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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the New Christmas Gameplay & Rewards.
For information and discussion on New Christmas Heroes & Family please see: 🧪 Early Information on New Christmas Heroes (Santa's Challenge) & Family Bonus [Part of The Beta Beat V33]
Don’t get too attached
Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.
It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.
So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.
New Difficulty Mode
Previous versions of Seasonal Events had Normal and Advanced Modes — like the revised version of Springvale, Sand Empire & Return to Morlovia, this new version of Santa’s Challenge also has an Easy Mode added as well.
Stages
Unlike the other Seasonal Events, Santa’s challenge features 24 stages per difficulty (vs. 20 for the other 3 seasonal events).
With the addition of Easy, that now means there are a total of 72 Stages across the three Difficulty Modes.
Storyline
Storyline dialogue appears to be the same as previous iterations of Santa’s Challenge.
Updated Rewards & Flag Requirements
There is a total energy requirement of 89 WE for Easy, 161 WE for Normal & 233 WE for Hard; with a combined total of 483 WE for all 3 difficulties.
Rewards Summary:
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Emblems | 10x of each Class |
| 4* Ascension Mats | 1x Farsight Telescope 1x Mystic Rings |
| 4* Ascension Mats | 1x Warm Cape 1x Hidden Blade |
| Avatars | 1x of each Winter Family Hero (Rudolph, Frosty, Carol, Buddy, Mother North, Santa Claus & Krampus |
| Summon Tokens | 2x EHT 1x ETT |
Click for Easy Mode Info
| Stage | WE Required | Recommended TP | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3  |
1500 | 5x Clean Cloth |
| 2 | 3 |
1520 | 5x Common Herbs |
| 3 | 3 |
1550 | 6x Clean Cloth |
| 4 | 3 |
1570 | 5x Crude Iron |
| 5 | 3 |
1600 | 6x Common Herbs |
| 6 | 3 |
1620 | 5x Large Bone |
| 7 | 3 |
1650 | 5x Leather Strips |
| 8 | 3 |
1670 | 6x Crude Iron |
| 9 | 3 |
1700 | 8x Large Bone |
| 10 | 3 |
1750 | 6x Leather Strips |
| 11 | 3 |
1800 | 8x Clean Cloth 8x Common Herbs |
| 12 | 4 |
1850 | Rudolph Avatar 1x 1* Blue Trainer 10x Leather Armor 8x Crude Iron |
| 13 | 4 |
1900 | 4x Minor Healing Potion 6x Large Bone |
| 14 | 4 |
1950 | 4x Minor Mana Potion 8x Leather Strips |
| 15 | 4 |
2000 | 2x Antidotes 7x Oil |
| 16 | 4 |
2050 | 10x Adventurer’s Kits 7x String |
| 17 | 4 |
2100 | 2x Arrow Attack 10x Clean Cloth |
| 18 | 4 |
2150 | 4x Axe Attack 10x Common Herbs |
| 19 | 4 |
2200 | 1x Mana Potion 10x Crude Iron |
| 20 | 4 |
2250 | 10x Training Manual 9x Large Bone |
| 21 | 5 |
2300 | 1x Axe Attack 10x Leather Strips |
| 22 | 5 |
2350 | 1x Potent Healing Potion 13x Oil |
| 23 | 5 |
2400 | 1x Mana Potion 13x String |
| 24 | 5 |
2450 | Frosty Avatar 1x 1* Red Trainer 1x Epic Troop Token 10x Training Manual |
Click for Normal Mode Info
| Stage | WE Required | Recommended TP | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
2450 | 4x Crystal Shards |
| 2 | 6 |
2470 | 4x Firestone |
| 3 | 6 |
2500 | 4x Crypt Mushroom |
| 4 | 6 |
2520 | 5x Crystal Shard |
| 5 | 6 |
2550 | 5x Firestone |
| 6 | 6 |
2600 | 5x Metal Ores |
| 7 | 6 |
2650 | 3x Leather Armor 5x Potent Leaves |
| 8 | 6 |
2700 | 1x 2* Blue Trainer 4x Axe Attack 7x Sunspire Feathers |
| 9 | 6 |
2800 | 1x Mana Potion 8x Metal Ores |
| 10 | 6 |
2850 | 3x Leather Armor 6x Crystal Shards |
