Divine Star Holiday Event

Also known as Divine Star Festival is Christmas time (end of Calendar Year) event. It rewards mainly Special Holiday Skins, with some extra rewards that vary by year (Awakening Tokens, Meteors, Elixir, or even Gems).

Main appeal of this event are Skins. However due to extra Meteor and Awakening Token rewards from event Chests (you should get an extra 0.5 Token and 0.5 Meteor per Realm Siege run), making this event worth of participation even for players not interested in cosmetics.

Event should start each year around 23rd - 25th of December and last 7 days + extra 7 more days for shopping. There will generally be be some notification shortly ahead of event start, so players can prepare. Each event few new skins are added + skins from previous years are available aswell.

First iteration of this event in 2017 was much different from current "2018 and onward" event setup (mainly due to awakenings and Realm Siege not Being added to game yet. Look down at 2017 event for details. And 2018 event lasted 14 days instead of 7.

More info on other Events HERE. And to see event frequency go HERE.

## Skins

Skins are the main attraction of the event. They are unlocked by collecting shards from chests. Each year has its own slightly altered rules. Generally shard for 3 different heroes can be obtained at a time in order specific for that year, new hero skins are prioritized over the older skins.

To obtain a Skin you need to collect appropriate amount of skin Shards (as seen in table below), skin will then be automatically unlocked and you can change it in hero tab. Any Unfinished Skins during one event will stay at their shard count and can be obtained again in next years event (*Amount of your current skin shards obtained is visible in: Hero tab>select hero>skin>right corner).* But new skins that are highest priority and are not finished during their event will be moved to the back of the order for next event.

* *Ex. If someone has obtained 700/800 Raida shard during 2019. Next year even if missing only 100 shards, they would still needed to finish all previous skins before Raida to complete that skin (this could be even up to 4000 shards and you will only get 2 shards per chest). Basically you could have been stuck with many unfinished skins and no way to realistically finish them without spending. Luckily there is a way to finish skins outside DS event now↓↓*

Since the Goddesses event all these skins can also be finished during Skin Crafting mini-event released semi-periodically.

During 2020 Event 2 extra skins were also added. **Lustrous Star Cyra** Skin & **Borealis Elara** Skin, both only available via money purchase.

Look at Skins page for additional info.

## Rewards

    Rewards are inside Chests (aka Gift or Divine Boxes)

Chests are only obtained by Forging them from Divine Stars, and each Chest contains:

* 8-12 specific Hero Skin Shards. These are split between 3 different Heroes by Order of unlocking that varies each year. Shard droprate always is: 2 PYS (Previous Year Skin), 4-6 first new skin, 2-4 second new skin (look down for a specific year's order).
* ~25% chance to gain 1 Awakening token (for a random available hero, newest hero is usually excluded).
* ~25% Chance to gain 1 Meteor Power Item
	+ Chance is somewhat combined to 50% to get either Awakening token or Meteor, NEVER BOTH at same time *(you should generally expect droprate of each individually somewhere between 20-30%, and combined chance very close to 50%).*
	+ *If you have all heroes maxed, Tokens are not replaced by Meteors, and Meteor chance should stay at 25%. However it seems Meteors droprate is somehow negatively affected by this (maybe I just was really unlucky but in 2020 after 164 chests opened only 24 meteors dropped for me, at 14,286% chance instead of expected ~25%).*
* Almost non-existing *(most likely 0,1% or 0,01%)* chance of obtaining 10 000 Gems.

### Divine Stars

Divine Stars can be obtained in two ways:

1) Playing Realm Siege (during 7(8) days of event) - while playing new bar is added behind gold count that shows stars obtained. Stars are obtained from Green Gift Boxes that randomly drops from enemies upon death. Boxes can be opened by clicking on them, and also auto-open after ~ 25seconds.

Up to 15 boxes max can drop during any match each containing 1-3 Stars *(in theory it means you can get 15-45 stars, in reality getting <20 or >40 stars is nearly impossible. While usual amount is **27-33 Stars per level**.*

2) Buying them for Real Money or Gems (available not only during base 7days of RS, but for additional 7 days after).

### Shopping

At event interface "Chest" sub-window you can forge Chests or buy Divine Stars. There is also separate event timer that should last 7 more days than regular event timer in "Overview" sub-window.

* Forge one Chest for 15 Divine Stars.
* Buy 15 Divine Stars for 150 Gems.
* Buy 165 Divine Stars for 1500 Gems.
* Buy 1000 Divine Stars for real money (limited twice).

