I've heard so much about 'The Divine Forest' for the upcoming tree decorating promo, but what actually is it?

With the Lucky Day pack's icluded two months of VIP account, is this renewable, like after you qualify by the rankings or passes. What i am asking is if you buy this pack are you elegible to renew it forever?

So question about the Advent Calendar that will be coming in December... I am very confused by the part where it states: 1) on Sundays and the 24th the chance to obtain a divine instead of a normal prize 2) on the 24th the prize is the same for everyone. I understand that ShorahNagi wrote that although the 24th is supposedly the same prize for everyone, that not everyone will get the divine on this date. How is that possible? Can someone please clarify? Someone else also wrote that you are guaranteed to receive a divine from this promo, is this a proven fact or just speculation? If it is a fact, what are the details? Sorry for the extensive questioning, and I hope it makes sense! Thanks so much for any help!

Ok so can I send many pairs of horses at the same time to haul back a tree?

That will be dependent on what decorations you get vs. what Divines you want. While I'd be willing to bet that you'd have enough Tinsel and Baubles...it's the ornaments that would be the kicker. Using Sagittarius' and Frost's trees - you need total;

12 Tinsel
3 Plain baubles
2 Spiral baubles
2 striped baubles
1 Tree bauble

4 Candy Canes
4 Stars
5 Hearts
1 Tree
1 Deer
3 Moons
2 Pinecones
4 Stockings
3 Bows
2 Holly
5 Chalet
7 Snowflakes
5 Skis
5 Santas

While you'll probably have enough of most of these ornaments as well - the last four listed (Chalet, Snowflake, Skis, and Santa) - are the hardest to get. So in theory - it is possible, but you would need a lot of luck on your side.

getting the Divine without using Passes (or very few passes) is only possible by not bringing in any other trees and hoarding decorations.

Remember - the Divine Forest opens for everyone on the 25th regardless of how many trees you've brought back. You need only to decorate 15 trees if you want to gain access to it faster.

If you want to decorate 15 trees to unlock it faster - then you will need to use passes to ensure you have enough decorations.

The Tree Decorating Promo is offering 5 Divines as prizes

Snow, Frost, Winter, and Balios (Snowy coat) - all four of these Divines are currently on the game. *you can see them in the Directories*

Sagittarius is the new Divine for this promo;

Sagittarius is one of the horses of the Zodiac.

If you were born under this sign, Sagittarius will give you 1 x The 5th Element every year, on your birthday, if you log in on that day.

She can breed with Scorpio to give birth to Capricorn.
By collecting all 12 horses of the Zodiac, you will get the horse, Serpentarius

This mare cannot be sold.

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*Foal*
*Adult*
Capricorn is one of the horses of the Zodiac.

If you were born under this sign, Capricorn will give you 1 x The 5th Element every year, on your birthday, if you log in on that day.

He is the son of Sagittarius and Scorpio.
By collecting all 12 horses of the Zodiac, you will get the horse, Serpentarius

This horse cannot be sold.

The Pass Packs are giving us;


Liten *red Falabella* > His perk is the same as any other Falabella, all that is different is his name and color.


The new Dun Sleipnir *Seems this color might only be gotten through buying a Pass Pack (You get to pick the color you receive) at this time - still hunting for more information/confirmation on this* - His perk is the same as any other Sleipnir, only his color is different.


Svadilfari is a divine horse who is a patron of builders.

He can help you to build boxes using his immense strength. This means the time required for making a box in your workshop is reduced by 10% (stackable with the artisan bonus).

His skills are regularly reassessed according to the best horse of the game.

This horse cannot be sold.

*Svadilfari is a member of the Mythological Divine category - like the Dun Sleipnir, it seems he might only be able to be gotten by buying a Pass Pack *again - still hunting for information.

It will most likely start December 10th (Thursday) and run until December 29th (Monday) (keeps with the usual start on Thursday - end on Monday). Reason I know a start date is because it was stated the Advent calendar would run for 10 days before the Tree Decorating started.

