I was one of the people that had few pass horses, every month I could get 10 passes for the VIP subscription and I could get other from the other oldest or sell them and still get passes.
I was obviously scared about the change, like many others, elders and newbies. But there were also newbies that were happy about this change, hoping to get more passes than ever with a little effort (the less horses you have, the less work you have to do).

After the "test period" started, not only the eldest were against the new system, but also many newbies found it very difficult.
The actions needed to get the daily 10 points aren't known and it seems that changes every day. We are trying and sharing opinions and experiences to find out a good method, but we didn't understand quite nothing so far.

A bounch of ideas came out, like: you have to write on forums, spend passes, take care of horses (not many after all), take care of E.C., partecipate the events. But, as I said, it seems to change every day, so we are quite desperate.

The divine horse (Yggdrasil) is..... unuseful. In any way. You kill those 10 old horses and you have it. End of the story. Oh right! You have also a beautiful rank of the oldest Yggdrasil! Very nice.
(yes, I'm sarcastic)

Conclusion of this looooong post:
We tested it once, we are still "testing" it and we don't like it.
Many of us shared great ideas, compromises between player will and Owlient-Ubisoft will.
It could be good if: points would be easier to get (they took from us 21 extra passes per month, after all); when you have like 25/30 points and you get more than 5, you still recive the remaining points after claiming the pass; we keep the new feature but we want an add-on, like another system to get at least other 10 passes, maybe like the old pass horse system, just to help out the loyal players.
I also want you to know that we are a very small community, there are many children (and even if they can't, they play without parents supervision), there are many players that play some times, there are few pass-buyers, so we have issues and incomprehensions bigger than other versions. Our polls never get the quorum, let's think about this.

Yes, Winter was switched out for the Wild horse, and you need to fully decorate 5 trees in order to unlock the divine forest.

A Drum horse is gotten by completing the tree you decorate in the tutorial. It appears we can also send for more Drum horse trees and get more as well. Not sure if that will apply to the live server, but we'll see. Otherwise, I think everything else is the same from the first prize images that were posted

Changes from previous version

Promo instructions

Yes, you don't need to choose a team of horses this time. You just click the forest you want that has the tree prize you want, then click an arrow to scroll through the trees in that forest. The board to the right tells you what decorations are required and a nifty check mark appears if you have the decorations needed for that tree! So no guessing or anything.

These are the prices you can pay if you want to get your tree right away. The price decreases as time goes on, so if you want to wait several hours for the price to drop a bit, then you can. For the divine forest I waited about 2 hours, then checked again and the price decreased by 1 pass and 1 diamonds.
1st forest(closest): 2 passes or 10 diamonds
2nd forest: 3 passes or 21 diamonds
3rd forest: 4 passes or 31 diamonds
Divine forest: 6 passes or 51 diamonds.

Info for the Advent Calendar.

here are the prizes for the snowball fight

While I can see that the offers for the packs are available, I can't check the prices or further details of the pack beyond a mythological divine and x passes available, so for those that were wondering about the price in different currency I can't supply that unfortunately, unless I'm overlooking it.

Balios

It is expected to show up during the Christmas promo (Tree Decorating) I believe

don't we already have the drum horse?? Usually it is a new breed not one already here. Also what is the equestrian statuette good for? Any info on that?

So, Can SOMEONE please explain in a PM to me (Or here, please do PM though) why there are no longer going to be pass horses? I'm already considering quitting, this would really help my cause!

New Banner icons for the drop down menus!