### Tips

* Event will likely start few hours ahead of normal daily refresh (wasn't a case prior to 2020 Shamiko's event). If you can, save your RS run that day (to basically increase it from 7 to 8 days of RS).
* **!!Do not try to save Divine Stars for next year!!**, they are limited for each year and will be discarded. While skin shard you open from chest will stay forever.
* How fast boxes drop depends on amount of enemies, but 15th chest usually drops at wave number 4-6. Thus is adviced to **not play maps with 5 or less waves**, to remove possibility of not gaing all 15 boxes (mainly avoid first 2 or 5 maps of each world).
* **!!!You should always try for atleast 30 Stars per match (to get 2 chests)!!!** If you have lower score you can REPLAY that level and likely get more stars at second try (done by either clicking on **Replay** or **Quit,** anytime before you kill last enemy of last wave), this costs nothing except your time.
* You should always do 4 Realm Siege Runs Each day during event (2x for free, 2x for 80gems) even as newer player. And also dump your 10saved keys on this event. Take skins aside for now, you should still get on average **extra 0.5 random awaken token and 0.5 meteor for each Key used.** This makes it way better value than regular RS, and even if you did not do 4 RS each day prior to event, you really should while it lasts.
* **Buying Stars for Gems is not worth at all!!!**
	+ Assuming you do 4 RS each day (2free + 2x80g) doing extra 2 RS keys for 160g each is worth way WAY more than buying stars directly. **160g key = 30+ Stars / 150g pack = 15 Stars** (not to mention regular Token and Elixir gained by doing RS at a first place)*.*
	+ *Only buy this during extra 7 days after RS is finished, and only if you really love skins and want to finish one. **(really bad way to spend gems though!)***
* **Buying 1000 Divine Stars for Real Money is not worth it.**
	+ *There are way better deals, only get this if you consider yourself high spender, or if you really love Skins. **(!but beware, this will likely not be enough for Skin you want!)**.*

* **C*onclusion:***
	+ *Buying Divine Stars (for Real Money or Gems) is not reasonable, unless you are high spender that swims in Gems and love Skins.*
	+ *Buying Extra 2keys for 160 gems each, should be good idea depending on how you value skins and how much extra gems you have.*
		- F*or newer players I would not recomend this either, just stick with 2free runs of RS and 2extra for 80gems, anything more is probably not worth.*

#### What skins to expect as new player

New players can for their first DS event expect (asuming you get atleast 30 stars (2chests) per RS) to get this:

1. only 2 free RS x 7 days (or 8 days, since event start few hours ahead of daily refresh you can squeze extra day of RS) = **14(16) RS runs = ~28(32) chests**. This should amount to 50/50 Lancelot skins shards + 6(14)/120 Smoulder + ~140(160) new skin shards + ~84(96) 2nd new skin shards. **(Lancelot skin only)**
2. dump 10 saved keys, 2 free keys + 2 80g keys x 7(8) days = **38(42) RS runs** **= ~76(84) chests**. This should amount to 50/50 Lancelot skin + 102(118)/120 Smoulder skin + ~380(420)/??? new skin + ~228(252)/??? 2nd new skin. **(Lancelot skin only)**
3. 10 saved keys + 2 free keys + 2 80g keys + 2 160g keys x 7(8) days = **52(58) RS runs** **= ~104(116) chests**. This should amount to 50/50 Lancelot skin + 120/120 Smoulder skin + 38(62)/500 Helios skin + ~520(580)/??? new skin + ~312(348)/??? 2nd new skin. **(Lancelot skin + Smoulder skin + maybe 1st new skin)**
	* 1st new skin of 2019 had 500 shards, so it was obtainable this way. First new skin of 2020 had 800 shards, so it wasn't.
4. To get new 800 shards 1st in order skin on your first event aswell, you would need to go from 520(580) to 800. So to aquire extra 280(220) shards, at average 5 shards droprate that is **~extra 56(44) chests**. This would require to buy 5th key for 320g each day to get 7(8) extra RS = ~14(16 chests) + 42(28) chests by 1500g 165 divine star pack, so 4x 1500g(2x 1500g + 6x 150g) **= ~extra 8240(6460) gems.**
	* ***Don't, just don't**. Be patient you can finish it during skin crafting. It is definitely not worth spending so many gems on just a part of a skin.*
5. To get new 2nd in order skin, you would need to go from ~312(348) shards, to 800 (in 2019) or 1200 (in 2020). This would require much more extra gems or money than already steep price of geting 800 shards 1st in order skin.

#### Preparing for event

1. Don't have high expectations - if you read all above you shouldn't have them anyway. Just think of it as an higher than regular value RS with maybe some cosmetics.
2. Watch out for event start - it will likely start ahead of daily refresh so you should be able to squeeze in one extra day of event RS, if you have time to play so save your RS until event start that day.
3. Save Keys - save 10 realm siege keys as explained here.
4. Save Gems - if you only buy 2x80g keys for 7 or 8 days you will need 1120(1280) gems. If you also buy 2x160g keys = need 3360(3840). So generally have ~3000gems just to be safe.
5. Manage time - since you will likely be doing more RS runs than usual (and even replaying them if you want to optimize reward), it can be pretty time consuming, especially during holidays.
6. Use reddit/discord - got any questions not answered by this page? Just ask on reddit/discord there should always be someone happy to help :)

## Each Event by Year

### 2020 Event

This Event started on 23th of December 2020 and lasted 7 days (+ extra 7 days for shopping). Event interface was added ~ 3 hours before Event started as a heads-up (+ in-game mail notification 1 day before that). There were no major changes from last year. Three new skins were added via event +2 new skins via Store. During event players could also claim 1 silver spin token per day for free from Store.