3 Days is the shortest time I've gotten for bringing back a Divine tree - assuming the promo ends on the 29th...With this time - you'd get the tree sometime on the 28th, allowing you a chance to decorate it (otherwise, you might need to pay passes to get it faster (I actually recommend just paying the 5 passes to get instantly if you can - rather than take the time Gamble (as it could end up costing more than 5 passes depending on how long it takes)).

As for the Decorations needed for Frost's Tree;
6 Tinsel (any colors)
4 Baubles = 2 Plain, 2 Striped
3 Candy Canes
1 Tree
2 Stars
2 Hearts
1 Pine cone
1 Bell
1 Moon
3 Bows
2 Stockings
3 Chalet
3 Snowflakes
2 Skis
2 Santas

You can get decorations by:

Logging in each day
From the Advent Calendar
Winning competitions (2 per day)
Going on rides with your horses (2 per day)
From HOPs at certain times during the Event
By buying them with passes.

You bring trees back from various Forests and decorate them to get gifts. One of the Forests is known as the Divine Forest.

All the trees here give you a Divine horse IF you bring them back and decorate them in full. You can choose which tree(s) you wish to decorate. The Divines you can win are:

Snow, Frost, Winter, Sagittarius, and Balios (Snowy coat)

Of I collect normal trees and don't decorate any of them until the devine one unlocks, Is it still possible to decorate divine one directly without decorating any of the other trees in inventory ?

1. Every day of the calendar - the gift has a chance to be different for everyone...

Date > Player 1 gift - Player 2 gift - Player 3 gift
1st > 3x Red Tinsel - 3x Candy Cane - 500x Fodder
2nd > 1x Apollo's Lyre - 3x Blue Tinsel - 3x White Tinsel
3rd > 3x Plain Red Bauble - 1x Medusa's Blood - 1x Apollo's Lyre
...
10th> 3x Tree - 3x Tree - 3x Red Tinsel
...
15th > 10,000e - 10x Aging Points - 3x Deer

You can see that different day = different gifts for different players. Though some players might get the same gift on the same day (such as day 10 in the above example). The 24th is the only day that everyone is guaranteed to get the same gift UNLESS they are lucky enough to get the Divine.

So on the 24th - you will be looking at something like this:

24th > 1x 5th Element - 1x 5th Element - 1x 5th Element

OR

24th > 1x 5th Element - Divine Horse - 1x 5th Element

That is what I mean when I say everyone will get the same gift on the 24th but not everyone will get the Divine (You'd get the Divine instead of that days gift)

There is NO guarantee you will get a Divine from the Calendar, or the tree decorating promo (the odds are just higher given how often the chance is for the Advent Calendar - and various strategies for the tree decorating promo).

Hope that clears it up a little.

*Please note - all gifts listed here are *Examples* - there is NO guarantee that you will receive any of these gifts on these days. Gifts are 100% random and all items chosen here were chosen at random.

You can only send 3 teams of horses out at a time - and you must wait for them to return (depending on which forest you sent them to - and various factors (skills, age, etc) - it will take anywhere from 10 hours to 5 days to get your tree.

The Divine Forest unlocks on the 25th regardless of how many you have decorated it seems - so you don't need to bring back any other trees if you don't want to (I know I'm not going to - I don't care about anything except Sagittarius).

A little more testing is needed on this - but I'll have confirmation soon enough.

decorations for devine by 25th, I'd give up the Devine tree decorating and do to normale trees as I can't spend passes for now.

Speaking of the horses you send to bring the trees home: will we be able to see how much it will take for a particular group of horses before we decide to send them? Can we try diffrent sets before actually sending them?
If not, has somebody already listed the horses that will be faster?

Thanks!

There's not really a way to complete the next promo (assuming you mean the Tree Expedition) as you can bring back and decorate as many trees as you can afford / have time for. So there's no limit to the number of passes you could spend on it to keep getting prizes.

I mean, everyone's talking about hoarding decorations and saying that you have to give up any other prizes if you want the divines. That's not necessarily true.

There's nothing stopping you from bringing back trees while the divine forest isn't open and just having them sit there. There's no time limit for decorating trees, so you could bring back a few and, after getting your divine, who knows you might just have enough decorations to get some smaller prizes like APs or money or stuff like that.

