gold each at the Faction vendor
- Cost: 20 Premium Winter Tokens
Pristine Gleamite
Pristine Gleamite is a special ingredient used in 700GS recipes. There is a limit of one Pristine Gleamite per week, they cost 15 Premium Winter Tokens, and the items crafted are Bind on Pickup. They come with all predetermined perks:
Armour Perks
- Health
- Enchanted Ward
- Luck
Weapon Perks
- Keen (or Blessed)
- Frost Attunement
- Luck
The ingredients required to craft these recipes are Tier 5 2 – Mythril, Dark Leather, Spinweave, rather than Prismatic, so it does make sense to limit their availability. This is a cheap way to upgrade some of your armor, or a chance to add to your Luck weapon collection.
It would have been nice to make the crafted items Bind on Equip and tradeable, in the spirit of generosity, gifting and the true meaning of Christmas – capitalism!
Note: you need 205 Crafting skill to make these recipes, unlike the previous pattern which required 0 skill.
Fun Emotes
Winter Convergence has some of the best emotes, so if this is your first time, you’re going to be busy earning tokens to make sure you can get them.
- Pop the Bottle Emote
- Ice Skate Emote
- Jingle Bell Emote
- Gleamite Juggle Emote
- Throw Snow Emote
- Shruggy Dance Emote
- Give Present Emote
House Decoration
The first year of Winter Convergence started off with the glaring white frozen furniture that still creates eyesores throughout Aeternum. However, since then some beautiful items have been added to the Event Shop. Of note, the Choochoo Train Set (pictured above) and the Gleamite String Lights are lovely, and will allow you to give your home a festive touch.
Skins
There are three sets of armour skins to collect:
- Winter Wanderer’s
- Winter Warrior’s
- Golden Wreath
You can also pick up a set of instrument skins and two camp skins.
