Final haul:
Snow Queen* 1418
Merry Christmas 1509
Apeliotes 1029
Eu Amo-te 1167
Pop Art* 1730
Hippocampus 1327
Tha gaol agam ort 1030
Wesołych Świąt 1094
Buon Natale 1362
Irene Adler – 5.4mill equus
Kocham cię 1030

Snow Queen and Pop Art were the two new ones for me and I dithered for a while over Pop Art before going for him due to already having over 700 fragments for him. The rest were duplicates, but I’m happy with the overall haul. I was aiming for the love divines mostly, but anything that helps with some of the trophies also helps. It cost me, I think, 12,696 in passes if I have done the math right, and this was a much cheaper event than I expected.

I had over 900 fragments for both Art Nouveau and Oyster Mushroom which did tempt me several times. I wish I had the foresight to build up a larger equus reserve as well as I could have gotten more if I had, but it's not something I tend to focus on these days.

I got Horus in directs (last Egyptian I needed to get Ra) and Lug, whose gift I don't need but was the last Celt to complete my collection. I might try for Karate in auctions if not too expensive. Does anyone know how much he has gone for in auctions recently?

Karate auctions

11/22 1504 MST 16.4million

Huh, okay I only recorded one. I saw more than that, but must have missed their final price.

I ended up getting Seth He's my fourth Egyptian divine. I've been trying to get him all weekend and was losing hope. I'm so happy I ended up snagging him!

Not quite as happy with the divines on offer as some previous years, but overall not to bad. i was able to take home 3 this year, and my first divine purchased with Equus in the auctions as well.

I got Celeris and Bonne Natale in the reserved and Irene Adler in the Auction.

Thanks Howrse, now to save up for next year.

Whelp that’s the end of my shopping for the crazy Black Friday saleI ended up getting:

Bison - DS
Gemini - Both - RS
Wesolych Swiat - RS
Skinfaxi - RS

And OMG I got him, Hippogriff in the DS , I never tapped my screen so fast I actually thought I missed him by that much and I got the notification that already participated in a sale.

Total of 6 horses so I’m not complaining. I’m over the moon to snag the Hippogriff. That one takes the cake. Already excited for next year’s sale.

My haul right now, which I sold ~5 of my RCs (including a few from 2015) and half my farm for:

I totally forgot Apeliotes whoops !

So let me start over :

Apelitoes - RS
Bison DS
Gemini X2 RS
Wesolych Swift RS
Skinfaxi RS
Hippogriff DS

For my final haul. I’m quite happy with the outcome, while I was hoping for a Frost or Xthanthos but someone earlier explained why they wouldn’t show up in the sale.

I tired to get Seth, Merry Christmas and Celeris maybe next time they got grabbed pretty fast.
I definitely debated on Hipparion hard but I sat out on that option for this time.

I hope everyone had a good haul.

Time zones are a funny thing. I've spent most of the weekend fighting for Bragi and loosing and here I just casually stroll into a sale and snag him

It's been a productive Black Friday. Now to spend the next year recuperating my empty pass reserves.

Final haul:
Reserved: Epona, Snow Queen, Apeliotes, Libonotus, Zephyrus, Qilin, Supernova, & Carnivorous.
Direct: Hippidion (an accident) & Seth x2.
Auction: Lorel Cattalion.

Spent about 18k passes, and 10.7mil Equus. Well worth it.

I'm happy with my haul, but I do wish the banner had been correct, so I didn't miss out on the reserves today. (It says the Xmas, Spice and Fairytale were all going to be available from 6PM-2AM tonight, but clearly I missed them. Major bummer because that also cuts me just short of the 500 points for Saffron. Grr. Oh well, if that's my biggest issue I guess I'm doing okay.

Everyone must be out of passes or given up because there are a LOT of horses waiting to be claimed. Even some pretty decent ones.

nooooo my browser refreshed and I bid on Lug instead of the wind, rip me

thankfully not everyone is out of equus by now :'v

My final haul:
Cinnamon - reserved
Clove - in directs
Celeris - reserved
Turmeric - reserved
Lorel Cattalian - in auction
Heracles - in directs
Hippogriff - in auction (bittersweet, i paid over 40 million eq for this guy, so this is definitely in participation for this years highest price for a divine in auctions)

I'm overall super happy with these new additions to my game.

I got Art Nouveau in the sales and 2 days running, it's not found a piece of the painting. For those who already have it, is this usual? Its blurb says it finds a piece each time it wakes up.

Art horses 'can' find a piece every day, it isn't a guarantee. The rate they find them depends on the prize. Pixel finds them almost daily, while Pop Art could go a week or two without a single piece. They jump around a lot and don't have a very consistent schedule.

Thank you, I've got horses from the other similar series but couldn't remember if they found something every day or not and this is the first art one I have. It's just being stingy then!

I managed to pick up one of the last Cernunnos. Now I'm done and back to saving up for next year.

I think the highest auction was likely one of the earliest, on 11/21 at 0417 MST Pop Art went for 72.9 million. A few others got into the 50s and 60s, but that was the highest I recorded.

Final total: 8 divines (9 if you count Gemini's offspring) through a combination of the three sales.
Reserves:
Libonotus
Gemini White
Gemini Black
Buon Natale
Turmeric

Directs:
Caicias
Minä rakastan sinua (final hours)

Auctions:
Bison-5 mil eq

I was considering adding Turtle to my haul, but with only 1k passes left, I decided to call it quits and start saving for next year and/or in case they release the Christmas divines next month. I definitely wasn't planning on getting 8 but I'm glad I did. I think Turmeric hates me though

Congrats to everyone who managed to get something from the directs/auctions. For those that missed out: The final hours are when to strike...you just need patience.

The divine selection was very poor this year.

Also, to my surprise, I found out that this time Flash sales have an account-specific server response delay: some accounts have a 300 ms delay, while others have up to 1500 ms. This is not related to user internet connection, as it was tested via Account Sharing - multiple users from different parts of the world accessing the same account experienced the identical high response time. Howrse, doesn't this seem unfair to you? Aren't we all supposed to be on a level playing field?

Because of this, all valuable divines loaded too slowly for me and were already sold, so I ended up stuck with chimeras and other junk.

Support wasn’t working for the entire event. On Friday I couldn't even create a request (HTTP ERROR 500).

It's really disappointing to put so much time and passion into this game and get slapped in the face like that. It was awful and ruined Crazy Friday for me.

Very happy with the the ones I got, happy but also frustrated.
Direct sales (DS) was a disaster for me. Didn't manage to buy a single horse, not for the lack of trying. I have a fast fiber connection, so that's not the reason why I failed over and over.

The issue with DS needs to be adressed. Last year I gave up entirely.
I didn't even check the auctions, just ignored the event after failing for a few times.

This year, I was extremely frustrated when all divine in DS slipped through my fingers time and time again.

Auctions were expensive as always.
I cannot help but think there should be an auction for new players, that aren't extremely rich. I understand it will require some tweaking, but the players that do not have a lot of millions to their name, deserve a chance at auctions as well.

Overall it was a crazy very... as in VERY.. expensive adventure for me, to buy at the auctions and reserved sales.
No need to bring forth any more pass event until 2026 though - I'm broke

It was very well organized compared to previous year. I can’t remember so many player getting so many horses the precedent years. Really they got way better. Seven horses, three in direct sale. Also people complaining about DS…for the last 10 hours horses were sitting and decent ones, with no one caring. My only regret is Karate. A Art horse would have been nice too. But really I am very very happy. Almost everyone walked away with a good haul. In fact if they don’t change, I will prepare better next year.