The wind strength is a bar with 100 points that can be filled by riding over the ocean
The amount of points you get per ride is different each day, and ranges from -1 to 7.
(with scores -1 and 7 having a 6.25% chance of appearing each day and scores 0 to 6 having a 12.5% chance at appearing each day, it will show this under the bar)

What this means:
If you want to get gifts more frequently and don’t care so much about how long you’ll be getting gifts for, you would then want to work your horse more frequently.
If you want more gifts total and for the perk to last longer then you would skip days that will earn you less points.

Recommendations:
I personally have found a nice middle ground by only working the horse on days earning 4 or more points unless I can fill the bar that day with a lower amount.

For those that want to earn more frequently, I wouldn’t recommend working on a day earning fewer than 3 points because it won’t really speed you up that much, but if you’re really in a rush you could do 2.
I would not ever recommend working on a 1, 0, or -1 point earning day that is a scam

For those who want more gifts in the long run I would suggest 4 to 7 point days or 5 to 7 point days, don’t wait for only 6s and 7s though it’ll take weeks

You should add Achilles heel and Philotes’ stroke, these paired with an EC with a water trough and a shower will allow you to ride over the ocean 4 times a day

If you have a decent number of pastry horses you can give the divine Croesus fortune and a kairos dial and feed it in increments of 1. Each time you feed it it has a chance to find a sugar cube (+3 energy) and if you find enough you can squeeze in an extra ride over the ocean (5 rides per day)

METHOD:
1. Groom, feed (1) oat, if you don’t find sugar, feed (1) oat then ride over the ocean for 1 hour
2. Mash, feed (1) fodder 12 times or until the energy bar reaches 83%*, whichever comes first
3. Feed (1) oat until the energy bar reaches 96%**, feed (1) fodder unless the bar is higher than 96%
4. Ride over ocean for 1 hour, carrot, feed (1) fodder until maxed out, feed (1) oat until energy bar is at least 94%
5. Ride over ocean for 2 hours, stroke, stroke, water, ride over ocean for 1 hour

It is important if you do this to keep a close eye on the horses weight, as they are prone to getting too fat, a way to prevent this is by entering low energy competitions on days where you are unsuccessful, or by feeding them only oats (still in (1)) on days where you don’t need 5 rides to fill the meter.

*(optional) if you reach 83% using only 6 or 7 fodder, feed up to 8 (still in increments of 1 though)
**(optional) actually somewhere between 96.0% or 96.4% you can check by going into the competition page (but NOT entering) or if the energy bar jumps from 94% straight to 96%, the latter is the faster method

DISCLAIMER: you have to have quite a few pastry horses for this to be viable, I have 14 currently and I can pull this off about 50% of the time, it also takes a while so it’s not for everyone, I find it worth it but you might not.

NOTE: this also works on Nordics and Solars, with a much higher success rate too, but the exact method differs.

does anyone have a guess when rain might be rereleased? Not sure when the last time was

METHOD 1: (18pts per day)
1. Groom, feed (1) oat, if you don’t find sugar, feed (1) oat then ride for 1 hour
2. Mash, feed (1) fodder until the energy bar reaches between 85% & 90%*
3. Feed (1) oat until the energy bar reaches 96%**, feed (1) fodder unless the bar is higher than 96%
4. Ride for 1 hour, carrot, feed (1) fodder until between 85% & 90%, Feed (1) oat until energy bar is at least 96%
5. Ride for 3 hours, stroke, stroke, water, ride for 1 hour

METHOD 2: extra feed (21pts)***
1-4. Same a Method 1
5. Feed (1) fodder unless the bar is higher than 96%, ride for 1 hour
6. Feed (1) fodder until maxed out, feed (1) oat until energy bar is at least 96%
7. Ride for 3 hours, stroke, stroke, water, ride for 1 hour

*if you’ve been lucky with sugar cubes go for 90%, otherwise anywhere in that range is fine
**(optional) actually somewhere between 96.0% or 96.4% you can check by going into the competition page (but NOT entering) or if the energy bar jumps from 94% straight to 96%, the latter is the faster method
***this Method only works if you’ve been lucky enough with sugar cubes that you’ve only fed around half or less of the maximum amount of feed per day (20 fodder, 15 oat), and it can still be a bit chancy if you don’t have many pastries.

NOTE: remember to make sure you’re going on the correct ride (it will give 3pts) otherwise you’ll go backwards (don’t do what I do, basically)

NOTE 1: So, I’m not going to write down the exact method for these divines because it will be really long, because it probably won’t be as useful to people as the other 2 are, and because they are much more variable depending on how many Pastrys you have and even RNG, so it’d be really hard to put down exact instructions like I have previously.

