The Hollow
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Gifting Contest Event Guide
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the updated guide to the seasonal gifting events in which Kibbles and Tibbles help us come together in the spirit of giving and community generosity. This FAQ will cover the Winter and Summer Seasons of Gifting events, how they are run, and what the rewards are.
What are the Seasons of Gifting?
AdventureQuest hosts two yearly events in which players can gift gold and tokens to other players. In the northern summer, these are collected by Tibbles, while in the winter, they're collected by both Kibbles & Tibbles. For the sake of fairness, each gift is sent out to a random active player, with the gifter and recipient only knowing of each other's character names after sending or receiving the gift respectively.
Eligibility
To be able to receive gifts, just play the game! Every day you're active is a day in which you can receive gold or token gifts. Token gifts reception requires a minimum of level 20. Gold gifts are randomly awarded to active players whose character level is within 20 levels of the player who sent the gift, with no further level or character age requirement. We've worked to ensure a fair distribution of gifts, but if you're not sure your activity for the day counts, just winning a battle will make absolutely sure you're in the pool!
As gifts are received one battle at a time, you may notice yourself receiving them even after the content ends. This is completely normal, the game is just catching you up to all the gifts you've been sent!
Reward Distribution:
When the event begins, you will find Kibbles or Tibbles in Today's Events, where you can select your gift amount and make another player's day! You will also notice that they link to a seasonal leaderboard. What's that all about? To encourage and reward the generosity of the season, each Season of Gifting comes with two sets of items as incentives.
One of these reward lists is the Community Set, with each item being unlocked as preset milestones are hit for collective gifts. The more everyone gifts (Gold in the Winter, Tokens in the summer), the more items will be unlocked!
Then there is the Giftmaster Set, designed to reward the most generous Z-Token gifters with items unlocked through placement in the top gift leaderboard. Each Giftmaster item will have an associated threshold, with all who place above it gaining access to it.
On the matter of stretch goals, those are a possibility! However, as we're developing items and content for the rest of the game during the gift events, it's very difficult for us to have those prepared ahead of time. We will disclose when stretch goals are a possibility, but what they are on any given contest will vary according to what our week to week workload allows for.
Additional Winter Contest Details
As we hide from the once-sealed bard Kar'Eh and her spreading influence, the Winter Season of Gifting includes items that given away randomly every day to active gifters! The 2024 items were new versions of the Frostval Crown misc items.
Additional Summer Contest Details:
Feeling the heat? That's because the Summer Season of Gifting has a different reward associated with each day of the week. These items include faces and an elementally-themed assembly of highly requested items! Each gift will have a chance to grant the day's associated item to the sending character. 25 of each daily prize will be distributed on its corresponding day.
The daily items are earned on a per-character basis, meaning that a character will not randomly receive more than one item. Once you've received the day's item, if you want another copy, you will have to try with another character. The chance to receive a given day's item is 300% greater for Guardian characters!
If you receive one of these random rewards for your generosity to other players, it will appear in your inventory when rewards are distributed shortly after midnight CST. However, you can also guarantee receiving one (Without counting towards the daily total) by sending a gift of 5K Z-Tokens to another player. You will be able to see it in your inventory after reloading or visiting a shop.
Golden Tickets
To show our gratitude for the most generous players, the summer event features a special reward: Golden Tickets! The top 5 Giftmasters will be awarded the chance to select a weapon or shield of their choice* to be re-elementalized and reskinned with art designed according to their wishes. We reserve the right to distribute prizes to additional individual players at our discretion, beyond the established prize tiers. They will receive a named personal version of this item, with the option to keep it personal or to release a copy for all players!
Golden Tickets are subject to a subset of rules to avoid reinstating or aggravating balance issues predating the time of their release, be it due to the item itself or interactions with others.
If an item's mechanics operate on outdated standards, or are bugged, they will be updated accordingly.
If we cannot commit to cloning a requested item, the Golden Ticket holder can choose another.
The reskin is purely cosmetic and limited to existing weapons or shields. Any of the eight standard elements may be selected for your prize.
Current ownership of the chosen item is not required.
Temporary items are ineligible for reskinning.
Staff weapons are excluded from this offer.
Prize-sharing requests will be evaluated individually.
Tomes are eligible, however, only the book's appearance may be altered. The spell's element can match the tome, but graphics and animations will remain unchanged regardless of element selection.
No-Drop gear (ie. Blade of Awe) is eligible for reskinning.
For weapons with multiple forms (Melee/Ranged/Magic), only one form may be selected for reskinning.
AdventureQuest staff reserves the right to make final decisions regarding the eligibility of selected prizes.
CURRENT Exclusions (Subject to change):
These lists are not an exhaustive and final filter, as the AdventureQuest team will review each choice for balance concerns. Please bear in mind that Lucky Strikes and attached mechanics are slated for a revamp in June 2025, and that Guardian no-drops are pending updates to bring them up to modern power, when considering either for a Golden Ticket.
The following mechanics are excluded from eligibility for a Golden Ticket. If an item is based on one, it will not be cloned: Backlash, Dodgelash, resource conversion, armor compression.
Further, the following items (And all clones thereof) are currently excluded from eligibility: Book of Burns, Fathershed Moment, Pumpkin Spice weapons, Celestial Voidforged Gear, Voidpact Gear, Shieldcakes, Shield of Plenty, Troposhield.
Reward Mechanics
We begin each contest by showing off what the upcoming rewards will look like, but what do the items do in-game? Just like the cool art, the mechanics are different with every contest! Staff will design the mechanics for the Community and Giftmaster sets. As usual, final implementation of the mechanics will only take place in the respective release weeks. We can only provide general details until then, as fine details are subject to change from meeting the game engine, so look out for any teasers! These will include animation previews and the broad strokes of the mechanics prior to implementation.
Year-Specific Details:
2025:
In recognition of how close the vote was in the 2024 set, the Ironhoof set will be based on Lucky Strike mechanics This year will feature a revamp of critical hit mechanics on the second unluckiest day of the year in June. We will provide the broad strokes for the set mechanics when they are developed, with some time for general feedback before final implementation. Giftmasters can look forward to a new set showcasing the power of new Lucky Strikes in the Ironhoof set!
Reward placement requirements are as follows:
Top 5: Golden Dev Ticket (Custom Shield
or Weapon Skin)
Top 25: Color-Custom Armor
Top 50: Armor
Top 100: Pet
Top 200: Weapon Set
Gift at least 4000 Z-Tokens: Misc
Gift at least 2000 Z-Tokens: Shield
Gift at least 1000 Z-Tokens: Elite Faces
ALL Gifters: Faces
The Community set, unlocked through collective Token donations, will let you see the power of the Rubicon Legions in a new Light. The Legate set is capable of building power to unleash it in different combos, from personal buffs to enhanced Bleeding!
Reward thresholds are as follows:
20mil: CC Armor
12mil: Armor
10.5mil: Magic Weapon
9mil: Melee Weapon
7.5mil: Ranged Weapon
6mil: Misc
4.75mil: Pet
3.75mil: Shield
3mil: Faces
< Message edited by Lorekeeper -- 5/29/2025 16:16:04 >
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