* Order of unlocking:
	+ 2 from new skins **Masamune > Connie > Mabyn**
	+ 1 from old skins **Lancelot > Smoulder > Helios > Yan > Efrigid > Caldera > Azura > Raida > Koizuul CONFIRM PLEASE**
* Shards droprate was 2 PYS (Previous Year Skin), 4-6 Masamune, 2-4 Connie.
	+ After Masamune was obtained 10-13 Skin shards total dropped (Mabyn had 2-4 and Connie was raised to 5-8, PYS still at 2)

* *Random Awakening Tokens were obtainable for every hero in game (even if you did not own that hero), at that time. Except for Cyra and Elara, whom weren't added to Realm Siege yet. **CONFIRM PLEASE***

* NEWLY there were also items added to Store this year:
	+ 1 Silver Spin Token (1 for free each day)
	+ Prismatic Star Bundle (limited once) - Lustrous Star Cyra Skin + Bag of Gems (1200 Gems) + 12 Healing Potion
	+ Icy Aurora Bundle (limited once) - Borealis Elara Skin + Bag of Gems (1200 Gems) + 4 Freeze Poition

### 2019 Event

This Event started on 25th of December 2019 and lasted 7 days (+ extra 7 days for shopping). Event interface was added ~ 26 hours before Event started as a heads-up. There were no major changes from last year. And three new skins were added.

* Order of unlocking:
	+ 2 from new skins **Azura > Raida > Koizuul**
	+ 1 from old skins **Lancelot > Smoulder > Helios > Yan > Efrigid > Caldera**
* Shards droprate was 2 PYS (Previous Year Skin), 4-6 Azura, 2-4 Raida.
	+ After Azura skin was obtained 10-13 Skin shards total dropped (Koizuul had 2-4 and Raida was raised to 5-8, PYS still at 2)
	+ *For first few hours there was a bug, where Raida only needed 300 shards total and had priority drop 4-6 shard, while Azura only 2-4.*

* *Random Awakening Tokens were obtainable for every hero in game (even if you did not own that hero), at that time. Except for Connie, which wasn't added to Realm Siege yet.*

### 2018 Event

This Event started on 23rd of December 2018 and lasted 14 days (+ extra 7 days for shopping). This Event moved Divine Stars source to Realm Siege. Added 2 New Skins and Awakening Tokens as rewards. Elixir was removed from chests and gems changed from all chests to ultra-rare chance to get very high amount.

No longer a certain amount of chests was needed to open before certain skins are available. Instead they are only obtained in specific order.

* *Order of unlocking:*
	+ 2 from new skins **Efrigid > Caldera**
	+ 1 from old skins **Lancelot > Smoulder > Helios > Yan**
	+ *Yan was aditionally locked by need to complete Helios first. (For players that didn't start event with Helios skin complete, after Efrigid was obtained only 2 heroes dropped (Caldera and Helios), with Yan still locked)*
* Shard droprate was: 2 PYS (Previous Year Skin), 4-6 Efrigid and 2-4 Caldera. After Efrigid skin was complete, Caldera changed to 6-10 shards.

* *First few days Tokens and Meteors drop was different (5% chance to get 10 at a time, instead of 50% to get 1. This was not a bug, but got intentionally redesigned).*
* *Random Awakening Tokens obtainable were: Fee, Lancelot, Masamune, Hogan, Bolton, Smoulder, Obsidian, Efrigid and Caldera (This didn't include Yan that was at that time recently added to Realm Siege, and other heroes that still didn't have Awaken option).*

### 2017 Event

This Event started on 5th of December 2017 and lasted 29 days. This was before Realm Siege and Awaken mechanic was released. So there was no Awakening Shards as Rewards.

**Rewards** were inside Chests (Gift Boxes) - Each Chest contained random small amount of Gems, Elixir and specific Hero Skins Shards (1-30? Gems, 1-200 Elixir, 1-9 Skin Shards (for two random heroes at a time, each up to 9)). With small chance of including 1 Meteor Power Item. *There was a bug on first day allowing for up to 20 Skins shard of each hero from chest.*

Number of **Chests** were awarded by number of Divine Stars (special currency for this Event) collected each day and number combined through event.

**Divine Stars** were obtained in two ways: in Tournaments and by Playing Normal Campaign maps or Daily Trials.

1. Tournaments - during event Tournaments lasted full 7 days, Divine Stars were awarded for maximum of 3 tournament entries each day with rewards based on amount of time survived.
2. Normal Campaign and Daily Trials - play them and obtain Divine Stars.

**Daily Challenge:**

 Demi-God
 Heroic
 Great
 Good

**Overall Progress:**

**Skins**

4 Skins were released and obtainable at this Event assuming you collected required number of their shards: **Festive Knight** Lancelot, **Toy** Smoulder, **Nutcracker** Helios and **Snow Beauty** Yan. The player needed to open atleast 20 Gift Boxes for Helios skin shards to appear, and atleast 120 Gift Boxes before Yan skin shards did. So basically to own Lancelot and Smoulder Skins, before it let you get Helios and Yan skin, limiting drop to only 2 hero skin shards at time.

**Shopping**

There was option to buy 20 Gift Boxes (Chests) for 1500 Gems.