You may have noticed I have a kind of formula with these instructions, and what it basically is is:
1. Feed fodder in increments of (1) below a certain energy level
2. Feed oats in increments of (1) above a certain energy level
3. Use mash and carrot to boost energy so that food gives more energy*
4. Finish up on a particular energy level so that you are able to use up most of the horse’s energy doing rides but have enough left over for stroking twice and drinking to yield an extra ride**

For solars, the energy level to change between fodder and oats is 90%
For reindeer I don’t actually know, but it will be above 90%

DISCLAIMER: with the exception of Pluto and Mars, the only thing you gain from doing this with Solars and Reindeers are a couple of skill points I’m mostly just including it to be thorough, I personally don’t even bother to do reindeer as it takes too long.

*the more energy your horse has when you feed it, the more energy it gains from eating (stroking works the opposite way)
**two extra rides for solars

I haven't been able to snag her from the flash sales and I know she's the last rainbow we're waiting for in weekend offers. Will she still be in a weekend offer even though she's in the flash sales?

I know last year she was but i missed her

The last time she was in Luck Items was early November 2021, I think? So I wouldn't be sure if they'll offer her again soon. You might want to hold out and get her in a Xmas pack.
Someone who knows the divine rotations would have a better answer.

Ginger Bread divine
Honey-Spiced Bread Divine
990 passes
eques (20? 10k? cannot remember)

A Snow Leopard exclusive Chimera
2000 passes
1 x Nyx Pack

A Feliz Navidad exclusive Divine horse
An exclusive breed of Draft Unicorn
2,990 passes
2 months of VIP account
1x Hestia Gift

A Divine of your choice
A Snow Queen exclusive Fairy Tale Divine
6,990 passes
1x Month of Aphrodite's privilege
1x Month of Fertility Privilege
Athena's medal
200 (?) Aging points

I have eviscerated the thing on Preproduction, without blitzing through. I have not played for days, purposefully lost lives and sabotaged my way through any possible means without being ridiculous, and I still got to Room 64 in 14 days, which is half the time we have for the event.

The Advent Calendar will launch.

There are 24 little windows you have to open daily. If you miss a window, you can pay eques to open it.

- Dec 3rd: ?!
- Dec 10th: Caradoc
- Dec 17th: Hanafuda
- Dec 24th: ?! (The calendar gave me a PHP error one day before so I could not open it.)

The Toy Workshop, will start.

It works like the Oni's lair where you upgrade Aki and explore the palace. This time you have to upgrade Bushy the Elf and explore the Workshop.

Like last year, they added 4 "help with the current event" little items to the windows.

The trick is that those 4 little items are NOT present in the event. I repeat, the 4 Candy canes to upgrade Bushy are EXCLUSIVE to the Advent Calendar and are NOT hidden in the Toy Workshop Event.

You will be Four Candy Canes short if you do not get the Canes from the Calendar, and thus you will not be able to Fully upgrade your Bushy.

Do NOT open your Windows while the Ride Before Christmas event is ongoing. If you do so, you risk getting "Roulette Spins" as "help with the current event" item, instead of the Precious, precious Candy cane.

You can open the window for the Divine, at your own risk of finding the Roulette spins, on the 3rd if you really want the Divine but that is it.

Instead of opening the Windows when the Ride Before Christmas event is over, open them once the Event starts.

Yes, it will cost you more eques, BUT you'll then have 7 chances out of 24 of rolling a Candy Cane, and ANY headstart you can get in such a slow-starting, time-intensive event is golden.

It will cost you more, but if you're lucky and find even ONE Candy cane in those 7 windows, you'll have a significant headstart.

so we should wait until the 8th to open any advent calendar windows, if I'm reading you right?

also do we know how expensive is it per window to open later? and do the prices on each box increase each day it isn't opened?

December 8th is a Bank Holiday in France, *wink wink*

The price increases on how many windows you open, not how many days you wait. I've opened windows on the 19th and it still cost me 500 or 1000 (can't remember what's the minimum). However, the price doubles every window you haven't opened, so it doubles REALLY quickly

I hadn't even thought about the "help with event" items in the advent calendar, so you've saved me from a costly mistake already!

at 7 days of waiting for the advent calendar, with the price doubling each day

if it starts at 500 equus you will be paying:
500 1,000 2,000 4,000 8,000 16,000 32,000
for a total of 63,500

or if it starts at 1k:
1,000 2,000 4,000 8,000 16,000 32,000 64,000
=127,000 equus

So, I shouldn't open the Advent Calendar windows until the 8th? Why?

you don't *have* to, but the door prizes are randomized, and you need the 'help for current event' prize to finish the upcoming event without passes. if you get it before the next event starts you'll miss out on getting it from the advent, and will only get a few spins for the current 'Ride Before Christmas' event instead.

So the Divines only appear on those specific dates ( that Nalu93 has stated) in the Advent calendar?

What are the odds of getting a divine in the advent calendar? Is it guaranteed if you open the windows on the day you're supposed to or is it just 'a chance'?