Woah that's expensive, I bought one back in the old days for 5 (500) passes

Thank you Zeona

& @Nalu I asked here because I couldn't see anywhere in the shop which said it, I realise now you have to scroll right to the bottom and its like a contract, being that its in tiny lettering barely noticable but thank you


gah... wish it didn't double though, I hate when they do that.

You hit the nail on the head with that one. I don't think its fair at all.

You know, I spend less and less on this game as time goes on because everything seems to just be a complete money grab and I cant keep up with it. Cant get the gifts and the fragments? buy passes and use them to get everything you want.

the Reindeer's divine tab info tab. Like other divines, we'll be able to use passes to increase skills (skijoring will consider speed, dressage and gallop, so just work on those) and sleigh rides will also increase those 3 skills. Once your Reindeer is tacked up you can enter into Skijoring comps. You just click "skijoring" and it will automatically enter a race. We don't choose a specific skijoring comp like we do with other comps. The race will run after a bit and you'll see its placing and the amount of equus won, but it's the equus amount that matters for placing in the ranking.

This is what a Reindeer's page will look like. You can see the ranking off to the side

There's just a button in the comp section of your reindeer's page. You click it and the deer is auto-entered so there's no chance to choose a comp or check out the opposition. The button had a little pretty image of a red ski/sled type thing on it if I remember correctly.

Otherwise it's just a case of investing passes into the deer's skills to have a better chance of placing high. I think someone posted previously that you an also do rides to gain skills but I don't remember seeing that during testing. Probably because I didn't look much further than wanting to see the comp.

I think it will be slim to no pickings for the average player on the pass prize front though.

passes on preprod I just threw all of the points on in that skill that it would let me. I won't be using passes on my deer when this goes live, so I figured I'd have some fun with it, haha

I had hoped they'd have at least divided the Reindeer by name, so a ranking for Blitzens, one for Donners and so on, but ONE single ranking is basically useless.
50 winners out of a big server

The "reindeer games" seem like a waste to me. I would have to spend a fortune raising the skills of even one reindeer high enough to be competitive for any prizes, and those skills would continue to rise so the spending would never truly stop. Making the reindeer more useful sounds great, and the top prize of 300 passes once a month sounds like a great prize, but I'm not so naive that I believe I would ever actually win that likely even once (with so few winners) let alone enough to make it worth while. It reminds me of the objectives where you have to use an expensive black market item to earn a measly 10 or even 20 passes, and in the case of the reindeer, you wouldn't even be guaranteed to win ANY prize. I dont think I'll be using my passes to raise my reindeers' skills. IF I decide to work/compete with them at all, on top of all the others I'm already working, they'll just be equus earners. That is, assuming these new competitions even offer equus as prizes like the normal comps do.

Ya mixed feelings, I feel like no matter how many passes you spend on the skills, someone is always going to "up theres" while comparing it to yours.
I was looking foward to this one too But the pay back might not be worth it.

They could have just made "You get 20 passes as long as you're ranked, and you only get ranked if you entered at least competition every day of the month" and NOBODY would have suffered.
Yes, the best players would have still gotten their reward, but we'd have at least SOMETHING.

splitting them up, which I was so sure they were going to do

Regarding the sale of Zaldia's Tack this weekend, does anyone know what the price is likely to be based on past Tack sales in the Black Market? I've been playing on and off so I don't have many passes, and I'm desperate to get this last tack piece AND get Lancelot because he is my favourite Grail so far, design and perk wise