| 11 | 6 |
2900 | 1x Axe Attack 6x Firestone |
| 12 | 7 |
2950 | Buddy Avatar 1x Chainmail 5x Crypt Mushroom |
| 13 | 7 |
3000 | 6x Potent Leaves 6x Metal Ores |
| 14 | 7 |
3050 | 1x Axe Attack 1x Fine Steel |
| 15 | 7 |
3100 | 1x Potent Healing Potion 8x Potent Leaves |
| 16 | 7 |
3150 | 1x 2* Red Trainer Hero 3x Leather Armor 8x Sunspire Feathers |
| 17 | 7 |
3200 | 1x Mana Potion 7x Crypt Mushroom |
| 18 | 7 |
3250 | 2x Bomb Attack 7x Crystal Shard |
| 19 | 7 |
3300 | 3x Arcane Scripts 7x Firestone |
| 20 | 7 |
3350 | 2x Super Antidote 8x Metal Ore |
| 21 | 8 |
3400 | 1x Dragon Banner 7x Potent Leaves |
| 22 | 8 |
3450 | 3x Battle Manual 9x Sunspire Feathers |
| 23 | 8 |
3500 | 1x Revive Scroll 3x Fine Steel |
| 24 | 8 |
3550 | Carol Avatar 1x 3* Blue Trainer 1x Epic Hero Token 1x Hidden Blade |
Click for Hard Mode Info
| Stage | WE Required | Recommended TP | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
3550 | 1x Super Antidote 3x Grimoire Dust |
| 2 | 9 |
3570 | 3x Arcane Script 2x Hardwoon Lumber |
| 3 | 9 |
3600 | 1x Dragon Banner 2x Midnight Roots |
| 4 | 9 |
3620 | 1x Revive Scroll 1x Meteor Fragments |
| 5 | 9 |
3650 | 1x Strong Rope 3x Dragon Bone |
| 6 | 9 |
3700 | 3x Bomb Attack 2x Orichalcum Nuggets |
| 7 | 9 |
3750 | 1x Warm Cape 4x Fine Steel |
| 8 | 9 |
3800 | 1x 3* Red Trainer Hero 3x Dragon Banner 5x Fine Steel |
| 9 | 9 |
3850 | 3x Bomb Attack 4x Groimoire Dust |
| 10 | 9 |
3900 | 1x Super Antidote 1x Dragon Bone |
| 11 | 9 |
3950 | 7x Grimoire Dust 2x Meteor Fragment |
| 12 | 10 |
4000 | Mother North Avatar 1x Farsight Telescope 1x Chainmail |
| 13 | 10 |
4050 | 3x Hardwood Lumber 1x Meteor Bone |
| 14 | 10 |
4100 | 4x Dragon Banner 3x Midnight Roots |
| 15 | 10 |
4150 | 10x Rogue Emblems 1x Super Antidote 4x Hardwood Lumber |
| 16 | 10 |
4200 | 1x 4* Blue Trainer Hero 10x Sorcerer Emblems 4x Bomb Attack 4x Midnight Root |
| 17 | 10 |
4250 | 10x Wizard Emblems 1x Super Mana Potion 7x Hardwood Lumber |
| 18 | 10 |
4300 | Santa Claus Avatar 1x Epic Hero Token 10x Barbarian Emblems 1x Super Healing Potion |
| 19 | 10 |
4350 | 10x Cleric Emblems 7x Midnight Root 1x Dragon Bone |
| 20 | 10 |
4400 | 10x Druid Emblems 1x Revive Scroll 3x Meteor Fragment |
| 21 | 11 |
4450 | 10x Fighter Emblems 1x Time Stop 5x Dragon Bone |
| 22 | 11 |
4500 | 10x Monk Emblems 1x Tornado 6x Meteor Fragments |
| 23 | 11 |
4550 | 10x Paladin Emblems 1x Miracle Revive Scroll 4x Orichalcum Nugget |
| 24 | 11 |
4600 | 1x Krampus Avatar 1x 4* Red Trainer Hero 10x Ranger Emblems 1x Mystic Rings |
Gameplay Features
The Frosted Tiles (frozen) are returning from last year & feature the same gameplay mechanic.
The shields which are covered with frost! Frosted shields can’t be used in attacks. Match shields to break the frost!
All other match mechanics are the same as regular gameplay.
How this works:
- Tiles which are frosted CAN be moved
- Tiles which are frosted involved in a match DO NOT “fire”. They simply lose the frosting.
- Matching a Diamond or Dragon Bomb by swiping a “frosted tile” DOES NOT result in the formation of the Diamond/ Dragon Bomb.
Stage Bosses
will update later if time permits. Will be shared tho before the event starts.
Date…???
Unknown. Preliminary guess is that the event will start on the 1st of December & run through to the 4th of January.
For a full list of items currently in beta testing, as well as their related threads, please see:
,Sorry Aife 
and thanks for TP update 