Risia Ice Games

Risia Ice Games is a special event introduced in February 2010 (Update 3) during the winter season.

The Risia Ice Games allows players to collect Ice Game Coins and turn them in to Jack Frostbite for various prize items, including crafting recipes and the ingredient Motes of Winter. These are then used to create special items or to adding ice-based effects on existing randomly-generated weapons.

All Coins, Ingredients and Recipes are freely tradable.



Ice Game Coins
Coins all count as Collectables and go into your Collectable Bag. Collect them in quests by killing fire-based creatures, or by doing special mini-games in public instances.

Coins description:
 * Winterfestivalcoin white.png White Ice Game Coin - common in public instance/drop from normal mobs
 * Winterfestivalcoin blue.png Blue Ice Game Coin - uncommon in public instance/drop red named mobs
 * Winterfestivalcoin purple.png Purple Ice Game Coin - rare in public instance/drop from purple named mobs

For more detailed information on monster drop, see Monster coin drop.

Ice Skates (Boots)


Invest your 10 White Coins for 10-minute rent or DDO Points to get the Ice Skates or buy them off from the DDO Store. These help playing the Ice Games significantly and are mandatory for some games/methods.
 * Rental Skates that you get from an NPC and last for 10 minutes. Ned Chilblain (NPC in Harbor) sells them for 10 White Coins, Maglenna Lurelake (NPC in Eveninstar) sells them for 50 Motes of Winter.
 * Permanent (Bind To Account) Skates are available from the DDO Store
 * Maglenna Lurelake gives you a set of Rental Skates for free once per day.

Recipes and Ingredients

 * Winterrecipe.png Recipes - from Recipe #1-20 for turning-in (see below)
 * Moteofwinter.png Mote of Winter - various amount for turning in (see below)

How the games work, tips how to get Coins are documented on sub-pages.

Also, there are some tips to get Coins without Ice Skates and there is a supposedly-legit way of hopping instance to get more Coins per run. See following for details.

Harbor Ski Jump
Main article - /Harbor Ski Jump

Additional methods:
 * Boathouse Jump (doesn't require Ice Skates)
 * The Leaky Dinghy Jump

Bogwater Half Pipe
Main article - /Bogwater Half Pipe (doesn't require Ice Skates)

Instance Hopping
Main article - /Instance swapping

Script - /Swap Instance Script

Turning-in Rewards
Turn in your Coins to Jack Frostbite (near the Harbor lighthouse and in Bogwater Tavern), turning-in is exactly like Collectables.

Risian Altar Crafting


The Risian Crafting Altar is located in the southeast corner of The Harbor, on the north side of the ice rink (which only appears during Risia) at the end of the long dock that leads to to the lighthouse island and Korthos. As of Update 12 Patch 1, the Risian Altar features the Barter Crafting UI.

Weapons with the Craftable property, that is, which have been disjuncted for Cannith Crafting, cannot be Festival crafted.

Recipes 1-2: Eternal Wand of Frost
Eternal Wand Details: The wand created from recipe 1/20 is titled "+1 Eternal Wand of Ray of Frost" and casts the spell Ray of Frost. The damage rating is 1d3 +1 per caster level and has a caster level of 1. After full upgrades to caster level 5 using multiple recipe 2/20's, it becomes a "+5 Eternal Wand of Ray of Frost." The wand is also automatically bound to character (not account) when equipped. It is not bound when created. The wand is Exclusive (you can only have 1 in your inventory) and attempting to create a 2nd while the first is still in your inventory will fail, show an error informing the reason, and not consume any ingredients.

The spell's full damage description is stated as "1d3 +1 per caster level (max 5)." The 5 refers to the maximum caster level bonus. Maxing out the caster level through multiple recipe 2/20 transmutations will result in a max hit of 8. This damage can be further improved by the Wizard Wand and Scroll Mastery enhancement chain. For example, Wizard Wand and Scroll Mastery I gives a 25% effectiveness bonus to the wand resulting in a max hit of 10.

The wand starts out with improved glaciation III and is no-longer possible to upgrade this using Festival Glaciation. (It used to be possible before 2013 Ice Games.)

Recipes 3-5: Weapon's Cold-damage
Notes:
 * Weapons with Festival Cold Touch or Festival Frost are still considered randomly generated.
 * Composed weapon affixes Riptide (Tidal + Frost) and Wintry (Freezing Ice + Icy Burst) contain Frost and Icy Burst but are ignored by the recipes, so you can add Festival Cold Touch to either and upgrade it to Festival Frost and then to Festival Icy Burst, while maintaining the original Frost or Icy Burst effects. Boreal weapons can also be upgraded without issues.
 * Weapons with normal Cold Touch, Frost, or Icy Burst effects have the old effect removed when the recipe upgrades it.
 * Weapons with Glaciation (Festival or normal) have the Glaciation effect removed if you apply Festival Cold Touch (or vice-versa).

Recipes 6-14: Glaciation
 Update 14 change: Update 14 replaced spell-boosting effects with Spell Power instead. The recipe effects and levels below have been updated with this change.

Note: It is not possible for non-weapon Glaciation items to be re-created with these recipes (previously you could use the recipes to upgrade any random-gen item with Glaciation already on it, to make powerful Glaciation rings/hats/etc.; the current recipes work only on weapons.) Midwinter Festival can add Glaciation to armor, robes, and shields.

Base Glaciation items for these recipes must be weapons that are randomly generated. Only benefit to doing this is to create ones with (slightly) lower minimum levels (the item's minimum level will be increased to what a random item with only the Glaciation effect on it would be if the item's minimum level was lower than that before the upgrade: so, it is possible to take an item with Major Ice Lore on it and add some Glaciation and be lower than if that item was randomly-generated, but adding just the Glaciation to a blank weapon is no better than finding a randomly-generated weapon with just the Glaciation on it).
 * New for 2010: Note that adding Cold Touch/Frost/Icy Burst to a Glaciation weapon replaces the Glaciation. See.

Recipes 17-20: Snow Elemental Gem
Combine 1 each of recipes 17-20 to create the recipe card for "Secret Recipe".

The snow elemental is Caster Level 10, and counts as your 1-allowed "summoned" creature.

2010

 * Feb 3rd - ?
 * Dec 13th - 16th, Dec 23rd - Jan 2nd

2012

 * The 2012 Ice Games run Feb 6th to Feb 14th 2012.
 * Per the Update 12 Patch 1 Release Notes (December, 2011), this instance of the Ice Games will feature the Barter Crafting UI.

2013
January 7, 2013 - 27th: Jack Frostbite now uses the same barter UI for coin turn-ins as the Jester of Festivult does.

2014

 * January 17, 2014 to February 17th, 2014

2015

 * January 22, 2015 to February 15th, 2015

2016

 * January 21, 2016 to February 7, 2016

2017

 * January 19, 2017 to ?

2018

 * January 25, 2018 to February 7, 2018

2020

 * January 30, 2020 to February 11, 2020

2020-2021

 * December 12 through January 5