Midwinter Festival

Overview
The Cormyrian Midwinter festival or Midwinter Ice Races is a new kind of seasonal event held in the iced-over Starwater River of Eveningstar, coincidentally conducted around the same time of year as the Risia Ice Games. Adventurers can run through the course of ice & illusions to compete for prizes.

Related Items

 * Ice Skates
 * Permanent version (DDO Store only)
 * 10 minutes rental version for 50 Motes
 * Free Midwinter Spirit
 * Required to play the mini-game. Handed from a NPC Brace Bullhorns on the southeastern foot bridge into Eveningstar, just like Universal Challenge Tokens.
 * Each day Brace will give free tokens to participate in the race based on your account status:
 * Free players can receive 2 tokens per day
 * Premium players can receive 3 tokens
 * VIP players can receive 4 tokens
 * These are BtC but the per day limit is per account, not per character. So it is important to switch to your ideal character (Phiarlan Pendant of Time/striding speed/jump skill/Abundant Step) before taking them.
 * Midwinter Spirit (DDO Store only)
 * Additional token purchased for ? TP.
 * Hot Cider/Hearty Cider (DDO Store only) - teleport token just like Hot Cocoa from the Risia Ice Games.
 * [[Image:Moteofwinter.png]] Motes of Winter (alternatively mentioned as Midwinter Motes sometimes but it's the same thing)
 * Recipes (different from Risia Ice Games ones, look like Epic Scrolls)

Midwinter Ice Races
How the mini-game works:

Scoring

 * Snow Flakes - There are four types of snowflakes, each worth different amounts of points.
 * Bronze - 1 point
 * Silver - 13 points
 * Gold - 27 points
 * Purple - 42 points
 * Finishing the Course in the 3 minutes time limit - 100 points (The double points works on this also, so +200 if you complete while you have it)

Buffs
These will be randomly located about the course like the snowflakes, touch them to activate.
 * Super Speed Boost (Green orb) - Effect: +30% Melee speed, +50% enhancement bonus to Run speed, Duration: 6 seconds.
 * Super Jump (Blue orb) - Effect: +30 jump skill, moon jump and Featherfall, Duration: 4 seconds, similar to the buff as found in Challenges, though shorter duration. Jumping super high is neccesary to collect a couple of the static purple snowflakes now, so get these and time your jumps well.
 * Double Points (Appears as a large bright white spark randomly) - Duration: 15 seconds
 * Midwinter Vole (CR 23, Animal type, Rat race) - Hit any of these once to get both Double Points and Super Speed instantly. They can be killed, but you are not intended to do so, as they have several thousand hitpoints and give no reward for being killed. A single melee hit, even a grazing hit will be enough to trigger the buff.

Game Score and Reward Tier
When Brace's buff wears off or you've completed the race, you’ll receive rewards like midwinter motes & recipes based on how well you scored. Motes received are always 1/3 Score point rounded down. Lower scores grant lower-tier Recipes.

Lets track em till we figure out what score gives what tier recipe.
 * 1,207 score - Glaciation 90 recipe
 * 604 score - Cold Resistance 10 recipe
 * 426 score - Cold Resistance 7 recipe
 * 407 score - Cold Resistance 7 recipe
 * 316 score - Glaciation 90 recipe
 * 160 score - Glaciation 54 recipe

Turn-in Rewards
Speak with Jolias Leftfield at the finish line, who will offer you barter UI trades for your rewards.

2012

 * November 30th - Lamannia server preview
 * December 16th - Live Server (preview?) - not yet complete: some DDO Store items missing, some chat options missing/buggy