Christmas event

The Christmas event is a major event occurring on Ephinea over the month of December. It lasts four weeks, and features rate boosts, event-exclusive items, and event-exclusive quests.

Boosts

Rotating weekly boosts

During the Christmas event, each of the four rotating weekly boosts are doubled during their respective active week.

Present rate increase

On Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day, the drop rate for Presents is doubled, going from the base rate of 1/2250 up to 1/1125.

Event items

Present

Present A present wrapped with a ribbon. Wait till you see what's inside... Type : Event Item Max Stack : 1 Hex : 031300

Main article: Present

During the Christmas Event, Presents will drop from all enemies at a rate of 1/2250, regardless of quest, difficulty, or episode. This does not include scared Rappies. Presents will not drop from boxes.

Note: The Christmas event-exclusive Present item should not be confused with other kinds of Presents.

When found, a Present can be "used" from the player's inventory to acquire a random item. The items available from Presents during the Christmas event are always pre-determined, but are not revealed to the community. Instead, the community must compile the list of possible items by reporting them in the annual Christmas event thread posted on the forums at the start of the event.

From the 2017 Christmas event and onward, there are two types of Present (though they appear identical in the player's inventory):

• Common presents are those dropped in Normal, Hard, and Very Hard difficulties. These contain less generally valuable items, such as Photon Drops, Photon Crystals, HP, TP, or Luck materials (in quantities of 1-3), or "joke" weapons with varying Hit %.
• Ultimate presents are, as the name implies, those dropped in Ultimate difficulty. These contain a much wider variety of items spread across different tiers of rarity. Ultimate presents can reward the aforementioned quantities of Photon Drops and Photon Crystals, but also items such as event-exclusive TypeM weapons, the various ring paints, high-Hit % common weapons with valuable specials (e.g. Arrest, Charge, Hell), as well as extremely high-value items at the rarest tier, such as one Photon Hoard, three Photon Spheres, a high Hit % Lame d'Argent or Calibur, and even Heaven Punisher.

Coal

Coal 石炭 An ore discovered upon landing on Ragol. Seemingly useless but maybe someone wants this...? Type : Event Item Max Stack : 99 Hex : 03100F

Main article: Coal

During the Christmas event, Coal is an event-exclusive currency that is primarily obtainable from clearing the Christmas-exclusive quests (see below). It can also be obtained (in varying quantities) from Presents (see above). Coal may be exchanged for two different types of Presents in the Christmas Event Shop at the following rates:

Present	Required Coal
Common	8
Ultimate	40

Associated quests

List of Christmas quests

Episode	Quest Title	Areas
Episode 1	Christmas Fiasco (E1)	Cave 2, Mine 2, Ruins 3
	December Disaster #1*	Forest 2, Ruins 1, Ruins 2
Episode 2	Christmas Fiasco (E2)	VR Spaceship Beta, Central Control Area, Seabed Lower
	December Disaster #2*	Jungle Area (East), Mountain Area, Control Tower
Episode 4	Christmas Fiasco (E4)	Crater East, Subterranean Desert 2, Subterranean Desert 3

* These quests are "omnispawn" quests, and can feature enemies from any area of their respective episodes (though not all are used).

Coal Rewards per Quest

Episode	Quest Title	Difficulty
		Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
Episode 1	Christmas Fiasco (E1)	1	1	2	4
	December Disaster #1	2	3	4	6
Episode 2	Christmas Fiasco (E2)	1	2	3	6
	December Disaster #2	2	3	5	8
Episode 4	Christmas Fiasco (E4)	1	1	2	6

Christmas event shop

Main article: Christmas Event Shop