It all depends on what decorations you have left, but the small trees and the medium trees don't require basically any of the rare and super rare decorations, so you possibly could make it out of this promo with more prizes than just a divine. But those are just my thoughts.

ticket packs will be coming back for the last weekend of the promo? I miscalculated the time they would be here this weekend and didn't get as many packs as I would've liked, so I'm just wondering if they'll come back like the Bell packs did in the Halloween promo

WHy would people get a 5th element if they didnt get the divine? Oo

I've tried a few different pairs in a few different forests and gotten the following results;

*Divine Forest - Longest Trips

Friesian Unicorn - 445.08 skills - 356.16 gp
Friesian Unicorn - 384.02 skills - 353.17 gp
Time Taken = 5 Days

Donkey Foal - 90.06 skills - 306.02 gp
Donkey Foal - 90.06 skills - 306.02 gp
Time Taken = 3 days

Ocean Divine - 8569.20 skills - 700 gp
Geyser Divine - 8420.30 skills - 700.00 gp
Time Taken = 5 Days

Nearby Copse - Shortest Trips

Percheron Foal - 380.51 gp - 117.23 skill points
Donkey Foal - 306.30 gp - 92.53 skill points
Trip time to get tree from Nearby Copse = 11 hours *rounded up to nearest hour*

Marwari Unicorn - 729.26 gp - 335.97 skill points
Legendary Altair - 3887.05 - 9541.12 skill points
Trip time to get tree from Nearby Copse = 13 hours

Legendary Amira -3768.77 - 9984.40 skills
Legendary Tormenta - 3610.36 gp - 9700.62 skills
Trip time to get tree from Nearby Copse = 15 hours

2 Foundation Drafts - fully BLUPed and Bolded = 15 hours
2 Gypsy Vanners - 4400+ skills each = 11 hours
2 Thoroughbreds - 4000+ skills each = 12 hours

for getting a Divine from this promo. Depending on your luck with getting decorations vs. what Divine you want vs. how long it takes to come back with a tree. If you have all the decorations you want for the Divine you want, and it takes 3 days to bring back the tree - you can get a Divine with no passes.

Likewise, if you have all the decorations - you need only to spend 5 passes to get it instantly.

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As for other Prizes - again, no passes are needed depending on what you want (as you can pick and choose which tree(s) you bring back, and passes are only needed to speed up getting trees OR to get more decorations by using HOPs or buying packs of them.)

They will be back on the 27th for another run.

1. Does it cost anything to send horses to get trees?
2. Do the horses go away and I wont be able to take care of them or anything until they are back?
3. I remember reading something about ufos that you'll have to be the first one on the whole server to catch, was it something about a public tree for everyone? Do we know what time it'll be available?

1. No

2. Correct - So choose carefully which horses you send (as you can't do anything with them until they come back)

3. Yes - the Community Tree. I think this will go live on all servers at the same time the promo does. Whichever server is the first to decorate their Community Tree in full will be the server to get the Decoration UFOs during the last week of the contest.

How do we get a Snow Balios and what Divine horse did the lucky ones get on 24th December?

For everyone wondering what it is going to take to get the Divines - here's a screen shot of their Trees...as well as the Ornaments to give you an idea on how hard your Divine might be to get.

Some notes about the following:

1. All these screen shots are of trees I've decorated - Trees you bring back will not have any decorations on them (or will only have a couple if your horses find some on their way back)

2. Tinsel Color does NOT matter - you only need 6 units of Tinsel and it can be any color(s) (you can see this on some of the trees)

3. Bauble Color (the circle ornaments) does NOT matter - only the Pattern does

4. Hanging Ornaments are the only thing that trees require specifics of. You can see how rare they are in the image below:



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Winter and Snow*


Sagittarius and Frost*


Balios


*Take these four images with a grain of salt - There was a Bug with the Balios tree showing improper items that it needed (has been corrected so the tree in the above image is the correct one). Not sure if the other four trees are bugged - so I'm awaiting a confirmation from the Admins.